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learning to be more giving || pagod, pero pinipiling lumaban

[🐝 @contraBEEda]

"I'm not sick of you. At all."

https://t.co/3pseTv16mE

(@maiherras & I process emotionally-devastating shows with poetry)

[Jason Tandon @jasontandon_]

"How astonishing it is that language can almost mean..."

—Jack Gilbert

[The GUIDON @TheGUIDON]

UNIVERSITY UPDATE: After today’s reconciliation meeting between the Ateneo Employees and Workers Union (AEWU) and the University administration, the University announces that it plans to shift operations online should the AEWU strike push through.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Today's Poetry Thread: FATHERS

Here's @GabrielleBates with a stunner. Feel free to add poems.

[🐝 @contraBEEda]

queen shit

[Lori Berenberg @loriberenberg]

re-branding “not knowing how to drive” into “climate activism”

[Frog and Toad Bot @FrogandToadbot]

“I am happy. I am very happy. This morning when I woke up I felt good because the sun was shining. I felt good because I was a frog. And I felt good because I have you as a friend. I wanted to be alone. I wanted to think about how fine everything is.”

[Anton Hur @AntonHur]

Note that the FIRST thing Bora Chung used her Booker shortlist clout for was to SUE the university she used to work for so they would be incentivized to pay more adjuncts severance fees. Even if she wins, all her money goes to her lawyer; she did it for future Yonsei adjuncts.

[Reports From Unknown Places @clever_reports]

We report: in the face of sunsets, barometers and thermometers and anemometers, astrolabes, hygrometers and wind vanes really cannot do much. How do you measure the impression that colours and lights leave on the spectator of a particularly compelling sunset?

[Kyle 🌱 @KylePlantEmoji]

"the secret scientists don't want you to know!!" Dude have you ever met a single scientist? My scientist friends are desperate for me to know about the changing mating habits of Brown marmorated stink bugs. They're screaming at the top of their lungs to tell you EVERYTHING.

[Reports From Unknown Places @clever_reports]

We report, today, that after all this time, we really do not know all that much about clouds. We wonder if this cloud will keep its shape for long enough that our expert, in the next town over, will see it the way we saw it. We wonder if this is something we can share with them.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Today's poetry thread: EMPATHY

This is the real magic. 🤍 Feel free to add poems.

[Thijs Niks @thijsniks]

Amsterdam airport police running after hundreds of climate activists blocking private jets while on bicycles is objectively funny https://t.co/nhiVnblHGg

[Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz @aldo369369369]

A PhD student with too many projects 😅

[The Elegy Project @TheElegyProject]

Anne Carson's essay "Stillness" ends in this astonishing way (🧵/4) (Critical Inquiry, Autumn 2021)

"There are many stillnesses we didn’t get around to in this essay—snow; fog; moonlight; chastity; the gerundive; Odysseus tied to the mast while sailing past the Sirens

[Japanese Breakfast @Jbrekkie]

Jürgen from Great British Bake Off played trombone w us in London 😭 he also made us matcha white chocolate shortbread!!!!

[tia @cursedhive]

she ate this cover i fear. and had i been the arctic monkeys i would’ve sued her for everything she had