Alfred Lee

Senior copywriter and UX writer. National spoken word champion in NZ. Stationery enthusiast.

[The Disrespected Trucker @DisrespectedThe]

I can't believe my ears. Wait a minute. Yes I can.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

This is for all the healers everywhere. 🕯️

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Exactly 25 years ago, I was curled in a psych ward, with no hope and no voice. Today, one of my best friends knew I'd be reliving that day, so she made this collection for me of what reviewers have said about my writing, and honestly I'm brought to tears.

I rarely share stuff like this, or even look too much at reviews, and I hope it doesn't seem prideful; I'm just feeling so grateful to be alive and to have people who support me in my mad, wild hope that I might find words to help others on their way.

Joseph Fasano

"A poet brave enough to return poetry to its troubled and eternal origins. This is the poet I trust to see the world as it is, quietly writhing around us, like Kafka and Rilke before him."
—Dorothea Lasky

"Fasano makes pain almost bearable with the beauty of his language, the wild leaps of his metaphors. His is a strong and original voice."
—Linda Pastan

"In writing clearly and evocatively about the human experience, Fasano has invited us all inside."
—Maggie Smith

"Fasano is a writer of special bravery."
—Ilya Kaminsky

"I am in awe."
—Andrés Cerpa

"Beautiful, harrowing, precise."
—Publishers Weekly

"Fasano...is a poet for the living, for life."
—The Massachusetts Review

"Elemental and eloquent in their quest for heart-truths, Joseph Fasano's lucid poems have the beauty of a questing imagination, alert and aware on its journey through this world."
—Gregory Orr

"Joseph Fasano is a visionary poet. His poems illuminate our tattered world and make it sing."
—Deborah Landau

"If you've ever felt the power of Rumi, Mary Oliver, Audre Lorde, David Whyte, or John O'Donohue's poetry, you'll understand that the time for Joseph Fasano is now."
—Laura Simms

[Alfred Lee @alfredmlee]

@ErikVoorhees There's no bigger socialist constantly asking for a handout than billionaires. Tesla and SpaceX only exist because they were allowed to repeatedly fail while being subsidized by taxpayer money. Find a better analogy Erik

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Our new LLM.

Available now.

[fawn 💌 @fawnn404]

The promise of colonialism has always been the same: surrender your dignity, abandon your dead, betray your people, and in return we’ll let you participate in your own subjugation. What an offer.

[The Protagonist @protagonist_xig]

THIS is what the court deemed ACCEPTABLE.

THIS.

India is a hellhole for WOMEN.

[Yashraj Akashi (YSA) @yashrajakashi]

I hope the internet does its magic and makes the kid go places where he deserves to go. God bless him!

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

A force of nature, an artist whose work will keep inspiring generations. Go well Marjane!

[California Typewriter @caltypefilm]

Tom Hanks stopped by Berkeley Typewriter today to talk typewriters with Ken and Joe and picked up a nice Royal! #tomhanks #typewriter

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Now that Gaza lies in ruins—shattered, like a beloved face after a long brutality—Israel moves with a terrible confidence to the next act: The act of leaving every soul there not merely wounded, but permanently disabled. Injured, sick, hungry, homeless, without work, without hope. This is not war’s collateral damage. This is design.

As my friend Gideon Levy writes—and he knows, he knows—this is the prelude to expulsion. Think of it: a society without teachers, without doctors, without social workers, without engineers, without clerks. That is not a society. That is a holding pen. A slow erasure. And when nothing functions—no school, no hospital, no office, no heart—then it becomes ‘easy,’ they tell themselves, to scatter the people to the four corners of the earth. Like seeds from a broken pod, except no soil will take them.

We must name this. Not with rage alone, though rage is honest. But with the cold, clear tears of recognition: they are making life impossible so that departure becomes the only ‘choice.’ And the world watches, adjusts its spectacles, and calls for restraint. Restraint! There is no restraint in a slow drowning.

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

“Outdated business built a bot, A-I-A-I-O(bsolete).” 🐄🐖🐓🚜🤖

[Jake Capitalism @podsekalnikov]

This isn't a research paper. You didn't do any research.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

"In practice...technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise it, finance it, regulate it, and use it."

—Leo XIV

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

[Andy Molitor @AndyMSFW]

(sound on)

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[Sr. Theresa Aletheia @pursuedbytruth]

This line 😭— “For an algorithm, an error is a flaw to be corrected; for a person, however, an error can be a catalyst for profound change.” — Pope Leo, #Magnificahumanitas

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW

A website is DOCUMENTING Israel’s crimes with GEOLOCATION, dates, categories of crimes, and footage of the incidents themselves.

One click and you can see EXACTLY what Israel did.

An enormous digital archive built for ACCOUNTABILITY.

Link: https://t.co/TWKgXJ41NC

Direct Link: https://t.co/qWkrhx1FT7

[Meghna Pant @MeghnaPant]

Giribala Singh isn’t your evil-saas prototype from old TV serials, stirring kheer and plotting in the kitchen. She is the upgraded 21st century version: English-speaking. Educated. Respected. Legally aware. Powerful. Her violence is no longer loud. It is strategic. Documented. Sanitised. And that’s what makes marriage terrifying for young women today.