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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 2d

Cheers! (This MIT alum has often found the Institute to be surprisingly humane; I’m glad they’re doing the right thing.)

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been reading the Summer/Fall issue of THINK, and it’s excellent, with great work by
@maryanncorbett.bsky.social, Dan Campion, Steven Knepper, Jesse Keith Butler, and others. Here’s one of mine:

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 3d

Ah... I had no idea what that sonnet was about, so I figured it was movie/TV/gaming - derived!

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 3d

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 3d

Palindrome

I am AI.

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 3d

Smartphones clearly make kids read less, but the story isn't over: open.substack.com/pub/ericcolb...

The literate society and humanism

Reading and responding to a post about reading...

open.substack.com

Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 9d

True, of course.

Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 10d

I got a bunch of rejections this week too, so it's balancing out...

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 10d

I am pleased to have a poem in the new issue of The Hooghly Review, just out today. The poem's about aging parents; my own aging parents are quite lively and sharp, but looking ahead, we are all going to decline--if we're lucky! thehooghlyreview.com/issues/ficti... (p. 27)

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 11d

Happy to see my poem about a great Bertha Wegmann painting up today at the wonderful Ekphrastic Review: ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...

Resignation, by Eric Colburn

Resignation A girl at a table, teacup drained, fat book open before her, most of it yet to be read. We can’t quite make out her eyes in her bowed head, but she seems to have an air, not of one who...

ekphrastic.net

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 10d

Yesterday some friends and I protested! open.substack.com/pub/ericcolb...

A phone ban protest!

But even anti-phone activists get sucked into the doom scroll...

open.substack.com

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 11d

Happy to see my poem about a great Bertha Wegmann painting up today at the wonderful Ekphrastic Review: ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast...

Resignation, by Eric Colburn

Resignation A girl at a table, teacup drained, fat book open before her, most of it yet to be read. We can’t quite make out her eyes in her bowed head, but she seems to have an air, not of one who...

ekphrastic.net

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 11d

Woody Guthrie’s guitar…

Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 14d

Sign in a garden saying “Gardeners only”

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 14d

I’m trying to reimagine my deepest soul and also I did get solar and heat pumps for my house. I think the soul reimagining maybe helped?

Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 14d

Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 14d

Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle, p. 11

Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 14d

And of course books are one way of having deep human conversations. (Such conversations are possible over digital technology as well, but they're less common. I often wonder how the internet might have evolved differently...)

Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 14d

Deep human conversations are good: open.substack.com/pub/ericcolb...

The Question Game

Three minutes of deep human conversation

open.substack.com

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 16d

I think we should all give money to my old friend Lu Yoder’s project of installing solar panels on houses in Vieques. Lu runs an incredibly lean, efficient operation, so any money you give is going directly to replacing gas generators with solar. gofund.me/822bba004

Donate to Proyecto Solar Vieques 2026, organized by Center for International Media Action, Inc.

I’m happy to say that this year in Vieques we reached a m… Center for International Media Action, Inc. needs your support for Proyecto Solar Vieques 2026

gofund.me

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks!

Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 17d

Any ideas, @crschmidt.net, on how I can get my radmission’s battery to charge again? I plug the charger into it and… nothing. (The charger light remains green, as if the battery were fully charged, even though it’s nearly dead!)

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 18d

#PlanetaryBoundaries - a new high score on number exceeded - 7/9 - is extraordinarily bad news

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

World’s oceans fail key health check as acidity crosses critical threshold for marine life

Scientists call for renewed global effort to curb fossil fuels as seven of nine planetary boundaries now transgressed

www.theguardian.com

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 19d

So how much is the inability of the Democratic Party to mount any challenge to a hateful lying unAmerican would-be dictator related to the fact that telling the truth would mean admitting we are in a disastrous climate doom spiral?

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 20d

I am upset about the outrageously unconstitutional shit that is happening in my neighborhood.

Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 21d

Six months ago, I wrote about how masked federal agents had snatched Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts graduate student, off the street less than a mile from where I live.

bsky.app/profile/some...

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · Mar 26

Last night, ICE took a grad student from Tufts.

Romeysa Ozturk was here on a student visa and had a Fulbright scholarship. They are cancelling her visa and plan to deport her because she protested and wrote op-eds.

It doesn't make any difference whether you agree with what she said.

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Eric Colburn @etherealcolburn.bsky.social · 21d

A tandem!! I love it! Do you own one?!

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