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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 18h

::intones ominously:: Kant on a canon. War? I’d rather self-publish. So many copies. #haiku #poetry #writerscommunity #micropoetry

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 18h

I love this. “And if we unpack the word /desire/, from the Latin /desiderare/, meaning, literally, away from the stars, we learn that every desire implies a distance, an absence, a lack of satisfaction.” - Jhumpa Lahiri, (2022) Translating myself and others, p66.

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 19h

Good golly! @glitchprod.com #KnightsOfGuinevere ep2 yesterday, Neutropia launch day today! What a weekend. #GameDev

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When Harold says Get in the van, this is what he means.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 09/10/2026

Halloween costumes for birders. This is from last year and someone actually did the sexy owl pellet one.

A comic called halloween costume ideas for birders. In panel 1, labeled easy, there's a person labeled northern cardinal wearing a party hat, a beak, and red clothes, and a person labeled roseate spoonbill wearing pink clothes and a wooden spoon on their nose. In panel 2, labeled harder, there's a person labeled merlin sound ID wearing a big green circle with a microphone modeled after the button on the merlin sound ID app, and a person labeled hybrid green x blue jay wearing a complex costume with a mask and robe and hat modeled after a recently discovered hybrid bird. In panel 3, labeled challenging, there's a person labeled baltimore oriole nest wearing an enormous accurate woven oriole nest suspended from their arms and shoulders, and a person labeled african jacana carrying chicks with a hideous costume of long-toed bird feet hanging from their armpits. In panel 4, labeled hot, there's a person labeled high quality spotting scope who is shirtless and is wearing a spotting scope mask on their head, and a person labeled sexy owl pellet wearing an owl pellet top and bottom with a mouse skull on their head.

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BlumineOnion 🧅 @blumineonion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The "yuri is male gaze" debate becomes gut-bustingly hilarious once you realize that, more often than not, the genre is created by female mangaka sitting at their desks like:

From the afterword of I Love You So Much, I Hate You by Yuni

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Free Cats Daily😻 @freecatsdaily.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Fire breathing cat #Cat #Caturday

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Jonathan Edwards @jontofski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thumbnails.

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The best little double whole house in Texas!

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Sargoth (gyromantically haberdashing iamb) @longersky.com · 04/03/2026

The thing about telling chatbot users that using chatbots deteriorates their epistemic connexion to reality, is that it fails to take into consideration that using chatbots deteriorates one's epistemic connexion to reality, such that being told it has deteriorated will not seem like a big deal

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Dedicated to the memory of Harry Lindgren and his spelling reform patents.

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Feminise a band name The Margaret Whitlams.

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Turning toward yesterday Reaching back like waves through hands Out of time, unsaid, all words. #7SyllableSentence #poetry #writingprompt #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It is spyware masquerading as progress. It is antisocial, antitrust & primes disenfranchised incels for coercive control. Z-banger inveigled Meta into our social networks & monetised us for profit. Despite serendipity in our social media kinship, this spyware stops us finding common ground together.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I shared some photos this morning of the new Barbour x Norbit collection. Some people really liked the jackets, but expressed concern over the prices. These jackets are, admittedly, expensive. So here are some tips on how to get something similar for less. 🧵

A model wearing a mid-thigh waxed cotton jacket from the new Barbour x Norbit collection.

A model wearing a waxed cotton field coat from the new Barbour x Norbit collection.

A model wearing an olive tweed field jacket from the new Barbour x Norbit collection.

A model wearing a waxed cotton coat from the new Barbour x Norbit collection.

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Expressing extreme disappointment is how a parent lectures a teenager. In the movies, a righteous girldad would go after the AI company interfering with their healthcare system using live ammunition. Pull your finger out Albo!

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sharing this with my kiddo immediately for her jazz social history aka practical general knowledge.

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This may be the sole path for me to approach the marvel universe.

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Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A poem wrote itself in my head today. It climbed out from under the rubble and made a daisy chain out of ruin— stringing words together as if creativity can be conjured out of nothing, out of air. A poem wrote itself in my head today but I was not there. #sensewrds 272

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This kind-hearted rescuer visits the dog he saved in its forever home every year, and their bond couldn’t be more pure.. ❤️

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Thad DeVassie @thaddevassie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A bookend to #smallpoemsunday by Ted Kooser, from Splitting an Order (2014, Copper Canyon Press) cc: @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Having been in DBT in the Linehan format (<12 people in 4 6 wk modules across a year plus inidivual therapy and skills training) and in a psychological therapies group for CSA survivors (<10 over 26 wks) 20 people is too many people.

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crumbum @fuwolfman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The heart as it flops and lopes.

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is a very delightful knot of a poem. Well worth reading aloud to oneself, or others. #poem #poetry

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Exactly wot CosmicRami said. LFG team #calcite! #MiniCup26 mere hours left!

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Dinelli @dinelliarte.com · 08/09/2026

"Vaza, gringo" pé de pessoa indígena calçado com chinelo esmagando serpente com as cores da bandeira dos EUA

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@astro-on-tap.sydney damn I missed it! When is the next one? Please be sooner than Halley’s Comet ☄️

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openSUSE @opensuse.org · 08/09/2026

Next step, installing #Linux on systems. Digital sovereignty doesn't stop at the office suite; the operating system is still a dependency underneath. What distributions are primed to be the #foundation once the office suite is sorted? #openSUSE #Fedora #Debian #Ubuntu tuta.com/blog/countri...

tuta.com

France ditches Microsoft for Linux to achieve digital sovereignty – and it's not the only one! | Tuta

With its recent announcement, France joins the list of countries that aim to become digitally sovereign. This is part of a bigger movement, called ‘digital sovereignty’, to leave US Big Tech companies...

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I love this! Reminds me of the old joke… Q: When you join the circus, what’s the most important thing you need to know to be a lion tamer? A: More than the lion. #poetry #poem #InterspeciesCommunication

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How I became a poet, Andrea Gibson; the Bull, Ocean Vuong; Death in the afternoon, Ernest Hemingway; Corrida de toro, Joan Miro; Decolonize Drag, Kareem Khubchandani & Lawhore Vagistan. #zine #poetry #wish #sketch #writing

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Overwhelmed can’t leave Tasks deadlines expectations What escapes notice #haikufeels #absent #poetry #WritingBluesky

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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Collette the cat is watching embroidery 😺

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

How will I pace myself this morning I wonder, and harness motivation for good enough equilibrium? Perhaps a tempo marking will suffice, in Italian: Allegro, ma non troppo.

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rick @rickehling.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

for #SmallPoemSunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social a bit of #JaneHirshfield #MeetingtheLightCompletely “Each time, the found world surprises— that is its nature.” "What fools we were, not to have seen."

Meeting the Light Completely
Jane Hirshfield

Even the long-beloved
was once
an unrecognized stranger.

Just so,
the chipped lip
of a blue-glazed cup,
blown field
of a yellow curtain,
might also,
flooding and falling,
ruin your heart.

A table painted with roses.
An empty clothesline.

Each time,
the found world surprises—
that is its nature.

And then
what is said by all lovers:
“What fools we were, not to have seen.”

Page 96, in “The Asking: New & Selected Poems”

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

English novelist, poet & essayist Mary Shelley was born #OTD in 1797. Daughter of famed philosopher & feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, Shelley is best known for her 1818 Gothic novel "Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus." www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-w... #LitSky #BookSky #gothic

A dramatic, artistic composite portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851), the English novelist best known as the author of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). The image overlays a classic 19th-century oil painting-style depiction of Shelley—shown in a three-quarter view with pale skin, dark curly hair parted in the center and falling softly around her face, large expressive brown eyes gazing directly and thoughtfully at the viewer, and wearing a low-cut black off-the-shoulder gown typical of Regency-era fashion—onto a dark, textured background filled with layers of translucent, handwritten manuscript text in faded ink. The overlaid script appears to be excerpts from Frankenstein (or closely related drafts), featuring Mary Shelley’s own elegant, flowing cursive handwriting with crossed-out words, revisions, and phrases such as “the wretched phantom,” “catastrophe,” “limbs,” “rain,” “window,” “features,” “great God,” “skin scarcely covered,” “work of muscles and arteries,” and other evocative fragments describing the Creature’s creation and appearance. The text swirls and overlaps around her face and shoulders like ghostly memories or the very pages of her groundbreaking novel coming to life, creating a haunting, literary effect that symbolizes how her personal experiences, intellectual circle (including Percy Shelley and Lord Byron), and the famous 1816 ghost-story contest at Villa Diodati inspired one of literature’s most enduring and influential works on creation, responsibility, isolation, and the ethics of science.

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Surely an appropriate study aid for high school english and #shakespeare

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gaylourdes.bsky.social @gaylourdes.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Vale @johnjennings.bsky.social I never knew you, but you did share very small, and often fascinating things. Always travel with wonder for the marvelling.

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