Lawrence

Doing the same thing repeatedly and getting different results.

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

In my experience, time doesn't so much pass as stand there judging me and looking like it doesn't know just how to tell me what a fool I've made of myself.

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

I’m not sure my opinion of my opinion is an opinion unless it isn’t my opinion.

[UCity Review Editors @UCityReview]

June 2026 issue (#32) is live! Work by John Grey, Kathryn Weld, Sam Rasnake, Tara Zafft, Donald Illich, Titiana Chaterji, Josh Mahler, Frederich Pollack, Shane Schick, and Marissa Glover. #writeon Our 16th year...

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

Passive-aggressive listening really does sound so much better than eavesdropping.

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https://t.co/9lzvm4C9wF

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

After the 2014 outbreak... the world strengthened systems to catch and contain Ebola outbreaks early. Much of that infrastructure.. has been dismantled... as the United States abdicated its longstanding role as a leader in global health and humanitarian response.
—NYT today

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

@M_BobRyan @SHL0MS Wait! wait! Speaking as an enjoyer of the shadows, what is this annihilating world of pure light you speak of, one in which the forms of beauty and truth move like seraphic trolls, and how do I gain the eyes to see and the feet to transport me from my troglodytic hermitage?

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

Got the new Murderbot Diary, _Platform Decay_. Must… read… slightly… slower… stretch out the high...

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Of all the people I’ve had to live with, I am the most troublesome.

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

"My strategy with banana bread...” is not the opening phrase of a truly ambitious person. It is more likely the phrase that will alert us that Artificial General Intelligence is real and enduring. A lazy, eccentric, banana-bread baking fool AGI.

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

It’s weird to know the people in charge aren’t really in charge of much besides being in charge. Like when a battery is put in a remote control but the battery has no… what’s it called again? Hmmm… darn it! You know, when there’s just no point in even pressing the buttons.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The Black Panther poster circa 1971

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

@M_BobRyan It’s hard to mix glaciers and pizza. Yeah. Only thing worse is provel and pineapples.

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

Don’t be fettling with people who aren’t in a fine fettle, m’kay? Just saying.

[Henri Cole @ColeHenri]

Thank you to @newrepublic and Rowan Ricardo Phillips for publishing this poem in their May issue.

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

Theodore Parker: "I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one […]; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice."

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

I just talked myself into talking myself out of talking to myself.

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

The transitive verb “scramble” seems to have very little middle ground between eggs and fighter jets. There was, however, a 19th century usage for scrambling cash that meant “making it rain”: “Scramble, V., Sense 2.c.” Oxford English Dictionary.

Apropos of something...

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

At the Unmet Gala, the dress code is an actual code that requires that guests wear their minds on their sleeves.

[Lawrence @Spenserian]

As I remember, when I first saw my birth certificate, I smiled and said, “It was an honor just to be nominated.” Not sure if I’m still in the running for the award.