John S. Blake
@blackfluidpoet.bsky.social
Writer. Poet. Podcaster. Book collector. Love Enthusiast. Therapy fan. Unforven. Authentic. Cooking a memoir. They/Them
So, we still going to work and paying bills? K
Just checking.
Just checking.
September 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
So, we still going to work and paying bills? K
Just checking.
Just checking.
Remembering Katrina, 20 years later, after college and a myriad of books, enables me to see nothing has changed and Trump isn't new. He's just the new and improved Bush, the Nixon 4.0., Reagan with less political savvy. The only thing that's changed is our docile and exhausted reactions.
August 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Remembering Katrina, 20 years later, after college and a myriad of books, enables me to see nothing has changed and Trump isn't new. He's just the new and improved Bush, the Nixon 4.0., Reagan with less political savvy. The only thing that's changed is our docile and exhausted reactions.
I'm at a place in my spirit which accepts the United States is all but gone.
August 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I'm at a place in my spirit which accepts the United States is all but gone.
Working on the memoir!
August 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Working on the memoir!
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If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
August 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
#pediatriccancer #cancermom
I cried on the train, all the way from Fields Corner to Harvard. I prayed and cried. I thought about warmth I've gotten from Palestinians I've met or known. Then images of bones protruding through skin skipped on repeat. I remember how many meals they fed me. Giving. So giving.
August 6, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I cried on the train, all the way from Fields Corner to Harvard. I prayed and cried. I thought about warmth I've gotten from Palestinians I've met or known. Then images of bones protruding through skin skipped on repeat. I remember how many meals they fed me. Giving. So giving.
Yes, this is the world I live in. Yes, it's really this bad. Yes, I'm powerless over a lot of it. Yes, I'm going to keep doing what I can. Yes, it will improve. Yes, it's going to take time. Yes, this is depressing. Yes, I smile. Yes, I'm going to keep going. Yes, I'm going to do it anyway.
August 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Yes, this is the world I live in. Yes, it's really this bad. Yes, I'm powerless over a lot of it. Yes, I'm going to keep doing what I can. Yes, it will improve. Yes, it's going to take time. Yes, this is depressing. Yes, I smile. Yes, I'm going to keep going. Yes, I'm going to do it anyway.
I'm attending US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action's event, “Stop Starving Gaza Power Hour” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/uscpraction/...
Stop Starving Gaza Power Hour · US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action
THIS IS A RED ALERT: ISRAEL IS STARVING GAZA TO DEATH.
We must mobilize our masses to end the forced famine and genocide. This Wednesday, join us for a strategic Stop Starving Gaza Power Hour. You’ll...
www.mobilize.us
July 29, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I'm attending US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action's event, “Stop Starving Gaza Power Hour” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/uscpraction/...
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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
The first time I heard Andrea Gibson, I was 6 months on the poetry scene in NYC (2007). I didn't know a poem could turn someone from 5 feet tall to God size. And every time after that, looked up to them.
July 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The first time I heard Andrea Gibson, I was 6 months on the poetry scene in NYC (2007). I didn't know a poem could turn someone from 5 feet tall to God size. And every time after that, looked up to them.
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Moving to Boston. Be there in a few days! Muslims, activists, poets, where y'all at? I need community!
July 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Moving to Boston. Be there in a few days! Muslims, activists, poets, where y'all at? I need community!
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
November 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Earnest post, but: a thing I like here is it’s okay to have moments of happiness in public without being broadly scolded, and I believe that sustaining this kind of humanity will be very important as we resist fascism.
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
We have to sustain each other. Making joy isn’t denial, it’s how we will survive
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Losses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years.
The Most Americans Are On Unemployment—Nearly 2 Milllion—Since Pandemic
Losses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years.
www.forbes.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Losses in service jobs sparked the first negative job growth in two years.
Next week, my new address will be Boston!!!! Who's taking me to a Bruins' game?
July 4, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Next week, my new address will be Boston!!!! Who's taking me to a Bruins' game?
In checking in: I'm sober and want to drink. I'm healthy and don't want to be. For 2 years, I've watched people worship politicians that turn their backs to genocide, but expect these same politicians to give a damn about anyone but their donors.
July 4, 2025 at 1:31 AM
In checking in: I'm sober and want to drink. I'm healthy and don't want to be. For 2 years, I've watched people worship politicians that turn their backs to genocide, but expect these same politicians to give a damn about anyone but their donors.
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Black panther party founder Huey newton on the vanguard #blacksky #blackpanthers
May 22, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Black panther party founder Huey newton on the vanguard #blacksky #blackpanthers
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
May 20, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?
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Your School House Rock moment......
May 11, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Your School House Rock moment......
I scraped a eighty dollar filet into the trash at work, while sobbing over starving palestinian children. I went home early.
May 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I scraped a eighty dollar filet into the trash at work, while sobbing over starving palestinian children. I went home early.