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CarpΓ© Noctum 🌌 HC worker in Belleville, ON. Poet, actor, comedian, artist. 🚫 Doug Ford 🚫 Poilievre 🚫 MAGA (OG or 🍁) πŸ‘ Human Rights πŸ‘ Science πŸ‘ πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ™β€οΈπŸ•οΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆβ˜”πŸ„πŸŒ™πŸ›Έ Poems: @alttextpoetry.bsky.social

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The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes.

I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

17.12.2025 20:56 πŸ‘ 17861 πŸ” 3205 πŸ’¬ 595 πŸ“Œ 356
Bob and Doug Sing 12 Days of Christmas - Animax Entertainment
Bob and Doug Sing 12 Days of Christmas - Animax Entertainment YouTube video by AnimaxEnt

Time for the annual Bob & Doug MacKenzie's 12 days of Christmas #Canada🀣🍁

www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2oP...

17.12.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

Pierre manipulated his way back into the House, and got the guy he booted to run a cherry executive position at a Conservative think-tank.

As with Trump, every accusation is a self-tell. #CDNpoli

17.12.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The oligarchy?

17.12.2025 17:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

LLM AI is an abject failure. It is anti-human in every way. We need to ban this shit Dune-style.

17.12.2025 17:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Praise Winter!

Ah, sweet frozen sleetsnow falling!
So speak of my fragility!
blow spears of shredded cicles - glaze the world in icy whiteness
'cross the bricks and mortar surety of our crystal snowflake weakness
to show how thin our modest comforts are with coldest arctic airs;
and wreak your howling vengeance on our humbleness laid bare
as you scream in whitewinds wending that our lives you could be ending
should we stray into your frozen fury more than minutes-briefly,
without our fleece-lined, zippered gortex.
You command and you receive our vilest respect
When your bitter ice-lined message with our very bones does intersect
and I glory in the wonder of your winter-whistle blast
that speaks of all the souls you stole in your season's kingdom past
I cherish every frozen shard that patters on my face
I value every frigid hammerblast of your freezing arctic mace
For you speak in a simple, violent honesty
that puts the grandness of humanity
and all the arrogance of our supposed mastery
in it's rightful place.

Praise Winter! Ah, sweet frozen sleetsnow falling! So speak of my fragility! blow spears of shredded cicles - glaze the world in icy whiteness 'cross the bricks and mortar surety of our crystal snowflake weakness to show how thin our modest comforts are with coldest arctic airs; and wreak your howling vengeance on our humbleness laid bare as you scream in whitewinds wending that our lives you could be ending should we stray into your frozen fury more than minutes-briefly, without our fleece-lined, zippered gortex. You command and you receive our vilest respect When your bitter ice-lined message with our very bones does intersect and I glory in the wonder of your winter-whistle blast that speaks of all the souls you stole in your season's kingdom past I cherish every frozen shard that patters on my face I value every frigid hammerblast of your freezing arctic mace For you speak in a simple, violent honesty that puts the grandness of humanity and all the arrogance of our supposed mastery in it's rightful place.

Here's a piece from a couple years back to, I dunno, maybe make the cold a little better? 'Praise Winter!' - click the alt for the poetry.

#Poetry #Poem #PoetrySky

17.12.2025 12:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Butter Bandits - Official Trailer
Butter Bandits - Official Trailer YouTube video by Eighty Twenty Studio

I'm going to this premiere tomorrow and can't wait! #ButterBandits at the Empire Theatre. Filmed here in #Belleville!

youtu.be/v3IQRlanvxc?...

17.12.2025 16:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Here it is! Poetry by clicking the alt text!

16.12.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well after a long BS hiatus, I figured I'd log into @alttextpoetry.bsky.social and publish a recent piece. Been a while, looks like there's even new features!

16.12.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh day shift.

11.03.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You should be using alt text.

21.02.2025 16:49 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay so I'm not really keeping up with the idea...

17.02.2025 15:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been very... Depressed lately. It's the world, really. But I'm going to try to crawl back to social media here.

Gotta stay connected! Ha. Haha. :/

10.02.2025 17:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Just left First Tuesday Muse, presented some poetry. I'll post one to @alttextpoetry.bsky.social later!

05.02.2025 02:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Quebec Premier FranΓ§ois Legault Reacts to U.S. Tariffs Quebec Premier FranΓ§ois Legault reacts to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to place 25% tariffs on Canadian products entering the United States. (no interpretation)

For my Quebec friends. Legault will be speaking soon regarding tariff's
www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

02.02.2025 01:06 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This time it's for all of us - Team Canada! Let's go!!

02.02.2025 01:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Omg get me out of work...!

01.02.2025 23:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh I already posted it in the OG thread...!

01.02.2025 23:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OMG man, ED too?? We'll have to fight over her. (Hahahaa, no we won't!)

01.02.2025 20:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I didn't see this before I went about finding it and copying the ALT text in.

It's such a beautiful poem. One of the first ones I ever decided to own! (Memorized!)

01.02.2025 20:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
The Darkling Thrush
by Thomas Hardy

I leant upon a coppice gate
      When Frost was spectre-grey,
And Winter's dregs made desolate
      The weakening eye of day.
The tangled vine-stems scored the sky
      Like strings of broken lyres,
And all mankind that haunted nigh
      Had sought their household fires.

The land's sharp features seemed to be
      The Century's corpse outleant,
His crypt the cloudy canopy,
      The wind his death-lament.
The ancient pulse of germ and birth
      Was shrunken hard and dry,
And every spirit upon earth
      Seemed fervourless as I.

At once a voice arose among
      The bleak twigs overhead
In a full-hearted evensong
      Of joy illimited;
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
      In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to fling his soul
      Upon the growing gloom.

So little cause for carolings
      Of such ecstatic sound
Was written on terrestrial things
      Afar or nigh around,
That I could think there trembled through
      His happy good-night air
Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew
      And I was unaware

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-grey, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day. The tangled vine-stems scored the sky Like strings of broken lyres, And all mankind that haunted nigh Had sought their household fires. The land's sharp features seemed to be The Century's corpse outleant, His crypt the cloudy canopy, The wind his death-lament. The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom. So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware

This immediately brought to mind one of absolutely favourite poems. 'The Darkling Thrush', by Thomas Hardy.

01.02.2025 20:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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01.02.2025 19:21 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just posted a fresh new poem over at @alttextpoetry.bsky.social - go check out 'A Tarnishing of Silver'! #poem #poetrysky #poetsofBluesky

01.02.2025 19:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption When asked to suggest solutions for environmental challenges, chatbots reflected biases. This could have harmful effects on how we understand and communicate climate change.

AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption
theconversation.com/ai-is-bad-fo...

01.02.2025 19:08 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

I'm going to try to publish a poem before the day is done, over at @alttextpoetry.bsky.social

It's a melancholy little piece about a Facebook unfriending.

Yeah, I know FB sucks... Ha! Anyway, I'll post later. Check it!

01.02.2025 16:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength.

01.02.2025 16:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I really don't want to work today. But I will. And immediately afterward I will have a power nap!!

01.02.2025 16:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Ohpleaseohpleaseohplease....!

31.01.2025 14:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well that's a bedtime. A little early, but feels so right... :) Goodnight!

31.01.2025 05:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

20 years of Pierre Poilievre is enough.

30.01.2025 23:24 πŸ‘ 368 πŸ” 62 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4