Jay Besemer

@divinetailor.bsky.social

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poet-artist-fool. aging, trans, queer, sick/disabled, autistic. he/they. jet is the cat in this movie. i knew it was a trap as soon as i walked into it.
http://www.jaybesemer.net

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the gag economy: making a joke at someone else’s expense

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upfromsumdirt

i have just been noticing myself annoyed by weensy fonts in the last 2 years, when i have started to need to do the “put glasses on forehead & bring book close to face” move to read text. this is really cramping my love of footnotes & endnotes, man.

also—you are your own discourse😆

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Kyla Houbolt

in certain light situations, bumbles look like they have purple wings. i love that. it’s happening here!

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jennifer nelson

oh dear. the dmv is far too hot & bright a world for most things to compete with. maybe an imax theater… wishing you speedy & low-stress bureaucratic resolution!

it can feel impossible or confusing—& vulnerable & scary!—to cherish one another. but it isn’t abstract or idealistic. it’s just a practice, like making toast.

maybe sometimes you accidently get burnt toast. but that doesn’t mean you stop practicing making toast!

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Carleen Tibbetts

eeeaaarrrss! also check out that lo-five she's giving with her right rear foot! 😆

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Kate Orman

i once hurt my back while abruptly shifting position in enthusiasm over some exciting news while scrolling. “overgeeking,” the friend whose news it was called it! 😆 yes, the danger is real!

i may occasionally put out there an alternative practice or different grounding, but my intention is never to imply that anyone who does not also practice or base their actions that way is wrong etc. so i want to know if i accidentally do so! deal?🤝

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Hrag Vartanian

do you already know @keguro.bsky.social ?

when others act with speech jamming commentary over commentary & reaction over reaction in baffling, overwhelming, panic-inducing layers— i go alongside in silence because no room exists for silence there, in the place that pattern creates & defines. i can not/do not attempt to join that pattern.

i also ask myself what that pattern serves because the desperation seems not to be reduced in the motion of the pattern. so something else must be happening inside it. so—what does happen & why & for/to whom?

vital.

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thank you!

i know you’re taking care but i have been holding you & your eldest in my heart this week.

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel)

nico, please eat. you cannot ensure you meeting future needs by refusing to meet the needs you have now. that’s a trap i know well. i trust that you will have a way to meet your needs today & tomorrow.✊💚

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Kyla Houbolt

yes we’re good—thanks so much for checking up tho! one of the tornadoes ended in the park where there’s a famous & historic drum circle that r. participates in sometimes, & i don’t know if the damage affected that location or not. but there don’t seem to have been any injuries or fatalities. whew!

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mouthwords are not a superior form of communication!

i hope it happens soon no matter what you write!

r. & i went for a morning ramble in our busy neighborhood park. lots of storm damage:

& also some slightly hopeful signs of human action in other directions

handsome!

sleepy face! “it’s not time to get up! what are you doing? goway!!!”

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Carleen Tibbetts

warning almost over. i just hope we don’t get new ones all night!

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jennifer nelson

i hope you can take time & space to catch your breath & get your center again. especially in your own home!

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Zaira 🦊💿

yes! ha!

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Jay Besemer

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly

ooh i’ve been dürer-burned!🤣

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Nikki Wallschlaeger

that’s interesting—i did that a year or so ago & noticed better sleep immediately, but i didn’t make the connection.

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House & Field Negro Digest Quarterly

i love stale-soft oreos.