guess it's afternoon leave first footprints in the park sundial under snow #haiku

Randy was that guy in college who read Siddhartha and then decided to wanted to become a mystic. He tried Sufism. Then he dabbled in Kabbalah. Last I heard, he was practicing tantric sex with a dish-faced girl named Pug in a yurt someplace in West Virginia. #vss365 - LAST

"See that ol' moon? She just keeps comin'. This month like last month, year after year. Don't matter what the politicians do. Don't matter what we do to this here Earth. Nothing matters to that ol' moon. That's why I like her. She dependable like your Mama." #vss365 - MATTERS

racing to the ground snowflake falling through warm air must see it coming #haiku

Maybe it's not such a great thing that humans can pass the Mirror Test. We look at our reflections and know they're us. An orca can do that. A magpie. But that flat, flipped image we see isn't what others see. We can't know that view, see us walk in space. #vss365 - REFLECTION

Average electricity cost increase since Jan: Missouri ⬆️ 37% Iowa ⬆️ 30% North Dakota ⬆️ 30% Oklahoma ⬆️ 30% New Jersey ⬆️ 27% Nebraska ⬆️ 25% Montana ⬆️ 25% Wyoming ⬆️ 23% NATIONWIDE ⬆️ 11% Instead of working to lower costs, Trump is boosting power-hungry AI data centers.

gray comforter sky heavy sits the filtered light kiss you as you nap #haiku

The first time my parents went on vacation without me, I was nearly 18. They left me a list of dos-and-don'ts written in longhand on a legal pad. Three pages. The relevant instructions could be pared down to these two essential: 1) don't starve; and 2) don't burn the house down. #vss365 - RELEVANT

golden hour all day lazy sun skirts the treetops noon of long shadows #haiku

I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.

This great thread makes a point I've been trying to convey for years. Calling all data-driven prediction or decision software "AI" is a huge gift to LLM hypemen, who want people to believe, incorrectly, that LLM data centers are crucial for solar forecasting or operating buildings and power grids.

"I see you didn't draw my tattoos." The art class model was walking around on her break, looking at our drawings. She was wearing a pink terricloth robe. "I guess not, but..." "But you made this smaller," she said, pointing at one specific curve. "So, I forgive you." #vss365 - SPECIFIC

like fog in the air dim light of overcast sky up my lamp's Kelvins #haiku

...There's a time for navel-gazing, and there's a time for action. I needed a "meet cute" with my new neighbor. I hadn't yet nailed down a plan when I ran into him in the laundry room as he was fishing my bra out of a broken washer. "Yours?" "Yeah. Hope it wasn't the culprit." #vss365 - ACTION

backyard coyotes we agree to disagree bedtime keep it down #haiku

I needed to draw this picture

I wish we lived in a land where if journalists heard the president call one of their colleges "piggy" or suggest another of their colleagues, who was butchered for what he wrote, in some way had it coming, they would close their laptops, leave as soon as possible, and ask to be reassigned.

knees pop neck crackles these unexpected noises proving I'm alive #haiku

Reality isn't debatable. You can lie with statistics. You can fiddle with the scales of a graph to make data look better or worse. But your freedom of thought isn't a license to refuse to admit when a duck is a duck, not a clever second gunman disguised as a grassy knoll. #vss365 - REALITY

"The key to surviving the holiday is to keep your goals realistic. Thaw the turkey so that it cooks properly. Set aside enough cooked potatoes so the lactose-intolent cousins can make their own mashed potatoes. Two pies for every three people. MAGA uncles eat on the porch." #vss365 - GOAL

rocks amongst the grass surfacing frost-heave legion glacial ghosts disturbed #haiku

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Conspiracy theories are meant to be fun distractions, not facts or philosophies. Fanciful science isn't science. And there's a point where common sense says the simplest answer is most likely true. I don't believe Earth is flat because there's no reason why it would be. #vss365 - SCIENCE

dust bunnies boinking the only explanation their steady advance #haiku

She did not have indescribable beauty. Nor did her face ever launch any number of ships. Hers was not that kind of face nor that kind of beauty. But hers was still a face to sail home to, a beauty to be appreciated in the calm of a late dinner or beneath (or above) you in bed. #vss365 - NUMBER

the 60th bag no less full than the others autumn's killing me #haiku

My favorite creation myth is one where existence begins with thought or dream of a divine being. Something existed. Something pondered and in that pondering something else appeared. It doesn't matter if it was well-intentioned or intentional at all. It happened like a unchecked burp. #vss365 - MYTH

sweet-ass polemic lays waste to winter's approach three geese flying north #haiku

Recording the number of times our eyes met during the day became a bedtime ritual. If the number held steady, then I still hadn't fucked things up. I didn't measure progress. I didn't contemplate even saying hello. This coward's limbo lasted most of spring semester. #vss365 - MEASURE

first snowflake falling my scowl burns it from the sky then thousands follow #haiku

"It's hard to take your literature review section seriously when the first four out of five references were completely fabricated by a large-language model with the common sense of a three-speed kitchen blender. Lie down. I'm going to ask ChatGPT how to remove your spleen." #vss365 - LITERATURE

playing through its pain last leaf falls unenlightened spring's promise broken #haiku

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

FFS, Senate Democrats. Don't cave now! You are in a strong position. Only an idiot surrenders when they're winning. @democrats.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov

The email from Community Standards was formal and vaguely threatening: "We ask that you refrain from language outside of the norm" and "We find that users who write about these topics tend to vanish from both this platform and their homes." Maybe not so vague. #vss365 - LANGUAGE

"Reading their old correspondence was more surprising than he had expected. It didn't take him more than five or six letters to realize just how much he had rewritten their history over the years. He'd made the mistake of thinking of that time as idyllic. It was anything but." #vss365 - HISTORY

pass the hard cider laughing at the Beaver Moon in blanket huddled #haiku

glowering gray sky starling-speckled abandon cold front approaching #haiku

There were holes in Seth's education. Happily, Pia fell into one. #vss365 - EDUCATION

see my neighbor scowl a single leaf dared to fall his blower returns #haiku

if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.

Even the most domestic cat still dreams of his days as a tiger. In truth, he never was a tiger. That was another time, another age, another creature entirely, passing his hunger on to a species that didn't even exist. This cat has evolution's attitude, but not its teeth. #vss365 - DOMESTIC

leaf blowers' refrain cacophany of low hums birds in sad retreat #haiku

We've got you 👍

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

"It's none of my business, but..." "That's a big but." "Your mom." #vss365 - BUSINESS

F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my book I invented Gatsby lifestyle as a cautionary tale The president: At long last, we have created the Gatsby lifestyle from the classic novel The Great Gatsby

"I'm just saying..." "That it's not fair. I heard you." "Well, it isn't." "It's not my fault, Jeff. It's never gonna be even. Once I have one, I'm going to have a couple more." "They're not all yours." "Wait. Are we talking about orgasms or Halloween candy?" #vss365 - HALLOWEEN

Vampirella's suit clings as if it's painted on. Can't check the mirror. #haiku

not in my backyard the suburban coyote isn't asking you #haiku