Jonathan Everitt
@jonathaneveritt.bsky.social
freelance writer | poet | Bennington MFA '20 | Rochester, N.Y.
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"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"
- from Ilya Kaminsky's poem, "A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to a Neck"
And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"
- from Ilya Kaminsky's poem, "A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to a Neck"
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Ignorance is the parent of fear
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Ignorance is the parent of fear
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November 15, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Wow.
November 15, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Wow.
Oh, I like this one. Filing away in my folder of poetry prompts.
Today’s #poetryprompt:
Here is the line that has been plaguing me now for weeks. I offer it up to you. See what you can do with it.
“All my ghosts have bones”
#MPPrompt
I repost replies! Follow for daily prompts
Here is the line that has been plaguing me now for weeks. I offer it up to you. See what you can do with it.
“All my ghosts have bones”
#MPPrompt
I repost replies! Follow for daily prompts
November 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Oh, I like this one. Filing away in my folder of poetry prompts.
Crushing story out of Syracuse. Just one of thousands these days.
Must-read story about a French man in Syracuse trapped in his shop with ICE outside. The whole community, including a state senator, figured out how to get him out. Canadian border officials let him book a flight to France on the spot and escape.
When ICE came for Jeremy, Syracuse’s underground railroad helped him escape the country
Friends and family helped a well-known Syracuse man elude detention and flee to France
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November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Crushing story out of Syracuse. Just one of thousands these days.
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This #GildedAge is playing out as scheduled. 🥇
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November 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Katie Phang joins Terry Moran for a powerful, unscripted conversation about the future of independent journalism, Donald Trump’s expanding exposure in the Epstein scandal, the failures of legacy media, and the stakes for American democracy.
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Trump, Epstein, and the Collapse of Legacy Media with Katie Phang
YouTube video by Terry Moran
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November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Katie Phang joins Terry Moran for a powerful, unscripted conversation about the future of independent journalism, Donald Trump’s expanding exposure in the Epstein scandal, the failures of legacy media, and the stakes for American democracy.
youtube.com/watch?v=7PlR...
youtube.com/watch?v=7PlR...
The Boebert meeting tells you everything you need to know.
November 12, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The Boebert meeting tells you everything you need to know.
Dapper French teen behind Louvre heist ‘Fedora Man’ photo embraces his mystery moment. (Rock on, monsieur.)
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Dapper French teen behind Louvre heist 'Fedora Man' photo embraces his mystery moment
The image showing him in a fedora and three-piece suit sparked heated online speculation that he was a detective involved in the investigation into the audacious robbery of the priceless items.
apnews.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Dapper French teen behind Louvre heist ‘Fedora Man’ photo embraces his mystery moment. (Rock on, monsieur.)
apnews.com/video/dapper...
apnews.com/video/dapper...
Without the journalists who do the work everyday, corporate news media entities don't have a product. The future is non-profit journalism and these professionals should absolutely band together and form non-profit outlets.
Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Without the journalists who do the work everyday, corporate news media entities don't have a product. The future is non-profit journalism and these professionals should absolutely band together and form non-profit outlets.
50 years ago today.
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald was lost 50 years ago today — around the time Gordon Lightfoot was at work on a new album.
An experienced Great Lakes sailor who knew those waters well, he later told NPR he was surprised that media coverage gave “short shrift for such a monumental event.”
#RIP
An experienced Great Lakes sailor who knew those waters well, he later told NPR he was surprised that media coverage gave “short shrift for such a monumental event.”
#RIP
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
50 years ago today.
First snow tonight 🤍
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
First snow tonight 🤍
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(Rod Serling) Submitted for your ranked choice the case of one Andrew M. Cuomo, smarting scion of suburbia dethroned over workplace boundaries, unwilling to relax his wandering grip on power, and doomed to repeat humiliating attempts at return upon that most brittle boundary of all—the twilight zone
November 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Have a good and gentle weekend.🖤
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Cyndi Lauper - True Colors (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by CyndiLauperVEVO
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November 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Have a good and gentle weekend.🖤
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Amazing thread on the distinctions among four overcoats, from off-the-rack to bespoke. (And Rochester gets a major nod for the legendary clothing factory here.)
#ROC
#ROC
Fall is here and many of you may be shopping for an overcoat.
Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵
Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵
Here are four overcoats.
— Which do you think is the most expensive?
— Which do you think is the least expensive?
— Which do you think provides the best value?
Answer below. Tomorrow, I will show what you get as you climb up the price ladder for overcoats.
— Which do you think is the most expensive?
— Which do you think is the least expensive?
— Which do you think provides the best value?
Answer below. Tomorrow, I will show what you get as you climb up the price ladder for overcoats.
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Amazing thread on the distinctions among four overcoats, from off-the-rack to bespoke. (And Rochester gets a major nod for the legendary clothing factory here.)
#ROC
#ROC
In the 1980s, Kodak employed 60,000 people in Rochester. Today: 1,300. But the company is growing here again.
Cool, upbeat story. #ROC
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Cool, upbeat story. #ROC
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'I'm proud to tell them I'm working at Kodak': New hire shares optimism for company's future
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – For years it seemed the only thing we’ve reported about Kodak is job cuts.So it caught our attention when we saw two large signs on the Kodak building at the corner of Lake Avenue an...
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November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
In the 1980s, Kodak employed 60,000 people in Rochester. Today: 1,300. But the company is growing here again.
Cool, upbeat story. #ROC
www.whec.com/top-news/im-...
Cool, upbeat story. #ROC
www.whec.com/top-news/im-...
Saturday! 🖤
This is tomorrow!
The Reading is free. Just register for the Zoom call in the link. And if you can donate, click the Trans Lifeline link at the bottom of the page:
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November 8, 2025
2:00-3:45 pst
4:00-5:45 cst
5:00-6:45 est
The Reading is free. Just register for the Zoom call in the link. And if you can donate, click the Trans Lifeline link at the bottom of the page:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com
November 8, 2025
2:00-3:45 pst
4:00-5:45 cst
5:00-6:45 est
I’ve been sharing this and images from the Bearded Bards page on Instagram and Facebook, so please feel free to share about Saturday’s reading as well as the one in December wherever you find poetry lovers. It’s a zoom reading, so it’s not limited to here :-)
November 7, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Saturday! 🖤
"Well, if you spoke Greek..." 😂
My advice to would-be prescriptivists:
• Choose your battles.
• Don’t pick all the most classist “well, if you spoke Greek, you’d know this” battles.
• Know what you’re talking about before you talk about it.
• Choose your battles.
• Don’t pick all the most classist “well, if you spoke Greek, you’d know this” battles.
• Know what you’re talking about before you talk about it.
November 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Well, if you spoke Greek..." 😂
TIL the term "corporate death penalty" and why isn't this a million percent already a thing?
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
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ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
TIL the term "corporate death penalty" and why isn't this a million percent already a thing?
Fired Facebook and Instagram in January. No regrets.
(Reuters) - Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal company documents show.
$META @reuters.com
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$META @reuters.com
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November 7, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Fired Facebook and Instagram in January. No regrets.
If it helps, remember that this is the 1925 of the 21st century. Whole lot still going to change, friends.
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 PM
If it helps, remember that this is the 1925 of the 21st century. Whole lot still going to change, friends.
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"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
-- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
#Photography Constant Puyo (c. 1903), Young woman by Lily Pond.
-- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
#Photography Constant Puyo (c. 1903), Young woman by Lily Pond.
November 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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