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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Padraig o’Tuama could recite the phonebook and it would be worth listening. O’Tuama reading poetry is sublime. #NYC

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Looking forward to the Irish Art Centre's sold out poetry event this afternoon! #NYC #Padraig_ó_Tuama

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🌫️ Grant Forrest @gfor.rest · 20/11/2024

Last night we saw Pádraig Ó Tuama speak at Duke Chapel and it really drove home for me the stark difference between what passes for consensus-making in US culture ('spirited debate,' 'market of ideas') and the real work of peace: getting in a room, listening, and being surprised by each other.

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Someone Somewhere @nerudap.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

The other really good poetry close reading podcast I need to catch up on is Poetry Unbound by Pádraig Ó Tuama. Kamran and Pádraig have the top 2 podcasts now for close reading poems after Poetry Foundation threw the baby out with the bathwater trying to be inclusive to a wider variety of voices.

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Poetry Unbound | The On Being Project

Your new ritual, in podcast form: Immerse yourself in a single poem, guided by Pádraig Ó Tuama.

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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

“When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, ‘Lazarus, come out!’ The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, ‘Unbind him, and let him go.’” – John 11:43–44 (NRSVue)

A quote by Padraig O Tuama from Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community reads, “Lazarus, silent brother of Bethany, When you died, they washed and wrapped you. And when you came back they unwound you, and you washed yourself. In all of this, you said nothing. We, like you, are silent in the face of death. But may we wash and wrap love around sorrow Because sometimes, that’s all that we can do. Amen.” The text appears centered on a plain white background, with attribution and a small hashtag “#kindlequotes” at the bottom.

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The sacred container is a clown car.

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scha·den·freu·de @blisterpearl.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

"Governments never announce that they have become fascist. They announce that the antifascists are now the enemy of the state"

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Are we GOING to hell, or are we IN hell?

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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

#Pinks #ProudBlue Protect everyone, protect yourself. That’s how it works.

Sign on a telephone pole. It reads “whatever you allow your government to do to others, they will eventually do to you.”

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The Jester plays a role, speaking truth to power through humour. I think we're in the "all bets are off" phase.

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Jason Dogwood 💙 🏳️‍🌈 🌱 @jasondogwood.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Colbert gone. Kimmel silenced. Not for lying, but for speaking the truth trump doesn't want you to hear. Mocking the regime is now a punishable offense. All to keep critics quiet. Laugh too loud, think too clearly & you vanish. This is how authoritarianism sterilizes a culture & numbs dissent.

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The Autistic Rabbi(nical Student) | Mati [he/they] @autisticrabbi.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Elul isn’t just about “going deep". Some of us live there every day - our whole existence feels like one long Elul. Teshuvah isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about returning to yourself.

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joycecaroloates.bsky.social @joycecaroloates.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

repairman who has brought the wrong tools.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

And beware of false flags and planted evidence with this FBI in charge. Skepticism is in order.

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Here for it. For those of us eating oatmeal, a book club/reading group is starting Radical Mindfulness this Sunday. Free to attend, free PDF, 30% discount on the physical copy. Let's change the world. rowecenter.org/radical-mind...

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Radical Mindfulness: Why Transforming Fear of Death is Politically Vital

This is not your typical book club. Beginning September 14th, the Rowe Center will host a weekly online gathering to explore Radical Mindfulness by author James K. Rowe. In 90 minute sessions, we will...

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

if we can’t get MAHA to agree that it’s wrong to kill public health workers if they don’t have control over policy, i’m not sure what common ground we can develop because that is categorically the same ideology as fascism, which you can’t work with. i’m glad folks are trying (we need them to) but

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Let's go, Team Human!! We can do this!!

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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 09/09/2025

White people are fumbling their way through this moment because it’s really hard for them to accept that this is always what this country was about. And they’re mad at Black people for still finding joy because “THE COUNTRY IS BURNING HOW ARE YOU WATCHING FOOTBALL.” Interesting dynamic.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

👏Neurodivergence 👏isn't 👏a 👏disease!!

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Rethinking my recent, "I need to get rid of some of these books," stance.

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are inherent to all people and cannot be taken away, surrendered, or sold by any person or government. Thomas Jefferson integrated these principles into the Declaration of Independence, making them a cornerstone of American governmental philosophy.

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Fenit Nirappil @fenitn.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

RFK Jr. told senators they were wrong and making stuff up about Americans struggling to access coronavirus vaccines. The challenges are real. We heard from more than 3,200 readers about this, and these are some of their stories. Gift link: wapo.st/4nbXgO6

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RFK Jr. says anyone who wants a covid shot can get one. Not these Americans.

Pharmacies and doctors are struggling to adjust to a new regulatory environment for updated coronavirus vaccines that are no longer broadly recommended.

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Wait, what?? Rand Paul is someone I agree with?? We are living in the Upside Down.

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Stop wishing death to Drumpf. This is what follows.

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

The notion that the US has been engaged in an undeclared civil war for years is often bandied about. And now the quiet part is said out loud. Where do we go from here?

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Doffs hat. Ken Dryden was a man to be admired. Condolences to his family.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

“It is not a radical idea to say that every man, woman and child in America can have a decent standard of living.”

Bernie on stage holding a mic, one arm outstretched.

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Sweet Rhubarb @sweetrhubarb.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

We already know this. Farmers tried to hire out-of-work Americans in the financial crisis of 2008, but they weren't up to the task.

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Sandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Got my Covid and flu shots at the CVS in the grocery store, I did mark that I have a high-risk condition on my paperwork and got no invasive questions about it- I asked the pharmacist if they'd been having any trouble with insurance and he said he'd expected they might but actually none so far

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