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Ted Jackins (They/Them)
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Your favorite mentally ill poet/artist/musician. Nonbinary. Spoused. Cat parent. Professional raconteur and misanthrope.

I'm on substack:
https://tedjackins.substack.com/

Find me on Instagram: @mount_mourn

Books available on Amazon!
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New chapbook out now!
Look what I found on Etsy: www.etsy.com/listing/4378...
Listen to Mazzy Star or so help me...
November 30, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Friend was asking for favorite short stories. I nominated Trilobites from Breece D'J Pancake. What do you have?
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The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake book by Breece D'J Pancake
Buy a cheap copy of The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake book by Breece D'J Pancake. A collection of short stories that memorably capture American life in rural Appalachia by Breece D'J Pancake, the bril...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Going to go live on Insta but instead of reading poems or playing music it's just an hour of me eating taco bell and crying.
November 30, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Live feed:
November 30, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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Dearest Husband believes that human-Spock was unable to contain his emotions because "logic is stored in the balls." That is obviously untrue. Logic is stored in the pointy bits of the ears.
November 30, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I have nightmares I'm bombing in a comedy club that dares call itself something like The Haha Hole.
November 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Look me in the eye
And tell me that I'm satisfied
Look me in the eye
Unsatisfied
I'm so, I'm so unsatisfied
-Paul Westerberg
November 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I'm not meant to work a 9 to 5. I'm meant to have a psychotic breakdown in my cabin in the woods.
November 30, 2025 at 12:01 AM
David Berman was a staggering mountain of poetic genius.
November 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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This song makes me cry just a little bit, but

every
single
time 🖤

#SilverJews #DavidBermanRIP
Silver Jews "Random Rules" (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Drag City
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November 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Pepsi now sells prebiotic Cola in case you were wondering how life on the dumbest timeline is going.
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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🎶When I was just seventeen
Sex no longer held a mystery
I saw it as a commodity
To be bought and sold like rock'n'roll🎶

youtu.be/CjfCe1nwIFU?...
The Mekons - Club Mekon
YouTube video by iamthejake2000
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Pulse - Lo-Down [New Haven, CT, USA , Psychedelic Rock / Blues Rock] (1968)
https://redd.it/i1vmlo
https://youtu.be/8VSq_L8gdvs
Pulse - Lo-Down [New Haven, CT, USA , Psychedelic Rock / Blues Rock] (1968)
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Generally I take the Neil Young approach of at least having a little cassette deck recording whenever I'm pissing about on an instrument, just in case I catch something worth keeping but there's a joyful freedom in spending hours programming a drum machine just for fun & not even saving the beats
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Mohinder Kaur Bhamra - Mainu Apne Pyar Wich [India/UK, Disco, Electronic, Funk] (1982)
https://redd.it/1or024l
https://youtu.be/igEgo3XHUjw
Mohinder Kaur Bhamra - Mainu Apne Pyar Wich [India/UK, Disco, Electronic, Funk] (1982)
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Travis Wammack - Easy Evil [US, Country Funk/Sarah Vaughan Cover] (1975)
https://redd.it/qjmp4s
https://youtu.be/JbvOd3i6tcI
Travis Wammack - Easy Evil [US, Country Funk/Sarah Vaughan Cover] (1975)
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Pulsallama -- The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body [USA, no wave] (1982)
https://redd.it/77joq1
https://youtu.be/dNqhSRJCJuc
Pulsallama -- The Devil Lives In My Husband's Body [USA, no wave] (1982)
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Now Spinning: This Heat, Horizontal Hold.
Horizontal Hold
This Heat
open.spotify.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Today's tune. Every struggling musician should get something from this one.
youtu.be/_rJTu-fc8yc?...
Slim Dunlap-The ballad of the opening band
YouTube video by james doakes
youtu.be
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I've crossed oceans of time to roast this bowl.
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Move to the country
Raise a bunch of leeches
November 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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#OtD 28 Nov 1919 Faye Schulman, Jewish resistance partisan, was born in Lenin, Poland. She survived the massacre of local Jews and joined the partisans as a fighter, nurse and movement photographer. She survived and lived until the age of 101. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1004...
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Long Fin Killie - The Heads of Dead Surfers [Scotland, Indie Rock](1995) Who’s that singing along with them? Why it’s that cheeky Mark E Smith.
https://redd.it/gwhdia
https://youtu.be/6ooc0R4fEWM
Long Fin Killie - The Heads of Dead Surfers [Scotland, Indie Rock](1995) Who’s that singing along with them? Why it’s that cheeky Mark E Smith.
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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The Panthers - Malkaus [Pakistan, Garage rock/Surf rock] (196? - 197?)
https://redd.it/4pjzcm
https://youtu.be/JBVd9gE5dpA
The Panthers - Malkaus [Pakistan, Garage rock/Surf rock] (196? - 197?)
youtu.be
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM