This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

After Bob Weir died I heard the crickets playing long into the night #haiku #senryu #poetry

starlings electric whistle cold weather forecast chance of snow elsewhere #DailyHaikuPrompt (snow) #ThingsToWriteAbout (whistle)

Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

when you are petting a cat and the purr descends in register from “love it” to the louder slower “oh hell yes now that’s the stuff” purr, that is a blessing in this world

And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my lone and level sandes And you may saye to yourselfe These are not my vast and trunklesse legges of stone

冬空も 年を曇りで 切り裂かぬ Fuyuzora mo Toshi wo kumori de Kirisakanu Neither does the winter sky Cut apart the year With clouds #Haiku #Poetry #俳句 #詩 #DailyHaikuPrompt : clear sky #Haikufeels : #year

#haikufeels bare trees line the creek lone farm sleeps in the vast field so white, this new year

after the last page— the light reminds me to rest #haiku #haikupoem #prompt #haikupoetry #poetry #poem #haikufeels (year) #blueskypoet #blueskypoetry #dailyhaikuprompt #vss365 #vssdaily #senryu #haikuwriter

staring, still moon in a clear sky this old year #DailyHaikuPrompt #HaikuFeels #haiku #poetry #WolfMoon

oh north wind a hedgerow robin sings cold rhymes #DailyHaikuPrompt (hay) (hay is a longago word for hedge, apparently)

It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes. Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.

The shorteste daye The longest nighte Welcome, sun Welcome, lighte

The 1997 film Wag the Dog is 100% timely right now. Strong recommend.

Fink of woodlice, Beach Crow tells me. Curled up beneath old leaves. They celebrate midwinter wiv Queen Deepdream Chigglepea. Who doesn't bring 'em presents, but ancestral memories. Of sweet drifty weightlessness far under long lost seas. #whistpr 2/10

old winter coat the ghost of Christmas past in its pocket #DailyHaikuPrompt (winter)

in inky darkness thoughts simmer, rising wisps fade a tired writer’s plight #haikufeels / simmer #poetry #WritingCommunity #.⋆☾⋇: ̗̀ꨄ︎𖡼࣪ ִֶ

#haikufeels lost at the window as eggs simmer past soft boil I ponder fresh snow

tall poppy sharply trimmed for mother’s vase I wonder what it feels like to let the wild wind carry me #tanka #poetry #haiku #emoetry #senryu

mountain in the fog its outline almost a thought half seen, yet enough #haikufeels #haiku

owl and moon our midnight riddles solved by dawn #DailyHaikuPrompt (moon)

wishing on strange stars for a planet we would love into a new world secret mapmakers we whisper like withered reeds naming our rivers sometimes dream hikers over the boulders down scree in the cargo bay 👾 #SciFaikuSaturday (world) #DailyHaikuPrompt (w'd reeds) #inkMine (scree)

Anxiety. Walk on wet sand, compacted enough to support your weight, a line of footprints behind you. Sense of self firm as the name engraved on a dog tag. Then the sand is water logged, striding feet consumed. What castle to build of this, what name to make out on the gleaming tag? #PoemsAbout

river at first light herons in the reeds keep watch morning’s hush unbroken #haikufeels #haiku

daytime turns to dusk vibrant orange sunset fades dark patiently waits #haikufeels

river speaks in loops braiding light around the stones forgetting no one #haikufeels #haiku

pines on the ridgeline speak in long unhurried sways old green dialect #haikufeels #haiku

#1141 Crush One innocent crush ferments into poetry, the vintner’s reserve #Haikufeels #crush #haiku #senryu #poem #writing #writingcommunity #certifiedsommelier

#HaikuFeels #haiku spring rain— each drop a vote for the buried seed

Souls cast their ballots— in dreams, before the mind wakes. Tally illusions. #HaikuFeels - Vote #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #Poem #SkyPoet #3Lines #MicroPoem

The sky keeps no throne Stars scatter their ancient fire Each heart lights its own #HaikuFeels #Vote #prompt

I voted for peace, Took the tiny pencil home, Wrote a small poem. #haikufeels vote

blank page waiting its perfect snowfall quiet before the first word #haikufeels #haiku

cold moon on still roofs leaves drift #apart in silence one finds my window #haikufeels #haiku #poetry #prompt #writingprompt

deep in the forest silence wears the sound of rain like an old garment #haikufeels #haiku

#997 Writhe Self-control at work On Halloween door duty sugar cravings writhe #haikufeels #writhe

sparrow song seeps through the fog - rainy morning #haikufeels

Blue sky, ghost of moon empty branches remember how light used to feel #Haiku #Senryu #Moon #Sky #Trees #Nature #Poetry #Haiga #Photography #Micropoetry #Skyscape #ImageAndVerse

a splinter of thought buried in my waking mind festers into dream #haikufeels #haiku

A white #veil is drawn, The cold revenant stands still; Silence, amplified. 👻 🕯️ #HaikuFeels #DailyPrompt #PoetrySky #ThreeLines #MicroPoem #Revenant #Gothic #HorrorPoem #Horrorku #Shrouded #Stillness #Haunted #UnveilingDread

Summer stumbled, slowed September sighed and settled Suddenly, Fall fell #haikufeels

thin smoke at dusk fall writes in blue-gray cursive along the hedgerow #haikufeels #haiku

A family of gods— their curses, their monsters— the inner journey. #HaikuFeels - Family #Haiku #Senryu #Poetry #Poem #SkyPoet #BlueskyPoetry

Axons braid themselves, threads weaving gods from clay- a loom of voices. #poetry #haiku

trip over my own words only to land flat on the page once again #haikufeels #haiku

#haikufeels patient blue heron beak poised in the morning mist the minnow’s ripple