🤬As Texas swelters, Gov. Greg Abbott approved this week a law that will eliminate city and county ordinances like Austin and Dallas’ mandated water breaks. https://t.co/GdWlXuQaZs
Great news and about time -- thanks @SavingPlaces » $3.8M in Action Fund Grants Help Protect 40 African American Historic Sites
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—the ones we dig up and the ones we invent. If we don’t make better stories, the worst of our stories will make us." —@walterspot in @GuernicaMag https://t.co/PSfuQmwxXk h/t @aishasabslo
"People like myths because they know how they end, people like pundits because they claim to know where the chaos is headed. Ultimately we are going to go where our stories go—
Join us on Thurs 11 May to learn more about why birds need dark skies for their successful bi-annual migration and how you can help prevent the death of thousands of birds every year. We look forward to taking your questions during this live event: https://t.co/GrAi346zDr
Day 10: pause and reflection-- why am i doing this?
Because this is the *true* view astronomers now have of space, thanks to @elonmusk . :)
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FOR TWO WEEKS ONLY, my story "Before All This," which appears in @EcotoneMagazine 's gorgeous new Ocean Issue, will be available to read free/online. It's a long one, so get started now! ;) 🌊🦞⛵️ #SummerIsComing
But here, dear readers, we intend
To contemplate the world of trend.
Dissect the egos, greed, and lies
That dazzle fashion’s butterflies.
And then in language full of sass
Strip bare the vain, the mean, the crass.
RIP Michael Roberts
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“These @DollarGeneral stores are put in low-income areas ... so people who are low-income can afford basic things they need. But then the price gouge on people who already don’t have a lot of income ... feels like you’re preying on the weak.” #Retail
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Regarding Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, my uncredited work is in the book. "Solution" is, by the author's own admission, a take on my game Train. She uses the same theme, gameplay patterns, releases the game at the same location (MIT) ... more
“One can never be alone enough when one writes ... there can never be enough silence around one when one writes ... even night is not enough night." —Kafka in @nybooks
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Decades ago when I first met my Chi-guy and our relationship was a long distance commute between SEA and ORD he said something that is still true: "All the spots where we would have rust in Chicago, Seattle has moss"
Love your mossy self Seattle 🌲 Good to be home for #AWP23