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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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!
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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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Oh, good luck! and tell us how it goes . . .
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andytobo.bsky.social
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
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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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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!
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sojo.net
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.
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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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vox-magica.bsky.social
i’d do group work with clio! 😍
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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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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 🐍

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Jewish Lore Reactions: Trouble In Paradise Part I
YouTube video by Miriam Anzovin
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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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kinesinmotors.bsky.social
💥 🧪 Nabarun Dasgupta UNC, Chapel Hill - MacArthur Awardee
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oh, just read the whole thread!
minouette.bsky.social
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. ⁠

When WWII broke out her father suggested she find a
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minouette.bsky.social
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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minouette.bsky.social
For #spacetober_challenge day 8 prompt propulsion, my portrait of #mathematician, aeronautical #engineer, philanthropist & Cherokee ‘hidden figure’ of the space race: Mary Golda Ross (1908-2008).⁠ 🧪🐡🧮🔭👩🏻‍🔬 #histsci

Great-great-granddaughter of Chief John Ross, who was forced to lead his people on the
Linocut portrait of Mary Golda Ross looking over her shoulder in a gradient of green (at bottom) to gold (at top) surrounded by vehicles important to her career including P-38 Lighting fighter plane, and Agena rocket, important to Apollo missions in grey.
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gregpriest.bsky.social
Niels Bohr was born on this day in 1885.

“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.”

🧪 🦋🦫 #histSTM #philsci #PhilSky
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Today's Find at MyHaikuPond.com

New Year’s Day—
giving the etch-a-sketch
a good shake

Mary Stevens (USA)

The Heron’s Nest, 23.3, 2021 & Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: Daily Haiku Special, Oct. 8, 2025.

Image: "Sunrise on New Year's Day at Susaki", Utagawa Hiroshige (1853)
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zphx2.bsky.social
Milkweed seeds loosen
only when a strong wind blows –
so they carry far.

HDT ~ October 8, 1851
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tinywords.com

ripples upon ripples
water striders
in the rain

 

-Ben Gaa
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/08/43938/
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sardonicus.eu
“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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freshoutmag.bsky.social
#senryu by long time contributor, Anthony Q. Rabang, of the Philippines. Anthony is a physician with a passion for #poetry. He writes poems as a hobby & as a form of meditation. IG: @bigbangthony #poetrycommunity #tattoo #poetrylovers #sunrise #micropoetry #orchid #phillipines
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saintghost.bsky.social
this season
put a little bowl of milk outside
for stray cats and ghosts

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt
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herbtate5.bsky.social
Thanks, Robin, for including a couple of mine…

smols is an eclectic poetry journal featuring ultra-shorts, five words max. No themes. Submit up to five untitled pieces. Email to [email protected] with smols as your subject.

smolspoetryjournal.blogspot.com?m=1

#haiku #smols
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joelamport.bsky.social
what if
the pathetic fallacy
isn’t a fallacy
after all

what if the marsh grass
feels the same way I do
about sunset

what if the crickets
are full of longing
for the moon

a sympathetic current
runs through
the living world

#poetry