Kyle Beachy
Author of The Most Fun Thing (essays) and The Slide (a novel)
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- concerned some of you might have missed this. it's very good.
- look i am not sorry
- Reposted by Kyle BeachyIf you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286
- wow hey the rich people are sure failing us, huh
- Reposted by Kyle BeachyThinking about literary “hype,” I shared some practical tips for writers publishing a first book. But the most important advice is this. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/some-thoug...
- somewhat small and fairly massive poem on #smallpoemsunday
- very cool and handsome of @burialmagazine.bsky.social to publish my tiny, furious poem
- Reposted by Kyle BeachyCurrently querying agents about a new novel, so if you know or are one of those & want to read a book that includes powerpoint presentations, horrible geese-based accidents, Elizabethan dialog, formal proofs of the existence of fathers, and a rewritten version of Hamlet involving coyotes, hmu
- Roosevelt Institute Fellow Jess Calarco really zooms right the hell away from skateboarding here and back to motherhood, but if anyone wants to discuss a 60-year experiment in unorganized play that equally centers the developing individual self and the group in which that self exists, holler.
- great argument here for avoiding organized sports and buying a skateboard instead.
- why am i posting. sorry. never again.
- it has come to my attention that some of you are using AI for anything
- Reposted by Kyle BeachyWhat do we want? TRANS NEWS! When do we want it? 2026!! We're down to the last few days of our 2026 fundraiser, and we've got less than $5000 left to raise, but we still need your help to raise it.
- i'm in the first writing group of my life. it's with two extremely lauded and award-winning women writers and one pretty lauded woman writer who is likely to win an award soon. i am terrified of these three women who are my writing group, it's so rad. 5,000 words they want. i'm actually shaking.
- Reposted by Kyle Beachyvery cool and handsome of @burialmagazine.bsky.social to publish my tiny, furious poem
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- Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told: DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big) CBP stays at border warrants for arrests IDs, bodycams ICE out of churches, schools "That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2057...
- Reposted by Kyle Beachyi'm a big @klooky.bsky.social fan. today on @burialmagazine.bsky.social burialmagazine.neocities.org
- sent out a letter this morning and hell yeah, three or four typos at least
- favorite poet strikes again burialmagazine.neocities.org/bluenomatter...
- a whole lot of you out there owe skateboarding a giant wet & sloppy thank you for jackass.
- This is really how Jackass gets you - setup (the stairs), joke (the skiing), punchline (April’s face), all in 20 seconds www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs9a...
- Reposted by Kyle BeachyFederal agents kill again; gunmen still at large: defector.com/federal-agen...
- hey do you have any surplus money, any at all? are you living in any kind of comfort whatsoever, maybe safely at a distance from the city where our government is currently facing a heroic and beautiful opposition? please give what you can.
- El Burrito Mercado on St. Paul's West Side has ways to help right on the front of their website now. Please pass it on! @whstancil.bsky.social @indivistwincities.bsky.social @wesburdine.bsky.social #TwinCities #SaintPaul #ICE
- we are already inside the violence.
- Reposted by Kyle BeachyFrom this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
- this is not that, exactly, but i want to add that by having my casual, nonpromotional writing go directly to email addresses, by writing letters to people rather than "newsletters" to "followers," i'm finding myself suddenly part of a nourishing exchange of writing and feeling with actual strangers
- people i do not know have been writing letters back to me. it's the strangest and most obvious thing.
- data for pro skaters weirdly unavailable
- This analysis confirms what we very much already knew, but in case there are any baseball fans still under any illusions about the player population, this should dispel those. votehub.com/2026/01/20/t...
- look for the novelists.
- Reposted by Kyle Beachyevery single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
- You can of course change the text here to alert your reps that you will no longer vote for anyone who is not actively working to dismantle and abolish ICE.
- Congress released a DHS funding bill that doesn’t rein in ICE nor significantly reduce its funding. Contact your reps to demand they vote no on any funding bill allowing ICE to continue its abuses: actionnetwork.org/letters/oppose-fund…
- among my favorite writers for critical / emotional responses to art objects...
- Can opera still produce historic performances? Watching Lisette Oropesa in I Puritani at the Met is maybe the first time I’ve thought yes. Also: I’m back in NYC for a while. Free post, no paywall. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/absolute-m...
- Reposted by Kyle Beachy"as regards art, it is well known that some of its peaks by no means correspond to the general development of society; nor do they therefore to the material substructure, the skeleton as it were of its organization." Marx "works of art exist. how are they possible?" Lukacs
- on sundays we post clips
- The St. Louis Cardinals are pretty clearly going to pitch themselves as underdogs this season and already my lips are pulled back and I'm inhaling through my teeth, eyes very narrow, whole body sort of tight with uh-oh feeling.
- “Whatever aesthetics we espouse, we are all closet traditionalists in our expectations—and these must be shelved.” (Sven Birkerts)
- this is why i come to bluesky, this shit right here
- just saw a video about a Minneapolis general strike on Jan 23 and said "hell yeah" loud enough to disturb the dog
- Did a quick search here and no, no. Somehow he does not mention skateboarding. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
- a lot of garbage today but also i got to define "stoke" for kids aged 7-10
- Have you read László Krasznahorkai? Isn't it time? And do you know someone perhaps for whom it's also time? There is no better place to start than the Nobel winner's 1985 debut novel, Satantango. Class starts Jan 15 and runs four weeks with a focus on craft. lighthousewriters.org/workshop/4-w...
- Sara is a dear friend and easily the best writer of all my dear friends. Buy this book.
- Reposted by Kyle BeachyMuch like skateboarding
- really must point out how beneficial writing the phrase "do not despair" in a letter to a friend can be to one's own despairing.
- on sundays we post clips
- truly hope that you have something that feels as good as this felt
- we've got ourselves a pretty clear golf-type reverse scoring situation here, lowest number wins.
- AI to rescue the slush pile www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
- Reposted by Kyle BeachyThe tragic death of Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old mother fatally shot by ICE, shows that ICE can’t be reformed and must be abolished. I’ll be introducing the Abolish ICE Act as a step toward justice, accountability, and humanity in our immigration policy. Time to melt ICE.
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- Reposted by Kyle BeachyGot my first @kylebeachy.bsky.social letter and let me tell you, I like that it made me 1.) look up a word that I sort of knew but wanted to be more sure of, and 2.) reminded me that the Nyjah slam is out there in the ether and to avoid seeing it.
- I just sent out the first of these and now I am happy, I am genuinely thrilled to say that it's full of typos.
