Wyrd by Word (also @[email protected])

Word lover, mangler, investigator, gamer. Armchair etymologist. Punctuation revivalist. Cruciverbalist. Writer(ish). Descriptivist. @[email protected]

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@JackSkelley Are you the Jack Skelley with a group of poems in the 1985 book _Poetry Loves Poetry: An Anthology of Los Angeles Poets_?

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@kausmickey Why no more Parrot Rooms?

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Sent out the 100th #poem to the Daily(ish) Poem list today, with a fitting entry by Elizabeth Alexander. "Poetry / is where we are ourselves [...] are we not of interest to each other?" → https://t.co/fP7TyjSlvw #poem #mailinglist

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@mpaldridge Amazing that Cowen escapes the wrath faced by other ChatGPT fraudsters

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Why would anyone run to be US team coach against Donaldson if they don’t think they can win? Isn’t that why you all in @chicken_chess just said it was fine for Firouzja to quit?

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@ChesscomLive @GmNaroditsky He should have managed his tournament time better and not quit.

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Why does @FressinetL hate lichess so much?

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Schmidt

#poetry #poem #tinypoems (2/2)

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**Abundance**

in memory of Mary Oliver

It’s impossible to be lonely
when you’re zesting an orange.
Scrape the soft rind once
and the whole room
fills with fruit.
Look around: you have
more than enough.
Always have.
You just didn’t notice
until now.

---Amy (1/2)

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stats), and B) the platform I am using (ButtonDown) is run by a fantastic developer, so I can avoid getting bogged down in rolling my own system. Oh, and C) the lists have open RSS feeds as well. (2/2)

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There is something so freeing about my new #poetry and #commonplace #prose #newsletters because A) I am assiduously avoiding looking at any stats from the start (when my prior lists got large---by my standards, there were less than 2000 for the largest---I got seduced by (1/2)

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@stellaphone @NYTGames And apologists are already emerging.

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@evanpostlandia @stellaphone @NYTGames The mistake is people assuming the NYT cares about them. Or games.

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@lordbabypants @NYTGames Yep. Too many good crosswords out there to stick with the NYT when they stick it to us.

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@AmyAEtc @NYTGames They should rename them crypticles and acrosticles and then crow about their innovation.

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@NYTGames You not only won't blackmail me into a print sub, but you are losing two Games subscribers in the process. Not that you care. What a farce.

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#thenewyorker
https://t.co/skuHauUhzw (3/3)

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My partner & I’ve been doing The New Yorker crossword (digital edition) for a couple of years now & it’s interesting how our perceptions of the crossword setters change. We have sworn & sulked at the name Natan Last on too many occasions because (1/3)

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when he sets the ‘challenging’ puzzle we know it’s gonna take an entire evening. And yet… now we’re smarter with it, I gotta take my hat off to him. He devises some cracking questions. I wish they also did a big weekend puzzle. #crossword (2/3)

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