Abigail Myers

Me: *publishes a book* sure would be nice to get some attention for it

The scam bots: 🤖🤖🤖🤖

Me: not like that! Not like that!

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Congrats to a worthy opponent -- a beautiful essay and a hard-to-beat tune!

I LOVE this poem from @fakeourway.bsky.social in the new Collage issues in @the-engine-idling.bsky.social . Thanks for the invitation to open up my work to remixing and reimagining!

"don't balk/at the scale of my need" gets right to the heart of the narrator of the original piece.

If you're enjoying March Sadness, you will also enjoy this book.

@jeffturrentine.bsky.social did you spot yourself? ☺️

Reposting for the night crowd!
And also re-boosting my short story collection, very much for lovers of sad '90s tunes. Link in bio.

My paternal grandfather just died 3 weeks ago, at 94. After the Korean Conflict, he went into travel marketing (and puns). My maternal grandfather also did a stint in the Army (WW2) and was a Bell Telephone Pioneer, running some of the first telephone cables in rural Pennsylvania, so fairly rugged.

And hey, if you like sad songs from the '90s, I have a whole book full of short stories organized by, yes, sad songs from the '90s.

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March Sadness 90s Edition A yearly March Madness-style tournament of essays about songs we love (and occasionally loathe)

My @marchxness.bsky.social essay on Gillian Welch's "By the Mark" is live. I loved writing this piece, which I've been thinking about for years, through a lectio divina-style approach to the story of the Apostle Thomas. Check it out if you are so inclined:

marchxness.com#/1stround-no...

So what can we really do for each other except -- just love each other and be each other's witness?

--Another Country, James Baldwin

Frances McDormand just going, "Oh, man!" is a great movie moment for me.

VI.

Although I do not hope to turn again
Although I do not hope
Although I do not hope to turn

Image: a corroded, cracked copper pipe sits over a rusted and broken padlock. Commentary: A Facebook post in the form of a museum tag. It reads: Winter in Patchogue 2026 Abigail Myers (American, 1982-) Mixed media (quartz, steel, copper, stupid photo editing app) Myers presents two weathered artifacts in an askew cross formation. The padlock, broken in with bolt cutters in a moment of urgency, symbolizes the sudden onset of fracture, defeating even the pinnacle of industrial technology; the cracked copper pipe represents the ways in which the ravages of time come for even that which is elemental and ancient. The artist comments, "$*#@." $1075, payable directly to Varsity Home Services of Bohemia, NY

I never come up with good writing prompts, but a plumbing disaster at my house inspired this one: write a flash piece in the form of a museum curator tag thingy.

when little kids are being brave and trying not to let you see their feelings it’s so heartbreaking. this strong little guy is a rebuke to the whole rotten system & the ideology that drives it. we don’t reform that system. we end it so that kids like this don’t have to live like this.

I write amidst the horrors. 1k words into my essay on Gillian Welch's "By the Mark," a song about sadness that, in my opinion, is actually not sad at all.

This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.

Holy shit.

Dang, she really got me, as a normie I cannot possibly imagine where one might buy a gas mask

BTW when I say abolish ICE, I mean abolish it entirely and replace it with exactly nothing. Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. That's it.

I cry out against injustice, but only to say to the unjust: Be converted! I cry out in the name of suffering, of those who suffer injustice, but only to say to the criminals: Be converted! Do not be wicked! DECEMBER 1, 1977

Reading Oscar Romero:

NYT headline: "Videos Appear to Contradict Federal Accounts of Fatal Shooting"

No. They do not "appear to" contradict it. They contradict it.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Matthew 25 is what got him. Then:

"I dont want to believe in hell. I dont want to believe youre going there. But this is what Jesus says. You can walk away. You can choose justice. You can use your skills and training for good. You can be a protector. But right now you're not."

Tom Suozzi isn't my Congressman (I'm stuck in MAGA hell as far as my district), but I worked to get him elected, so I called him anyway. Schumer will be elected 3 years after he's dead but I called him anyway. My messages were short and simple: Defund and abolish. That's it. That's the message.

Jesus laying down his life out of love for the world rather than using cosmic and political power to force the world to obey him will forever be the greatest critique of any Christian movement that seeks to secure power in order to ensure that the world conforms to their will.

this is cold as fuck

There's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home.

Logged off for a few days. Did some practical real world stuff to rage against the dying of the light. Reread my skeets. Still feel pretty good about them.