Richard Porter
@dickcarrier.bsky.social
Poet, Reference Clerk, Weirdo
My fellow dudes, can we just collectively agree to get our shit together and stop being emotionally stunted ass-hats? Maybe go to therapy? Stop making life miserable for everyone around us? Please?
December 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
My fellow dudes, can we just collectively agree to get our shit together and stop being emotionally stunted ass-hats? Maybe go to therapy? Stop making life miserable for everyone around us? Please?
Two years sober.
December 3, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Two years sober.
Rejections come in. Submissions go out. We keep the line moving.
November 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Rejections come in. Submissions go out. We keep the line moving.
Ugh. The hits just keep coming. I could really, really use a win.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Ugh. The hits just keep coming. I could really, really use a win.
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A Republican 'promise' is a meaningless gewgaw. We want Dem leadership that fights back. That's what last Tuesday showed.
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A Republican 'promise' is a meaningless gewgaw. We want Dem leadership that fights back. That's what last Tuesday showed.
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It doesn’t matter if you say you believe in social justice or associate w/ the side that believes in it w/ you if you fail to stand up to defend it when the opposition confronts you w/ a scheme to rip it away.
You’re just a doormat w/ nice thots, holding a position a better man or woman ought to be
You’re just a doormat w/ nice thots, holding a position a better man or woman ought to be
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
It doesn’t matter if you say you believe in social justice or associate w/ the side that believes in it w/ you if you fail to stand up to defend it when the opposition confronts you w/ a scheme to rip it away.
You’re just a doormat w/ nice thots, holding a position a better man or woman ought to be
You’re just a doormat w/ nice thots, holding a position a better man or woman ought to be
Gods, I could really use a win right about now. And my current state sure as shit isn’t helped by waking up to see the Dems caved like the cowards that they are.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Gods, I could really use a win right about now. And my current state sure as shit isn’t helped by waking up to see the Dems caved like the cowards that they are.
Nothing quite like popping off hand to hand kettlebell swings to Taawa’s first light.
November 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Nothing quite like popping off hand to hand kettlebell swings to Taawa’s first light.
Felt so low and lonely when I finally found my way to bed last night, but I fell asleep to thunder and dreamed of mesas, katsinam, and dancing.
October 24, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Felt so low and lonely when I finally found my way to bed last night, but I fell asleep to thunder and dreamed of mesas, katsinam, and dancing.
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If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side
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my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
my woke take is that entirely too many people feel entitled to the benefits of a social contract while not feeling bound by the responsibilities of said contract
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Creative expression is the essence of the human experience. Try making a new dish, or stabbing an ai slopper with a wooden stake.
October 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Creative expression is the essence of the human experience. Try making a new dish, or stabbing an ai slopper with a wooden stake.
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One thing you must have to be an actual adult human is the understanding that everyone is a whole ass person.
You are only the main character in your own head. Everyone is just as real and important and full of life as you are.
You are only the main character in your own head. Everyone is just as real and important and full of life as you are.
October 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
One thing you must have to be an actual adult human is the understanding that everyone is a whole ass person.
You are only the main character in your own head. Everyone is just as real and important and full of life as you are.
You are only the main character in your own head. Everyone is just as real and important and full of life as you are.
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Huh. As it turns out I’m still capable of writing a love poem. It’s been a hot minute.
September 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Huh. As it turns out I’m still capable of writing a love poem. It’s been a hot minute.
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We cannibals must help these Christians.
September 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
We cannibals must help these Christians.
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hint what he will about his face, I say again he has no face.
September 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
hint what he will about his face, I say again he has no face.
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We should never have normalized MAKING OUR ACTUAL LIVES *FREE CONTENT* for evil tech billionaire people to reel all of us into a scrolling addiction that alienates us from each other, wastes our time and energy, and diverts our attention from all of the fire situations that most need it immediately
we should have never normalized filming strangers in public and posting them as content
i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?
September 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We should never have normalized MAKING OUR ACTUAL LIVES *FREE CONTENT* for evil tech billionaire people to reel all of us into a scrolling addiction that alienates us from each other, wastes our time and energy, and diverts our attention from all of the fire situations that most need it immediately
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go forth & irritate everyone believing they hold power over you.
disrupt bullshit at every turn.
disrupt bullshit at every turn.
September 14, 2025 at 12:19 AM
go forth & irritate everyone believing they hold power over you.
disrupt bullshit at every turn.
disrupt bullshit at every turn.
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If any one of us called for Brian Kilmeade to be killed by lethal injection, for any reason, we'd be rightly excoriated.
Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold.
Fuck this.
Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold.
Fuck this.
September 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
If any one of us called for Brian Kilmeade to be killed by lethal injection, for any reason, we'd be rightly excoriated.
Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold.
Fuck this.
Yet he can go on national television, casually call for the extrajudicial murder of an entire group of people, and it'll be forgotten before the coffee gets cold.
Fuck this.
Ow…my heart.
my issue of Threepenny is here! here’s my poem “Present Tense,” I would love for you to give it a read!
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
“I know this so loudly I don’t
hear, at first, my father’s silence.”
September 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Ow…my heart.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Popped off a short poem, yesterday. I’m usually suspicious of anything that comes so easily, but I think I’m ok with this one.
August 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Popped off a short poem, yesterday. I’m usually suspicious of anything that comes so easily, but I think I’m ok with this one.
Rejections roll in. Submissions roll out.
August 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Rejections roll in. Submissions roll out.