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tiny wren lit @tinywrenlit.bsky.social · 13h

Visit the tiny wren gallery, now showcasing Issue 11: Ekphrastic! www.tinywrenlit.com/issue-11

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Issue 11 | Tiny Wren Lit

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A poem by Jorge Luis Borges on Kafka. On his dreams and on his fancy for love triangles. I was not aware of this poem! Translated by the excellent Stephen Kessler. Ein Traum She was Kafka's sweetheart. Kafka had dreamed her.

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Ray @raymondgibson.bsky.social · 17h

Just heard people talking at the next table over. They’re voting yes on amendment 3. I said, “Do you like having a library?” People are dumb. They’ll saw the legs off the chair they’re sitting in if they think it’ll put a dime in their pocket. Stupidity can’t be helped or prevented.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 21h

In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 20h

Russian authorities still haven't confirmed reports that a 28-yr-old woman in Shelekhov died of pneumonic plague. But the local hospital is quarantined, a nearby city briefly warned residents not to travel there, & local pharmacies are running short of key antibiotics. t.me/Baikal_Peopl...

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Люди Байкала

Не ездить в Шелехов из-за чумы попросили власти Байкальска — и через два часа удалили пост. РЕН ТВ стер пять публикаций об инфекции 18+ НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН, РАСПРОСТРАНЕН И (ИЛ...

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 10/09/2026

BREAKING: Florida Senate poll has Nixon in dead heat with MAGA Moody 🔵 Nixon 47% 🔴 Moody (Inc) 47% Change R #B - LV - 9/9 1. To all the haters who said Angie’s “not electable,” you can still do right and support Angie. 2. Donate and let’s goooooo! secure.actblue.com/donate/frien...

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Karrie @karriehiggins.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My assault not being charged in the indictment (time barred) means I do not have access to victim compensation for therapy etc. I am asking friends to support me by sharing my Help Hope Live. Thanks for support. helphopelive.org/campaign/159... www.paypal.com/paypalme/kar... Venmo: KARRIE-HIGGINS-2

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Donate to Midwest/West Catastrophic Illness Fund in honor of Karrie Higgins

Help Karrie Higgins's friends and family raise money for medical expenses associated with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome Catastrophic Illness. Donate today.

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ｐｅｔｒｉｃｈｏｒ @petrichorlit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

petrichor 31 is here! w/ - New text & image from 20 contributors + - Pebbles vol. 7 w/ 39 contributors! + - Digital chaps from Laura Wetherington and Grzegorz Wróblewski (trans. by Peter Burzyński) - Cover by Jeanne Ranz! Submissions are open too!!! petrichormag.com/petrichor-31/

A collage by Jeanne Ranz. Scraps of paper assembled haphazardly. Some from books, some with text scrawled onto them. Artist's signature and the date "'25" are in the lower right corner.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 02/10/2026

How on Earth did I not read this yet? really interesting and honestly kind of brazen modelling of the entire lifecycle - downstream, data centres, upstream use - of AI. Puts AI industry at 1.1% of total global energy, about the same for global emissions. More than 10x previously stated estimates

Final Results and Concluding Thoughts
Adding it all up, we estimate that the AI sector is responsible for almost 1,900 TWh of global energy consumption in 2026. And after accounting for additional factors that we did not explicitly analyze, like the construction of new electrical substations, robotic-centric warehouses, water reclamation facilities, and other infrastructure specifically designed to support the data center buildout, it’s likely that total AI-driven global energy demand is already closer to 2,000 TWh. Even at 1,900 TWh, the AI share of total global energy use in 2026 would be roughly 1.1%. We also estimate, after adding up all the sectoral numbers and landing at roughly 650 million metric tons of AI-driven CO2 emissions, that the AI share of global GHG emissions in 2026 stands at about 1.2%, with total annual global emissions sitting at roughly 55 gigatons of CO2-eq, albeit with a wide range of figures from EDGAR to UNEP (anywhere from 53 gigatons to 58 gigatons depending on a broad array of different assumptions). As we’ve discussed already, these numbers are much higher than many others in the media and academia have guessed on the basis of simplistic calculations and naïve assumptions.

The projections up to 2030 are obviously far worse and imply a catastrophic impact to global ecological stability. ChatGPT alone “processes approximately 2.5 billion prompts per day worldwide.”122 The scale of AI growth and diffusion globally is truly astounding, and the industry’s corresponding ecological footprint will soon rival that of major countries like India. It's not farfetched at all to think that the AI share of total global energy demand could rise to something like 5% by 2030, rivaling and in some cases surpassing the footprint of established dominant industries. The potential consequences of this extra resource pressure on biodiversity, global warming, freshwater scarcity, and biogeochemical cycles could be absolutely staggering and devastating for the…

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Today, 8 years ago, my friend, Saudi Journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered.

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Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#throwback to my poem 'jetsam', published in The Oxford Review of Books 🌊

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GIFFORDS @giffords.org · 02/10/2026

We’re proud to endorse State Representative @angieforfl.bsky.social in her U.S. Senate bid in Florida. Representative Nixon has been a fighter for Florida families throughout her career.

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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...

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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos

Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yehonatan Ovadia – a Hasidic Jew and Israeli citizen who has lived in the U.S. on a visa since 2022 – is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center (a notorious federal prison) and facing deportation … for his criticism of Israel on religious grounds.

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A Hasidic Jew Protested Against an Israeli Flag. He May Be Deported.

Yehonatan Ovadia, who opposed the mounting of the flag in a small New York town, belongs to a Hasidic branch that is anti-Zionist. He is now in ICE custody.

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Whale Road Review @whaleroadreview.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Send our friends @lastsyllablelit.bsky.social your longform poetry and prose! Check out the open genre guidelines too! lastsyllablelit.com/submit

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Submit | Last Syllable Literary Journal

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/10/2026

‘To America’, “Fifty Years & Other Poems” James Weldon Johnson, 1917 archive.org/details/fift...

TO AMERICA
How would you have us, as we are?
Or sinking 'neath the load we bear?
Our eyes fixed forward on a star?
Or gazing empty at despair?
Rising or falling? Men or things?
With dragging pace or footsteps fleet?
Strong, willing sinews in your wings?
Or tightening chains about your feet?

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Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well...the 'wulf' is out of the bag. Professor Daniel Wakelin and I were the Middle English consultants for Robert Eggers' upcoming film Werwulf, in UK theatres on January 1st 2027!

An image of a screenshot from a webpage from IGN that reads 'Eggers did copious amounts of research on England in the 13th century for the screenplay, he co-wrote with his The Northman collaborator, Sjón. The film’s dialogue is in Middle English, although it’s been altered by dialect coach William Conacher to make it more comprehensible for the modern ear. Eggers also worked with two Middle English scholars at Oxford University, Eleanor Baker and Daniel Wakelin, who helped make the dialogue more period accurate.'

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National Center for LGBTQ Rights @nclrights.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Breaking: Today, the family of Renee Good - mother of three and part of our LGBTQ community - sued the U.S. government and ICE officials for her killing by an ICE agent last winter.

Renee Good at home holds up a mug with her name on it. She is in an orange sweater. On top of the image is a USA today article headline screenshot that reads: Renee Good’s family sues US, ICE officers over fatal shooting by Maria Luisa Paul

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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ken Paxton offered plea deals to at least 10 students accused of raping their classmates.

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David Hood @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I suspect those who been watching me update this chart over the months are not mind-boggled

Oh no, it is the consequence of their actions.

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Ray @raymondgibson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My godson’s reading Latin already, so I bought him three books he can grow into.

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Ray @raymondgibson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Cut others the slack you’d want them to cut you.

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Ray @raymondgibson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I think what rubs me the wrong way about Borges and Me is that Borges warped reality around him when he lied and played the straight man like Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone. Jay Parini warps Borges into a larger than life character and makes him into a spectacle to sell a book.

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The Story of Writing @sownow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Elie Wiesel was born on this day in 1928. He would want us to remember. And he would want us to resist the authoritarianism that leads to genocide - no matter where it happens.

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

–Elie Wiesel, "Night," 1955

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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Kelly @justkelly.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Cornell victim has been doxxed on X. So worried for her. I hate this planet.

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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some stanzas from a forthcoming longish poem here: wordpress.boogcity.com/2026/09/28/p...

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Poetry/ Mark Scroggins – Boog City

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

You are invulnerable. - Jorge Luis Borges, "To Whoever Is Reading Me"

To Whoever Is Reading Me
You are invulnerable. Have they not granted you, those powers that preordain your destiny, the certainty of dust? Is not your time as irreversible as that same river where Heraclitus, mirrored, saw the symbol of fleeting life? A marble slab awaits you which you will not read — on it, already written, the date, the city, and the epitaph.
Other men too are only dreams of time, not indestructible bronze or burnished gold; the universe is, like you, a Proteus.
Dark, you will enter the darkness that awaits you, doomed to the limits of your travelled time.
Know that in some sense you are already dead.
Jorge Luis Borges, translated by Alastair Reid

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 28/09/2026

Former ‘South Park’ writer Toby Morton has created a website to expose information about Cornell University’s administration in response to the group sexual assault case: “Accountability should not disappear when the headlines do. And we all know this headline will disappear.”

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Ray @raymondgibson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lost 82 lbs in a year, and all it took was diabetes stealing all the fun food.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026

Reuters got some of the IPO docs. Anthropic is a total dog of a company. Spent $12.6bn to make $4.6bn in revenue in 2025, $7.33bn of which was compute costs. Operating loss of $8bn. Losses getting worse year over year. Amazing stuff www.reuters.com/business/fin...

Summary
Companies
• Anthropic IPO could value the company at more than $2
trillion
• Anthropic lost $42 billion in 2025
• Al lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year
• Operating loss widened to $8.06 billion in 2025 from $2.98 billion in 2024
• Execs, industry analysts have expressed concerns over harms of Al tech
Sept 28 (Reuters) - Anthropic is making a massive bet that Al will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters.
But the cost to get there will be staggering. Anthropic reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025, and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming year, according to the
prospectus.

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Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 29/09/2026

Any day, #SpaceX could send in bulldozers to destroy the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge. Musk’s company wants to build a rocket test site and road through this vital wildlife habitat in south #Texas. We’re in court to stop this public land giveaway. Please support our fight ⬇️

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Give Now to Save the Wild

Join the fight to protect wildlife and wild places with a gift to the Center for Biological Diversity.

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skip intro @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026

Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri I Want Diane Seuss to Teach Me How to Become a Man congratulations: Daniel's collection, Son in a Wild God’s Arms, has been picked up by University Press of Kentucky.

I Want Diane Seuss to Teach Me How to Become a Man

after Diane Seuss’s “Romantic Poet”

by Daniel Naawenkangua Abukuri

I cherish the boys who cry in parking lots, who lean against dented Hondas
holding their faces. I love the boys who apologize to stray cats after scaring
them away. The ones who carry flowers badly, stems bent in their sweating
fists. But mostly, let’s be honest, I like Diane Seuss for the way she makes
ruin sit down beside beauty without either one pretending. Ostensibly,
becoming a man is less about hardening and more about surviving softness.
Don’t laugh. I grew up believing manhood was a locked jaw, a fist through
drywall, a silence thick as wet cement. But Diane Seuss writes men like
weathered barns still standing after years of snow and bad harvest. She
lets them ache openly. Lets them fail magnificently. Lets them drink
coffee at midnight while admitting they are lonely. And inside my own
body, under the borrowed swagger, under the deep voice I practice on
buses, there is a small frightened animal wanting permission to stay gentle.

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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Cristina Peri Rossi

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz @wassermanschultz.house.gov · 28/09/2026

If you haven’t yet registered to vote in Florida, or if you need to update your registration, do so before the October 5 deadline at registertovoteflorida.gov/home

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https://registertovoteflorida.gov/home

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Florida Freedom to Read Project @flfreedomread.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pinellas is the second district to publicly acknowledge that it is acting on the Commissioner’s memo despite 99.6% of Pinellas students having ZERO parental restrictions on their access last year and the last citizen objection was about a year ago to a picture book. www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

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Pinellas removes books named in state memo. Except ‘The Bluest Eye.’

A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

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