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Pokemon cards are back in stock at truck stops. Nature is healing.

"It's a bright June morning now and I have the windows open to let the quiet out" From @theferocity.bsky.social's book, Alive at the End of the World: bit.ly/saeedalive #poetry #books #writing

They're literally doing the meme

And all the next day Toad read poems to his seeds.

Is there anything more unsettling and beautiful than the eyelids of a red eyed tree frog? They're so ornate and bizarre. I can't think of anything else like them.

Ancient Sound. Abstract on Black Background https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/ancient-sound-abstract-on-black-background-1925

"According to new projections published by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in December, by 2028 more than half of the electricity going to data centers will be used for AI. At that point, AI alone could consume as much electricity annually as 22% of all US households." Fucking fuck

From Charles Simic's Selected Early Poems: bookshop.org/a/862/9780807616208 #poetry #books #writing

"we will be no older than we ever were" From The Essential W.S. Merwin. #poetry #books #writing

From Lucille Clifton's book, How to Carry Water. Published by @boa-editions.bsky.social. Get it here: bit.ly/howtocarrywater #poem #books #writing

yay it's done! ⭐🪐☕Space Nighthawks 🚀🐱🥞🌃 the print is up too www.inprnt.com/gallery/spac...

Innovation is just disappointment with helium. #CalvinandHobbes #KiteFailFix

The cool thinge aboute writinge ys that it ys absolutely difficult and payneful but then when you are done you looke back and you... still doubt what you wrote. And yet even wyth all that, so much bettir than Gen AI. To wryte ys to risk, and thus to joyne all othir wryteres yn risk and possibilitye.

Fossilized little face in the floor of the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, Massachusetts

Again: I'll never be one of those people who says, "A woman can't win. A gay person can't win. A [demographic] can't win." I've never admired those people in history - the people who told historic figures, "No, you can't." Why would I want to be that type of person?

From The Collected Poems of Jane Kenyon – born today, May 23, 1947. #poem #books #writing

I was a child

this is so cool

Inception

Today In 1905: Panoramic view of the Pittsburgh #Pirates vs. New York Giants at the Polo Grounds! #MLB #Baseball #History #SFGiants

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tinned fishing #art

Does this mean I can’t get my baby vaccinated at 6 months in the US period, or does it mean I will have to pay out of pocket? I have a lot of questions as a parent.