Adam 👻The Ghoul👻 Houle

Adam 👻The Ghoul👻 Houle

@houle.bsky.social

Poet (STRAY, Lithic Press); poems in Agni, Shenandoah, The Pinch, elsewhere. Husband, assoc prof, fan of kindness. A steady deckhand. Still and listening. Darlington, SC. www.adamhoule.com Profile pic: b&w pic of me in office Banner: faint rainbow

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It’s obvious Vivek is a sociopath. I have nothing to add to that. But I think we have to reckon with the voters rationalizing that ad. Those are our neighbors and coworkers and municipal “leaders.” They’re teaching our children and x-raying our teeth, etc. What do we do with that?

This is great, and I hope the ban is upheld. Let’s do Charleston and Savannah next. Carriage rides in those cities are sanctioned animal abuse.

The New York Times@nytimes.com

The New York City Council passed a horse-drawn carriage ban, a major victory for animal-rights activists, who have waged a yearslong campaign against the carriages. The bill will likely face a court challenge before being implemented in 2028. nyti.ms/4zbx7FG

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Alicia Stoller@aliciastoller.bsky.social

There has been much talk and wringing of hands lately about whether computers and algorithms are conscious. I think we could stand to learn a thing or two from preschoolers here. They are fluent in traversing imaginary terrain and know quite a bit about what's real and what's pretend.

Ugh. If sleep is a risk what’s getting crushed by 280 lb linebackers when you’ve been awake for 36 hours? Hate this so much for him.

Mina Kimes@minakimes.bsky.social

Lots of questions here, chief of which is: Did *anyone* step in and say this seems like a bad idea?

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so many ghosts in my life would be loving this brewers win. i hope my dad, grandpa & lee are all hanging out with ueck somewhere together. 💙💛

I’m considering a class called quietude. 15 minute brief discussion followed by one hour with a physical book and physical notebook. No devices. No slide decks. No multimedia. Voices, pages, pens. No grades. Midterm conferences. End of term conferences. No final paper. No final. Nothing is final.

Tulips & Chimneys forever!

Dean Frey@dean.bsky.social

E. E. Cummings by DeGaston Studio, Cambridge Mass, 1920 "No one else has ever made avant-garde, experimental poems so attractive to the general and the special reader." - Randall Jarrell

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Calling US-residing Latinx poets! There's just a few days left to submit your manuscript to the 2026 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize! The winning manuscript will receive a $2,000 prize and publication with Noemi Press Guest judge: Rigoberto González noemipress.submittable.com/submit

Between sets this morning, I sent Landon this fact. But, to be factual, it wasn’t actually an incorrect The Dagger! call because Russell Wilson was intercepted on that bullshit play. #gopackgo

So judgy. Instead of probing terminal instability, try being a friend for once in your life

404 Media@404media.co

The estimated lifespan of the outer solar system has been downgraded from 100 billion years to just a few billion years, according to a study that probed “terminal instability” during the Sun’s death. www.404media.co/our-solar-sy...

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Poet: It’s called a stanza break.

Joe Mason@moreorloess.bsky.social

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Geomorphologist: Water gaps are fascinating landforms. I mean, that river didn't flow uphill over that ridge and then slice down through it. Did you know we have several great examples right here in Wisconsin?

So disappointed in SCAC. The five who voted to remove funding should be ashamed of themselves.

Transgender World@transgenderreport.com

South Carolina Arts Commission Defunds Two LGBTQ-Focused Orgs, Says Art Can’t “Promote Ideology” www.them.us/news/sou... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience