Man With A Spleen

@manwithaspleen.bsky.social

This month's 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘖𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 is bursting at the seams due to the addition of Lyres' "She Pays The Rent" in honor of the late, irascibly great Jeff Conolly. Join us at this impromptu wake with fIREHOSE, Plaid, Star Moles, Hanoi Rocks, The Durutti Column and more.

https://www.mixcloud.com/LordAlgae/hour-of-power-8426/

Z

@odddicegames.bsky.social

my body is less of a temple and more of a museum, a city archives, a record of my neglect to myself, recorded in fastidious detail.

phaedral

@phaedral.beige.party.ap.brid.gy

"Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in
unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills and meaningless
jargon." --- William Zissner, "On Writing Well"

#writers #writing

Still true? Has micro-blogging eroded prolixity? Or stripped away the […]

Milkysnail

@milkysnail105.bsky.social

I keep on getting the words lachrymose and sycophant mixed up and keep on writing lycophancy as a word

Weird Modernist Poems

@weirdpoems.bsky.social

4 WAYS OF GLARING AT A BLACKBIRD

I was of th✸ee minds,
Or the beauty of innuendoes.
The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds.
Even the bawds of euphony
Are one.
The blackbird must be flying.
For blackbirds.

Kit

@criticalkit.bsky.social

polyglot who sometimes says a term in multiple languages before they remember the right one, but one of the languages they speak is an eldritch horror that reshapes the mind of any mortal who hears it.

Tony Almquist

@tony-almquist.bsky.social

by @eduardoelreportero.bsky.social 1/2 “As financial markets expectantly awaited some hint of the Fed’s view of the nation’s obdurate inflation, some understanding of what the central bank’s strategy might look like if, as appears likely, prices get further out of hand, Warsh offered neither..

Garrett Wollman

@gwollman.bsky.social

Someone seems to be really bent on turning all Wikipedia articles about buildings and architecture into the most turgid, unreadable, formulaic footnote-ridden gubbish. It used to be only the math articles were like that.

River

@riverlorien.bsky.social

We've lost far too many youth/activity clubs, peripatetic youth workers, playing fields & council run sports/play facilities through austerity.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social
@lbc.co.uk #lbc

tilda (mrs. louis guiabern)

@treasureeatery.bsky.social

im sorry to my kin for failing them. im sorry to my kin for sullying them and betraying them. i understand of you cant forgive me, me being like this is no excuse for failing you. i cant forgive myself for being part of the worlds problems. i musnt forgive myself for being a traitor and an upholder