www.instagram.com/p/DbnDntCGx0... #SealeyChallenge 3/31 Three Syllables Describing Addiction by Kate Daniels pulls no punches. Another 🌟 from @bullcitypress.com
![Book sits on silver platter etched with little stars.
Cover art is Robert Henry’s painting “Bird & Man II.” Lower half depicts a ground-sitting human figure, bent forward over raised knees, painted in dark silhouette over a red swath of background (suggestive of a plateau?). Upper half depicts a large dark bird perched in profile, facing the same direction as the human, over a pink/beige swath of sky.
In contrasting & complementary colors to the paining & evenly distributed over it in slightly dancing, slightly different sized text:
THREE
SYLLABLES
DESCRIBING
ADDICTION
[smaller] poems
[big again] KATE
DANIELS](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreigyxdgzgy2f6iq2uexxb5wnma5pjlcyg3j2n3hfuwy2oondczj6ym)
![Poem on p 36 of Daniels’s Three Syllables Describing Addiction reads
DRIED FLOWERS: VISION AT A
HALFWAY HOUSE
When the full-flowering blossoms of early spring
Are at their prime, slice them from their stems
While they are still pliable and gorgeous. Before
They murder themselves with their own dark beauty.
Then bind them up in loose bunches, and carry them
Inside to the dry heat of a dark back room where
Televisions run all day, and cigarettes burn
Unheeded in ashtrays. Outside, the unchosen blooms
Have overtaken the garden. They will go on dying
Naturally, and in their time. But here inside,
The chosen few are stored away, instructed to rest
For as long as it will take to achieve the dried-out state
That mimics life and keeps them breathing. Humming
Their tuneless tune: [ital.]Not using. Not using. Not using.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreib25f26fj5yedkeqbtdkjs36jvlqvohdbg3hsvmydc57ulmedlxnq)
www.instagram.com/p/DbmnjQTm_Z... #SealeyChallenge 2/31 Love Works by Janice Mirikitani (Rest in Power, awesome poet & activist), published by the great @citylightsbooks.bsky.social 🌁🌃
![Book sits on wood.
Cover photo (by Alain McLaughlin) is B&W: Mirikitani (a Japanese American woman, w/mid length dark hair, wearing a leather jacket, a watch and a ring on her left wrist & ring-finger), smiling, leans out of a 2nd or 3rd story window over a fire escape above a blurry street scene.
Above the photo, in large white hollow text on a burgundy & black pattern:
LOVE WORKS
Below that, on a black horizontal stripe, in medium text:
[grey]Janice [white]MIRIKITANI
Below the photo, on a wider orange horizontal stripe, inside a thin white rectangle, in small text:
SAN FRANCISCO POET LAUREATE • SERIES No. 2](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreiha4w3lps4z6dcjex2ldppvd5kipbyepy6icdnqphg7l7b2qomleu)
![Poem on pp 70-71 of Love Works reads
THE STORYTELLER
for Brenda Wong Aoki
and Mark Izu
Her voice
a pool of silk
slides over our shoulders
enters our ears.
White crane maiden
weaves feathers
plucked from her heart
into a loom
of words
[ital.]tsu-ka tsu-ka.
A single thread, stained with blood,
is woven
into fables
of greed and love
and who prevails
Who prevails?
Sometimes we
[ital.]fly.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreidvkcvjfm2fgi3zf57kcqb7nmzv7bp72aebohxuuebg4firclnfyi)
www.instagram.com/p/Dbh0SwgGxH... #SealeyChallenge 1/31 We Are Not Where We Are by Matt Donovan & Jenny George A beautiful book from @bullcitypress.com
![Book sits on patterned fabric (blue confetti on white).
The title sits on a sandy white background between 6 vertical slices of a blue & black landscape showing water up to hills up to sky (Rockwell Kent’s painting “Dublin Pond”).
[in large black:]
We Are
Not Where
We Are
[in medium size blue, centered:]
Matt Donovan
&
Jenny George
[in small white italics, inside the central bottom blue painting slice:]
an erasing of
Thoreau’s Walden](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreidj3svy6zoar7ef6r4xkezrxqmtfvznxaeh2zpge5jex3ceupqive)
![Poem on p. 8 of We Are Not Where We Are reads:
[bold:] I would fain say something
—we could not speak low enough
to be heard as when two stones
into calm water break
we are merely breath
all animal
commonly bodily
we cannot
we cannot say
but there was room enough
within the great solitude
into which the rivers empty
chickadees
in the pine the sound of praise
in disguise](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:u2v3xos3vdyjm6ypwksdwi24/bafkreif4wljk4zwmlxr6rkfak35ospu3b74cgziqve4qyad5v4qrg6gxyq)
This is a really good, user friendly list. My 86yo not very tech savvy mom can follow these instructions.
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d agoI work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Princess Bride
Alt: Princess Bride gif in which Prince Humperdink (on horse) says “Surrender.” & Westley (the Man in Black), standing with sword drawn, shoulder bloody, & Buttercup by his side, replies “You wish to surrender to me? Very well, I accept.”
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@Shamlet@shamlet.bsky.social · 7d agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.
Thanks for publishing my poems, Charles! Thanks for the stellar prompt that resulted in “67 Words After Humberto Ak'abal,” @katebbeall.bsky.social 💘
Villain Era 🖤🔪@villaineralit.bsky.social · last wk.Diana Aehegma has sat stopped at a red light, seen full sun beaming blocks ahead, today at Villain Era! 🖤🔪
As one does… www.instagram.com/p/DZtidnxG37...
dianalogbooks on Instagram: "As one does, I … Got home from @fopl_bookmark w/ my 2 books (-1- a signed! How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton & -2- a beauteous …"
As one does, I … Got home from @fopl_bookmark w/ my 2 books (-1- a signed! How to Carry Water by Lucille Clifton & -2- a beauteous triple-dust-jacketed Maps & Legends by @michael.chabon — both steals for under $10🤩), then went to pick up a free No Face stuffie from a Buy Nothing neighbor, walked by the lake (No Face approved) on my way to @miharuicecream (1 free topping or cone w/ purchase on Oakland Works Wednesdays!), & then home. Oh, & @helloberko ‘s late night Wednesday Writing group meets soon online. {Image description}2 photos of No Face plush held up in front of Lake Merritt w/cloudy sky above. In the 1st, No Face is in focus & the background isn’t. In the 2nd, the background’s in focus & No Face isn’t. Could be fun to flip back & forth in quick succession
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@charliejane.bsky.social & @maggietokudahall.bsky.social I doubt you’ll see this but are you 2 (plus other awesomes) doing a LOCUS-awards panel in Downtown Berkeley in like 5 min? (5:30-7p?) I’m at the Hotel Shattuck rn but they claim to know nothing about this. Is it somewhere else?
"thr mst b a fld lv nsd y / tht sn’t brnng. y mst b / lv nsd. mst b a fld brnng" From "there must be a field alive inside you that isn’t burning" by @blukewilson.bsky.social. ➡️ buff.ly/CP9TG75
@katebbeall.bsky.social Thank you for sharing about the Mango Fest! I’ve written & emailed a “brief love letter to mangos“ so that I may be considered for the guest list (I’m thinking it might be pretty competitive) 🥭🧡🤞🏻
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Diana A on Instagram: "A public high school English teacher in Northern CA is making his sophomores (in a regular — not “honors,” not “advanced” — Eng 10 course) learn sentence diagramming. (For those...
0 likes, 0 comments - dianalogbooks on May 22, 2026: "A public high school English teacher in Northern CA is making his sophomores (in a regular — not “honors,” not “advanced” — Eng 10 course) learn s...
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Most AI today is as sentient as ELIZA, the 1960s computer program that convinced users it knew what they were thinking by simply repeating back to them what they had already told it but phrased slightly differently. liacademy.co.uk/the-story-of...
The Story Of ELIZA: The AI That Fooled The World
Discover The Story of ELIZA: The AI That Fooled the World. ELIZA was one of the earliest chatbots, way before ChatGPT and Alexa came along
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My top 15 TV shows ever, by gut (no 🧠-assisting searches): The X-Files Schitt’s Creek 6 Feet Under Flight of the Conchords Pushing Daisies Firefly BtVS Sesame Street Reading Rainbow Mr Rogers Square One (ie, MathNet: Cf #1) Murderbot The Lizzie Bennet Diaries Arrested Development Bojack Horseman**
Maggie Tokuda-Hall@maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 3mo agoName your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only Simpsons Xena Warrior Princess Rupauls Drag Race The Great X Files Deadwood Rome Band of Brothers (s1) Fargo (s2) The terror (s2) GoT excepting last season Ted Lasso (s1) Common Side Effects Are you Afraid of the Dark Top Chef Great Brit Bake Off
A gift of a poem, read aloud for us by 👑@dseuss.bsky.social — www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Althea, it’s waning.
It’s winnowing beneath the billowing clouds.
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This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
Happy World Poetry Day! www.instagram.com/p/DWJjqXcFHn... I was lucky enough to lead curation of the Friends of the @oaklibrary.bsky.social Bookmark Bookstore display (it’ll stay up thru April for National Poetry Month) 📚🥰📝🪶💌
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This www.wasquarterly.com/words/winnin... is great, @katebbeall.bsky.social — thx for sharing in our RIS discussion of Aaron Coleman’s ❤️🔥Red Wilderness (& “American Football” youtu.be/3n4XxXhNlwI — thx @kasylongauthor.bsky.social for linking this)! Thx @pounk.bsky.social for suggesting this book❣️
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The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.
Please sign: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca... My comment as a CSU alum: Please stop paying for a plagiarism & hallucinated-facts machine that exacerbates climate chaos & turns human brains to mush. Pay your faculty & staff (especially lecturers & adjuncts) living wages instead.
Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans.
In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a lar...
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HI! Every Tor Books release from @annaleen.bsky.social and me is available thru @humblebundle.com for a few weeks! Get 2 books for at least $3 Get 4 books for at least $10 Get all our stuff for at least $18 This bundle supports the amazing TGI Justice Project! www.humblebundle.com/books/charli...
Are the people who need to watch the videos not watching the videos? Or are they watching, but believing what the Party tells them to believe (Orwell) over their own eyes? My 🇺🇸♥️ broke a decade+ ago, but now it hurts all the time, & my 🧠 can’t explain anything to my 🫀in a way that either understands
www.instagram.com/p/DPA-Ovcjsx... Arrived home today after volunteering at The Bookmark (used bookshop of Friends of @oaklibrary.bsky.social ) to the best kind of mail from @bullcitypress.com 📚📦 Thanks to @emilydickinson.bsky.social for hosting Matt Donovan & Jenny George during ✨TIS last week🤍
Finished Part 1 of the ED Marathon w/ @emilydickinson.bsky.social today: 2.5 hours of joy (reunited w/ @katebbeall.bsky.social @kasylongauthor.bsky.social @anitaholmes.bsky.social + more) & the kickoff for the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival 2025. Have you registered (for free)? bit.ly/TIS-EDM-2025
Here are the books my beloved RIS reading group (@dianalog.bsky.social @kasylongauthor.bsky.social @pounk.bsky.social @anitaholmes.bsky.social & E.F.) has read in the past year, with Dickinson always in our ears.
The @emilydickinson.bsky.social Museum’s Tell It Slant Festival begins today! A week of hybrid events + a marathon reading of all Dickinson’s poems. bit.ly/TIS-EDM-2025 Come for the poetry, stay for the community: I’ve been running a reading group for a year made up of TIS friends & it’s the best!
Tell It Slant Poetry Festival 2025 ScheduleSeptember 15-21 – Emily Dickinson Museum
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