Kris Lindbeck

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Haiku etc.. Also, Jewish Studies, Christianity, Buddhism, art and cool science stuff. Some politics . . .
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow

also a wise strategy to suck all the oxygen out of the room with media focused for a month on "dems in disarray" rather than "crazy fascist seeking restoration"

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I think the important thing when your political party is in uncharted territory is to let the voters know that you intend to make it as complicated and unpredictable as possible. People love uncertainty and chaos, everyone understands this!

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A) This is true and b) remember, the Niemöller quote is the lowest possible moral motivation out there. We should all be mobilizing because they are coming for ANYONE.

And remember that they will come for you next

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CNN just shouting out the quiet part. The kicker? Ratings are still down from previous elections. It’s all pundit onanism.

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Much love for axolotls.

A Lotta Axolotls; Copper etching!

Astonished by sky a century old and still lapis lazuli #VSS365 #haiku #haiga

Wheatfields under Thunderclouds, 1890 https://linktr.ee/vangogh_artbot

@guentheralex.bsky.social and thanks for liking it, so I can repost w/out the typo!

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Magic requires the ability to not merely believe in the impossible, but to live in it. He was #astonished to see the young prisoner laughing and smiling at a rat, but he knew the magic potential--or the insanity--that indicated. When he left, he took her with him. #vss365 #MicroFiction #AmWriting

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Under the covers Reading Tales to Astonish Long after bed time. #vss365 #haiku #comics

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that’s why we put up a page on the project 2025-trump-vance approach to palestine (hint: it’s the same as for ukraine) 🥲 project2025truth.com/palestine

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This thread pretty much sums up my attitude. If Trump gets elected, a lot more people will die than if Biden gets elected. (Or Harris, if Biden drops out.) That's it; that's the choice. It sucks, but it's how things are.

1/x Before I get to work, I was ... *discussing* with a sincere third party human (I respect them a shitload more than those who just absent themselves) where they said "If your only choices are coke and pepsi, if you don't start buying a third brand, all you'll ever have is coke and pepsi .."

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"Hallucinogenic," a frog with a tonsure said. "Place me upon your tongue if you wish to see God." "See God or meet God?" Idalia asked. "Which god?" Samoth the heron added. "Hallelujah!" the frog chorus bellowed from the #pond. #whistpr

Samoth the heron stalked along the reedy fringes of a #pond. A chorus of frogs croaked Handel's Messiah. "Dinner & a song," Idalia said. "I can't eat them," Samoth grumbled. "Because they're monks?" "Because they're poisonous." The frog chorus intensified; their salvation was secure. #whistpr

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Over at #Ebooks Direct, #SharkWeek's now safely over... but "Deep Wizardry" and all other novels in our #YoungWizards series inventory are still 50% off as part of our #Summer #Reading #Sale. Drop in and grab a bargain with the $19.99 "All The Wizardry" bundle! dduane.link/AllTheWizardry #booksky

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Something that is perhaps not crystal clear to some is that only people of color are going to be targeted by this. The people holding these signs will see themselves as the deputies who can harass and harm by proxy. Basically a 21st century fugitive slave act. Serious as a heart attack.

In case you missed it this was one of the official signs handed out by the RNC for delegates to wave. Not a joke, not a.i.

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BIG NEWS: A seventh patient has been cured of HIV! The details of the treatment that cured "The Next Berlin Patient" hold promise for a broader cure that could bring relief to the 39 million people living with the virus. I've got the story here! www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/seve...

With seventh person seemingly cured of HIV, signs of hope for a broader curewww.fiercebiotech.com Though his real name isn’t known, there’s no doubt that he’ll go down in history. | Though his real name isn’t known, there’s no doubt that he’ll go down in history. An adult man dubbed “The Next Berl...

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sonnet inspired by (but not necessarily reflective of the content of) the excellent book "the light eaters" by @zoeschlanger.bsky.social #poetry

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Man...I step away from social media for a few days & people start dumping eels out of airplanes like it's the new hotness. SMH. Anyway, I'm back, and we can get back to enjoying eels. Just like this medieval stork, from a 13th C. edition of Gerald of Wales' book on Ireland! 🗃️🧪

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If you’ve shared this but haven’t read it yet, you should. PEOPLE isn’t pulling punches. Just printing “Christian Nationalism” in relation to the platform of a presidential candidate is more than many pubs have done.

Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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a thousand leaves open on every tree each one a prayer for light and shade and water for all life to continue #tanka #poetry #lifematters

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cicadas quieten as yearling squirrels pant along shady boughs #micropoetry

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day 925 polish it showing through the clouds tonight’s moon Today's haiku is a 3-5-3 rendition of a Basho haiku (www.HaikuDiem.com/the-plan/) #basho #haiku #micropoetry

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I will never forget the interview, shortly after Ozy Media Inc. was formed, where Carlos Watson said he named it after the poem, because "the lesson you take from [Ozymandias] is that you have to dream big." So that's why liberal arts education is important.

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Hobgoblins!

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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It's weird how often I see leftists sneer at politicians who announce popular policies in order to gain more support. That's how it's supposed to work!

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It's hard to rank the absurdities in Project 2025, but the plans for NOAA are pretty high up there: "the NWS should eliminate its public-facing forecasts...and otherwise 'fully commercialize its forecasting operations'...Then, NOAA’s scientific-research arm...should be aggressively shrunk."

They have such winning ideas like “why don’t we charge people who want to know if that tornado is gonna hit their house.”

The MAGA Plan to End Free Weather Reportswww.theatlantic.com Project 2025 would all but dissolve the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"Don't rush -- but that was thunder coming closer" "How can I hurry when daylillies are flowering?" #vss365 #5lines #tanka

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Y’all, they found a small charcoal hand 🖐️ amongst the new graffiti at Pompeii in the courtyard of I’Insula dei Casti Amanti, and it is just like every little kid’s hand turkey ever. Legit amazing. www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

@kristadalton.bsky.social Thanks for following back, Krista