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anderbill

@band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

I am not the droid you are looking for. Also an open-access advocate and inveterate punster. #nobots 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@band, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

some humor from Threads:

(%] littlepielady
If Kafka had been a lawyer, his business cards would say "Kafka, Esq.”
@sek

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

todays' threads gem:

$ mkdir HammerTime
$ chmod 500 HammerTime
$ cd HammerTime/
$ touch this
touch: cannot touch 'this': Permission denie

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/03/2026

today's poetry gem (Richard Wehrman):

HIDDEN
To you, all you
invisible sustainers,
sitting alone in your rooms,
or walking lonely streets
feeling bereft with the wind
of the coming winter
blowing down your collar,
or you, overflowing
in friendships, gifted by
the world and by circumstance
but hollowed by an ache
identified only by
the sharpness of its pain
in your breast—
relax and be soothed
by a warm breath as
by summer.
Know now, with certainty,
you are loved by
a stranger, someone
who passed you on the street,
stood behind you
in line as you shopped,
ate in the booth just
across from you.
Invisible, yet their heart
joined with yours;
they knew you were beautiful,
they gave you their
blessing, and wished for you
what you already have,
hidden within you,
all the joy you thought lost,
all the love in
the world.
- Richard Wehrman (2026)
https://www.richardwehrman.com

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Thanksgiving mood:

Thanks
BY W. S. MERWIN

Listen
with the night falling we are saying thank you
we are stopping on the bridges to bow from the railings
we are running out of the glass rooms
with our mouths full of food to look at the sky
and say thank you
we are standing by the water thanking it
standing by the windows looking out
in our directions

back from a series of hospitals back from a mugging
after funerals we are saying thank you
after the news of the dead
whether or not we knew them we are saying thank you

over telephones we are saying thank you
in doorways and in the backs of cars and in elevators
remembering wars and the police at the door
and the beatings on stairs we are saying thank you
in the banks we are saying thank you
in the faces of the officials and the rich
and of all who will never change
we go on saying thank you thank you

with the animals dying around us
taking our feelings we are saying thank you
with the forests falling faster than the minutes
of our lives we are saying thank you
with the words going out like cells of a brain
with the cities growing over us
we are saying thank you faster and faster
with nobody listening we are saying thank you
thank you we are saying and waving
dark though it is

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/11/2025

@simsa0.bsky.social well maybe i only see one of them (i was sure i saw another one, but where is it?)

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Cloudspotting from 24 Oct, 4PM, Austin, Texas, USA:

stormy low cumulus clouds under some mid-level clouds and an airliner vapor trail on the lower left.

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2025

@iDGS i think you will appreciate this:

business card displaying "maggie@singingbearshop.com" with brackets labeling each part; "maggie" labeled "me"; "singingbearshop.com" labeled "website"; "@singingbearshop" labeled "instagram"; the entire string labeled "email"

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

cloud-spotting: 27 July 11:03 Austin, TX:

Looking up through low-level cumulus clouds to some higher level alto-stratus clouds (i think i have that right)

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/07/2025

a poetry gem from Brian Bilston Link: brianbilston.com/2014/09/26/you-too…

YOU TOOK THE LAST BUS HOME
you took
the last bus home

i still don’t know
how you got it through the door

but you’re always doing amazing stuff

like the time
when you caught that train

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2025

yesterday's mood:

18:48 Tue Jan 28 @ threads.net @ girl.on.books
| tried screaming into the void but it was full. What now?

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/10/2024

[USA politics] my morning citizen work:

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2024

today's gem from the socials:

Kiss my Fat Ash® @Tobi_ls_Fab
My 6-year-old asked where the music goes after we listen to it. | didn’'t know whether to go into how sound waves travel, or explain that music isn’t tangible in the way he might think. Maybe this is just a philosophical question. Where DOES the music go?

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anderbill @band.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2024

This 1984 Martha Gellhorn paragraph I titled "politics is everything" seems on point these days:

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