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Kris Lindbeck

@krislindbeck.bsky.social
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Haiku etc.. Also, Jewish Studies, Christianity, Buddhism, art and cool science stuff. Some politics . . . She/her.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7h
We spent a generation telling students the humanities are moribund, and they should all study STEM, only for the greatest advances in STEM in recent years to raise fundamental questions about the nature of personhood and identity that require the humanities to answer. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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St. Simeon the Holy Fool @simeonthefool.bsky.social · 4h
“Some people have just decided AI is bad without really understanding what it is and does” Sure but some people have decided AI is bad *because* they understand what it is and does
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A Christian Resistance @xianresistance.bsky.social · 3h
"We praise you for your saints who have entered into joy, May we also come to share in your heavenly kingdom." ~ BCP, p. 387 #SaintFrancisofAssisi Died on this night, 800 years ago.
"La morte di San Francesco" by Giotto (c. 1325), Basilica di Santa Croce (Florence, Italy).
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@rds773.myatproto.social You have fun reposts.
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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 7h
My other ride is a camelsaurus
Color photo of panel of white speckled terra cotta in the shade, depicting a creature with a camel-like head and neck, but with a hump that takes up the rest of the body and squat legs. Also ridges along back and curled tail. Dude is hauling a flat transport sled.
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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 8h
The Borb of Judgement #SpookyNature #birds 🌿
A black and white closeup photo of a very round black bird staring towards the camera in a threatening fashion.
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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 3h
without caring if it's caught half way down a red leaf #haiku #haiga #shahai Gorgeous photo, Dave. Thanks to @amyborgman.bsky.social for reposting.
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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Close-up looking down at the spiral of a pine cone surrounded by out-of-focus pebbles and autumn leaf litter
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Amy Borgman @amyborgman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
another sunset another haiku every drop #orangesun #coloraday #haiku #LakeMichigan #imageandverse
Sunset on Empire beach, MI. A deep orange sky reflected on Lake Michigan
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@amyborgman.bsky.social love the Chiyo-ni quote!
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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 4h
achy hands, legs, head after a pastel sunset more rain #haiku or #senryu I keep my rheumatoid arthritis at bay with a rather strict diet...and it seems that my two quesedillas yesterday were one too much.
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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 4h
OPINION: "[J]ail stays are booming, especially in rural and suburban places. Lengthy pretrial periods and resource shortages account for much of that growth. So does the rental of jail beds to outside entities," Ella Siegrist writes.
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Opinion | Immigration Enforcement Is Supplying an Economic Market for Prisoners
Ella Siegrist writes about how several states are using immigration enforcement and detention as a revenue stream.
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🇨🇦 🇺🇸 Zoë Keating @zoekeating.com · 4h
From now on I shall play cello for my cheese
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Researchers Say Aging Cheese Exposed To A Tribe Called Quest Tastes Better
The Swiss know a thing or two about cheese, and here’s their latest conclusion: It tastes better under the influence of rap music. Specifically, longterm exposure to A Tribe Called Quest results in im...
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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 4h
reflecting sunset: a giant cloud of orange 🍊 sherbet Not a #haiku for the ages, or even next week, but sometimes I can only describe what I see, silly metaphor and all.
A large fluffy pale orange cumulous cloud hugs the horizon. A one story house below, and a palm tree and pine in black twilight silhouette on the left.
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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 6h
tangled thorns setting a puzzle that fearless wrens solve by flying through
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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@ravenbranhard.bsky.social Thanks for reading and liking.
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Raven @ravenbranhard.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
september window behind the little pine two green eyes watching summer disappear #Caturday #Tanka #Pentastich #Poetry #Autumn 🐈🍂🌿 📷 mine
Tabby cat with green eyes sitting behind a small green plant by a window.
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
mountains on both sides we kept walking and looking up #haiku
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Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Happy 150th to the American Library Association! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Librarians Discuss the Challenges and Triumphs of Running a Library Today (Gift Article)
We asked dozens of them about America’s libraries — what they provide, what they need to survive. Here’s what they told us.
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• • • @1010-1010-1010.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
curled up tight the cat atop her sleeping shadow #senryu
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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
grey heron rising wingbeaten waves of white mist hiding the long hill
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• • • @1010-1010-1010.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
a newspaper headline shouts more stars in the universe than atoms! i shake the last drops of wine from outside the inside of my klein bottle #tanka #tankard #micropoetry
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Gerhard Oevermann 🐦‍⬛ @oevermann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I have watched loved ones disappear not all at once first names then voices then whole years without resistance yet sometimes a moment stays an afternoon the wind the rain against the leaves her hand resting on the porch rail the recognition in her smile nothing she knew to keep #poetry
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Robyn @handcranked.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reflecting A great blue heron I photographed through some dried plants in Bodega Bay in February. #BirdOfTheDay #Black&White #birds #ECK #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #photography #ClassicMono
A black-and-white photo of a great blue heron standing in mostly still water in the distance. It's photographed from a rocky area above with dry plants blurred in the foreground and some rock in the bottom right corner. The bird is reflected in the water.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Ballpoint pen, watercolor, colored pencil, a little crayon, and charcoal pencil. 

Our guy pulls up deep in the forest on his 2-speed bike. He’s flanked by tall dark trees and his path is blocked by a massive spider. He lets the Big Fella know it’s on. “Big Fella,” he says. “I fixed my 2-speed. You still wanna race.” Reader, you know Big Fella wants in on that action. Next slide.Against a starry night sky we see silhouettes of Big Fella and our man racing down a hill. It’s unclear in the drawing who will win but Big Fella is likely about to pull away.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I wrote about the Trump administration attempting to deport an anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew to Israel, and what it says about the conditions of Jewish identity imposed by the administration's "anti-antisemitism" campaign. religiondispatches.org/2026/10/01/t...
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Trump Admin Trying to Deport Anti-Zionist Hasidic Jew “Home” to Israel
The Trump administration is trying to deport Yehonatan Ovadia, a Satmar Hasidic religious teacher in Rockland County, New York. His alleged offense: taking part in a 2023 protest against an Israeli fl...
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Rikibeth @rikibeth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hans Christian Andersen “The Nightingale” still as true as when it was written
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I always ask if people think hearing a digital piano programmed to play a concerto is the same as hearing my dad — who’s been playing for 79 years and still practices hours a day — do it. And funnily enough no one has ever agreed that it is.
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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago
I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861
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MarkgZero @markgzero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pleased to contribute to the latest Haiku Dialogue theme Intoxication, Writing Poetry. Thanks to editor dkarlbrandt.bsky.social. Great to see haiku poets write about writing and use various techniques to do so within the #haiku realm. See the link here thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-dialog...
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Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jewels of Opar
Magenta pink flowers on delicate pannicles, in sprays, against a wooden fence gate, held closed with a striped band. Sun and shade, paving and grass, behind.
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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
spaces between leaves after the wind has walked through humming with silence
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/10/2026
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Erin Freeman @beachrelaxin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here be dragons. Double-crested Cormorant #BirdOfTheDay #Black&White #ECK #birds #nature #wildlife #photography
A large bird perches at the top of a bushy evergreen tree facing right and looking like a dragon with its wings outspread and slightly curled, its long neck stretched upward, and its thin hooked beak slightly lifted toward the sky.
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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#NationalPoetryDay Still quite proud of this one. It was displayed outside the Royal Society of Geography :) 🌠🌌🪐
A
pencil
lead, if you
zoom in on it
with a microscope
is first a dark expanse,
but each magnification
reveals candescent clusters:
galaxy filament in graphite -
Let my pencil leave gauzy
comet tails in its wake,
nebula of dreams
across the stark
cosmos of
empty
page
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Killian @greenmtgirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Accurate.
Image reading "What your favorite obsolete English letter says about you." Below are seven rectangles from manuscripts showing the letters thorn, eth, wynn, yogh, ash, Insular G, and long s. Beneath each rectangle it reads, "You are a nerd."
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petro c. k. @petrock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Many thanks to editor Matt Snyder for selecting my verse for "Lost and Found," the Haiku Society of America's Members Anthology for 2026. Congratulations to everyone else who appears! www.hsa-haiku.org/member-antho...
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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#YellowThu #yellow #ColorADay #ECK #EastCoastKin #ECK #pollinators #insects
An Asian lady beetle traverses a cluster of goldenrod flowers with other goldenrod flowers in the background
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John North @johnnorthwrites.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Moon sets, crows cry, sky frosts, river maples, fishing fires. The midnight boat is a bell of stars. Here is Hanshan Temple. After Zhang Ji, 8th century Tang dynasty poet 月落烏啼霜滿天 江楓漁火對愁眠 姑蘇城外寒山寺 夜半鐘聲到客船
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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
carpenter 🐝 #FlowerReport #YellowThu #yellow #ColorADay #ECK #EastCoastKin #pollinators #bees
A carpenter bee is perched on a cluster of tiny white butterfly bush flowers.
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Leigh Goodwin @leighgoodwin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Moonrise: Misting, Partly Cloudy To lie down lighter than air in a moonlit shimmer Alone to whisper yourself to sleep remember. ~ David Wagoner clouds sieve a cold sea-wind sleepers relax, cats uncurl soon a rustled murmur rises chimney rattles, gutters ping #poem 1/2
round & silent she sinks
through pale evening's 
tinted clouds — full moon

photograph
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Halloween season the clown dressed up as a warrior
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Paul David Mena @extraspecialbitter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the sparrow showers alone #7syllablesentence #7syllablesquad
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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a distant owl: sometimes signs of life and death are one sign #haiku #haiga #shahai
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MyxlP @myxlp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘ outdoor rink the old timers practice tai chi . #haiku #senryu
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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
between our warm bodies autumn stars
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K.L. Noone @klnoone.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Okay, that's two neat little banners: number one bestseller in 45-minute #LGBTQ AND in 45-minute #sf & #fantasy short reads! Even more neat because it's been out for a few days now. Thank you! 💜 #BookSky @jms-books.com #mmromance www.amazon.com/Primrose-Mag...
screenshot of Amazon page for KL Noone's novella Primrose Magic, showing orange number one bestseller in 45-minute LGBTQ short reads bannerscreenshot of Amazon page for KL Noone's novella Primrose Magic, showing orange number one bestseller in 45-minute sci fi and fantasy short reads
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Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A beauty! One back at you!
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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
no day without death none without a newborn's cry this world burning into autumn can't tell me whether to weep or laugh #tanka
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