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Hope Henderson

@hoperhenderson.bsky.social

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writer & scientist 😷 🩷💜💙 🍉 berkeley, california hoperhenderson.com writing in river teeth, electric lit, rumpus, hobart, phoebe, & more scicomm for @innovativegenomics, views my own

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · Sep 8

My story is out! Give it a read!

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · Sep 8

A fiction debut by Hope Henderson (@hoperhenderson.bsky.social), about a scientist couple grappling with their young daughter’s devastating illness, recommended by Willem Marx.

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Illness Is a Tear in the Great Cosmic Pattern - Electric Literature

“Poppy” by Hope Henderson, recommended by Willem Marx for Electric Literature

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Dina L. Relles @dinalrelles.bsky.social · 2d

it’s been a minute since i’ve published anything, so i’m especially grateful that @matchbooklitmag.bsky.social gave this little musing on love + leavings a home.

you can read the full piece here: matchbooklitmag.com/mb/relles/departures

Departures
by Dina L. Relles
handed you the promised coffee with an apology: no sugar, no milk, I’m sorry.

I don’t need those things, you said, and I fell in impossible love with you all over again.

I’d come from my room carrying everything I wanted to happen that didn’t. Now the lobby was too bright and smelled like grapefruits and your face was weary in a way that felt intimate.

You spoke quietly to me in the taxi, then held me twice at the terminal, which I took to mean you loved me too, despite.

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 2d

Was just trying to tidy the house yesterday when all of a sudden this Caroline Bird poem came on the slow down and then of course I was crying

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I think 'so, this is death' and wonder why I can still see through my eyes. An angel approaches with a feedback form asking how I'd rate my life (very good, good, average, bad, very bad) and I intend to tick
'average' followed by a rant then I recall your face like a cartoon treasure chest glowing with gold light, tick 'very good; and in the comment box below I write
'nice job' The angel asks if I enjoyed my stay and I say 'Oh yes, I'd definitely come again' and he gives me a soft look meaning 'that won't be possible but thanks all the same, clicks his pen and vanishes.

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 2d

sold

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 2d

wild flour bakery in sebastapol

Sign reads: got Meyer lemons? We trade bakery credit for Meyer lemons

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 4d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 5d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 5d

yes i think so! 🥲

Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 5d

you want this cookbook @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/cyc...

Lion Dance Cafe Cookbook: "Authentic, not Traditional"

A long-anticipated cookbook featuring 100 flavor-packed meatless recipes by James Beard and Michelin-celebrated Lion Dance Cafe!

www.kickstarter.com

Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 5d

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 6d

Happening now: Hundreds of rabbis and Jewish community members gather in Brooklyn for a mass public memorial service on Yom Kippur, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and for the U.S. to stop arming Israel.

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 6d

A poem for National Poetry Day.

The Tiger. By Nael, age six.

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 6d

Got kids?

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 7d

I donate to @kqednews.kqed.org monthly & I encourage you to donate to NPR or your local station if you are able

NPR @npr.org · 7d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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pumpkin spice Toddé @toddedillard.bsky.social · 7d

“meaning for this moment they acquired souls–“

Louise Glück has so many lines like this in her poems that if you think about it are basically a chef throwing a meat cleaver into a wall (I love them)

Love in Moonlight

Sometimes a man or woman forces his despair
on another person, which is called
baring the heart, alternatively, baring the soul–
meaning for this moment they acquired souls–
outside, a summer evening, a whole world
thrown away on the moon: groups of silver forms
which might be buildings or trees, the narrow garden
where the cat hides, rolling on its back in the dust,
the rose, the coreopsis, and, in the dark, the gold dome of the capitol
converted to an alloy of moonlight, shape
without detail, the myth, the archetype, the soul
filled with fire that is moonlight really, taken
from another source, and briefly
shining as the moon shines: stone or not,
the moon is still that much of a living thing.

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 7d

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 9d

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 7d

I don’t remember Mel Carter sayin that 🧐

Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 7d

note that the main helpful thing covid vaxxes do is keep you out of the hospital + lessen acute symptoms. they are not great for lowering risk of infection, transmission, or long covid. for that, you need to be smart about airborne transmission. fresh air, ventilation + masks are your best tools

Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 7d

novavax is available at many safeways and costcos, friends! the data indicate that it’s more effective against a broader range of covid variants than mrna vaccines + reduced side effects

Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 7d

novavax is available at many safeways and costcos, friends! the data indicate that it’s more effective against a broader range of covid variants than mrna vaccines + reduced side effects

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 8d

W. S. Merwin

Invocation

The day hanging by its feet with a hole
In its voice
And the light running into the sand

Here I am once again with my dry mouth
At the fountain of thistles
Preparing to sing.

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 8d

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i'm chronically online in a different and more sophisticated way than
you are

Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 8d

sam cooke is everything

Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 8d

i thought this was gonna be a link to a book, i need a whole silk shirt collection

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Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol @yoadrianididit.bsky.social · 8d

Just a taste, for the freaks. To get the whole thing, the high-octane desire, the Chicago boosterism, the early 2000s Yeah Yeah Yeahs-inspired masochistic longing... Well, you have to go over to @loverseyepress.bsky.social

lately I need nothing more

than to touch you
to crawl across

this crowded bar

just to hold the hem
of your dress

in my mouth

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Hope Henderson @hoperhenderson.bsky.social · 8d

the @nature.com podcast is lit actually 🧠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Audio long read: How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe even AI

Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.