Bottom of the 9th, 2 outs, tied game, winning run on 3rd, and Trump watches strike 3 go by: I’m winning a War, BY A LOT

That was fun to read & I look forward to reading more

Just marvel at the book review: “Quite good,” “finished in one read,” & “so good”

Countdown to Calm: Using 5-4-3-2-1 to Reground - Headington Institute We ensure the mental well-being of our heroes. From international aid workers to domestic emergency responders. Get our Resource, "Countdown to Calm: Using 5-4-3-2-1 to Reground."

Learn the 5-4-3-2-1 regrounding exercise -- if you're supporting someone this is something you can do with them. My spouse is really great at identifying when I'm starting to get stuck in a loop and doing it with me.

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Umarell (Italian spelling of the Bolognese Emilian word umarèl, Emilian pronunciation: [uma'rex]; plural umarelli) are men of retirement age who spend their time watching construction sites, especially roadworks - stereotypically with hands clasped behind their back and offering unrequested advice to the workers." Its literal meaning is "little man" (also umaréin). The term is employed as lighthearted mockery or self-deprecation.

3 million views and all she did was describe an Umarell. Amazing.

If the lewd writing on the bathroom walls at the truck stop off highway 17 came to life, it’d be this guy.

“The wind came first, and with it brought the clouds that came between the city and the sky. The clouds were heavy and low, the color of a sinister night; more steel than sky. The steel slammed…”

I just started reading All City this morning and then saw this post. I think the first 2 sentences from All City are on my list of favorite first 2 sentences of a novel. I mean “clouds were heavy and low, the color of a sinister night; more steel than sky.”👏

I heard they’re paying people to surgically adjoining the 2 hemispheres of their brains with duct tape to boost the data they input into AI.

With your experiences, you’d be a perfect fit at a library. I’m rooting for you.

Have you thought about working at a library? I got an MFA & taught English for 20 years. But my big mouth got me run out of academia (I was a faculty union rep & exposed financial mismanagement). Working at the library now & hosting poetry open mic & writing groups, & preschool puppet storytime.

An image of CBGB’s public bathroom with graffiti all over the walls.

The original LLMs were more accurate & relevant.

Transcending - North Atlantic Books A compelling collection of the many voices and experiences of trans, genderqueer, and nonbinary Buddhists Transcending brings together more than

“the firsthand accounts, thoughts, and reflections of trans Buddhists from a variety of different lineages in an open invitation for all Buddhists to bring the issue of gender identity into the sangha, into the discourse, and onto the cushion.”
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I needed that advice, thanks

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Viggo says hello back

I host a poetry reading open mic at my library and been looking for a new format. Think I found it.

Trump stated “we sampled it from them, but it is not the same bassline”.

This post should be required reading for students enrolled in comp classes.

As Putin’s Illegal Invasion of Ukraine Causes Gas Prices to Rise, Reed, Khanna, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Tap Strategic Petroleum Reserve | U.S. Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island WASHINGTON, DC – In an effort to combat a sharp rise in oil prices amid Vladimir Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI)...

In 2022 he suggested “Drawing down oil from the federal government’s stockpile now and then replacing it later with less expensive crude.” We reached “later” I guess.

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There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can’t get fooled again.

Anyone who eats only meat & salt for seven years is going to feel like there’s a demon possession in their guts for sure.

AI Librarians will fail spectacularly when faced with patrons asking “what’s my Gmail password?” and “why’s the printer not working”

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Tired: My friend’s older brother who got a D in Philosophy 101.

Wired: “As machine learning tools win more trust, they could produce dangerous content that slips by unnoticed.”

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Tried and true tech that never failed:
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Me & another local writer are starting a Philly branch of the long-running NYC Writers' Circle. It's going to be the 2nd Tuesday of every month at Ray's Happy Birthday Bar (one of my favorite places, even tho I don't drink). If you're a Philly writer, come read with us! Open to all levels of writer!

Medea Benjamin, the pro-Putin “left” and the far right in America The world crisis revolving around the war in Ukraine has a deep influence in US politics. This makes understanding that war all the more important. In January, the fascist-linked Republican Party w…

This should have us wondering if this was Putin signaling to Trump just how close he can get his people to him.
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