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Mostly poetry and soccer from an antifascist, neurodivergent, genderqueer, Christian heretic perspective. Also practical and impractical uses of language and images in and out of our current context, and an item a day from the published archives.
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Me: “Please bring me a screwdriver.”
Wife: “Flat head, Phillips, or vodka?”
And that was when I knew she was the one.
Wife: “Flat head, Phillips, or vodka?”
And that was when I knew she was the one.
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Me: “Please bring me a screwdriver.”
Wife: “Flat head, Phillips, or vodka?”
And that was when I knew she was the one.
Wife: “Flat head, Phillips, or vodka?”
And that was when I knew she was the one.
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I keep telling y’all your voice is the horse you add to your poem!! (this says what I mean better though)
You should write weird, human stuff as a fuck-you to AI and the awful world we live in, yes, but also because you will be changed and your life will be changed through allowing yourself to be vulnerable and uncomfortable in your art.
December 9, 2025 at 1:25 AM
I keep telling y’all your voice is the horse you add to your poem!! (this says what I mean better though)
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Agartha’s surge on Instagram is pushing Nazi mythology into the mainstream, with teens using the meme to target teachers by race & religion. Extremists like Martin Sellner are now leveraging the trend to normalize white nationalist ideology—another example of Meta’s failure to curb harmful content.
What is Agartha? Esoteric Nazism Spreading on Meta Platforms, Followers Harassing Teachers
Agartha’s viral rise on Instagram and TikTok is pushing Nazi mythology into the mainstream, with teens using the meme to racially and religiously target teachers. As AI-generated Agartha content sprea...
globalextremism.org
December 9, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Agartha’s surge on Instagram is pushing Nazi mythology into the mainstream, with teens using the meme to target teachers by race & religion. Extremists like Martin Sellner are now leveraging the trend to normalize white nationalist ideology—another example of Meta’s failure to curb harmful content.
I second this recommendation. Reviewed here: www.philart.net/chrispurdom/...
December 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I second this recommendation. Reviewed here: www.philart.net/chrispurdom/...
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a tech bubble, in a 4-second video
can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot
December 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
a tech bubble, in a 4-second video
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December 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Thoughts of you form
an ornamental image
in my mind—
decadent swathes
of imagination
that colour my days
in opulent shades
& lustrous textures
my sense of you—
deep burgundy hue,
a feeling of velvet
draped over skin
sensual dreams
I marinate in
like a giant glass
of rich red wine
#bedroomeyes
an ornamental image
in my mind—
decadent swathes
of imagination
that colour my days
in opulent shades
& lustrous textures
my sense of you—
deep burgundy hue,
a feeling of velvet
draped over skin
sensual dreams
I marinate in
like a giant glass
of rich red wine
#bedroomeyes
December 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Thoughts of you form
an ornamental image
in my mind—
decadent swathes
of imagination
that colour my days
in opulent shades
& lustrous textures
my sense of you—
deep burgundy hue,
a feeling of velvet
draped over skin
sensual dreams
I marinate in
like a giant glass
of rich red wine
#bedroomeyes
an ornamental image
in my mind—
decadent swathes
of imagination
that colour my days
in opulent shades
& lustrous textures
my sense of you—
deep burgundy hue,
a feeling of velvet
draped over skin
sensual dreams
I marinate in
like a giant glass
of rich red wine
#bedroomeyes
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the writing is going slow so I am digging through fossilized phone Notes and finding forgotten poems; here's one I just dug up:
December 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the writing is going slow so I am digging through fossilized phone Notes and finding forgotten poems; here's one I just dug up:
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our neighborhoods continue to teem with violent migrant street gangs
December 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
our neighborhoods continue to teem with violent migrant street gangs
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The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England in the destruction of the planet Earth.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
They say there’s nothing new in the world, but Annie’s come up with the weather forecast - in poetry form!
December 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England in the destruction of the planet Earth.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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My hottest current take :
White and edgelord humor is one long line of insincere bullying that depends in you not wanting to be the person who “doesn’t get the joke”
White and edgelord humor is one long line of insincere bullying that depends in you not wanting to be the person who “doesn’t get the joke”
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
My hottest current take :
White and edgelord humor is one long line of insincere bullying that depends in you not wanting to be the person who “doesn’t get the joke”
White and edgelord humor is one long line of insincere bullying that depends in you not wanting to be the person who “doesn’t get the joke”
Today's #poetry reading video is "Wild Rice" from "too many chairs on the grass green hill", which is available as a free pdf at 226press.com.
vimeo.com/486979012
vimeo.com/486979012
Wild Rice
Christopher William Purdom reads "Wild Rice" from "too many chairs on the grass green hill" at 226press.com
vimeo.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Today's #poetry reading video is "Wild Rice" from "too many chairs on the grass green hill", which is available as a free pdf at 226press.com.
vimeo.com/486979012
vimeo.com/486979012
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For #smallpoemsunday here's mine about babies and profile pictures (ty @havehashad.com)
cc @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
cc @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
For #smallpoemsunday here's mine about babies and profile pictures (ty @havehashad.com)
cc @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
cc @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
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#ArtAdventCalendar day 7
Some visual/ found poetry using
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway as a source text. I focused on pages with mentions of flowers for this project.
Some visual/ found poetry using
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway as a source text. I focused on pages with mentions of flowers for this project.
December 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
#ArtAdventCalendar day 7
Some visual/ found poetry using
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway as a source text. I focused on pages with mentions of flowers for this project.
Some visual/ found poetry using
Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway as a source text. I focused on pages with mentions of flowers for this project.
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Reflection Questions
How did that go?
Is there anything that
I could have done better?
[I did the best I could with
what I knew at the time]
What is the learning
opportunity here?
#poetry
How did that go?
Is there anything that
I could have done better?
[I did the best I could with
what I knew at the time]
What is the learning
opportunity here?
#poetry
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Reflection Questions
How did that go?
Is there anything that
I could have done better?
[I did the best I could with
what I knew at the time]
What is the learning
opportunity here?
#poetry
How did that go?
Is there anything that
I could have done better?
[I did the best I could with
what I knew at the time]
What is the learning
opportunity here?
#poetry
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Crimson streak across
the morning sky, evidence
of night's massacre.
#haikuhorrorprompt #crimson #haiku #senryu
the morning sky, evidence
of night's massacre.
#haikuhorrorprompt #crimson #haiku #senryu
December 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Crimson streak across
the morning sky, evidence
of night's massacre.
#haikuhorrorprompt #crimson #haiku #senryu
the morning sky, evidence
of night's massacre.
#haikuhorrorprompt #crimson #haiku #senryu
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This #EarthDay2025 seems a good moment to share some Gerard Manley Hopkins:
“What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet”
“What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet”
April 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This #EarthDay2025 seems a good moment to share some Gerard Manley Hopkins:
“What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet”
“What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet”
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I loved this Reframe by @juliusgoat.bsky.social
..dig into the foundations of the argument until you find the place where you can say "I do not accept that we have to sacrifice other human beings in order to achieve the good things you say you want to achieve."
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
..dig into the foundations of the argument until you find the place where you can say "I do not accept that we have to sacrifice other human beings in order to achieve the good things you say you want to achieve."
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
There Is No Trolley Problem
We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..
www.the-reframe.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I loved this Reframe by @juliusgoat.bsky.social
..dig into the foundations of the argument until you find the place where you can say "I do not accept that we have to sacrifice other human beings in order to achieve the good things you say you want to achieve."
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
..dig into the foundations of the argument until you find the place where you can say "I do not accept that we have to sacrifice other human beings in order to achieve the good things you say you want to achieve."
www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
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in equal intervals
thoughts of stuff long passed
dried sunflowers
#whistpr #sunflower
#blueskyrelay #interval
#Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry
thoughts of stuff long passed
dried sunflowers
#whistpr #sunflower
#blueskyrelay #interval
#Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry
December 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM
in equal intervals
thoughts of stuff long passed
dried sunflowers
#whistpr #sunflower
#blueskyrelay #interval
#Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry
thoughts of stuff long passed
dried sunflowers
#whistpr #sunflower
#blueskyrelay #interval
#Haiku #HaikuSaturday #micropoetry
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For today’s #BlueskyRelay #prompt of #millennium, I decided to experiment by blending an Awdl Gywydd with a Haiku-style verse.
How did I do?
#poet #poem #poetry #writing #poetrylovers
#blueskypoets #poetrycommunity
How did I do?
#poet #poem #poetry #writing #poetrylovers
#blueskypoets #poetrycommunity
December 6, 2025 at 2:52 PM
For today’s #BlueskyRelay #prompt of #millennium, I decided to experiment by blending an Awdl Gywydd with a Haiku-style verse.
How did I do?
#poet #poem #poetry #writing #poetrylovers
#blueskypoets #poetrycommunity
How did I do?
#poet #poem #poetry #writing #poetrylovers
#blueskypoets #poetrycommunity
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December 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Today's #poetry reading video is "Victim" from "too many chairs on the grass green hill", which is available as a free pdf at 226press.com.
vimeo.com/486978099
vimeo.com/486978099
Victim
Christopher William Purdom reads "Victim" from "too many chairs on the grass green hill" at 226press.com
vimeo.com
December 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Today's #poetry reading video is "Victim" from "too many chairs on the grass green hill", which is available as a free pdf at 226press.com.
vimeo.com/486978099
vimeo.com/486978099
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Your festive fetish,
Call it what you will, riding
The sleigh to new heights.
#BedroomEyesPrompt #RidingTheSleigh #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@oldsoulprose.bsky.social @knickersnpearls.bsky.social
Call it what you will, riding
The sleigh to new heights.
#BedroomEyesPrompt #RidingTheSleigh #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@oldsoulprose.bsky.social @knickersnpearls.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Your festive fetish,
Call it what you will, riding
The sleigh to new heights.
#BedroomEyesPrompt #RidingTheSleigh #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@oldsoulprose.bsky.social @knickersnpearls.bsky.social
Call it what you will, riding
The sleigh to new heights.
#BedroomEyesPrompt #RidingTheSleigh #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity
@oldsoulprose.bsky.social @knickersnpearls.bsky.social