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I’ve worked for three newspapers and each had its own press, two of which were housed in the same building as the newsroom.

Today the Arizona Republic’s print press will be shutting down for good. I really never appreciated how fortunate I’ve always been to work for newspapers with its own press.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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I understand this. Please tell me you do, too.

If not today, perhaps tomorrow.

Golden shingles line the path
each an #advert for a wonder:

Hay piles shedding distant sun.
Flocks in Vs and murmurations.
The comfort of a warm drink.
Pumpkins with hidden faces.

All yours, if you act now.

See them tumble with the breeze--
This offer won't last forever.

#vss365

I tried to fight it,
the tyranny of
coordinated time
denied the tick and
tock that governed
my moments,
faced my clock
to the wall.

Experience became elastic days
jostling for position moments fighting tooth
and nail
for
priority.

No.

I retrieved the clock
Set my alarm
closed my eyes.

#vss365

Photograph of a longhaired black cat lying on a blanket. He is facing the camera, tongue sticking out slightly.

This #Caturday, the Local Void is feeling…impish.

A model of the first level from Mario 64.

A model of a snowy level from Mario 64.

The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."

A.C.R.O.N.Y.M. stands for A Cool Reminder Of Names You Memorize.

The crunch of ice
at the bottom of the glass,
the jostle of the wheels
in the ruts of a lost trail.

#Pulp of a fruit that lingers
between the teeth.
Splinters gathered from a
fence back of beyond.

Life could be easy,
could be smooth;
but would we enjoy it
without a little texture?

#vss365

From me: ‘How will the federal shutdown affect Arizona tribes? Leaders scramble to find answers’

Canada issues warning for citizens with gender-neutral passports travelling to U.S. | CBC News The Canadian government is warning citizens who list "X" as their gender on their passports could have problems entering the U.S.

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One day, you
will tell them
you have
nothing
left to give.

Throwing yourself
upon the
mercy
you imagine
they possess.

They will look
at the blasted
scarred
world they
created.

And they will
found an
#oasis on
your
tears.

#vss365

ANOTHER SUBSTORM IS GOING NOW! Look north!

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Summer evaporated,
a #blur of blast furnace
heat, mirages melting
on the street, Fata
Morgana luring the
weary to smoldering
retreat.

Tonight, the air
rang like a bell, high
and clear, tight about
my ears, hunter in
the sky, stars at his
belt. The world holds
its breath.

A leaf falls.

#vss365

No less than a
contradiction
is this cat:

Never on the
right side
of the door.

Begs for touch
bites when
held.

Softest fur
but pointy
at all ends.

Silent step,
but loudest when
I would sleep.

She is the
#conundrum that
keeps me awake.

#vss365

The leaves'
mad caper
slows
for the rains,
tarantella to
courtly waltz to
eddying swell of
decaying matter.

I watch, sip my
coffee, as they
mound and moulder
about the grill,
and pray they
#sublimate.

The rake leans at
the fence, forgotten,
tines at a jaunty bent
knowing I'm
out of time.

#vss365

i have not laughed this hard in a while. enjoy this little bit of perfection i found on the interwebs. 😂

For all the early risers out there, aurora is going nuts in Michigan and would be visible every location above the 45th geographic parallel with a clear view north.

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Founders Online: “The Morals of Chess,” [before 28 June 1779] “The Morals of Chess,” [before 28 June 1779]

Kid’s chess class read Ben Franklin’s essay on chess at today’s class, which I actually hadn’t read before. It’s delightful.

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John Searle, influential philosopher in the history of Analytic philosophy with works in philosophy of mind and language, has passed away. R.I.P. (1932-2025)

Into the press,
my badge an
#escutcheon
hiding the rough
transition
where I hollowed
myself to
make space.

The guards know me
usher me through.

Klieg lights blind
something else points
with my hand
to the darkness
where they wait
beyond the stage.

A command.

The crowd goes wild.

#vss365

The words cannot
withstand
your gaze,
vanish at
the slightest
#scrutiny.

I call after them
softly at first,
then spitting
bile and barbs
like a wounded beast
that would snare
its hunter.

They will return
when my voice
croaks raw
and with a
sigh
the thought will
escape.

#vss365

‘The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death’: Florence Welch on sexism, screaming and the lost pregnancy that nearly killed her The Florence + the Machine singer talks about life after devastating loss, performing with Taylor Swift and the double standards for women in music

‘The closest I came to making life was the closest I came to death’: Florence Welch on sexism, screaming and the lost pregnancy that nearly killed her

You'll know it first in
its absence, #sonorous
and calming:

The hum of a television,
or the bustle of bodies
in motion, or snatches
of conversation
between rooms.

Home has a sound, and
in the awkward pauses,
silence between beats,
you'll learn it too has
a heart.

#vss365

This clip (from 2022) now feels STRANGELY relevant... 😬

Seeds grow to harvest
birds fledge and fly
buds leaf, then fall

Nature takes stock,
considers, settles
her accounts.

Not a season of #caprice
but of consequence.

#vss365

Humming in Madera Canyon!

Madera Canyon. #birds

Core memory unlocked: this video is why I had a (fabulous) vampire poet shirt in high school.