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Mary Ruefle rules.

Do you look at the “meter,” the qualitative measure your poems to help with revision when it’s free verse? That is do you take the lines and parse them into iambs and trochees or whatever is appropriate? Such as U / U / / U U / U /?

Poets, what’s your wound? What’s your bow?

Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing

Jared Kushner's dad, Charles Kushner, is still a convicted felon.

A conviction remains on a criminal record even after a presidential pardon.

It doesn't erase the fact that someone was convicted of a felony.

And he's now the nominee as Ambassador to France.

SMH.

Things are feeling bleak for the trans community, and you've probably heard some variation of "We've survived this before." And maybe you think "a lot of us DIDN'T!" That's very true...

But it also helps to know what you're up against, and what worked before.

So let's talk about HOW we've survived

This is how Democrats need to show solidarity in defense of marginalized people in our communities and just as importantly go on offense against the ugly and vile hate of the cruel and inhumane Republicans.

Dear Dems learn here from @aoc.bsky.social ↘️

Don't back down.

Here's a question. How many deaths is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directly or indirectly respsonsible for? Show of hands?

“I used to think I wrote because there was something I wanted to say…but I know now I continue to write because I have not yet heard what I have been listening to.”
— Mary Ruefle

I love “absolute potatoes.” Well done.

History Smashers Salem Witch Trials cover shows three Puritan women and a cat at the center of a mob of Puritans holding torches and pointing accusingly at them.

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Just going to point out that the tech space has been aggressively misogynist and racist since...forever. So anyone arguing it was full of lefty progressives until recently is full of the most obvious bullshit imaginable.

Books.

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A: “Death comes in on little cat feet…”

B: “It’s fog, fog comes in on little cat feet.”

A: “Whatever.”

Is it?

🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

45th year of marriage today. Better well-wed than ill-hung is also true.

Your water isn’t a good fit for our cup at this time but best of luck finding another cup to pour it in to:

Sometimes in a store I’ll ask where the de-escalator is. If the person says down escalator I give a blank stare.

Sometimes I’ll get in a crowded elevator and step out just as it closes shouting My god it doesn’t say SAFETY elevator!

Sometimes I’ll get in a crowded elevator and cry It’s goin’ sideways! Then step off as it closes.

When I get in an elevator going down, I ask the person next to me, how less do you think we weigh?

When I get in an elevator going up, I ask the person next to me, do you think we’ll achieve escape velocity this time?

Dolman jackets were tight-fitting and dominated by extensive frogging. SO judgmental.

My wife, Susan, posts "Healthy vegetarian meals you can make in less than 30 minutes."
In response, I post "How to frost a cake."
True story.