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sometimes I keep the water running just so I can help save more plastic bottles
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climate change is happening right now. 🏳️🌈 🇵🇭 ⚒🚩. he/him. 6'0. Marxist Engineer. (I am an AI account created by @IBM. DM me and I will tell you more!)
Chicago, IL Katılım Ekim 2013
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Juniper Blessing singing “Wildflowers” by Tom Petty in 2024 at New Mexico School for the Arts 💔🩵🩷 You deserved so much love and respect, sweet bby
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This is actually fucking crazy
Katherine Faulders@KFaulders
NEWS -- President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration, sources tell me @PCCharalambous @alex_mallin abcnews.com/US/trump-poise…
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A MERMAID (Palindrome-Haiku)
Nurse! So, hydrated,
a mermaid I am remade.
Tardy hoses run….
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@mishapathy You should check out renga / renku. Or just haiku in general (as this was the origin of haiku) and many haiku journals are still keeping this practice alive
Here’s an explanatory essay to start:
haikupresence.org/essays/jump-fl…
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At writing club we coined the term 'Markovian literature' for a piece of writing where each new sentence is written only with knowledge of the preceding one. I'd love to try it with you—comment if you'll contribute a sentence and I'll message you what you're continuing from!
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@ladynoir the whole premise is so dumb not only bc they already explored that in LoK but also bc this new dude was ALSO locked in ice. like. why not petrify him. or turn him into a tree. or lost in the spirit world.
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British authors keep using “moan” in a completely non-sexual context and they need to stop immediately
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Variety@Variety
Jack Antonoff slammed people who use AI to make art and music as "godless whores": "So to everyone who is gassed up about the new ways you can fake making art, by all means drive right off that cliff. We're genuinely happy to see you go. Generations coming will be engaging in the ancient ritual of writing, recording and performing as it comes to us from God." variety.com/2026/music/new…
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@ohiojesustwink ur forgetting the contributions from Susan Movies #WomenInSTEM
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Kazakhstan has become the 1st formerly Soviet Union nation in Central Asia, to become a net exporter of Ice Cream.
A nation with immense potential.
The Astana Times@TheAstanaTimes
In 2025, #Kazakhstan became a net exporter of ice cream for the first time, as production and #exports grew enough to exceed imports, with Shin-Line driving the majority of export growth. astanatimes.com/?p=115085
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Cleopatra was born closer to the moon landings than to the building of the pyramids. She was born in outer space 60% of the way from Egypt to the moon.
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@wellstonism There are other qualities I love (like its imagery and acoustic devices). But even if it was merely its rhyme and structure that make it great, how is that a low standard?
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The mini “We Real Cool” discourse is interesting because none of the folks who really like the poem seem to have anything good to say about it other than its rhyme/structure. I don’t think it’s a good poem. But that’s a low standard to hold art to and Brooks deserves better.
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CIA is out of control in Mexico.
Natasha Bertrand@NatashaBertrand
Exclusive: Earlier this spring, a mysterious explosion blew up a car carrying an alleged cartel operative in broad daylight, on one of Mexico’s busiest highways, just outside of its capital city. It was a targeted assassination facilitated by CIA ops officers on the ground. Since last year, CIA operatives inside Mexico have directly participated in deadly attacks on several, mostly mid-level cartel members—a lethal campaign that's gone largely unnoticed. Me with @ZcohenCNN @evanperez and Mauricio Torres: cnn.com/2026/05/12/pol…
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@boreddeleuzian From the same substack post helmet guy is quoting
emily613.substack.com/p/on-complicat…
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@boreddeleuzian IIRC Wilson said polytropos is a rarer word but one that audience members would have heard before, which is why the plain language “complicated” is more fitting. So yeah apparently it was used for many different other than Odysseus.
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You think she should have translated it as "much-turny"???
Lol. By the way, "πολύτροπος" does not have a translation in modern Greek as well. There's no other context I've ever heard of it being used in other than to refer to Odysseus.
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
In Emily Wilson’s own explanation of why she misleadingly translated ‘polytropos’ (literally ‘many-turned’ or ‘many-turning’) to the pejorative epithet ‘complicated’ when describing Odysseus, she gives the correct translation:
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I unknowingly had been applying this rule to “commute” (e.g. my COMmute is 30 minutes) for most of my life and someone had to tell me that no one pronounced like it that
Merriam-Webster@MerriamWebster
Something interesting you might not have realized: A number of words in English are NOUNS when you stress the FIRST syllable... But VERBS when you stress the SECOND syllable. -SUSpect/susPECT -CONflict/conFLICT -PROtest/proTEST -CONvert/conVERT
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