My first-ever "haiku happiness hour" happens May 13 in San Francisco - it promises to be a low-key, social, fun time writing and sharing haiku. Very accessible! No experience required!
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#haiku #poetry #sanfrancisco #sfbayarea
Brb going for a quiet walk now
“Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war!”
Pope Leo XIV
screenshot of text that says: The UI is in the uncanny valley of being sorta-WordPress sorta-not. I know it wasn’t a weekend vibecode project, but it has some of that smell. Stuff breaks at the edges.
I don't think I've ever seen an *interface* described as being in the "uncanny valley" before
Back in my day, we didn't need AI to write seven stories a day. Heck, Dean Takahashi regularly filed 15-20 from conferences like GDC.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
Wow!
"I think this is one of the reasons why solidarity matters. Not as an idea, but as a way of being that refuses isolation and stands powerfully together with others"
Thank you for sharing that. A really accessible and informative read.
"Solidarity is the only way home — for all of us"
The Antisemitism Post (tm) - Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today. www.lifeisasacredtext.com/the-antisemi...
Communications leaders don't usually make public statements. But too much is at stake to stay quiet when journalism is under attack.
That's why I am a co-signer here: www.commsforjournalists.org
#PressFreedom #FirstAmendment
Today's Feature:
"B rder-C ossi g as Tr th" by José Felipe Ozuna from Afternoon Visitor, issue 12.3
Read here:
poems.com/poem/b-rder-...
I mean, it was an overt part of his persona, wasn't it?
So I guess I mean to say: the culture celebrated that behavior, and in so doing perpetuated it. But not "the culture" - specific men did this, through their actions and their writing
As a boy, growing up reading SF in the 80s, I read accounts in anthologies by Harlan Ellison etc that made it clear the male authors at conventions were mostly interested in women to hit on them. Now I realize those accounts were trying to teach me how to be a man, or an Important Male Author
Thank you!!
I want to read your poem! And congratulations on publication.
But there's a ghastly, graphic drawing of a suicide in that zine as you flip through it - disturbing enough to me that I stopped looking when I hit it & didn't find your poem
As a Dylan with aspirations of super-ness I admit I took this one to heart
Photo of a bag of candy, partially obscured by a container in front of it. The words LIFES HARD are visible on the bag.
Life's hard candy
We'll increasingly recognize the limitations of AI in 2026. I wrote a post about it -- and included an AI prompt you can use to make you a better writer.
dylan.tweney.com/never-let-ai...
I just wrote 'The magic of magazines', a very personal reflection on my career in magazines, and also a link to a magazine I helped a client create this year! dylan.tweney.com/the-magic-of...
Lovely! I've never heard that term before. Your explanation makes sense!
I am here for Calibri and em dashes all day and I don't care who knows it
Great, now I want a Coat Bath in my house
colour wheel what the hummingbird tastes
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-Marianne Paul
https://tinywords.com/2025/11/28/49128/
Thank you!
