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Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts [NEOMFA]

@neomfa.bsky.social

Read the latest piece from poetry candidate @ironbrewer.bsky.social - “Gas Guzzler Ghazal” - up at Wildscape Lit ⛽️🪾☠️

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issue 4 // poetry Gas Guzzler Ghazalby Corey Miller Get in the truck, let’s pick up some faithfully lost hitchhikers & guzzle gasoline.Every god consumes ethanol alcohol. Weedwhackers/humans ru…

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October 20, 2025 at 3:17 PM

Corey Miller

@ironbrewer.bsky.social

I have a new poem out if you have a minute to spare 💚

Trampoline Poetry @trampolinepoetry.bsky.social · Aug 31

Trampoline #28.11 is excited to have poems by Steve Lambert, Corey Miller, and Tim Moder.
www.trampolinepoetry.com

Take care.

Trampoline Poetry

www.trampolinepoetry.com

September 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM

Corey Miller

@ironbrewer.bsky.social

I have a new poem coming soon!

MudRoom | Submissions OPEN @mudroommag.bsky.social · Aug 27

Issue 19 goes live on September 1 🐐

August 27, 2025 at 7:21 PM

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Tim Onion

@bencollins.bsky.social

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.

The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.

This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

I work as an elder and hospice caregiver, which I am oddly passionate about. I can love on them shamelessly and no one complains about my codependence. It's a win-win situation.

Many of my caregiving colleagues complain about the repetitive questions and, sometimes reactions, of the elderly, especially when those patients happen to read the newspaper, especially with the current downward spiral of our country — as if these people haven't lived through enough horror...

I love my dementia peeps, but sometimes wonder if there's a Guinness Book World Record for how many times an hour a dementia patient can repeat the same question — it's got to be in the hundreds. At least with small children, they ask different questions. Dementia patients will get stuck on one short question and ask it until you can interrupt their train(carousel) of thought and successfully redirect their attention. That carousel is pretty manic sometimes.

A couple days ago, I picked up my mail from the post office and drove over to the nursing home to take (let's call her "Miss Daisy") Miss Daisy out for a drive. Before we took off on our road trip, to the end of The Road and back, in our landlocked little town (Juneau, Alaska), I set my copy of The Onion down in front of her.

Over our two-hour excursion, tiny Miss Daisy read that front page at least a dozen times and each time she would snicker, giggle, and guffaw, then put it down on the dash board and, a minute later, discover it anew. I think it was the best afternoon of my life. We don't often hear them laugh and when they do, it's the sweetest thing you've ever heard.

...

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for the really important work all of you do. You make the world a better place.

July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social

If the bill passes this week, it will give ICE enough money to become, by 2029, the nation's largest federal interior law enforcement agency with enough funding to become the nation's largest jailer.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · Jun 30

With ICE poised to receive a massive infusion of cash courtesy the Republican spending bill, I figured it was worth documenting what they've been doing with the money they've currently got. Gift link: wapo.st/4lv53Wh

Opinion | This is what ICE is doing with the tax dollars you already provide it

Immigration and Customs Enforcement stands to see a sharp increase in its funding under the Republican budget bill.

wapo.st

June 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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George Takei

@georgetakei.bsky.social

Take note.

June 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM

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David Cole

@coledone.com

"She could answer by telling the truth: “My body wants to be a mother, to feed everyone and be depended upon. To not be like my sister, who sits and waits for results.” She would say it in that I’ve-unfucked-God-for-smiting-my-womb sort of way."

Excellent unnerving piece by @ironbrewer.bsky.social

Miss Texas Considers Talking About Her Tooth - SmokeLong Quarterly

My sister, who became Miss El Paso and then Miss Texas, is on stage about to answer the What would you do to change the world question to become Miss America. She looks close to God under those hot la...

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May 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM

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Lauren Groff

@legroff.bsky.social

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

April 23, 2025 at 11:52 PM

Corey Miller

@ironbrewer.bsky.social

Huge honor to be in Smokelong! 💚

SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Apr 14

"I try not to let my personal life enter my fiction too much. However I find my fears usually overlapping with what the protagonist must overcome." Our featured author @ironbrewer.bsky.social interviewed by @bstephens.bsky.social here: www.smokelong.com/interviews/s...

Smoke Signals with Corey Miller - SmokeLong Quarterly

Personally, I’ve always found flash fiction particularly well suited for fabulist and strange premises. Yet, still moving away from realism can pose issues when compression and brevity are also key. H...

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April 16, 2025 at 1:43 AM

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Bill Merklee

@bmerklee.bsky.social

Completely knocked out that one of my longer short stories, "All the Small Things," will be included in Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine (@stanchion.bsky.social) next month. They're taking discounted pre-orders if you're so inclined: www.stanchionzine.com/product-page...

Stanchion Magazine Issue 18 | Stanchion

This is a pre-order for Issue 18 of Stanchion Magazine. Expected to be published and shipped directly to you in April 2025.The issue will be approximately 90 elegantly uncoated pages full of short sto...

www.stanchionzine.com

March 29, 2025 at 1:42 PM

Corey Miller

@ironbrewer.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to have a story published with Smokelong Quarterly! Thank you so much to all of the editors!

You can read or listen to it here: https://www.smokelong.com/stories/miss-texas-considers-talking-about-her-tooth/

Miss Texas Considers Talking About Her Tooth - SmokeLong Quarterly

My sister, who became Miss El Paso and then Miss Texas, is on stage about to answer the What would you do to change the world question to become Miss America. She looks close to God under those hot la...

www.smokelong.com

March 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM

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SmokeLong Quarterly

@smokelong.bsky.social

⚡📢❗BIG NEWS KLAXON❗🔊⚡ Issue 87, which includes the winners of this year's SmokeLong Workshop Prize, goes live on Monday. ⭐⚡⭐

March 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM

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Beth Gilstrap (she/her)

@bettysueblue.bsky.social

I started a substack about my creative process & it includes prompts like I use in my classes, if anyone’s interested. open.substack.com/pub/bethgils...

Creative Practice with Beth Gilstrap

How to Keep Making Art When All You Want to Do is Cry on the Shower Floor

open.substack.com

January 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM

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Joseph Fasano

@josephfasano.bsky.social

This is still the greatest email ever.

January 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM

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Mary Resists (Dump Trump!)🌊💙💙

@antitrumpalways.bsky.social

January 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM

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Meg Pillow

@megpillow.bsky.social

In addition to helping vulnerable people and orgs, something else you can instead of screaming is to put a wrench in this administration’s plans every chance you get. A few ideas:

January 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM

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Anonymous

@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference, a letter from an alleged X whistleblower.

"What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations."

theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

I'm writing this with a heavy heart and no small amount of fear. As a former X (formerly Twitter) employee on an H1B visa, I can't reveal my identity without risking everything, but I can't stay silent any longer about what I saw and was made to do.

When Elon Musk took over, everything changed. What started as a social media company became something much darker. I was part of a team that was directly ordered to manipulate Twitter's systems to influence the 2024 US presidential election. It wasn't subtle, and it wasn't ethical.

We completely changed how the algorithm worked, pushing pro-Trump and right-wing posts to the top of people's feeds. To make it look balanced, we also boosted some left-wing critics of Democrats, but it was all carefully calculated. These changes didn't just affect Americans - they impacted users worldwide.

One of the most disturbing things we did was create thousands of fake accounts using advanced AI systems called Grok and Eliza. These accounts looked completely real and pushed political messages that spread like wildfire. Havn't you noticed they all disappeared? Like magic.

We also knowingly allowed foreign governments to manipulate the platform. State-backed groups from Israel, Iran, and Russia were running their own influence campaigns, and because their goals aligned with ours, we looked the other way. Even when they clearly broke the rules, we didn't stop them.

Perhaps the most unethical part was how we manufactured news stories. One team would write completely fake articles, while another team would artificially boost their engagement metrics to make them go viral. We specifically targeted certain groups of people, knowing exactly how to manipulate their views and emotions.

The moderation team became a tool for our agenda. We systematically silenced anyone who got in our way, enforcing the rules when it suited us and ignoring them when it didn't. Elon Musk himself was deeply involved in these decisions, often joking about being "Black Hat MAGA."

What started as US election interference has now spread to other countries. We're currently doing the same thing in Germany and other European nations. The damage we've done is immeasurable, and I don't know if it can ever be fixed. People don't know what's real anymore, and that's exactly what we wanted.

The pilot program for the Eliza AI Agent, was election interference. Eliza was release officially in October of 2024, but we had access to it before then thanks to Marc Andreessen.

I'm terrified to be writing this, but I had to speak up. I just hope that someone with the power to do something about this sees this letter. You'll know what i’m saying is the truth by Elon's actions to the news someone spoke out. For more evidence look at the docs of Eliza AI Agent software. We left bread crumbs.

Yours sincerely,

A former employee who can't sleep at night.

January 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM

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Ohio Poetry Association

@ohiopoetry.bsky.social

From our friends at @literarycleveland.bsky.social:

"Plum City Reading Series is Literary Cleveland's new regular reading series bringing the country's most interesting and groundbreaking authors to Cleveland."

Info: www.litcleveland.org/events-progr...

January 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM

Corey Miller

@ironbrewer.bsky.social

Has anyone else read this blog post on Atticus Review? It was posted last week about their new format and it sounds super sketchy. I’m thinking about pulling the work I have there.

https://newsletter.atticusreview.org/p/an-atticus-review-update-a-new-publishing-model

An Atticus Review Update: A New Publishing Model

Upcoming changes to format, minting literary NFTs at Atticus Review.

newsletter.atticusreview.org

January 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Robert Reich

@rbreich.bsky.social

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen members of Congress outperformed the market in 2024.

This isn't due to luck or skill. Lawmakers can use privileged information to trade stocks while they’re supposed to be working for you.

Make no mistake, it’s legalized corruption.

Dozens of lawmakers beat stock market in 2024: Report

The stock portfolios of more than two dozen lawmakers once again outperformed the market as bans on congressional stock trading stalled, according to a new report from the trading trackers at Unusu…

thehill.com

January 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM

Corey Miller

@ironbrewer.bsky.social

Huge honor to win third place! Thank you so much to all of the Smokelong editors!! 💚😊

SmokeLong Quarterly @smokelong.bsky.social · Jan 6

Third prize goes to Corey Miller for "Miss Texas Considers Talking About Her Tooth", written in the SmokeLong February 2020 flash intensive workshop and published in Booth: booth.butler.edu/2021/05/07/m... @ironbrewer.bsky.social ⭐