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Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · 7d

Oof… this short read packs a punch.

Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social · 7d

Heartbreaking flash essay by Helen Collins Sitler via @short-reads.org. 💔 www.short-reads.org/i-want-a-do-...

I Want a Do-Over

by Helen Collins Sitler | The limits of change.

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Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · 14d

Good thread worth checking out.

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · 14d

“The world might set on fire
but here it has not yet.
The grills are lit–come
& eat with us. Come to
our table without handcuffs.”

Sean Thomas Dougherty @seanthomasd.bsky.social · 14d

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Sean Thomas Dougherty | BoomerLitMag

Before CurfewTo answer you--finches, wrens,robins & sparrows, and crows join,rustling their wings, arguingon a telephone line. A blue housecacophonous with a cook-outand all that issummer music. A chi...

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Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · 16d

Definitely felt that one.

San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 16d

JUST IN: An earthquake of magnitude 4.6 jolted the San Francisco area awake shortly before 3 a.m. on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

4.6 earthquake centered in Berkeley jolts Bay Area

An earthquake has struck the S.F. Bay Area, centered near Berkeley. A sharp jolt was widely felt.

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · Jul 31

Every edition of @thesunmagazine.bsky.social has something that breaks & mends me. It is a thrill to share something of mine there. Now go get a subscription!

A Good House

Two days before our family moved into a boxy, modern, three-bedroom home—our first house, forty miles outside Boston and across the highway from the poetically named Long-Sought-For Pond—the painters ...

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Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks for sharing this - was a great read. Reminds me so much of my first house - including the cut panty hose over the dryer vent that vented into the garage. 🤦‍♂️

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Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · Jul 18

Torn between evening coming on nice & slow and the headlights doing 50 in a 35

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Isaac Pickell @isaacpickell.bsky.social · Jul 16

"Before you go"

for Andrea Gibson

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Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · Jul 14

Remembering and celebrating the poet Andrea Gibson today. Rest in peace.

“I know most people try hard / to do good and find out too late / they should have tried softer.”

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Andrea Gibson - The Year of No Grudges (Official Video)

YouTube video by Andrea Gibson

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Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · Jun 25

Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · Jun 14

Yip yip yip yip. #NoKings #SanFrancisco

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Matt Uhler @matt-uhler.bsky.social · Jun 14

What more proof do we need that the liberals control the weather 😉

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Steve Edwards @the-big-quiet.bsky.social · Jun 12

The heart paints as fast as it can—remember, remember, hold this fast—but there’s no catching up, no getting it back, no going home. One breath after the next, we are home. Inside our transformations. Inside our stories.