"Strikes" is a strange word.
Harold Shipman, Ted Bundy,
just delivered 'strikes'? #haiku #senryΕ«
#Poem #Poetry #ΞΌverse #micropoetry #murder #euphemism #collateral #damage
"Strikes" is a strange word.
Harold Shipman, Ted Bundy,
just delivered 'strikes'? #haiku #senryΕ«
#Poem #Poetry #ΞΌverse #micropoetry #murder #euphemism #collateral #damage
Yes, East, West, homeβs best!
Istanbulβs peoply bustle;
deep sound of silence. #haiku
#Poem #Poetry #ΞΌverse #micropoetry #peaceful #countryside
Have you looked at: www.jstor.org/stable/23016...
07.03.2026 19:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
sky.social
A delightful surprise, in the post today, our very own First Edition, pre-ordered, copy of 'Dream Logic' by Satya Bosman.
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#poem #poetry #Deam #Logic
India perceives itself as a security provider in the Indian Ocean. On Wednesday, it was unable to protect its own guest.
06.03.2026 19:47 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Well, well, well. Right-wing authoritarianism is linked to belief in the paranormal, independent of cognitive style www.psypost.org/right-wing-a...
05.03.2026 18:17 β π 43 π 16 π¬ 7 π 3@blackcatpress.bsky.social Congregations on your publicarion - and this brilliant review!
05.03.2026 23:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dog-eat-dog, dog-breath
reveals canine cannibals.
Dogged for dog-dinner. #haiku
#Poem #Poetry #ΞΌverse #micropoetry #deplorable #but #dogs #dont
Oh, that's odd, and not obvious at all:
'International Maths Day' would be a day agreed by the world's mathematicians or UNESCO.
'Ο day', or, better, 'Ο approximation day' is a US only day because of their peculiar, nonsensical mm/dd/yyyy date format.
Even it only really worked in the year 1592.
All days are numeric, today, for example you can find the epoch date and time as a number here: www.epochconverter.com
05.03.2026 16:47 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
They are both numbers, but why you wanted to divide them was my question.
Which of the alternatives you give, which, strangely, don't include division, were you going for?
You divided '..international day..' by 'Ο day'
42 / 21 =2
The solidus, or forward slash, '/', is used to represent division if 'Γ·' isn't available.
I'm not sure that division works, even if the units match.
04.03.2026 18:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The problem is the word βInternationalβ.
Call it American Ο day and there is no problem.
Approximately en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of...
04.03.2026 13:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0American Ο day. With the normal date format, the 14th of March is significant as the ides of March.
04.03.2026 12:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The 36th night: Nur al-Din drinking in the Bagdad garden| Shahrazad ceased saying
'The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night"
Aberfan also,
corruption, greed, stupid men -
Tiny dead children. #haiku
#Poem #Poetry #ΞΌverse #micropoetry #Wales #Iran #Minab
I was mindful of the danger of a fall because of this warning in the lift showing someone falling downstairs.
It was a short top step just before the ticket barrier, and we were tired from quite a bit of walking.
Stair-trip led me straight
into kindness; strangers helped
me up, found my card. #haiku
#Poem #Poetry #ΞΌverse #micropoetry #istanbul #metro
I travelled from Moscow to Kars (well, Leninakan, on the Soviet Side) by train, staying in camping category three, which translated to lovely, warm, cosy wooden chalets. There were, apart from us, no foreigners. I think they were kept at bay by the thought of tents in freezing conditions.
28.02.2026 17:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0On any train in Eastern Europe, or the Soviet Union, there'd be no food trolly, just a samovar in the corner. However, twenty minutes into the journey, lavish picnics of sausages, cheese and fruit would emerge from greatcoat pockets.
28.02.2026 17:01 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
I was in Moscow in 1985, in January - so I had two Christmas days, the first in a houseboat on Dal Lake in Kashmir.
What impressed me, apart from vodka in 50ml measures, was the magnificent ice cream, at -20C on Red Square. The queue was tribute to excellence.
How very peculiar! They had real food in the Soviet Union, why would they want industrial junk?
28.02.2026 09:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Flossing evidence
thin, dentists still suggest it
magic enchants many. #haiku
#Poem #Poetry #ΞΌverse #micropoetry #dental #string #along
A safety culture,
achieved by respecting the
dignity of all. #haiku
#Poem #Poetry #ΞΌverse #micropoetry #organisational #ethics #blame #culture #antithesis #governance #management
Healthy exercise
Eat well, old advice, but now..
Create! To live long. #haiku
#Poem #Poetry #ΞΌverse #micropoetry
They are. But, at the same time, they are sometimes, surprisingly, quite good at it. Particularly if you help them out a bit.
Rather like people that wayβ¦
Thatβs language for you. You donβt have to worry though, the old meanings remain, and quite a lot of people can cope with a word meaning more than one thing.
24.02.2026 15:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
There I entirely agree. We swim in 'the system', so it is, in the main, invisible.
Even just discussing it improves matters, raising the level of scepticism from simply within-system perspectives.