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2025 words: Blood + Honey, Suburban Witchcraft 10, SHINE Poetry 5 | SFSU & Goddard College grad | readteachwrite.com | Moved my teacher self to: @justteacherthings.bsky.social
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two poems — Blood+Honey
by Terry Ann Wright “…we wove a snare. we became / our own noose. o we aver / sour & we savor mourn . we / see moon & we become omen .”
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I am a HUGE admirer of the editors and artists of @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social, so I am HUGELY excited to have two poems published today:
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www.bloodhoneylit.com/poetry/wrigh...
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“It’s November / again & most of us are still alive. This makes me so glad except / for the fact that it has to be said.”
— Talin Tahajian
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This poem appeared in the Inferior Planets. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Talin Tahajian
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This poem appeared in the Inferior Planets. Shared here with deep gratitude.
November 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
“It’s November / again & most of us are still alive. This makes me so glad except / for the fact that it has to be said.”
— Talin Tahajian
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This poem appeared in the Inferior Planets. Shared here with deep gratitude.
— Talin Tahajian
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This poem appeared in the Inferior Planets. Shared here with deep gratitude.
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We are teaching a groundbreaking class at USC titled “Bridging the Media Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists” trying to create a new style of ethical hybrid reporting that will usher in this brave new era of journalism.
A letter from our editor: lataco.com/usc-class-la...
A letter from our editor: lataco.com/usc-class-la...
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 AM
We are teaching a groundbreaking class at USC titled “Bridging the Media Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists” trying to create a new style of ethical hybrid reporting that will usher in this brave new era of journalism.
A letter from our editor: lataco.com/usc-class-la...
A letter from our editor: lataco.com/usc-class-la...
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Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Make the Goddamn meal and put it in your Free Fridge. Write the $100 check to the food bank. Ask your local school what they need for the kids and then go about trying to get that stuff.... Do these things regularly and you are making meaningful contributions to your communities.
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Greta Gerwig dances back to the Frida, Nov 7-10 for some 21st Century Cult screenings of FRANCES HA 🏙️
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/coming-soon/
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/coming-soon/
November 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Greta Gerwig dances back to the Frida, Nov 7-10 for some 21st Century Cult screenings of FRANCES HA 🏙️
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/coming-soon/
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/coming-soon/
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Our FREE annual homage to one of the most controversial and celebrated filmmakers of the 21st century is back for a third time!
This super secret double feature of the M. Night Shyamalan’s work starts at 7:30PM on Nov 20th!
RSVP at: thefridacinema.org/movies/night...
This super secret double feature of the M. Night Shyamalan’s work starts at 7:30PM on Nov 20th!
RSVP at: thefridacinema.org/movies/night...
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Our FREE annual homage to one of the most controversial and celebrated filmmakers of the 21st century is back for a third time!
This super secret double feature of the M. Night Shyamalan’s work starts at 7:30PM on Nov 20th!
RSVP at: thefridacinema.org/movies/night...
This super secret double feature of the M. Night Shyamalan’s work starts at 7:30PM on Nov 20th!
RSVP at: thefridacinema.org/movies/night...
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Edgar Wright's SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, and THE WORLD'S END aka The Cornetto Trilogy aka The Blood & Ice Cream Trilogy, screening in a bloody triple feature at The Frida on Nov 29th!
3 films for 1 ticket. Doors @ 5pm
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/shaun...
🎨: @mattferguson.bsky.social
3 films for 1 ticket. Doors @ 5pm
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/shaun...
🎨: @mattferguson.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Edgar Wright's SHAUN OF THE DEAD, HOT FUZZ, and THE WORLD'S END aka The Cornetto Trilogy aka The Blood & Ice Cream Trilogy, screening in a bloody triple feature at The Frida on Nov 29th!
3 films for 1 ticket. Doors @ 5pm
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/shaun...
🎨: @mattferguson.bsky.social
3 films for 1 ticket. Doors @ 5pm
🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/shaun...
🎨: @mattferguson.bsky.social
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We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
We're open for submissions this week, for the last time until January. 🪟
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if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
November 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
if you are food insecure for both the humans and pets in your household there is a tool called Pet Help Finder that can help locate pet food banks nearby and other free or reduced price assistance and supplies for pets.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
no one, ABSOLUTELY NO ONE, should have to give up their pet bc of this.
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The piece is excellent, but I want to highlight a valuable thought early in it: Literature does not change people. Life events change people. Trauma changes people. Catharsis changes people. Literature provides new mindsets to shape those changes, and outlets through which to choose how to change.
What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The piece is excellent, but I want to highlight a valuable thought early in it: Literature does not change people. Life events change people. Trauma changes people. Catharsis changes people. Literature provides new mindsets to shape those changes, and outlets through which to choose how to change.
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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They should invent a California where you can afford to live
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
They should invent a California where you can afford to live
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“I’ve spent my life studying my profession & I’ve come to feel that one lifetime is not enough. When it works well there is something shamanistic about it, but in order to invite that, for lack of a better word, inspiration into your life requires a tremendous amount of discipline”
HBD Ethan Hawke
HBD Ethan Hawke
November 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“I’ve spent my life studying my profession & I’ve come to feel that one lifetime is not enough. When it works well there is something shamanistic about it, but in order to invite that, for lack of a better word, inspiration into your life requires a tremendous amount of discipline”
HBD Ethan Hawke
HBD Ethan Hawke
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Something to read while we wait to see if SCOTUS upholds Trump’s mission to starve people
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 8, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Something to read while we wait to see if SCOTUS upholds Trump’s mission to starve people
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ChatGPT is doing everything 80s parents thought heavy metal and D&D did and I wish this was hyperbole
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 8, 2025 at 1:44 AM
ChatGPT is doing everything 80s parents thought heavy metal and D&D did and I wish this was hyperbole
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“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...
Teen Vogue's Closure and the Quiet Defunding of Worker Consciousness
Teen Vogue’s shutdown marks more than a media loss. This is a warning about how profit-driven consolidation quietly dismantles worker awareness and voice.
thisislaborwise.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“Since 2018, labor columnist Kim Kelly brought the labor beat to teenage readers through her “No Class” column, covering everything from wildcat strikes to general strikes, the Gilded Age labor organizer Mother Jones to contemporary Amazon warehouse conditions.” 💔 thisislaborwise.com/teen-vogues-...
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the "proliferation of AI...in library and education spaces would not be possible...without the precedent of book bans...once you have a culture in which all expertise is denigrated & considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish” www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
the "proliferation of AI...in library and education spaces would not be possible...without the precedent of book bans...once you have a culture in which all expertise is denigrated & considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish” www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Ella Fitzgerald &
Louis Armstrong
“Dream a Little Dream of Me”
youtu.be/OAVZuSoP8dk?...
#Jazz #Music #JazzSky #MusicSky
#NowPlaying
Louis Armstrong
“Dream a Little Dream of Me”
youtu.be/OAVZuSoP8dk?...
#Jazz #Music #JazzSky #MusicSky
#NowPlaying
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Ella Fitzgerald &
Louis Armstrong
“Dream a Little Dream of Me”
youtu.be/OAVZuSoP8dk?...
#Jazz #Music #JazzSky #MusicSky
#NowPlaying
Louis Armstrong
“Dream a Little Dream of Me”
youtu.be/OAVZuSoP8dk?...
#Jazz #Music #JazzSky #MusicSky
#NowPlaying
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New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
ABSOLUTELY
ABSOLUTELY ⬇️⬇️⬇️
ABSOLUTELY ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Dear @rweingarten.bsky.social and @aft.org: Please cancel your partnership with this evil company and stop pushing “A.i.” on teachers and students.
There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
ABSOLUTELY
ABSOLUTELY ⬇️⬇️⬇️
ABSOLUTELY ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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this story is horrifying and universities NEED to accept that ChatGPT is actively harmful
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 1:57 AM
this story is horrifying and universities NEED to accept that ChatGPT is actively harmful
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ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
this story is horrifying and universities NEED to accept that ChatGPT is actively harmful
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:02 AM
ChatGPT is pedagogically harmful.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
Increasingly evident, its cognitively not useful at the least.
It also clearly seems to have profoundly dangerous mental health consequences for vulnerable people.
And I feel like Im in the Twilight Zone trying to get people to hear me on this.
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Let's write together in 2026! If you're looking to jumpstart your memoir project—or are already underway & want some support to maintain momentum or figure out next steps—this @thewriterscenter.bsky.social workshop is for you. We'll meet twice a month, starting in February; learn more + apply here:
Memoir Year w/ Nicole Chung - The Writer's Center
Work on your memoir with bestselling author Nicole Chung! This intensive workshop is open to writers working on a memoir or memoir-in-essays. You’ll have the opportunity to participate in lively craft...
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November 6, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Let's write together in 2026! If you're looking to jumpstart your memoir project—or are already underway & want some support to maintain momentum or figure out next steps—this @thewriterscenter.bsky.social workshop is for you. We'll meet twice a month, starting in February; learn more + apply here:
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Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Thei wante us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe, and Broadway to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop makinge a living. Thei want to sell us hell and have us pay for it.