Chiara Di Lello
@chiaradilello.bsky.social
For if it is rash to walk into a lion's den unarmed, rash to navigate the Atlantic in a rowing boat, rash to stand on one foot on top of St. Paul's, it is still more rash to go home alone with a poet. A poet is Atlantic and lion in one. (Woolf)
Pinned
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME:
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
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"When people say to me, Thank you for your service, it is all I can do to keep from shouting in their faces, My ‘service’? You have no freakin’ idea what you are thanking me for. If you did, you would be ashamed of yourself for thanking me."- WD Ehrhart
open.substack.com/pub/themassa... #veteransday
open.substack.com/pub/themassa... #veteransday
Armistice Day vs. Veterans Day
by W. D. Ehrhart
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"When people say to me, Thank you for your service, it is all I can do to keep from shouting in their faces, My ‘service’? You have no freakin’ idea what you are thanking me for. If you did, you would be ashamed of yourself for thanking me."- WD Ehrhart
open.substack.com/pub/themassa... #veteransday
open.substack.com/pub/themassa... #veteransday
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People of all ages should know about this man [especially white people because some of you continue to pretend that people didn't know that enslaving Africans WAS WRONG at the time].
We will hold the launch of our children’s book, *Fearless Benjamin* (PM Press), this evening, Tuesday, Nov. 11, at 6:00 pm at the Abington Quaker Meeting House, where Benjamin Lay worshipped and where he is buried. See the flyer below for more info. Please join us!
November 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
People of all ages should know about this man [especially white people because some of you continue to pretend that people didn't know that enslaving Africans WAS WRONG at the time].
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Joyce Carol Oates is not your hero and you do not have to hand it to her! She has the same Hitler particles as Elon.
Remember when she compared the keffiyeh to a swastika? Because I do...
November 11, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Joyce Carol Oates is not your hero and you do not have to hand it to her! She has the same Hitler particles as Elon.
Look what my Mama got me for my birthday! Eeee!
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Look what my Mama got me for my birthday! Eeee!
ICYMI - my poem about caring for plants & self in @alocasiamag.bsky.social
"Exhausting, this whole business of renewal
and the banana palm I nearly killed trying to kill its plague of mites
as cures go I’m worse than the disease
Death to what? What’s the motto?"
—Chiara Di Lello, Childless Millennial Considers Non-Attachment
alocasia.org/2025/10/20/c...
and the banana palm I nearly killed trying to kill its plague of mites
as cures go I’m worse than the disease
Death to what? What’s the motto?"
—Chiara Di Lello, Childless Millennial Considers Non-Attachment
alocasia.org/2025/10/20/c...
Chiara Di Lello :: “Childless Millennial Considers Non-Attachment” – ALOCASIA
alocasia.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM
ICYMI - my poem about caring for plants & self in @alocasiamag.bsky.social
"When people say to me, Thank you for your service, it is all I can do to keep from shouting in their faces, My ‘service’? You have no freakin’ idea what you are thanking me for. If you did, you would be ashamed of yourself for thanking me."- WD Ehrhart
open.substack.com/pub/themassa... #veteransday
open.substack.com/pub/themassa... #veteransday
Armistice Day vs. Veterans Day
by W. D. Ehrhart
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"When people say to me, Thank you for your service, it is all I can do to keep from shouting in their faces, My ‘service’? You have no freakin’ idea what you are thanking me for. If you did, you would be ashamed of yourself for thanking me."- WD Ehrhart
open.substack.com/pub/themassa... #veteransday
open.substack.com/pub/themassa... #veteransday
Super proud to report that this fundraiser has passed $2,600. I invited, and people showed up, with donations of all sizes depending on what they could do.
Consider what you can invite your people to do, esp. if their budget is such that basics are covered. People want ways to help. Invite them in
Consider what you can invite your people to do, esp. if their budget is such that basics are covered. People want ways to help. Invite them in
Good morning! Tomorrow is my birthday, and in the runup I have been doing a "fuck ICE, free Palestine" bday fundraiser. 3 weeks in, we are close to $2,500! I'm inviting folks on here to chip in if you can -- the cost of a nice coffee or your last takeout order. (Info on recipients in next post)
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Super proud to report that this fundraiser has passed $2,600. I invited, and people showed up, with donations of all sizes depending on what they could do.
Consider what you can invite your people to do, esp. if their budget is such that basics are covered. People want ways to help. Invite them in
Consider what you can invite your people to do, esp. if their budget is such that basics are covered. People want ways to help. Invite them in
TIL toponyms from Thai and English have a shared linguistic ancestor! 🤯
This is so extremely my language nerd shit
This is so extremely my language nerd shit
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
TIL toponyms from Thai and English have a shared linguistic ancestor! 🤯
This is so extremely my language nerd shit
This is so extremely my language nerd shit
Very close, Todd - this is the difference between truth and Buddy.
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Very close, Todd - this is the difference between truth and Buddy.
I picked this book back up last week and just got through the chapter about community clinics during the Crisis / austerity measures in Greece ca. 2008.
Thinking about the systems we need to be building *now* to take care of each other and meet our own needs. Begin somewhere, just begin.
Thinking about the systems we need to be building *now* to take care of each other and meet our own needs. Begin somewhere, just begin.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I picked this book back up last week and just got through the chapter about community clinics during the Crisis / austerity measures in Greece ca. 2008.
Thinking about the systems we need to be building *now* to take care of each other and meet our own needs. Begin somewhere, just begin.
Thinking about the systems we need to be building *now* to take care of each other and meet our own needs. Begin somewhere, just begin.
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That’s exactly what happened, no joke.
Moderate Democrats saw that voters were energized and might expect something from them, so they needed to put a stop to that ASAP
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
That’s exactly what happened, no joke.
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME:
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
November 9, 2025 at 8:47 PM
📢 ANNOUNCEMENT TIME:
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
We're less than three months away from pub day for my debut chapbook, CHILDLESS MILLENNIAL.
Tell your friends, your English teacher, and of course all your favorite non-biological aunties.
📚 Pre-order details coming soooon
Brought to you by @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 🕹
Today's my birthday so I climbed the local mountain with my dog. I'm grateful for the past year in so many ways. Grateful to have reached this age. Grateful to be able to get up today & decide yeah, okay, let's go climb a mountain. 🧡🍂🍁
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Today's my birthday so I climbed the local mountain with my dog. I'm grateful for the past year in so many ways. Grateful to have reached this age. Grateful to be able to get up today & decide yeah, okay, let's go climb a mountain. 🧡🍂🍁
This is how I found out @majda.bsky.social and I share a birthday. Happy birthday, badass poet! 🎂📚🥳
It's the marvelous @majda.bsky.social's birthday! Celebrate by purchasing her brilliant collection "In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls" if you don't already have this beauty on your shelves! politics-prose.com/book/9798218...
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is how I found out @majda.bsky.social and I share a birthday. Happy birthday, badass poet! 🎂📚🥳
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Got a couple donations today -- we are $125 from goal! Anything you can chip in makes a huge difference: fruits and veggies for families in Jabalia Camp, winter coats for kids in Gaza, bills paid for families who are missing work to avoid getting kidnapped by ICE. Together we can do huge things!
Good morning! Tomorrow is my birthday, and in the runup I have been doing a "fuck ICE, free Palestine" bday fundraiser. 3 weeks in, we are close to $2,500! I'm inviting folks on here to chip in if you can -- the cost of a nice coffee or your last takeout order. (Info on recipients in next post)
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Got a couple donations today -- we are $125 from goal! Anything you can chip in makes a huge difference: fruits and veggies for families in Jabalia Camp, winter coats for kids in Gaza, bills paid for families who are missing work to avoid getting kidnapped by ICE. Together we can do huge things!
Got a couple donations today -- we are $125 from goal! Anything you can chip in makes a huge difference: fruits and veggies for families in Jabalia Camp, winter coats for kids in Gaza, bills paid for families who are missing work to avoid getting kidnapped by ICE. Together we can do huge things!
Good morning! Tomorrow is my birthday, and in the runup I have been doing a "fuck ICE, free Palestine" bday fundraiser. 3 weeks in, we are close to $2,500! I'm inviting folks on here to chip in if you can -- the cost of a nice coffee or your last takeout order. (Info on recipients in next post)
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Got a couple donations today -- we are $125 from goal! Anything you can chip in makes a huge difference: fruits and veggies for families in Jabalia Camp, winter coats for kids in Gaza, bills paid for families who are missing work to avoid getting kidnapped by ICE. Together we can do huge things!
Reposted by Chiara Di Lello
Good morning! Tomorrow is my birthday, and in the runup I have been doing a "fuck ICE, free Palestine" bday fundraiser. 3 weeks in, we are close to $2,500! I'm inviting folks on here to chip in if you can -- the cost of a nice coffee or your last takeout order. (Info on recipients in next post)
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Good morning! Tomorrow is my birthday, and in the runup I have been doing a "fuck ICE, free Palestine" bday fundraiser. 3 weeks in, we are close to $2,500! I'm inviting folks on here to chip in if you can -- the cost of a nice coffee or your last takeout order. (Info on recipients in next post)
Sarah nails the post-9/11 changes in NYC perfectly.
"I still explored the city. But now subway signs told me to report on strangers, to view New Yorkers not with curiosity but suspicion. I felt plutocrats grasping at my grief, gathering it like clay for the foundation of a new city — a worse city."
"I still explored the city. But now subway signs told me to report on strangers, to view New Yorkers not with curiosity but suspicion. I felt plutocrats grasping at my grief, gathering it like clay for the foundation of a new city — a worse city."
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Sarah nails the post-9/11 changes in NYC perfectly.
"I still explored the city. But now subway signs told me to report on strangers, to view New Yorkers not with curiosity but suspicion. I felt plutocrats grasping at my grief, gathering it like clay for the foundation of a new city — a worse city."
"I still explored the city. But now subway signs told me to report on strangers, to view New Yorkers not with curiosity but suspicion. I felt plutocrats grasping at my grief, gathering it like clay for the foundation of a new city — a worse city."
Good morning! Tomorrow is my birthday, and in the runup I have been doing a "fuck ICE, free Palestine" bday fundraiser. 3 weeks in, we are close to $2,500! I'm inviting folks on here to chip in if you can -- the cost of a nice coffee or your last takeout order. (Info on recipients in next post)
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Good morning! Tomorrow is my birthday, and in the runup I have been doing a "fuck ICE, free Palestine" bday fundraiser. 3 weeks in, we are close to $2,500! I'm inviting folks on here to chip in if you can -- the cost of a nice coffee or your last takeout order. (Info on recipients in next post)
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No circle of hell hot enough for these fuckers.
Getting new details on this now:
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.
Raids inside day cares had been off limits until this year, when, on his first day in office, President Donald Trump removed that protection.
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
The arrest reportedly took place in front of children.
19thnews.org/2025/11/chil...
November 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
No circle of hell hot enough for these fuckers.
This just in, direct from gen alpha: on Jan 1 "the whole internet" has declared a Great Meme Reset. Skibidi toilet will be no more. Nyan Cat will return, along with "all the old memes." Recess games will be punctuated not by SIX SEVEN but by cries of "Charlie bit my finger!" A new era dawns.
November 5, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This just in, direct from gen alpha: on Jan 1 "the whole internet" has declared a Great Meme Reset. Skibidi toilet will be no more. Nyan Cat will return, along with "all the old memes." Recess games will be punctuated not by SIX SEVEN but by cries of "Charlie bit my finger!" A new era dawns.
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Nothing has changed. Not enough aid is getting in. No money for rebuilding has reached Palestinians. Please check out the fundraiser in the replies of the below post, donate or at least share. Thank you
Folks, Israel is not letting aid in which means Palestinians continue to have to buy food on the black market from Israel sponsored gangs. If you can donate a little money to the fundraisers we're posting, you can keep someone alive. Palestinians wouldn't beg if they didn't have to.
UNRWA has enough food outside #Gaza to supply people there for 3 months, amid desperate need. Our teams stand ready to deliver it.
But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.
Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.
But despite the #ceasefire, the Israeli Authorities’ block on UNRWA bringing any supplies into Gaza still continues.
Let us get aid into Gaza at the full scale needed.
November 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Nothing has changed. Not enough aid is getting in. No money for rebuilding has reached Palestinians. Please check out the fundraiser in the replies of the below post, donate or at least share. Thank you
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It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.
November 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.
This is exactly it. 2002 in a nutshell.
This isn't hindsight. The potential trajectory was clear to many of us at the time. War-mongering nationalistic chauvinism, dissent portrayed as treason, mass surveillance, torture, the president above the law. And the endless drumbeat of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism.
November 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is exactly it. 2002 in a nutshell.
oh, it's gonna be a good day on The Internet.
November 4, 2025 at 1:06 PM
oh, it's gonna be a good day on The Internet.