Betsy Mars
@bamars.bsky.social
Poet, assistant editor at Gyroscope Review, photographer, animal lover, struggling optimist. Better description coming eventually.
From 'When Your Hospital Bed is a Dive Boat' by @bamars.bsky.social in Issue 1: oddpocketpress.substack.com/p/when-your-...
September 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
From 'When Your Hospital Bed is a Dive Boat' by @bamars.bsky.social in Issue 1: oddpocketpress.substack.com/p/when-your-...
September 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
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July 26, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Publishers, if you work with Lightning Source or are distributed through Ingram, take note that Ingram is offering an opt-out if you don't want your books sold to AI companies buying them to scan for AI training. ⬇️
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this is what all the social media in the Purge movies looks like
Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years
April 26, 2026 at 2:46 AM
this is what all the social media in the Purge movies looks like
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THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
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Pls spend from now until Tuesday eve celebrating a truly great American: Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't let a racist adjudicated rapist take away from MLK Day!
Don't let a racist adjudicated rapist take away from MLK Day!
martin luther king jr. is giving a speech at a podium in front of a crowd of people .
ALT: martin luther king jr. is giving a speech at a podium in front of a crowd of people .
media.tenor.com
January 19, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Pls spend from now until Tuesday eve celebrating a truly great American: Martin Luther King Jr.
Don't let a racist adjudicated rapist take away from MLK Day!
Don't let a racist adjudicated rapist take away from MLK Day!
Love this. It tickles me no end, which is something I haven't felt in um 9 days.
The best thing ever? Quite possibly. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Love this. It tickles me no end, which is something I haven't felt in um 9 days.