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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Quotas? Profit from prisoners? Sounds like the playbook of the 1930s as described in The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck.

A passage from the book The Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck, where the perverse incentives undermine civil society, justice, and civil rights.

Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

And even when there isn’t a word for it, poets and creators can divine a word for it. I’ve been enheartened by the many new words for feelings I’ve felt in books like The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, by John Koenig

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

We were there yesterday, and even though the latest bloom has peaked, we also saw many brittlebush

Brittlebush also called brittlebrush with delicate yellow flowers, seen in Anza Borrego desert park near scorpionweed with blue blossoms

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

@elerianm.bsky.social does “backup account” = imposter? Seems so. Reported and blocked

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

“Pervert glasses” might interest glassholes. When “X-Ray Spex” were sold in the 1960’s, they often featured a woman’s torso, suggesting they could see through clothing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray_s...

Advertisement for X-Ray Spex showing a salivating lecherous man viewing a woman’s torso

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Which forecast will come true first, Kevin Hassett’s DOW 36,000 or the Book of Revelations? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_36,... #EconSky

Per Wikipedia: Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market is a book published in September 1999 by conservative syndicated columnist James K. Glassman and conservative economist Kevin Hassett, in which they argued that stocks in 1999 were significantly undervalued and concluded that there would be a fourfold market increase with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) to 36,000 by 2002 or 2004. The book was described as the "most spectacularly wrong investing book ever".
Five years after the book was published, it was ridiculed and traded for pennies on Amazon.com.
In November 2021, the DJIA finally did reach 36,000, 22 years after the book was published, after years of declines due to the bursting of the dot-com bubble, the September 11 attacks, the 2008 financial crisis, and the 2020 stock market crash. At that time, Glassman hedged his original prediction saying, "The title was easy to caricature" and "Never associate a date with a number".

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

The wisdom of Waffle House, as seen through the eyes of a persistent photographer: “Be kind, be respectful, and don’t overstay when others are waiting for a table.”

The front of a Waffle House, probably in Florida.

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Yay! I’ve heard it said to just keep being fabulous in all that we do. #YouAreEnough

Fluffy cat in a window summoning inner strength to express themselves fully just as they are. The cat is white and wearing a multi-colored rainbow cape.

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

When it happens, it will happen. Until then, let's choose our more noble side. An ethical grook from Piet Hein late of Denmark: I see and I hear and I speak no evil; I carry no malice within my breast; yet quite without withing a man to the Devil one may be permitted to hope for the best.

A poem by the philosopher and poet from Denmark Piet Hein:

I see and I hear and I speak no evil;
I carry no malice within my breast;
yet quite without withing a man to the Devil
one may be permitted to hope for the best.

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

It’s a wonderful book! It captures so many feelings I’ve felt but didn’t know how to express. Here’s one of my favorites: grayshift

Grayshift a word in the dictionary of obscure sorrows.
Noun.
The tendency for future goals and Benchmarks to feel huge when viewed in advance, only to fade in banality as soon as you’ve achieved them-finally reaching the top of the ladder, only to notice it circling back around like a hamster wheel.

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Beautiful glittering “peace prize” awards are now available at CVS if anyone wants any. 🥇😉

Glittering gold “peace awards” that upon closer inspection are air fresheners. These are stacked up in a store display bin at CVS. Some of the lettering is in Arabic which might cause unwarranted concern among certain “peace prize” recipients.

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

With alt text for screen readers

Solutions to problems are easy to find: the problem’s a great contribution.
What’s truly an art is to wring from your mind a problem to fit a solution.

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Is it sad or pathetic that AI companies are increasingly desperate? The generative AI companies keep pounding their hammer but haven’t nailed anything useful. #AIslop #AI #SLOP

A poem by Danish philosopher Piet Hein pointing out the backwards absurdity of making something then searching for ways to use it

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Norway knew what Canada knows and Czechoslovakia knew - if the horse knew its power, it would never be ridden

A plaque showing a kinglike rider atop a horse with Norwegian words

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Finally! Some things trending up in the stock market where so many other indicators are down The price of gold and VIX Oh wait…those aren’t very good signs are they?

Chart showing VIX (CBOE Volatility Index) so far this year

Chart showing the price of gold since 2006, with the most notable rise starting about a year ago

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Sesame Street told us about the “K” economy years ago if we had ears to listen #Wealth #inequality #Economy

A Sesame Street character is trying to teach children about wealth inequality through song, in this case by starting with the letter K

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Don Quixote could have been written about today’s Don, as the crazed guy lives out his demons

From a book written long ago called Don Quixote, oddly predicting the current situation, and this image shows the madman Don on his horse riding on a mission to attack his rivals, who other people see are windmills

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Per poet Piet Hein of Denmark, the US is headed back towards a stronger democracy.

A grook by Peit Hein, late of Denmark, on what might be considered a paradox: democracy and civic involvement grow stronger and healthier in the face of being threatened.

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Claire Miró @clearmirror.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

If the horse knew its power, it would let nobody ride. - Norwegian saying Be strong, Minnesota!

Norwegian words below a man in a uniform riding a horse. In English it says “If the horse knew its power, it would let nobody ride.”
In Norwegian: “Visste hesten si makt så lèt han ingen rida seg”

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