Velma
@velmatrout.bsky.social
Minor American poet and dipshit. Year of the Inverted Star (Broken Sleep Books). Your Human Shape (Broken Sleep Books). Alone in the White Marble City (New Delta Review). Join the philly poetry Discord.
https://linktr.ee/velmatrout
https://linktr.ee/velmatrout
The problem with playing tears of the kingdom high is that you then never want to play it any other way
September 12, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The problem with playing tears of the kingdom high is that you then never want to play it any other way
I am a chauvinist about one thing and one thing only: Americans are the only people who can rap good
September 6, 2026 at 11:34 PM
I am a chauvinist about one thing and one thing only: Americans are the only people who can rap good
This drives me insane, and it's part of why chatbots have so little allure for me.
I don't want the robot to tell me what it thinks I need, I want to find it myself! Do not interpose another layer between me and the world!
I don't want the robot to tell me what it thinks I need, I want to find it myself! Do not interpose another layer between me and the world!
Sorry chatbot lovers but the waning of Boolean operators in most search functions on websites has made my life actively worse. You can't find anything, you can only have things suggested to you.
August 22, 2026 at 3:39 PM
This drives me insane, and it's part of why chatbots have so little allure for me.
I don't want the robot to tell me what it thinks I need, I want to find it myself! Do not interpose another layer between me and the world!
I don't want the robot to tell me what it thinks I need, I want to find it myself! Do not interpose another layer between me and the world!
it's so funny how badly our fascist overlords bungled the semiquincentennial. no better proof that all the "we love america" bullshit is just posturing they do for the hogs. they couldn't even shut off the grifter grindset long enough to throw a proper party.
August 21, 2026 at 7:13 PM
it's so funny how badly our fascist overlords bungled the semiquincentennial. no better proof that all the "we love america" bullshit is just posturing they do for the hogs. they couldn't even shut off the grifter grindset long enough to throw a proper party.
Orangutans are clearly just guys. You shouldn't be able to keep them in a zoo.
August 15, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Orangutans are clearly just guys. You shouldn't be able to keep them in a zoo.
If I were an onlyfans model I'd start a podcast about neuroscience and call it Thot Process
August 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
If I were an onlyfans model I'd start a podcast about neuroscience and call it Thot Process
When adults are really seriously into youth sports, that's a form of spiritual pedophilia
August 15, 2026 at 11:19 AM
When adults are really seriously into youth sports, that's a form of spiritual pedophilia
You mean to tell me that when we handed the police a nationwide surveillance system, they immediately used it to harass their exes?
www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1...
Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash
The company is imposing new guardrails on its police tech after reports that officers are abusing it and cities are dropping contracts. But the changes leave glaring loopholes.
www.technologyreview.com
August 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
You mean to tell me that when we handed the police a nationwide surveillance system, they immediately used it to harass their exes?
www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/13/1...
Sonny Boy's "Monkey Baseball" episode is criminally underrated. (Whole show is criminally underrated, really.)
A concise 12-13 episodes doesn’t give you any time for the baseball episode. An anime TV series is not complete without a baseball episode. We’ve got to do something about this
August 3, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Sonny Boy's "Monkey Baseball" episode is criminally underrated. (Whole show is criminally underrated, really.)
You can tell a lot about a person based on how they respond to 4'33''. By which I mean that those who respond negatively are fucking troglodytes.
August 2, 2026 at 7:50 PM
You can tell a lot about a person based on how they respond to 4'33''. By which I mean that those who respond negatively are fucking troglodytes.
Completely haunted by Ellie Chou's 6 Hexes in @alwayscrashing.bsky.social
Rare is the poem that doesn't merely adopt occult insignia but feels like a genuine occult operation—and might in fact be one.
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2026...
Rare is the poem that doesn't merely adopt occult insignia but feels like a genuine occult operation—and might in fact be one.
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2026...
ELLIE CHOU / 6 HEXES — always crashing
1 2.1 Orphactory The way into the woods is older than the woods. The woods die earlier than expected, but come back. They then become woods which are less old, but still older than me. The way in...
www.alwayscrashing.com
July 31, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Completely haunted by Ellie Chou's 6 Hexes in @alwayscrashing.bsky.social
Rare is the poem that doesn't merely adopt occult insignia but feels like a genuine occult operation—and might in fact be one.
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2026...
Rare is the poem that doesn't merely adopt occult insignia but feels like a genuine occult operation—and might in fact be one.
www.alwayscrashing.com/current/2026...
normal republican behavior, unfortunately. watch the Good People of Ohio vote him in regardless.
“Ms. Moreno, the daughter of Senator Moreno ... has said that Mr. Miller scalded her chest and stomach by throwing hot water from a skillet at her body; held a gun to her head; pushed her against a wall and hit her head; and fractured their daughter’s collarbone and bruised her shoulder. ...
July 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
normal republican behavior, unfortunately. watch the Good People of Ohio vote him in regardless.
might i suggest that if you need an AI to generate an infographic in order to understand a reality show, you've got bigger problems in your life
July 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
might i suggest that if you need an AI to generate an infographic in order to understand a reality show, you've got bigger problems in your life
what's crazy is that beethoven's fifth actually does go hard if you give it a chance
July 27, 2026 at 1:11 PM
what's crazy is that beethoven's fifth actually does go hard if you give it a chance
republicans called Joe Biden a communist. every democrat is fucking mao zedong to them. shut up.
The vibes may be exciting, but if Democrats are going to win this year and in 2028, they must reject the DSA.
If you’re tempted by a democratic socialist this year, think of what use Republicans will make of these victories, and ask whether you want to do favors for fascists.
If you’re tempted by a democratic socialist this year, think of what use Republicans will make of these victories, and ask whether you want to do favors for fascists.
July 25, 2026 at 11:15 AM
republicans called Joe Biden a communist. every democrat is fucking mao zedong to them. shut up.
comedy has definitely gotten way worse since the pandemic, and this is because comedians are a very stupid people.
July 25, 2026 at 11:14 AM
comedy has definitely gotten way worse since the pandemic, and this is because comedians are a very stupid people.
"being outside in these conditions for an extended period of time is the equivalent of smoking 20 cigarettes"
oh i used to do that every day. for years. that's nothing. you'll be fine.
oh i used to do that every day. for years. that's nothing. you'll be fine.
July 17, 2026 at 2:38 PM
"being outside in these conditions for an extended period of time is the equivalent of smoking 20 cigarettes"
oh i used to do that every day. for years. that's nothing. you'll be fine.
oh i used to do that every day. for years. that's nothing. you'll be fine.
i used to have this noble savage view. living in rural ohio for a bit completely disabused me of it. these people aren't "voting against their interests" or "disempowered." ensuring the suffering of the people they don't like is simply more important to them than bettering their own lives.
I think rural red areas should have hospitals and mail and broadband but I want people to be clear eyed about what rural America is and isn’t, and what it definitely emphatically isn’t is a sleeping giant of left wing revolutionaries in waiting or even a reliable source of potential Democrat voters.
July 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
i used to have this noble savage view. living in rural ohio for a bit completely disabused me of it. these people aren't "voting against their interests" or "disempowered." ensuring the suffering of the people they don't like is simply more important to them than bettering their own lives.
the sky is poison and it's 93 degrees.
July 16, 2026 at 1:35 PM
the sky is poison and it's 93 degrees.
oh you're having trouble selling your poetry? well, the first issue is you're trying to sell poetry. so there's your problem right there.
July 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
oh you're having trouble selling your poetry? well, the first issue is you're trying to sell poetry. so there's your problem right there.
It's bedtime. The toddler is rolling himself all over the bed like a rolling pin.
Me: Nico, buddy, it's time to settle down and sleep. What are you doing?
Nico, very softly: I'm just trying my tricks.
Me: Nico, buddy, it's time to settle down and sleep. What are you doing?
Nico, very softly: I'm just trying my tricks.
July 15, 2026 at 1:30 PM
It's bedtime. The toddler is rolling himself all over the bed like a rolling pin.
Me: Nico, buddy, it's time to settle down and sleep. What are you doing?
Nico, very softly: I'm just trying my tricks.
Me: Nico, buddy, it's time to settle down and sleep. What are you doing?
Nico, very softly: I'm just trying my tricks.
Friday July 17th Poets @ Molly's Philadelphia COME THRU
July 14, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Friday July 17th Poets @ Molly's Philadelphia COME THRU