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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

bitter bracken, blood on the thorn-tips, tuft of fur snagged at burrow-mouth. #haiku #poetry

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

young fool, i trudged around the lake in love with autumn's feigning death; how bitterly i miss the breath i threw away for feigning's sake. #poetry

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

young fool, i trudged around the lake in love with autumn's feigning death; how bitterly i miss the breath i threw away for feigning's sake. #poetry

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

bitter bracken, blood on the thorn-tips, tuft of fur snagged at burrow-mouth. #haiku #poetry

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i can't explain it but this is the second image i've seen where trump looks british

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

tournequetted tight, minutes until tingling stops; there's still something left

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

before we celebrate, the anti-trump laid-off worker's logic is probably "i'll vote for a *truly* pro-white guy next time"

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i can't explain it but this is the second image i've seen where trump looks british

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

cytoplasm stirs interfused and flagellate who tells me i am

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

feeling upset that i've been reading an ebook of this for a week straight and am only half done, looking to instagram for reassurance as to its size

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

apothegms and puns fingernails on reddened flesh marrow miles away

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

white cottonball light sun striking lingering mist indolently laze

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my dad sent me something about the first NYT crossword puzzle (from 1942) being insanely difficult, and you can play it online and it really was. to brag a little, i gave up after solving maybe 95% of it w/o any clues, but it took me 4 hours. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/c...

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Here’s Why The Times’s First Crossword Is Nearly Impossible to Solve Today (Gift Article)

Even Will Shortz has no trouble admitting that it’s a doozy.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

still "herbst" in german, old old word related to cutting / plucking (and *carpe* diem!)

Herbst m. ‘Jahreszeit zwischen Sommer und Winter, Zeit der Ernte, des Welkens, Absterbens’, ahd. herbist (8. Jh.), mhd. herb(e)st ‘Herbst, Ernte’, asächs. herƀist, mnd. hervest, mnl. herfst, hervest, nl. herfst, aengl. hærfest (auch ‘Erntezeit’, vgl. engl. harvest ‘Ernte’) gehen auf westgerm. *harƀista- zurück, während anord. haust, schwed. höst, norw. dän. høst, auch ‘Ernte’, auf ablautendem *harƀusta- beruhen. Außergerm. vergleichen sich aind. kṛpāṇaḥ ‘Schwert’, kṛpāṇī, kṛpāṇikā ‘Dolch’, karparaḥ ‘Schale, Topf’, griech. karpós (καρπός) ‘Frucht’ (ursprünglich ‘Abgeschnittenes, Abgepflücktes’), karpízesthai (καρπίζεσθαι) ‘ernten’, krṓpion (κρώπιον) ‘Sichel, Sense’, lat. carpere ‘rupfen, (ab)pflücken’ (ursprünglich ‘abtrennen’), mir. corrán (rr aus rp) ‘Sichel’, cirrim ‘schlage ab, verstümmle’, lit. kir̃pti ‘schneiden, scheren’, aslaw. črьpati ‘schöpfen’, russ. (wenig verbreitet) čerp (черп) ‘Sichel’, čérpat’ (черпать) ‘schöpfen’. Zugrunde liegt ie. *(s)kerp-, *(s)krep-, Labialerweiterung der unter 1scheren (s. d.) dargestellten Wurzel ie. *(s)ker(ə)- ‘schneiden’. Das mit dem Zugehörigkeitssuffix ie. -st- (s. auch Angst, Dienst, Ernst) gebildete Substantiv kann sowohl als ‘Zeit der Früchte, der Ernte’ als auch als ‘Z

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ziggurat of dust underneath it older dust where my cold scales flashed

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

tumbleweed and teeth; aloe gathers inward dew, succulence inside

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

tournequetted tight, minutes until tingling stops; there's still something left

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

anthracite and tar, abacus in overdrive; adiposity.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ambulatory but just barely - bag of bones, blood-cells' boba balls.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

still "herbst" in german, old old word related to cutting / plucking (and *carpe* diem!)

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

friable lacework - veined, disintegrating leaves; autumn, still my self.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

nytimes.com

Here’s Why The Times’s First Crossword Is Nearly Impossible to Solve Today (Gift Article)

Even Will Shortz has no trouble admitting that it’s a doozy.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

friable lacework - veined, disintegrating leaves; autumn, still my self.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

matchsticks, fingerprints temporary cataracts sutures all unsew

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

white cottonball light sun striking lingering mist indolently laze

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

blasted in the bud cankerous of chloroplast worms writhe through my root

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

elemental ache, atrophy - a shipping-crate of liquescing crocs.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

autochthonous, here since the last time lies were told about who was here

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

two of my students' projects have gotten MUCH harder for us to research in just one year and I have to change them around. first, trump killed the CIA World Factbook. then, just in the last few months, AI made finding "how ______ is made" videos that aren't pure slop nearly impossible.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i couldn't have guessed how diaphanous it is, rendable, the veil.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

elemental ache, atrophy - a shipping-crate of liquescing crocs.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

blasted in the bud cankerous of chloroplast worms writhe through my root

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

apothegms and puns fingernails on reddened flesh marrow miles away

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

autochthonous, here since the last time lies were told about who was here

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i couldn't have guessed how diaphanous it is, rendable, the veil.

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I know we’re not supposed to goof on people’s looks, but if this is what being a billionaire does to you, I’m happy to be a poor slob

Peter Thiel looking like a particularly vicious Dan Clowes drawing

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Wired just did a story noting that an influencer named Kurt Schlichter is a “civilian government advisor” (?) to Hegseth. This dude has been around forever in internet time and writes the worst novels that are basically Turner Diaries fanfic www.wired.com/story/a-pent...

wired.com

A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization

Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.

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#1 Lifelong Houston Cougs Fan Brandi 😾 @itsthebrandi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think Lowly Worm is driving one of the lowest rated apples in crash tests

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

my favorite genre of novel might be "brick that makes me paranoid and/or hyper-aware of my surroundings when walking around" a.k.a. pynchonesque so this one is really fitting the bill so far

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

been reading mieville's "the rouse" day in day out (or as close to it as i get to it lately) for three days straight & i'm somehow only 30% of the way through it. it's good enough that when i put it down & walk around the block i feel like i'm seeing through things, beyond the veil or sthg

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Nor'easter" has got to be the black sheep of the contraction family. Doesn't even save a syllable.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

trying to read new china mieville book. it might be brilliant, i'm just at the start, but so far every character, including the protagonist, has name i instantly forget, over and over. example: "Maur and Shaun and Ewan and Pip and Rho and Rho’s new man Michael went to France." who? says my brain.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore

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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

in my talk today, as an example of the strange things you can do in comics given their sequential but also spatial/simultaneous nature, I included this gonzo panel from 1950s Batman, which I just love in all its weirdness! Yes, I have more intentionally clever examples, but something about this...

part of a page from a batman comic. In one panel, batman leaps from off panel onto a diving board, the motion lines of his rebound travel across to another panel, where we see him finish his leap and crash into the crooks to save the day

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

teaching food systems & chocolate in particular this week, & in an effort to engage the kids i have fallen into a pit of uninteresting information about mr. beast's efforts to remake ghana in his own image in the face of one twitter user's complaint that he's neglecting north carolina

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