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Kris Lindbeck

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

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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · Oct 24

I few years ago I wrote a tongue-in-cheek guide to writing literary haiku called "How to Write Bad Haiku."
It also has a picture of the late great Jabberwok, who was tortoiseshell with white patches, and whom I miss.
Enjoy!
discover.hubpages.com/literature/H...

How to Write Bad Haiku

A humorous guide to writing "bad" haiku -- mediocre and boring ones -- whose goal is to help people write and edit haiku better.

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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 1d

I like this one too, of a mysteriously well-dressed Adam naming animals.
www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/ms2...

Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 1d

Come on!
God calls, still youthful,
excited by the world

And here they are
the lion, the squirrel
the grazing beasts

all gazing
at their creator who
the artist in his hubris

paints as man

#ekphrastic #poem

www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/ms2...

Folio 2v - Creation of the animals - The Aberdeen Bestiary

Folio 2v - Creation of the animals - The Aberdeen Bestiary - MS 24

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Magedah Shabo @magedah.bsky.social · 1d

#DailyHaikuPrompt #monoku #senryu #MPPrompt

straw man I fear even the crows are laughing

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bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 1d

That's a lot of sorcery to learn:

"One bowl... refers to "Aramaean sorceries, Judaean sorceries, Arabian sorceries, Persian sorceries, Indian sorceries, Greek sorceries, Roman sorceries," & "sorceries that are performed in (any of) seventy languages, whether by a woman or a man."

bonque, ben @kwstzhaderbonch.bsky.social · 1d

From Secunda's "The Iranian Talmud."

"Boyarin's solution is to dig deeper and 'look at texts as (necessarily failed) attempts to propose utopian solutions to cultural tensions.'"

Imo failure is more instructive than success.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

but I think the intersections of violence and money and power are really important to him, and if all he did over the course of his tenure was pull the Catholic Church back from policing sexual and bodily autonomy toward defending the marginalized, that would shake up the US church a lot

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

I did hear about this and I don’t know that I have TEA but I have THOUGHTS

first of all let us not skip past the symbolic significance of “Leo signed the document on Oct. 4, the feast of St. Francis of Assisi”

Julia L @calenmir.bsky.social · 1d

@clairewillett.bsky.social wanted to make sure you hear this (and hear any tea you might have regarding this): www.ncronline.org/pope-leo-bla...

Pope Leo blasts elitism, indifference toward poor in first major document

"I am convinced that the preferential choice for the poor is a source of extraordinary renewal both for the church and for society," the pope wrote in Dilexi Te.

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Joe Lamport @joelamport.bsky.social · 1d

the owl’s presence
hovers between there/not there
a liminal perch

#haiku

John R. @tribe.bsky.social · 1d

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 2d

morning stillness-
a spider mends
the space between worlds
#haiku #poetry

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Catherine Baker @catbake.bsky.social · 1d

snail on the burdock
reaching out delicately
to taste the night air

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Tanja @joypops.bsky.social · 1d

autumn moon~
the forest and i
the same color

#haiku

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Barico @njbarico.bsky.social · 2d

#俳句 #haiku

after her tears
I hand her a cactus
beginning to bloom

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 2d

for the heart
very small things
morning sparrows

- Deborah A. Bennett
Rattle Magazine, Issue 68

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georgeszirtes.bsky.social @georgeszirtes.bsky.social · 2d

CELEBRATING LK

In this translation
you will look in vain for a
full-stop, Stops are there,

but hard to find. Keep
searching. Oh look, there is one!
He must have taken

breath. Time can stand still
for the blink of a whale's eye.
Then the whale goes down,

spouting as it dives.

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spencer roberts 🦈 @unpopularscience.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about why slugs are better than clankers. 🦑🧪

Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 3d

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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 3d

Oh, good luck! and tell us how it goes . . .

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Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social · 3d

I always think about some cs majors I knew in college who never read a single book. It’s hard not to feel that the main thing happening here is that ppl convinced the things they don’t like must be dumb and pointless have made a tech to do them to the extent they thought they were ever done

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 8d

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat.
People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

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Brandon W. Hawk @brandonwhawk.bsky.social · 3d

Did you know that Bookshop has free shipping today? (Lots of authors have good books on that site!) And two of my books on #apocrypha are there on sale right now!
bookshop.org/beta-search...

Bookshop.org US

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 3d

Pope Leo told U.S. bishops visiting him at the Vatican on Wednesday that they should firmly address how immigrants are being treated by President Donald Trump's hardline policies, attendees said, in the latest push by the pontiff on the issue.
sojo.net/articles/new...

Pope Leo Tells U.S. Bishops to Address Trump's Immigration Crackdown

Leo has been ramping up his criticism of Trump's deportation policies in recent weeks.

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Shaily Patel @vox-magica.bsky.social · 3d

i’d do group work with clio! 😍

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 3d

This is Clio. She did not study for the test today. Also does not know how to read. 12/10 (IG: paspastotoro)

a black and gray long-haired yorkiepoo sits at a desk in a university classroom. a piece of paper lays on the desk in front of her, her paws propped up on the desk as if she's bracing herself. there are students in the background hunched over and working on paper in front of them. the pup looks at the camera with a concerned side eye. she's realizing she probably should have read some of the homework before eating it.

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Miriam Anzovin @miriamanzovin.bsky.social · 3d

Shalom, friends! Adam’s love life was in its flop era.
Would the third time be the charm for our Bachelor?
Or the ultimate canon event for humanity…and snakes? Welcome to #JewishLoreReactions: Trouble In Paradise Part I 🐍

youtu.be/MFKXTDVN9uE

Jewish Lore Reactions: Trouble In Paradise Part I

YouTube video by Miriam Anzovin

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Yahia Lababidi @ysl.bsky.social · 3d

Fantastic to feel how my poem grows
while I myself shrink.
It grows, it takes my place.
It pushes me aside.
It throws me out of the nest.
The poem is ready.

— Tomas Tranströmer, “Morning Birds”
#poetry #poetrycommunity

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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 3d

The science is in: COVID boosters are worth it, even if you've been vaccinated and/or infected before. Stay safe out there, friends!: 🧪 🛟 www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 3d

💥 🧪 Nabarun Dasgupta UNC, Chapel Hill - MacArthur Awardee

NPR @npr.org · 3d

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive. n.pr/4nJ98I5

Scientist on front lines of overdose crisis receives MacArthur 'genius' award

Nabarun Dasgupta was recognized with a MacArthur "genius" award for work studying the deadly overdose crisis. He's also a front-line organizer, helping people survive.

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Kris Lindbeck @krislindbeck.bsky.social · 3d

oh, just read the whole thread!

Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 3d

Depression then got her Master’s & put her education to work to try to help Indigenous people and worked as a statistician with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, until she was reassigned as an advisor to girls at the Santa Fe Indian School. ⁠
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When WWII broke out her father suggested she find a

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 3d

Trail of Tears, Ross attributed her success in math to the Cherokee tradition of encouraging equal education for boys and girls. She went to Northeastern State Teacher’s College in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and earned a bachelor’s in math by the time she was 20. She taught science and math through the

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