If you are lamenting that media you used to love has now "gone woke," the more likely explanation is that you have become a bad person. This holds true for topics as disparate as Green Day and Sesame Street.

Right! Because that always works. Now, where'd I put that list?

I'm not judging, I wouldn't dare, I live in the UK.

The Burroughs-Warhol Connection Beatdom Books, 2025) by Victor Bockris, including an interview with the author by yours truly, is available now through Amazon. #booksky #williamburroughs #thebeatgeneration #andywarhol

Morning.

Procreation’s poetic proponent, your progeny’s not your posterity and provided no single component to your abiding popularity. Your bloodline flowed but two generations; None in it learned to read your heritage, but you’ve been granted vast venerations beyond the brood that fate forbid you fledge.

If nothing else, the Epstein files prove that people who email too much are dangerous sociopaths.

🌝 In 2020, Thomas Gooch spearheaded the “Declaration of the Rights of the Moon,” aiming to establish legal rights and protections for the Moon. It notes that “wealthy nations and corporations are developing technologies making it possible to mine and otherwise alter the moon.”

Where Chat-Bot Questions End #sonnet Humans are no longer superior by default, at waltzing answers through, yet still remain the truest arbiters of why an outcome finally rings true. We weigh the music, risk the missed advance, choose when a turning must at last be done; (excerpt)

🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 Here is the first known picture of the 19th Century astronomer Richard Carrington – who had the largest geomagnetic storm in history named after him. It was found by our assistant archivist Kate Bond thanks to some brilliant detective work.🕵️‍♀️ 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

TOP-PAID OLIGARCH #tanka Saluting Nazi, this foreign-born invader raids us for contracts with an accent few can place and a brain none can fathom.

PROJECT: PROJECT #tanka You are the victim. Caught red-handed you declare, "It’s all a witch-hunt," tell us, “Don’t believe the lies,” but lying is all you do.

THE BLUE PRELUDE #haiku Collision coming — galaxies hold breath as one and turn faintly blue.

AI Inclusive #haiku Clunky, at first touch, our machines learn our rhythms and grow into style.

QUANTUM MELODY First published by the Ilanot Journal (Fall 2021).

ART AND EMOTION #haiku Strong writing's always reasoned, crafted and polished. Strong language is not.

JEALOUS OF HER FAME #haiku Trump probably paid folks to pan "Melania®", so she wouldn't stray. youtube.com/shorts/opW3O...

TRAPPIST 1 #exoplanets #exomoons #exoworlds

... could explain a lot.

AMBITIOUS WISHES #tanka Concepts of a plan, renderings of monuments, dreams of a ballroom, promises of great riches and expansion of empire.

NOBODY ON CALL #haiku Our democracy badly needs intensive care, but the doctor's out.

FLAIR AND BALLAST #haiku Watching morning news reveals a worse picture than any imagined.

Medieval Artificial Intelligence 😁 By the Italian artist and engineer Amedeo Capelli, creator of handcrafted wooden automata. @stoccafisso_design [IG] #art #inventions #wood #IA #engineering #email #computer

HALF TIME #haiku Looking forward to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show -- it should prove surreal.

LOOK WHAT I FOUND! (a complete science fiction narrative that opens with a #haiku) 1st appeared in The Birdseed -- books, reviews, & stories for the peckish the-birdseed.com/volume-1-iss...

Be Grateful For Service #haiku Patience with service has become a rare virtue -- worth cultivation.

Aphoristically articulating, ( #haiku )

NEITHER GOLD NOR DIAMONDS #haiku The rarest substance in the Universe is wood from trees here on Earth.

Georges Méliès, true to his stage roots, demonstrates no strings in THE MERMAID (1904). While his special effects are justly acclaimed, I think he also deserves credit for being among the first performers to understand how to play to the camera.

with this card you can alter the position of the eyes so that a perceptive observer will read the emotions thus produced

I'll write when I can 1965 • Peter Beard

Thursday mood

HAIBUN WRY I was struck that there are so many restrictions placed on writers submitting work -- even charging reading fees -- but no mention of payment if accepted, no real courtesy to or consideration for their writers. Not counting on it ... Expecting something better When you wait eight months.

EPSTEIN FILES PANIC #haiku #Epstein #Trump To distract from them, ◀️ 🔽 ▶️ 🔃 🔄 Trump’s set to call for world war. 😧 😮 😠 😲 🤮 They must be ugly!

"The greatest difficulty in realising my own ideas forced me to sometimes play the leading role in my films ... I was a star without knowing I was one, since the term did not yet exist." ~ Georges Méliès

Confidence is the most powerful thing a woman can wear. Wishing a wonderful Women's Day to every woman who continues to inspire, uplift, and make a remarkable impact. You are truly incredible.

What is the name of this musical group? (Wrong answers only.)

Researchers have realized, visualized, and theoretically explored coherent wave structures known as discrete solitons in an optically trapped BEC of cesium atoms. These nonlinear waveforms had previously existed only in theories.

Bells theorem dealt a shattering blow to Einstein's position, showing that the conception of reality as consisting of separate parts, joined by local connections, is incompatible with QM. RINGING IN 'BELL' #haiku There is no ‘there’ there; the whole thing is non-local, spooky as that proves.

DESERVING OF TITLE #haiku Having phrased the thought I choose to assign a name (I am not Nippon).

CATCHING ON #haiku When lies are constant, confusion starts to resolve. Soon, fools, too, grow wise.

MIXED IMPLICATION #haiku A poem can think, Rhyme and laugh, at the same time, Tacitly, as well.

CHOSEN PROFESSION #haiku Literature's great! Art uplifts and inspires! Politics can kill.

LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BOX #haiku In the Many Worlds, one Schrödinger's cat survives and will seek revenge.