Susan Purr

Published poet & storyteller. All poetry copyrighted.

[Susan Purr @SusanPurr]

In case you missed it, here's my author panel book launch event from last week promoting the Fit for the Gods anthology. Please check it out!

https://t.co/nS83DRGaIl

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Getting older taught me that peace is choosing not to argue with people who are committed to misunderstanding you

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You reduce crime by eliminating poverty. The actual reason so called nice neighborhoods have lower crime rates is because people’s basic needs are being met. It is not because of police, alarm systems, or neighborhood associations. Poverty creates crime.

[Covie @covie_93]

The crowd at the White House UFC fight will be one of the most diverse ever. There will be convicted felons, rapists, pedophiles, sex traffickers, domestic abusers and insurrectionists.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The world works because millions of ordinary people keep choosing to be decent when nobody is watching.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

Sometimes all you need is a very specific obituary to brighten your day.

[ravok @ravvokk]

If men had truly loved women, history would tell a different story.

You don't love someone.

while denying them freedom, education, bodily autonomy, and a voice.

[Nate Mook @natemook]

Love this: "Ukrainian soldiers used a "Vampire" drone to evacuate a cat and her five kittens from the frontline. The operation, which the troops dubbed "Operation Meow-Meow," was carried out by pilots from the 118th Separate Mechanized Brigade on June 8." https://t.co/2obrP5djtO

[Tony Posnanski @tonyposnanski]

Booing someone you hate is the most American thing you can do.

I do not care if Jesus Christ himself is singing the national anthem with Moses and Benjamin Franklin. Freedom of speech is literally what makes America great.

So fuck off.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[Donhammed Trumpistan @TheRealDon85]

I'd send my daughter into a bathroom full of trans women before I sent her in one with a Republican

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

If you live in a country that sends poor people to jail for using drugs, but doesn't send rich people to jail for raping kids, you live in a shit hole country.

[Old Man Lefty @OldManLefty1]

Since Trump..

Ebola is back.
Whooping cough is back.
Measles is back.
Inflation is back.
Screw worm is back.
High gas prices is back.
Low wages is back.
Bigotry is back.
Hate is back.
Blatant lying is back.
Corruption is back.

I just want life under a sane president back..

[Angie Rivers ~ Nasty Canadian Woman. @shesrideordie]

Unlearn that shit.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

A truly intelligent species wouldn’t poison its own drinking water, strip away its topsoil, drive wildlife populations into decline, and create chronic illness through the very food system it depends on.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Cactuscali19912 Stephen Miller is an ugly fuck.