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“Never before in its history has humanity built a civilisation that had at its disposal so many different technologies to monitor, measure and predict its own collapse - yet has been so unwilling to do anything about it” From my book THE UNHAPPINESS MACHINE

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It was always about the hate.

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Today I will be more optimistic Attempting to see the good in people It turns out we can make realistic & the entire world wears Hope’s steeple #SelfiePoem #Optimism #Faith #BehaviorHomework @JamilZaki

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Quantifiability increases Our humanity’s competitiveness Reducing life’s experiences Enlarging people’s perception of threats #PhilosophyPoem #PhilsophySonnet @HopeForCynics @JamilZaki

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Investigating people’s happiness Outside of the narrowest limits Might show materialism is less (True Humanity is our zenith) #HeadlinePoem www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/m...

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“The global dopamine supermarket is ever-expanding, engulfing and subjugating its critics through the most effective action: to simply buy them out, assimilate them and turn them into a franken version of themselves” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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I’m battling my cynicism For in this suspicion I am doubting It is a limiting prism (Division & anger spouting) #SelfiePoem #SelfieSonnet?

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Fractured and Empty.... A 5 stanza poem by #Oddlyme #freeverse #poetry #poem #photography #art of #writing #poet © #OddlyMe #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #blueskypoetry

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“Our emotional diet has become as artificial as modern food: packed with synthetic wholesomeness, AI-generated validation, over-processed affection and very little spiritual nutrition” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

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I continually search for approval From people whom I do not approve of Seems cause happiness’s removal (What a fiction today is public love) #SelfiePoem #SelfieSonnet?

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In shadows deep, where horrors teem, A pack descends, a maddened gleam. For in their midst, a ghastly prize, A wretched #bone, 'neath baleful skies. They #surround it, a snarling, cursed array, Where life's brief spark is torn away. #2wordprompt #Poetry #Writing #Horror

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A participant in existence’s  Maddeningly unscripted folderol  Constantly battling resistances  That I think come from comforts topical #SelfiePoem  #SelfieSonnet?

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- i lit the match and walked away. karma didn’t flinch she pulled up a chair, poured a drink, and watched the whole damn life we’d built burn, beautifully, to the ground. - #vss365 #poetry #poetrysky #read

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Alexander Hamilton is Rolling Around in his eternal resting place His _Post_ uses murder just for earning Not caring ‘bout citizens: a disgrace #HeadlinePoem #HeadlineSonnet? #AlexanderHamilton @nypost nypost.com/2025/04/28/u...

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Trudging the road of happy destiny People are frequently unmoored from goals Desire’s falsity’s seen manifestly As it erodes the values of our souls #SelfiePoem #odaat #TheRoadOfHappyDestiny

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We are all collaterally damaged By unchecked fetishization of wealth We live in a society ravaged by By luxury eroding mental health #HeadlinePoem #victims #suicide #MentalHealth www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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“The men began to argue after one Stepped on the other’s shoe, according to A law enforcement official [begun Explaining the stupid-sad things he knew].” #HeadlinePoem #HeadlineSonnet www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/n...

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new numbers show california dethroning japan, becoming the fourth-largest economy in the world (if it were its own country) california’s $4.1 trillion economy behind only usa (natch), china, and germany -imf/us bureau of economic analysis

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Empty shelves are heading our way. Again. Under Trump. Again. www.cbsnews.com/news/walmart...

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This is the click-through engagement of my Twitter account over 67 days in January, where I used to have 35K followers. Elon’s algorithms shut me down completely and I don’t trust 🦋 either so make sure you subscribe for emails on tsakraklides.com or substack: substack.com/@georgetsakr...

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Our training is merciless

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Sad news. Pioneering comic artist Jack Katz (b. 1927) passed away. I never got to meet Jack, but was lucky enough to get to know him through his work, now preserved in the archives at Rice University. Through Aug 10, you can see a modest show exhibition about him: moody.rice.edu/exhibitions/...

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This morning is striped with garish pastels Striated by slapdash glass structures They are seen as glamorous castles (They are inadequacies’ latest sutures) #DawnPoem #SelfiePoem

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Life’s #RollerCoaster I’m riding on life’s roller coaster Wearing the burlap sack of space & time I’m a hostage on a wanted poster (My ignorance is a thing sublime) #SelfiePoem #DawnPoem

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Today’s world is an amusement park Where we ride on injustices’ back The billionaires’ carneys loudly bark How these unfairness’s are the right track #HeadlinePoem #HeadlineSonnet? @npr @nytimes @foxnews @nypost @wallstreetjournal @msnbc www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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“Trump Pressures Ukraine to Accept a P[ie]ce Plan That Sharply Favors [Vladimir’s] Russia [The smaller state will finally be fleeced (Amazingly good’s in absentia)]” #HeadlinePoem www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/w...

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Education is being pulverized As a means of squashing the student Not evérything should be monetized Our avaricious ways are imprudent #SelfiePoem

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Mom's orders: "To #police the yard," she says, handing me a too-big rake. The enemy: thousands of poly #noses twirling, swirling, carpet bombing the lawn. I march, a tiny officer in a world of green and brown, sweeping up the maple's fallen fruit. #Poetry #FreeVerse #2wordprompt #Nature #YardWork

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Which Past Fascist Does Trump Most Resemble? The Incompetent One. newrepublic.com/article/1940... via @newrepublic.com

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#SelfiePoem

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Corporate execs have openly bragged that they will keep prioritizing their profits over their customers’ affordability. They think it's OK to charge more for less. Shrinkflation is Greedflation!

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Because evéryday is différent Absolute perfection’s evolution We must learn to be more tolerant Each day is a new resurrection #SelfiePoem #HeadlinePoem #HeadlineSonnet? #SelfieSonnet? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

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Our society creates maladies Morally misshapen humanity We make sick people invalidies (Constant satisfaction’s insanity) #HeadlinePoem @gop x.com/elchicanomar...

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