We all agree that Dubai chocolate thing was engineered to distract from their crimes right

That night we looked at the stars & called it an #experiment in knowing how small how far how empty & yet how full #vss365

"Fill in your eyebrows using some product with a stupid name. Pray to any god you still worship that the bushy-brow trend ends soon. In the meantime, try to stop critiquing the young women with caterpillars on top of their eyes."

These people are, not to put too fine a point on it, nuts.

Find me where the sunset hangs her brilliance with a #flourish on gathering clouds and slips into sea #blueskyrelay

Children map by wonders. They know each tree a Wood Sprite lives in, know every chimney that's home to a Soot Sprite. Field to forest, hight street to industrial estate, they hold an inner chart of strangeness. To remember those maps is to be re-enchanted. – Joanna Vickers, 1982 #VOH

Every day the muscles in my legs tell me they are #inadequate, they are not up to the task. Every day I tell them they will learn, they will grow, they will remember how it feels to fly #emoetry

Flagging that both Mike Johnson and Tom Emmer have now referred to the No Kings protest scheduled for 10/18 as a "hate America rally." Both singled out the one planned for DC - Johnson said it'll feature "pro-Hamas" people and "antifa," and Emmer said it'll appease the "terrorist wing" of the party

Trace a path along the tilt of the earth find your #verve chasing magnetic north share how it feels to be an albatross following those invisible lines through fog never losing your way #vss365

Ha! I love this headline in TIME.

“Nature is no longer the rustic retreat of the Wordsworthian poet. … [it] is now a pressing political question, a question of survival.” Working my way through this collection of stirring, thoughtful poems put together by Poetry Foundation #writingcommunity www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/...

Just want to remind everyone that little moments of joy are so important right now. For instance, my cat does not understand the human concept of kisses beyond Incoming Nose = Love. So every time she’s happy, she’ll smush her face or shove her nose into ours. Please share your joys with us.

Every morning a new spiderweb, gossamer, woven; my arms ache from clearing them. The spiders cackle in their corner when I ask for a #respite. They know how to build a web. #blueskyrelay

Q: Are you planning to invoke the Insurrection Act? TRUMP: Well, it's been invoked before. If you look at Chicago -- Chicago is a great city where's a lot of crime and if the governor can't do the job, we'll do that job.

We are in that part of autumn where the wish to hurry home before dark becomes more pronounced and yet we can't fully articulate just why this is so. The redundant lamplighter phantoms come earlier and earlier. As does our unease in certain places. This season pokes with fingers of fear. – #DAKilroy

The raindrops #accumulate into a puddle, a pond, a lake. Now we are underwater, playacting that we have gills and dreading the day when we will have to reckon with what the water leaves behind #vss365

I've never seen the moon balanced so neatly on a branch. A snowy owl poised to swoop across an empty sky #fromoneline

STEPHANOPOULOS: Hold on a second. Answer the question. As Speaker, do you believe it's appropriate to use American cities as training grounds for the military, calling those people 'the enemy within'? JOHNSON: I'm not comment on your characterization of what the president said. S: Those are quotes

Important information from the Richard Scarry book I picked up at the charity shop

I wanted to make a bird for you to fly off with into the smooth clean line of the horizon, but these days all I have is muted light and fog that #blur the line between what is here and what isn't #vss365

How to #create a dream Take a picture of the sky Lay it on the floor Step onto a cloud Float above it all #blueskyrelay

The good news is that we have high-tech alien medbeds that can cure all illness and injury The bad news is that they assume the user is a hyper-intelligent car-sized mollusk and they’ll rearrange your body to live in the atmospheric ocean of a distant gas giant

Swirling sakura petals: spring's #pastel #caprice #vss365 #blueskyrelay

These days I am fascinated by wave formation; the blue-gray sea roiling up in frantic arches only to come booming down, Sisyphus unable to escape, dredging a few #nasty bits from the deep: glops of seaweed; a rack of stark, unforgiving bone; an empty home, picked clean #emoetry

"So I find myself often having to put devices away, ... and really start noticing the strangeness of the world. But it’s not just in nature. Human beings are bizarre. Our existence is bizarre." Loving this short interview with Ada Limón #writingcommunity www.nvdaily.com/associated_p...

The subtext of this whole Tylenol thing is "if the mother doesn't suffer enough pain, she must be punished," right?

I am a palm tree in the summer doldrums wishing for a #brisk fall breeze to shake up my fronds #blueskyrelay

The right (and some on the left) want you to believe that it's all over, that it's too late to save this country. It's not. There are more of us than there are of them. If we work together, we will stop them. We will fight and we will win!

These days not even a Sunday made of silk pajamas could smooth the new day jitters #emoetry

I don’t know whether I should laugh or cry, but this really pisses me off.

I think I will give my story to a fish, just for a little while, & #perhaps he will show it to the world in the flash of his scales: red, orange, gold lightning beneath the waves. #vss365

Bad headline: "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel off air ‘indefinitely’ over Charlie Kirk comments" Good headline: "ABC bows to government pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel off air ‘indefinitely’" Kimmel did not criticize Kirk. He said his death was being exploited and implied the killer was pro MAGA

I think the moon has forgotton the word for cold-light In the silver of new beginnings an egret flies from the #swamp #blueskyrelay

Goldenrod season brings the sun into our wild yard & for two weeks we are #famous #emoetry 📷 of my inspiration this afternoon

Bow down to the madness and let them #conspire like smoke, twisting on the wind in strange new shapes, strangling the sky and singing the evening with a scent that lingers into morning #vss365

Statistical fact? Lunacy’s in the DSM now? Is that an RFK initiative, I guess?

What the fuck??? How is lightly criticizing CKs hate speech an instant pink slip, but openly suggesting we JUST MURDER THE HOMELESS completely ignored?

Here's my quick #PoemsAbout #Candlelight — not sure what this one means, really, but these words suddenly came out last night. Love reading all the great poems from this community!

"Some may be concerned about the optics of a giant inflatable ghost hovering outside a hospital. Does it send the wrong message? Maybe. But when weighed against the message of 'We’re shutting down, and the closest emergency room is 178 miles away,' Casper here doesn’t seem so bad."

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

sweet & sour hides behind the #wrapper I do not know which bite I will get #vss365

Thought I'd try making a small photo of beach finds organized by color, inspired by @silverpebble2.bsky.social. Then my kid got involved and it spiraled into chaos. But it got him looking closely at the colors, patterns, and textures, so I think it was a success! & we have a new hobby

ICE'S MASS RAID AT HYUNDAI'S GEORGIA PLANT IS CRUELTY. CAGING HUNDREDS OF IMMIGRANT WORKERS DOESN'T MAKE US SAFER; IT EXPOSES THE MORAL BANKRUPTCY OF OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM. STAND UP FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, DIGNITY AND SOLIDARITY. ABOLISH ICE AND FIGHT FOR JUSTICE. ✊🏽 #HYUNDAIRAID #ABOLISHICE

A few decades late on this, but The Medusa and the Snail (Lewis Thomas) is a gem I'm sure the science has not all held up to the passage of time—the writing remains poetic and lovely, even in supremely weird passages #booksky #writingcommunity

Can you tell the crows to stop their #rabid caws; my ears are full of sirens winding, wounded, wailing #emoetry

Minutes ago, the Texas Senate passed HB7, which will incentivize people to bring $100,000 lawsuits against anyone who makes, sends, or transports abortion medication in Texas. In a guest essay, Kaitlyn Kash begs Gov. Greg Abbott not to sign it. #txlege thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/03/i...

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Time #eludes us To the #limestone cliffs we have not even scratched the surface of living Let the sunset borrow their escarpment to play out the last drama of the day I will be glad to see it #vss365 #blueskyrelay

And another #smallpoemsunday Letters, Ilya Kaminsky (from You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World)