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Roy Kesey
@roykesey.bsky.social
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Some things I do: write (Sarabande, Jonathan Cape/Random House, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), teach, read, bind, photograph. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Photos mine unless otherwise noted, e.g. profile tintype by Amy Güth.
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Roy Kesey @roykesey.bsky.social · Nov 8
Color, shape, texture, layers upon layers.
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#mountainsheepcanyon #taadidiintours #navajonation #arizona #photography #clarity
A view through interleaved walls of sandstone, the first one bright terracotta in sunlight, the others redder in shade.
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A raven on the castle wall.
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#birdsky #raven #scarboroughcastle #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity
A black and white photo of a raven in silhouette on an old stone wall.
November 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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I guess if anywhere is going to change hands between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists seven times in seven years, might as well be
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#scarboroughcastle #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity
A black-and-white photograph showing the ruins of a medieval castle, with a field of wildflowers in the foreground, and complex clouds in the background.
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I mean I guess if you’re going to set a vampire story somewhere, might as well be
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#whitby #abbey #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity
A black-and-white photograph of the ruins of an ancient abbey against the setting sun.
November 20, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Robin Hood’s Bay.
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#robinhoodsbay #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity
A black-and-white photograph of sunlight reflected on a bay, the headlands beyond, and a cloudy sky.
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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The limestone cap of Malham Cove.
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#limestone #rocksky #malhamcove #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity
A color photograph of a thick gray cap of natural limestone fragmented by weather, with ferns growing in between the fragments.
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Recent studies show that some large bats eat songbirds on night migration, plucking them out of the sky. Studies also show rats wait near bat havens and pluck them out of the sky and eat them. This is kind of a vague turducken for whatever eats the rat, I suppose.
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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I have a new essay (about gay porn, cicadas, internet time, and longing as mourning) up at @anotherchicagomag.bsky.social.

The piece comes from a collaborative book-length essay written alongside poets Aaron Smith & David Trinidad.

anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/11/04/d...
“Draw Me Back Again, a porn elegy” by James Allen Hall
I like art best when its artifice dissolves. Pull back the curtain: It’s me, looking sheepish. Which me is almost irrelevant: I’ll answer to any name you call. Surrendering is only erotic when what…
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November 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Join us at "Revisions and Subversions," a reading of poetry in translation! This reading is collaboratively sponsored by Sarabande Books, Third Coast Translators Collective, and The Louisville Review and features Katrine Øgaard Jensen, Stine An, and other incredible translators. See you at Sky Bar!
November 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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I’d like to address all these questions about why I smell different today. What happened was, I ran out of my usual shampoo, Tobacco ’n’ Bourbon ’n’ Bullets. In the back of the cabinet I found a bottle of County Fair, which is why I smell like corndogs, cotton candy, and carny sweat. Thx for asking!
November 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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A good start
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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I hope this finds you holding a machete.
October 31, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Back to my fighting weight
#burnishbeercompany #salisbury #maryland
A color photograph of a pint of lager next to a can reading Roy Light, a beer produced by Burnish Beer Co.
October 31, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Blue hour at Crummock Water
October 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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This morning’s hype anthem
noethematt.bsky.social Matthew Noe 🔜 MICE @noethematt.bsky.social · 25d
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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If someone asks you if that’s enough cream cheese, the correct answer is no
October 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Tis finally the season for my famous pumpkin spice toothpaste (50/50 mix of nutmeg and hair gel)
October 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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TONIGHT in PVD:

Join me to celebrate the publication of Guardians & Saints: Stories, just out from Cornerstone Press.

Where: Riffraff Bookstore & Bar, 60 Valley St., Providence RI
When: 6 pm

Read more about the book and the launch here:
heyrhody.com/stories/a-ni...
A Night of Stories and Spirits at Riffraff Bookstore & Bar - Hey Rhody Media Co.
History and heartache meet in the pages of Guardians & Saints , the new short story collection from Providence author Diane Josefowicz. Out October 21 from Cornerstone Press, the book explores …
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October 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The OG
iamragesparkle.bsky.social Michael B. Tager @iamragesparkle.bsky.social · Nov 21
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
October 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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The Last Sitarfighter is this anything
October 20, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Mmmmmmmmmmmmmhm
tressiemcphd.bsky.social Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Oct 17
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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A delight of copper beech

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#copperbeech #treesky #kiplinhall #richmond #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity
A close-up color photograph of two oxblood-colored leaves.
October 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Facts.

Add “Isaiah Maverick” at “The T-Dot Book Club” to the list.
samuelashworth.bsky.social Samuel Ashworth @samuelashworth.bsky.social · Oct 15
PSA to authors: every single email and DM offering to "boost exposure" for your book, no matter how specific or personal, no matter how altruistic they seem, is. A. Scam.

Goodreads listopia? A scam. Silent book club? A scam. Book spotlight? Scam scam scammity scam.
October 15, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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in a certain sense, yes, I am a theoretical physicist
October 15, 2025 at 1:56 AM