I’ve always loved this poem

we live in insane times, and this one made me lol

“But what are you trying / to be free of? / The living? The miraculous / task of it?”

— Joseph Fasano

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This poem appeared in the Academy of American Poets, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

Love this

Black text on white background. It reads: My Cherry Pie The coffee’s black, bitter as space between galaxies in the narrow circumference of a chipped ceramic mug On the steam, a dead girl rises – She’s a virgin She’s perfection She’s on fire Hungry in the Red Room, a backwards dancer wreathed by endless iterations of self The agent stirs in his sleep heartsick, restless His pillow is a log Diane Diane, can you hear me? An owl erupts from his seizing throat It is exactly what it seems cry

Happy Twin Peaks premiere day to all who celebrate #TwinPeaks #AgentCooper #Poem

In honor of the peerless David Lynch, here is a bit of weird poetry to commemorate his work:

Today, I’ll say like anything else.

Not by turning it out. You can’t practice with anything if you ignore and evade reality.

It must come back to kindness and compassion. Include more.

I ordered pizza and, after a May Day meeting, I’m going to clean my fountain pens.

Slow care, small wins.

I posted an article about billionaires and geopolitics yesterday and got a reader question: how do you practice with this information?

It’s an ongoing question. Yesterday I said the web shows interconnectedness. It also shows people how systemic issues are. Ultimately, the practice is local sangha.

the currency you have when everything feels scarce your time matters more than credentials

“It’s like standing at the edge of the ocean and watching the dawn arise.”

This week, I wrote about time banking: a giving and receiving agreement you make with friends.

I spoke with Dr. Chris Gray about her experience. She said once you move people from earn and spend logic, the world opens up.

I LOVED this movie!

SimAnt - Wikipedia

I loved sim ant!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt

Five shows to get to know me:

- Dark
- Yellowjackets
- battlestar galactica
- the traitors
- kitten rescuers

Oh Poem We Love You Get Up After Frank O'Hara & Lana Turner

As you probably know Iʻve spent years carrying Frank OʻHaraʻs Lunch Poems around with me, preferably in a pocket. The other day, I saw a copy on a table in one of my favorite New York spaces, Torn Page, and hereʻs what happened.

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A dog with one blue eye and one brown eye has a sign around his neck saying "basic human rights, or I bites." His tongue is sticking out.

Look at this beautiful guardian of human rights. ✊🏼🐶 #nokings

This 👇👇 a thousand times this

This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI Podcasts WebinarTV hosts 200,000 “webinars.” A Zoom call you may thought was private might be one of them.

When Todd Rademacher hosted a Zoom call for educators on how to protect kids from ICE, he intentionally didn't record the webinar to protect the attendees. It was found on WebinarTV anyway.
www.404media.co/this-company...

JOURNALISTS IN LOS ANGELES: Before you cover No Kings 3 protests, print out these 4 pages (just 2 if double sided).

If you have trouble with LAPD, this is literally a direct order signed by their chief instructing all personnel on proper treatment of press:
drive.google.com/file/d/1sto_...

🧵 1/4

A sign on a metal box has different colored silhouettes of heavily, armed soldiers, and below them different in inflatable animal costumes, and it reads: CHOOSE YOUR CREW!

Seen in the streets! One of our free signs. Free for anyone to print from PaperAmmunition.com

Ps you CAN be the person to print one of these out & tape it up somewhere. It’s easy. Keep protesting long after No Kings day is over. Resist every day! #nokings

Post a non-religious picture you think of as holy.

“There is no widely recognized funeral for a degraded wetland. There is no standard form of leave for an ecosystem that tips past a threshold. […]

So the grief becomes private. It leaks out as irritability, sleeplessness, a kind of emotional flatness, or a sense of futility that is hard to name.”

Merits of grief and glycerine It must be for real, 'cause now I can feel

I'm taking a class called "Falling in Love With the World Again" about climate emotions. Last week's session was on grief.

Despite intellectual identification, I struggled to tap into these things in the exercise. So I doubled down.

This essay is about presence and not needing to know the answer.

This looks amazing!

The larp theory of @violetriotgames.bsky.social has gifted us with the term "emancipatory bleed," which permits us to understand how games ask us to push ourselves & our perspectives via our characters.

www.nordiclarp.org/2017/06/21/t...

In terms of the flora, I am not sure. The dirt was moved from a landslide to this location to grow new things. …but in terms of the other flower people, i think they are an invasive species to this particular region 😁

"We the Subscribers being Apprehensive that Military Exercises are Specially Requisite at this Day, And altho: Capt. Allis, Lieut. Partridge, and Ensign Dickinson have Publically Declared they will not Act or Exercise any Authority as Military Officers under the Late Acts of Parliament or in the Support of the same, Yet we are Desirous that they would, at such Times as they think Proper, Call us Together and Exercise us by themselves or such others as they shall Judge likely to Teach and Instruct us in the Military Art. And we hereby Promise to Attend at such Time and Place as they shall Direct and Submit ourselves to their Orders in Leading and Exercising of us. As Witness our hands this fourth Day of Oct. 1774 "

Just a bit from my work day: military personnel publicly refusing to enforce unjust & illegal orders, 1774 edition.
#ICEout #NoHumanIsIllegal

The shot looks up at a woman in red standing on a hill. There are purple flowers on the hill, similar to the purple headdress she wears. Several people, many also in red, look up at her.

This was taken today! Couldn't pass on similarity. She's wearing a purple flower headdress

Excited to check this out!

This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative.

1. How my cat knows exactly when to chime in in his favorite duet. I kid you not, he’s got two solos.
2. Frozen grapes
3. Bookmark games

Number one rule of science communication is to know your audience. Baltimore @chanceofrain.bsky.social

Reporter seeking freedom of speech in the US arrested for exercising freedom of speech in the US

Chemical Plants Keep Exploding, but Trump’s EPA Is Rolling Back Safety Rules Anyway For places like Hopewell, Virginia, where industrial accidents are routine, fewer protections could mean more danger for families living nearby.

TODAY: Communities will speak out against EPA's proposal to weaken regulations for the nation's most hazardous facilities.

@EPA uses the word "burden" in its proposed rule 73 times. Every time it's about industry. What about burdens to people?

capitalbnews.org/epa-safety-r...