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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 15h

I, however,
Have such meagre power,

Clutching at a
Moment,

While you control
An hour.

But your hour is
A stone.

My moment is
A flower.

-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"
#everynightapoem As ever.

I have done so little
For you.
And you have do little
For me.
That we have good reason
Never to agree.

I, however,
Have such meagre power,
Clutching at a
Moment,
While you control
An hour.
But your hour is
A stone.
My moment is
A flower.
-Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot"

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 15h

“In the middle of life, death comes
to take your measurements. The visit
is forgotten and life goes on. But the suit
is being sewn on the sly.”

Tomas Tranströmer, The Deleted World

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Jagoda Marinić @jagodamarinic.com · 1d

Köln, wir kommen! Auf der LitCologne treffe ich Weltbestseller Autorin Arundhati Roy & wir sprechen über ihr neues Buch „ Mother Mary comes to me“ … es geht um ihre Mutter, die großen fragen des Lebens

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Fischer Tor @fischertor.bsky.social · 1d

Gerade aus der Druckerei gekommen:

25 SF-Storys von Ursula K. Le Guin auf 800 Seiten. Neu übersetzt von Karen Nölle.

Wie lang ist nochmal bis Weihnachten?

#sciencefiction #feminismus

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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 5d

The Wilbur J. Cohen Federal Building is, one expert told me, “the Sistine Chapel of New Deal art.” GSA had a plan earlier this year to save it. Now Trump is rushing to sell it.

Save the Cohen, part 2, explains how we got here. Please share widely!

newrepublic.com/article/2012...

There Was a Plan to Save These New Deal Masterpieces. Then Trump Won.

A feasibility study was underway about restoring the ailing federal building that houses important Ben Shahn frescoes, Philip Guston murals, and other FDR-era artwork. But the Trump administration put...

newrepublic.com

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e.glatzer @eglatzer.bsky.social · 6d

🎻eine Violine 🎻ging verloren 🎻 helft ihm bei der Suche 🎻
• Ein Musikstudent lässt seine wertvolle Violine im Gepäckfach eines Zuges zurück. Nun sucht er verzweifelt nach seinem Instrument.

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Düsseldorfer Student verspricht 5.000 Euro Finderlohn für seine verlorene Geige

Ein Musikstudent lässt seine wertvolle Violine im Gepäckfach eines Zuges zurück. Nun sucht er verzweifelt nach seinem Instrument.

www1.wdr.de

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Eva Schestag @evaschestag.bsky.social · 8d

»The tissue of existence in its elemental molecular structure is opaque«

A conversation with David Hinton at Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts, Brattleboro 5/24/25

Mitchell Giddings Fine Arts: A Conversation with David Hinton 5/24/25

YouTube video by Brattleboro Community TV

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 11d

Foraging apples -

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 12d

Das Grundwasser in kleinen Dosen, no wings to the bull innn.it/red-bull-was...

Petition · Unser Wasser gehört uns – Stoppt Red Bull in Brandenburg! · innn.it

Jetzt innn.it-Petition unterschreiben & Ressourcen-Bündnis Baruth unterstützen!

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 13d

Richard Long dives into the Erlenbach ? A perfect Circle, too regular for the kids, too big for just cooling some beer, to early to provide a spawning pit - But what surprise

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 14d

One of the best books on my shelf … diving into posterity, at least the one between pages —/

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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 14d

John Martone

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 16d

Wild honey has a scent - of freedom
Dust - a scent of sunshine
And a girl's mouth - of violets.
But gold - nothing.
Water - like mignonette.
And like apple - love.
But we have learned that
blood smells only of blood.

-Anna Akhamatova, trans. Ilya Kaminsky/Katie Farris
#everynightapoem #shanatova

Georgia O’Keeffe, Apples No. 1, 1920 - two red apples on the edge of a grey table

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 15d

His „Hunger Mountain“ is like a companion to the „Orient“

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 16d

David Hinton wandering the dictionary - breath-space and seed-time, in Orient. Two walks at the edge of the human. Shambhala, 2025

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 19d

Saint Sorlin Glacier
1999 | 2025

Collapse of one of benchmark glacier for mass balance in western Alps! 😱

Set to disappear within less than 20 years! 🔥

📷 Sources
1999 & 2022:
hal.science/hal-04122994...
2014: H. Mansoux
2025: Y. Gong
🙏 @bobopopo67

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Jasmin Schreiber @schreibersnaturarium.de · 17d

Die Kinder, die jetzt aufwachsen, finden es normal, dass Schmetterlinge Tiere sind, die man nur selten sieht. Sie haben vermutlich noch nie eine Feldlerche gehört, wissen nicht, was ein Rebhuhn ist. Über das Phänomen der sich verschiebenden Basislinien.

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Die Natur, die wir vergessen, zu vermissen

🪶 Feldlerchen, Kiebitze, Insekten: Vieles verschwindet, ohne dass wir es merken oder vermissen. Ein Text über schleichenden Verlust und unsere verschobene Wahrnehmung.

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 17d

Tu Mu - translated by David Hinton: „set out for home, no idea where“. Hinton’s new book about hiking in the desert - a meditation about breath-space and seed-time, a cosmological reset

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 17d

Seil de la Baque Glacier

The last glacier in Haute Garonne will disappear within next 5 years! ✝️

It has lost 1 ha during the last two years: 4.5 to 3.5 ha (as of late 2025)! 🔥😲😱

actu.fr/occitanie/ba...

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 17d

In summer the leaves grow so thick, they form a dark shady hollow way, and for long stretches the moss becomes invisible. But as soon as there some gaps in the dense Vegetation, moss is immediately springing back to life

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 17d

Moss at the Erlenbach: in March it has formed a green collar just above the winter’s waterline, sculpting the roots of the trees which grow between the rocks and fortifying the banks. There have been no leaves than, and moss was the only green. Radiant, often with laced with frost by the spray.

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Robin Detje @robindetje.bsky.social · 18d

Ich bin in der Schlusskurve meiner Übersetzung von Kirans großem Roman, und dieses Stück über sie ist sehr schön.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18d

Kiran Desai: ‘I never thought it would happen in the US’

Since winning the Booker prize, the Indian author has spent two decades writing a follow-up. She talks about being longlisted again — and the immigration raids creating fear in her New York neighbourhood

www.theguardian.com

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Lydia Massiah @lydiamassiah.bsky.social · 20d

First Hummingbird Hawk moth I've seen this year. They really are extraordinary little insects that look so much like a hummingbird. This one is feeding on hardy plumbago flowers growing outside the house. Those lovely orange underwings! Beautiful 💙 🤎

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Hans Balmes @hans596.bsky.social · 18d

Each river is a multitude of rivers. This is maybe not the first version, but the lowest of Erlenbach: shallow water all summer - timid life - trouts vanished upstream. Walking through - a solitary dragonfly and some horseflies near the ranch - no Insekts beside water striders skirting cooler pools

Brook under trees, sun illuminating trees from behind

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Jenny (Kowalczuk) Sanders @jennysanders.bsky.social · 19d

Day 3. Kerala snaps to brighten up the timeline. This one is an ode to the beauty of the bicycle + forward motion + fresh produce + human ingenuity.

a man riding a bicycle laden with fresh produce down an empty road in Kerala, India. The sun is overhead and the shadows are small.

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