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Rasmenia Massoud
@rasmenia.bsky.social
350 followers 150 following 210 posts
Writin’ stories and makin’ art. Still believing that a better world is possible.

🚫No AI
📍Brighton, UK
🌄 Colorodoan

https://linktr.ee/rasmenia
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"Things were that way. People came and went. Stuck together like it was life and death in one moment, an almost forgotten odd character in a funny anecdote the next."

#flashfiction #writingcommunity
Dead Flowers
Originally Published at XRAY Literary Magazine
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November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, sits on her bed, knees up to her chest and resting her elbows on her knees as she blankly stares forward and thinks, “People hurt each other all the time.“
November 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
rasmenia.bsky.social
Nope. Didn’t see anything.

#procreate #noai #art #comics
Comic book style illustration of a dude with a tall blue mohawk and facial piercings. Behind him is a red brick wall. He’s wearing a leather jacket with spiked silver studs and is holding a canned beverage. He sneers as he says, “if you saw somebody stealing food, no you didn’t.”
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Huge gratitude to Revolution John Journal for publishing my flash piece about fast cars and loneliness.

#flashfiction #writingcommunity
November 6, 2025: Fiction by Rasmenia Massoud
She twirls her keys around her finger like a gunslinger. I sip nonchalant from my red cup, pretending the beer hasn’t gone warm and flat. Check us out: dorky high school chicks trying to be Doc Hol…
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November 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Happy Halloween, y’all. 🎃
Polaroid photo of a 4-years-old yours truly bedecked in a glorious Batman costume circa 1977. Behind me on the kitchen counter are random objects of the era: a plastic pitcher. A six-pack of Pepsi in bottles. A solitary brown onion.
October 31, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I’ve written another book. It’s about awful things like trauma and gentrification. It’s also about wonderful things like helping one another and fighting back however you can.

#writingcommunity #booksky 💙📚
Another Invisible Ghetto
A Quick Announcement About a New Thing
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October 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I have been here before,
But when or how I cannot tell:
I know the grass beyond the door,
The sweet keen smell,
The sighing sound, the lights around the shore.

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sudden Light

#collage #procreate #digitalcollage #poetry
Digital collage depicting an elderly couple seated on a bench, surrounded by a sea of molten lava beneath burning red skies. Next to them, a clock sinks in the burning sea. Volcanoes erupt in the distance, dinosaurs trudge through the molten sea as pterodactyls fly overhead. In the center of it all, stand the ruins of two ancient doorways, on the other side of their thresholds, blue skies and a bright clear ocean shine through the apocalyptic gloom.
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Anywhere there is a dream in America, there's someone lining up a pyramid scheme.
October 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Unsurprisingly, The Oatmeal nails it in this comic.

“Even if you don't work in the arts, you have to admit you feel it too - that disappointment when you find out
something is AI-generated.“
October 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.
October 12, 2025 at 10:44 PM
rasmenia.bsky.social
For a moment, we were invincible.

#ozzy #musicsky #ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #metal #heavymetal #writingcommunity
The Road to Nowhere
Here, the hurt stops. The fear dies. Dread cannot survive.
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September 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Magpies are jerks.

#autumn #writingcommunity #nature
A few magpies hanging out in a dead tree, surrounded by dry, brown grass beneath a bright blue sky and scattered clouds. We were walking wherever our dog told us to go. I said to my husband that it was getting colder and he pointed out that the autumn equinox had snuck up on us again. “Another summer in the bucket before we kick it,” he said. We laughed. Then we got silent, the way you do when you remember you’re gonna die. Then the magpies in the tree laughed. I know better, though. They were definitely laughing at us, not with us.
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The next best thing to not spreading slop is refusing to engage with slop.

#noai #writingcommunity #antiai #aislop #art #procreate
Illustration that says ‘no ai slop.’ AI in blue lettering and ‘slop’ brown and dripping, looking like poop, all behind a red circle with a line through it.
September 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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radical left rhetoric is like "give people health care and let trans kids chill and don't let cops kill black people, also here are some books i like"
September 12, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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AI slop has no stories to tell. You do.

#noai #filmsky #procreate #comic #art #writingcommunity
Comic book style drawing of Harry Dean Stanton in the Wim Wenders film, Paris Texas. He’s wearing a suit and tie with a red cap, clouds and desert behind him as he looks off into the distance. Text only: I drew this almost 2 years ago and wasn’t happy with it. When I looked at it, I couldn’t see past the janky lines. The lack of shading. The difficulty I had (and still have) with facial hair and eyebrows. And that ear. What the fuck is going on with that ear? I fixated on the places where I erased and tried again. And again. But now, I kind of love it. Those mistakes and difficulties show that I was learning. I can now see what’s beneath those janky lines: me, at peace, in the moment, making something and absorbing myself in Harry Dean’s incredible, emotive face. I see the story of me making something just for the joy of creating and the love of an unforgettable artist. What I see is human. So, yeah… you should make stuff even if you think it looks like shit. Because it’ll still be better than ai slop, which absolutely looks like shit and has no stories of its own to tell.
September 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
rasmenia.bsky.social
I’ve called a few different places home. That happens when you stop moving around for a time. But this place feels like my place and I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of walking through these streets.

#brighton #brightonandhove #streetart
Street art depicting an image reminiscent of Magritte’s ‘Son of Man,’ only the figure extends beyond the painting’s frame, revealing he’s wearing shorts and his legs are covered in tattoos. Artist’s signature at the bottom is Catman. Street art depicting a surprised looking otter drinking a pint of beer. Various street art images. Most prominently shown is a big tooth painted by street artist Molar. The molar is sporting an Irish flag balaclava like Kneecap’s DJ Provai. Street art of a robot.
September 2, 2025 at 7:14 AM
rasmenia.bsky.social
Summer’s almost gone.

#bookquote #writingcommunity
Sun setting as 3 girls pose for a photo, their faces obscured by shadow. Text in the center of photo is a book quote from a book titled ‘You Don’t See Any of This’ that reads: “August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze. In the winter, everything changes.”
August 30, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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“We have always seen culture as the spaces and places where society tells stories about itself. Every society has a space where these stories are told and in our culture it’s advertising that dominates these spaces (both physical and digital).”

-Bill Posters 📚💙

#booksky
Paperback book titled: Advertising Shits in Your Head by Vyvian Raoul and Matt Bonner. Font is in neon red lettering.
August 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Show us the last four albums you listened to.

#last4albums #musicsky

#viagraboys
#chriscasey
#minorthreat
#sexmex
Album cover of Cave World by the Viagra Boys Album cover of Buried Out Back by Chris Casey Salad Days album cover by Minor Threat Repackaged II album cover by Sex Mex
August 27, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Comic by asofterworld.com
Three frame comic depicting a larger photo of a high-rise building, all the windows reflecting the blue sky and white clouds. First frame reads: Whole libraries of books are lost forever. Second frame reads: While we build monolithic data centers in the desert, Third frame reads: monuments to selfies.
August 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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“... maybe it's a sneaking feeling that people are wrong when they say human beings can't keep track of the world any more, we have to leave it up to the machines. I don't want to be hung out to dry on a dead branch of the evolutionary tree.”
― John Brunner

#stevecutts #automation #animation
A perfect day at the office 🤖 #shorts #animation #automation #stevecutts
YouTube video by Steve Cutts
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August 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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August 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
rasmenia.bsky.social
Show us the last four albums you listened to.

#last4albums #musicsky
Album cover of The Silver Tongued Devil and I by Kris Kristofferson Album cover of Small Changes by Michael Kiwanuka Album cover of The Whole Family is Worried by Misty Miller Cover of The Cars eponymous debut album.
August 12, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Always Shocked by Figaro Many

#art #collage
Vintage magazine image of 50s era white blonde woman holding up a piece of paper that says, “STOP BEING SHOCKED BY REPEATED BEHAVIOR.” The woman’s eyes are pure white with no pupils or irises, but still twinkle with stars in her eyes.
August 12, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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claytoncubitt.bsky.social
It's always reasonable to unfollow (or block!) people who post ai. In posting ai they're broadcasting their disregard for truth, art, the environment, and basic human interrelationships! You don't need to voluntarily remain connected to that bad vibe.
April 4, 2025 at 2:48 AM