Just a bit of notice that I’ll be leading a beginners’ in-person #workshop in #haiku #poetry as part of this year’s Intl Litfest in #Dublin, @ilfdublin.bsky.social. It takes place on Sun 17/5 at 3pm and will include a ginko / walk around Merrion Square. (Cost €18/16). ilfdublin.com/whats-on/fes...

Dear Friends, Please send this to your networks. Project Drawdown is offering full-time, paid (with benefits) fellowships to scientists and engineers working on climate solutions in the public interest. Deadline is April 17. drawdown.org/careers/clim...

cold coffee, i don´t escape allegations of infidelity #senryu

If you are required BY LAW to send your child to PUBLIC SCHOOL then lunch should be FREE. Yes, I am aware I will pay for it with my taxes. Yes, I am fine with this.

An employee in a Provincetown grocery store found a Cuban tree frog from Georgia stowed away in a bin of onions. They’ve named him Onion and that’s all the geopolitical news I need today

I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.

The rainfall of Namibia, 🇳🇦 where millions of water lilies bloom all at once

The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it. This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.

I can’t believe that we’re on the brink of nuking Iran because a smart Black man in a tan suit once made fun of a reality tv host.

looking upriver under blue sky

A jar of Nutella just gracefully drifted across the space capsule and if the company doesn’t make this an ad IMMEDIATELY, they are fools.

Beautiful 😍 Banff Alberta Canada 🇨🇦

Breaking news: frog found in pond

During this incredible, unifying moment of inspiring international cooperation and spectacular technological achievement, I would really appreciate it if the US president would stop threatening to murder an entire country with bombs.

This classic Twitter post suggests that knowledge of shark facts will improve your dating life. If that's true, I am here to help! My book "Why Sharks Matter" is all about the world of shark science and conservation, with many cool shark facts. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

⚛️🔭 Hey physics/astronomy science communicators: apply to come to @perimeterinstitute.ca for a workshop in October on how to engage the public in science! Anyone can apply, working in any kind of scicomm (video, audio, text, live performance, whatever it is you do). Check the link for more details!

#haiku the spiders decline to give up the corners

When I imagine fresh bread, it always looks like this, bathed in gold light. Palermo, Sicily photographed 1.27.2025 #haiku #poetry #sicily

Day 46. Easter morning— I write a love poem to friends & family Thank you for taking this poetic Lenten journey with me! Have a blessed #Easter if you celebrate & a good Sunday to all. 🩷🐰✝️🩵🌸🐥 #haiku #Lent #poetry #senryu

A Tufted Titmouse looking cute in a dewdrop shape.

Daughter: What do you call a female Viking? Me: skjaldmær? Daughter: No, mommy (*rolls eyes*). A Viqueen. Me: Ah, I shall add this to my lecture notes. I stand corrected.

Day 45. waiting in the tomb with Jesus the only way out #Lent #HolySaturday #monoku #senryu

human extinction launching their own countdown the birds and the bees #ScifaikuSaturday

round and round the search to me

Day 44. I remember Good Friday veneration of the cross— my Father spinning me in his arms at the altar I remember . . . #Lent #GoodFriday #tanka #Catholic

Haiku by my father: orange carp lost in the reflection red maple leaves - George Klacsanzky #haiku #poetry #poem

Please join us in congratulating these whiptail poets recognized on the THF Long Lists & cheering them on to the next rounds! [haiku, haibun, senryu, touchstone awards, long list, the haiku foundation, poetry award]

#HaikuTip Issa often asked questions of small creatures in his haiku, like: evening lark— which pine island’s good for sleeping? Try writing a haiku that incorporates an asked question, or an implied one like in this poem by Liz Fulton: winter walk half a robin egg at my feet #haiku

Day 43. as we share stories the physical therapist covers my broken foot in massage oil . . . Holy Thursday #Lent #tanka

Day 42. the fallacy of thinking I know more than God— my faith only grows hot house flowers #Lent #tanka #faith

Sending love to my trans friends, family & future friends & family. You are loved. 🩵🩷🤍

Day 41. so near and yet so far . . . salvation #Lent #haiku #senryu

Baby turtle! I helped it get to the pond.

The problem with American politics isn’t ultimately the American people. We have a political system which is not designed to represent us or translate what we want into law. Our system doesn’t respond to our demands or interests—and 8 million people showed up this weekend.

We call them marine PROTECTED areas, but bottom trawlers are still tearing up seabeds. If we want thriving oceans, these areas must be kept off-limits.

G is for Geode. And that's good enough for me.

I got to keep my sister's cat for a few days! The first thing he did is spread on the guest room bed! Made it his own. Adorable! This is Jinx

BREAKING: Huge win for the Endangered Species Act! Today’s ruling restores the Endangered Species Act to the status it held for decades before the *first* Trump administration attacked the ESA.

An incredibly tranquil morning in January on the North Shore of Lake Superior. #sunrise #landscape #Minnesota #PhotographersUnited

This is not the topping I ordered

There was something so strange and beautiful about these wooden planks. They held an eery presence, as if they were people, or spirits, standing with me on the beach, watching the sunrise.

Day 40. I am not ready for so great a mystery— Holy Week #Lent #haiku #senryu

moonlit river~ a rusalka combs her long green hair #UnknownFairyTales

#BlueskyMonday #MountainMonday California poppies with a backdrop of the Sierra Nevada mountains from the Nevada side. #ECK #EasternSierra #CaliforniaPoppy #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling #WestCoastKin

Verrett: They crowned corporate greed. They've crowned systems that decide who gets access and who gets left behind. And somehow try to convince us that it's fair. They've crowned power that operates without any accountability until the rest of us just to deal with their wars

A Tufted Titmouse patiently waiting for a peanut.

Amen! #BookSky

I don’t pull poppy seedlings. This is why.

earlier this month, someone said i was going to fertilize soil, which gave me an idea for a story that i pitched to my editor. check out my mr. porter article on how to dress like a gardener! www.mrporter.com/en-us/journa...