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polking.bsky.social
English teacher. Phillies fan. I live in dirt and pray for rain.
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"We cannot outsource thinking and compassion to a hierarchy-generating machine and expect the world to be anything other than automated emptiness and exploitation." Many thanks to @audreywatters.bsky.social for these words today.

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"All of my decisions felt like trying to catch a fish that did not exist until I caught it." Elizabeth O' Connor, Whale Fall

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You have these weeks where you just want to crawl into a hole and hide, but then you drive home from school on a Friday and see a young girl walking home from school while reading a book, oblivious to the single-digit wind chill, and think maybe there is hope for us yet

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Quite rude of the sun to come out while I am listening to The Cure's new album.

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