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Ms. Lonnie🦋🩵🫂 @lonsj.bsky.social · 2d

Natural disaster in western Alaska

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The news shows & papers aren't!

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 2d

Join us Friday, 17 Oct, 7pm Kehrein Center 5628 W. Washington in Chgo for my opera, “No One’s Child” re: Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes & Charlotte “Godmother” Mason.

Sponsored by
#chicagofringeopera
#EarTaxiFestival

Tickets www.eartaxifestival.com/full-schedul...
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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 2d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day‼️

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 3d

Contemporary notation for double reed players, especially bassoonists:

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 5d

“imagination
is our most valued
form of resistance.”

—Angie Trudell Vasquez activist, Poet Laureate Emeritus, Madison, WI

#writemap 376 most ✍🏽

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 5d

false fruit of
ripe mulberry trees
live their truth

#dailyhaikuprompt mulberry

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 5d

Warm thanx to Andrew @MaestroSewell and the #Wisconsin #Chamber #Orchestra for their collaborative ownership, Spirited performance & WI #premiere of my “Muse for Orchestra.” Muse opens tonite’s concert after a residency w 4 fellow #composers
♥️🖤📚🎶✍🏽

www.overture.org/tickets-even...

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 6d

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Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social · 6d

Banned Books Week
October 5-11, 2025

“This is a dangerous time for readers and the public servants who provide access to reading materials. Readers, particularly students, are losing access to critical information, and librarians and teachers are under attack for doing their jobs.”

-ALA

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 7d

Always happy to learn a new word. I’ve been familiar w the practice of but didn’t know the word “enshitify”. Thx‼️

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 7d

And the horrors continue: Cory Doctorow explains how corporate tech enshittifies apps to skirt the law.

How American Tech Cartels Use Apps to Break the Law

The death of competition spells doom for regulation. Competition is an essential component of effective regulation, for two reasons: First, competition keeps the companies within a sector from all …

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 7d

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 8d

crisp blue sky
a pair of chuck taylor's
hanging from a wire

- Deborah A. Bennett
Tsuri-Doro Haiku/Senryu, Issue 25

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 8d

a
young
seedling
pushing through
the earth’s surface knows
not all poetry is written

#dailyhaikuprompt seedling
#Fibonacci #musing 🌿

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Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social · 8d

Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools.

By focusing on efforts to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship.

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Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social · 8d

Today's architecture column. "Public park spaces like the lily pool, where Chicagoans can pause to catch a breath and experience some of nature’s beauty, are well worth preserving and protecting."

Need a cool spot to watch fall colors? Try the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool, which reopened after two years.

Public park spaces like the lily pool, where Chicagoans can pause to catch a breath and experience some of nature's beauty, are well worth preserving and protecting.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 8d

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact wld betray everything good and solid about the university & would do deep and permanent harm to the United States & the world.”

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down newrepublic.com/article/2013... via @newrepublic.com

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Deborah A. Bennett @dabennettpoet.bsky.social · 10d

fresh spring breeze
picking dandelions
from the child's teeth

- Deborah A. Bennett
Shadowpond Journal, Issue IV

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Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social · 10d

storm-split oak-
inside its heart
another storm
#haiku #poetry #micropoetry

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 10d

ancestral ghosts moan
bones on the Atlantic beach
leave Motherland trails

#senyrū #poetry
#dailyhaikuprompt beach, leave

#image Ghanaian artist Kwame Atoko-Bamfo: Ancestors drown during the #MiddlePassage

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 10d

keys to happiness:
fast, pray, love,
fight for justice

#10wordspoet key
#image happiness 禧

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11d

Federal agents hurled tear gas at people on a busy Logan Square street, outside a grocery store and near an elementary school.

Reckless, undertrained ICE hires are a danger to everyone. This is terrorism against US citizens.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 11d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 10d

we
are
casting
one shadow
poised for peace and love

#10wordspoet cast
#Fibonacci #poetry

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Regina Harris Baiocchi @haikufest.bsky.social · 10d

Thanx, Allyson‼️