Jack Preston King
@jackprestonking.bsky.social
Author of In Defense of Magical Thinking: Essays in Defiance of Conformity to Reason and other books for rebels against the spiritual, creative, and cultural status quo. Writes unruly poems, short stories, and novels, too. jackprestonking.com
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Jack Preston King
Jack Preston King - author, poet, philosopher
jackprestonking.com
For anyone interested, my author website currently has over 200 essays, short stories, flash fiction, poems, a novel, bunches of book reviews and more, all free to read. No subscription needed! Just a good old fashioned author website full of cool things. Come see what I'm about! jackprestonking.com
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Beyond grateful to have a half dozen new poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER) appear in the brand new issue of @ampoetryreview.bsky.social! Here's one of them...
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Beyond grateful to have a half dozen new poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER) appear in the brand new issue of @ampoetryreview.bsky.social! Here's one of them...
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From the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER, (Copper Canyon), orginally appeared in Poetry Review...
July 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
From the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER, (Copper Canyon), orginally appeared in Poetry Review...
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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My high school teacher asked us to share a favourite poem. She said my choice by Roland Bottrall was a poor example of a poem.
I said nothing. 40 years later I am certain she was wrong.
It has many poetic credentials, but most of all it has heart, and truth, and soul.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
I said nothing. 40 years later I am certain she was wrong.
It has many poetic credentials, but most of all it has heart, and truth, and soul.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My high school teacher asked us to share a favourite poem. She said my choice by Roland Bottrall was a poor example of a poem.
I said nothing. 40 years later I am certain she was wrong.
It has many poetic credentials, but most of all it has heart, and truth, and soul.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
I said nothing. 40 years later I am certain she was wrong.
It has many poetic credentials, but most of all it has heart, and truth, and soul.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
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November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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listening to the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia was a real one. Suck it Gen X
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
listening to the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia was a real one. Suck it Gen X
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"But we can interact with the unseen, and that changes everything." I want to highlight what you said here, because this really is the key.
November 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
"But we can interact with the unseen, and that changes everything." I want to highlight what you said here, because this really is the key.
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Here to illuminate
the smallest name
& tone without fuss
& the whispers of gestures
the smallest name
& tone without fuss
& the whispers of gestures
November 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Here to illuminate
the smallest name
& tone without fuss
& the whispers of gestures
the smallest name
& tone without fuss
& the whispers of gestures
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The longer I practice, the more I think synchronicity is a form of communication. A language, in a way.
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The longer I practice, the more I think synchronicity is a form of communication. A language, in a way.
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‘The regulated speech of poetry may be as close as we can get to such things — to the stilled voice of the inanimate object or the insentient standing of trees.’
– Mary Jacobus
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #poetry
– Mary Jacobus
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #poetry
November 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
‘The regulated speech of poetry may be as close as we can get to such things — to the stilled voice of the inanimate object or the insentient standing of trees.’
– Mary Jacobus
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #poetry
– Mary Jacobus
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #poetry
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November 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
To start the process of transforming the nightmare reality playing out in today’s headlines into a dream society that supports human happiness, we need only make a single, simple choice.
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
How to Transform the World with a Single Choice
A Holiday Conversation Starter, Courtesy of the Dalai Lama
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
To start the process of transforming the nightmare reality playing out in today’s headlines into a dream society that supports human happiness, we need only make a single, simple choice.
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
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Every cloud has a silver lining
🚨 BREAKING: It’s being reported that the CDC in the US is ending its experiments on monkeys! Approximately 200 macaques currently used in harmful research will be affected; future research on primates will also be discontinued. 🐵 🙌🏼
November 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Every cloud has a silver lining
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Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Protect your innate sense of interconnectedness, though it will be violated by the current order many times per day. What is powerful is not always true.
November 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Protect your innate sense of interconnectedness, though it will be violated by the current order many times per day. What is powerful is not always true.
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impossible to describe how it felt in the mid-90s when "Possum Kingdom" was on the radio in good rotation, at work trying to mop up the glass/acid spill of a cartload of pickle boxes crashed on the floor while someone screams "Do you wanna die?" from a speaker cut into the drop ceiling.
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
impossible to describe how it felt in the mid-90s when "Possum Kingdom" was on the radio in good rotation, at work trying to mop up the glass/acid spill of a cartload of pickle boxes crashed on the floor while someone screams "Do you wanna die?" from a speaker cut into the drop ceiling.
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
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“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
—André Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature
My #BookReview of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death, by Caitlin Doughty
#death #CharmingMorticians #Booksky
#death #CharmingMorticians #Booksky
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?
Mortician, Good Death advocate, podcaster and author (and better than average audiobook narrator!) Caitlin Doughty’s Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death is…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
My #BookReview of Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death, by Caitlin Doughty
#death #CharmingMorticians #Booksky
#death #CharmingMorticians #Booksky
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What we embrace or reject is not God. We embrace or reject our necessarily limited and incomplete personal conceptions of God.
Which says exactly zero about the existence or non-existence of an actual Supreme Being outside our brains
#spirituality #religion #God #neuroscience
Which says exactly zero about the existence or non-existence of an actual Supreme Being outside our brains
#spirituality #religion #God #neuroscience
What God Do You, or Don’t You, Believe In?
The God in Your Head is Not the Real God
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November 25, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What we embrace or reject is not God. We embrace or reject our necessarily limited and incomplete personal conceptions of God.
Which says exactly zero about the existence or non-existence of an actual Supreme Being outside our brains
#spirituality #religion #God #neuroscience
Which says exactly zero about the existence or non-existence of an actual Supreme Being outside our brains
#spirituality #religion #God #neuroscience
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In order to be effective, 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸. And that is likely to hurt. ~ Wei Wu Wei
November 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
In order to be effective, 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘸. And that is likely to hurt. ~ Wei Wu Wei
The future of human civilization depends on each of us making a single, simple choice.
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
How to Transform the World with a Single Choice
A Holiday Conversation Starter, Courtesy of the Dalai Lama
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The future of human civilization depends on each of us making a single, simple choice.
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
#Thanksgiving #Christmas #holiday #family #conversation #SaveTheWorld
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My MIL is a famously bad cook who once stuffed the turkey but too much & it came out raw so she crammed the whole thing down the garbage disposal which burst the pipes and leaked onto our heads while watching TV in the basement so we drove home early but ran out of gas on the way in a blizzard
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
My MIL is a famously bad cook who once stuffed the turkey but too much & it came out raw so she crammed the whole thing down the garbage disposal which burst the pipes and leaked onto our heads while watching TV in the basement so we drove home early but ran out of gas on the way in a blizzard
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I love a sonnet.
The octave, general in terms, listing the necessities love fails to provide. Then in the sestet, more personal, and challenging the idea that ‘Love is All’. But even with that, at the end, the poet does not think she would trade or sell it for solace.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
The octave, general in terms, listing the necessities love fails to provide. Then in the sestet, more personal, and challenging the idea that ‘Love is All’. But even with that, at the end, the poet does not think she would trade or sell it for solace.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
November 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I love a sonnet.
The octave, general in terms, listing the necessities love fails to provide. Then in the sestet, more personal, and challenging the idea that ‘Love is All’. But even with that, at the end, the poet does not think she would trade or sell it for solace.
#poetry
#poemoftheday
The octave, general in terms, listing the necessities love fails to provide. Then in the sestet, more personal, and challenging the idea that ‘Love is All’. But even with that, at the end, the poet does not think she would trade or sell it for solace.
#poetry
#poemoftheday