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On the usefulness of learning to parse the motivations behind bald-faced lies, from Brad DeLong's "Grasping Reality" Substack:

Of course! Well, there is a real generational shift underway.

I hope you are well? Xo

Heads up, Northern California poets! Do you have a manuscript waiting in the green room, raring to go? Sixteen Rivers Press is here for it! Details below, or go to: sixteenrivers.org/news-announc...

#poetry #poetrysky #poetrycommunity #callformanuscripts #writingcommunity #writing

Poet Ellen Bryant Voigt has died.

While I was attending the MFA program she had founded, she was writing these startling, unpunctuated poems. I still love them.

Soon, in a week and a half to be exact, Sixteen Rivers Presents will be honoring Poetry Flash & its founders, poets Joyce Jenkins & Richard Silberg. Come give Joyce & Richard the standing ovation they deserve! Sat., Nov. 1, 3-5:00 pm, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky

So, who's been stuffing bills under their mattress?? 🙌

"Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality..."

― George Orwell, In Front of Your Nose: 1945-1950

"[W]e are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right...."

Harry Langdon shares his pants birds in THE STRONG MAN

This poem. The language. How it dances on the tongue. How playful & sorrowful & poignant it is. Did you even know the word dishabille before encountering this poem? Tomorrow poet D.A. Powell reads for our fundraiser: 2 - 5:00 pm @ Northbrae Community Church in Berkeley. Come! #poetrysky #poetry

Ride an escalator over and over again, or give your phone to my 11yob

It's kinda sad that American health care is going from kinda broken to limping along to kinda totally broken.

I wonder when Americans will decide they don't have to live this way??

I think my son has joined a boy band

A. The Hygienic Suavees
B. Posh Dente
C. Chat Wiggle That

"About $9 trillion sits in 401(k)s, the pool that private equity and venture firms have their eye on. Even capturing a sliver of that market — say 5 percent — would represent hundreds of billions of dollars in new capital under management and billions in steady fees, regardless of performance."

The Rules of Investing Are Being Loosened. Could It Lead to the Next 1929?

Always a good time to think about who benefits from deregulating what kinds of investments can be purchased in a 401k

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/m...

The countdown begins for our annual Sixteen Rivers fundraiser featuring rock star poets D.A. Powell & Kim Addonizio. We're excited! You're excited! We're all excited! Sunday, Oct. 19, 2-5 pm, Northbrae Community Church, Berkeley. Poem on! #poetry #poetrysky #writingcommunity @dapowell.bsky.social

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

It really feels like they’re trolling our autocrat.

YouTube video by Retro Vibes John Lennon - Gimme Some Truth (Music Video)

Reminder about this guy who had things to say about times like these

youtu.be/zCUR_aoO2Jw?...

What was not so funny was the result of years of artificially low interest rates and rampant stock market speculation

(Altho, I'm not sure anyone feels right now--not even investors into AI infrastructure--the way many did in the summer before the 1929 crash, that good times will roll forever.)

Pretty funny, Heather Cox Richardson

Great old goblin poem from Jeremy Noel-Tod's Substack, Some Flowers Soon:

Is it 1983 again? Huh. I guess U.S.-backed coups never get old. I mean, why have super-cool military toys if you can't throw them around your own hemisphere??

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

My dearest Martha, I send you all my love from this war-torn ravaged place, where our hardships surpass comprehension. Yesterday, a barista gave me a whole milk latte when I specifically ordered skim. Later, a young woman with strangely colored hair glanced at me disapprovingly.

What middle school feels like

Eric Adams and others at Rosh Hashanah services. Adams wears a dark blue coat with gold brocade and stars of David.

Ok I did not bring it at Rosh Hashanah services today a la Eric Adams, but two of my students have their naturalization interviews tomorrow, so I am kinda feeling the stars and gold brocade

Omg, you did it! ABC just announced that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return on Tuesday after the late-night host’s suspension became a flashpoint for free speech. We estimate that around 250,000 of our supporters canceled their Disney+ and Hulu accounts in protest. The pressure worked, money talks!