colour wheel what the hummingbird tastes (haiga - click through to view) -Marianne Paul https://tinywords.com/2025/11/28/49128/

One crisp autumn day, on a whim, I sent some haiku to a few friends via SMS. It started a journey that changed my life. This fall, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of @tinywords.com. Here's more about that story and a haiku workshop I'm leading soon: dylan.tweney.com/haiku-change...

every day more like a crone the carved pumpkin   -Patricia J. Machmiller https://tinywords.com/2025/10/29/44003/

I just wrote 'Collaboration and photography', about a collaboration I was lucky to be able to do this summer with a photographer friend, JP Manninen: dylan.tweney.com/collaboratio...

high surf before the hurricane . . . plovers huddle in the dunes -Hannah Mahoney https://tinywords.com/2025/10/21/43936/

“I’m tired of Google mansplaining to me,” one of my friends said recently. In fact, we can barely open an email, a document, or a search engine without some overeager AI interrupting us with its faux-solicitous recommendations. dylan.tweney.com/its-clippys-...

sleepless above this heat the night sky -martin gottlieb cohen https://tinywords.com/2025/10/02/43842/

There's hope for our future

you and me a log that won’t catch   -Frank Hooven https://tinywords.com/?p=43755

"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."

Just out today: a terrific new album by Meredith Moon, who I know as a banjo player but who is also an amazing guitar player, singer, and songwriter. This is just beautiful meredithmoon.bandcamp.com/album/from-h...

@dylan20.bsky.social embraces the support and wisdom of Dharma teachers as a retreat facilitator www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb... photo by Elan Nguyen #PlumVillage #BelovedCommunity #communitybuilding #sangha

I wrote about co-organizing a Zen and writing retreat, and what I learned from the elder teachers there: www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb...

Last weekend, on a sunny balcony overlooking Monterey Bay, with cocktail chatter in the near background and sea lions barking in the distance, I talked about love with a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces. dylan.tweney.com/what-its-lik...

"Orgy Dome destroyed by storm; organizers vow to rebuild"

Listener poets, an undocumented sun & more w/ @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @dylan20.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @oyoguhito.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...

"One top GEO technique involves using AI to write AI-friendly pages — bots writing for bots." Count me out! This proliferation of bots is the exact opposite of economic, societal, and cognitive efficiency

How I spent my summer: learning how to write poems for people dylan.tweney.com/when-listeni...

Enough is enough. I can't stand by while Gaza starves. We owe it to the people of Gaza - to the hostages - and to our own humanity - to stand against this. #endgazastarvation

From ‘Hush’ (2020) —Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer #poetry #poem #booksky

For #smallpoemsunday, here's one by Joy Harjo, from her book "Poet Warrior"

The Maples – a stunning poem to focus your week www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/16/m...

I'm looking for BlueSky accounts to follow that post only poetry (theirs or others'). The occasional cry of frustration and rage about the news is inevitable, but a few accounts that are ~90% poetry and art in my feed would be nice. Thank you for your recommendations.

I am living and working in paradise. Banjo, disco ball, hammock, sunlight, garden view: all the essentials!

amazingly on point and useful, tbh

The process of attempting to write something and realizing, partway through, that your argument makes no sense is *incredibly* valuable. Writing helps you think through your ideas. ChatGPT will write up nonsensical sludge, and you'll miss your opportunity to change your mind.

Hello, BlueSky. I went out on a limb and wrote about feelings again in my newsletter. dylan.tweney.com/into-the-lab...

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election

My washing machine gave me a DEI error. 🤔

"mediocrity machine" is a good phrase. I often say that AI is good at creating mediocre copy, and if you're happy with mediocre copy, then go for it!

Hands Off San Francisco!

There are trans Americans right now looking out at this world and wondering if anyone is going to stand up for them and for their simple right to exist. Well, I am. We are. We will.

On Transgender Day of Visibility, we celebrate Minnesota’s transgender community and recommit to standing up for our neighbors in the face of hatred. As your Governor, I’m proud to stand in this fight with you.

"This is an extraordinary moment and it requires extraordinary vision and actions. We must stop viewing political life through the lens of American politics as we have known it, and adopt the viewpoint of dissident movements in autocratic states." www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-thi...

"use creative tactics, stay active for long periods of time, and retain public support by eschewing violence even when facing government repression..." www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

found this century-old poster in the Library of Congress gallery of public domain images. seems relevant again today

"Democracies are not normal. Tyranny is the historical norm. If we stopped doing all of the continuous hard work that is needed to maintain our distinctiveness in that regard, we would quickly come into equilibrium with tyranny." --Jeff Bezos, back in 2020

I would wear a hat that says "We are currently clean on OPSEC"

"The most powerful narratives are always 'wrong,' in that they’ve sacrificed completeness for brevity" -- Andy Raskin, in an interview about the power of big stories (just published on my website) dylan.tweney.com/the-art-of-s...

"It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers" - Ms. Cranky Pants, Edna St. Vincent Millay

Every time I see videos or photos of the men abducted to El Salvador and how they're being processed in the prison there, I feel ill. This is not deportation. This is not democratic. This is not American. I deplore this, and I am appalled that my country is doing this.

This one weird trick can make writing so much easier, whether you're a solo writer or collaborating with others. My latest writing advice: dylan.tweney.com/how-the-we-m...

. "I am but a fragment of the universe..." —Helene Mullins One of my all time favourite poems!!! #ForgottenPoets #poetry #poem

Please enjoy this tree I photographed earlier this week

🔬🌎🌊👷‍♀️Hey (GREATER) Bay Area, has your science, climate organization/nonprofit lost funding because of the federal freeze? Would love to hear from you. DM me, email me ([email protected]), of hit me up on signal (EzraRomero.87).

Techdirt is doing great and much needed work here. WIRED too is transcending its role as a tech culture pub to do important reporting on the consolidation of power in DC

I love how tender this is. By Ada Limón.

I wrote about a simple tool that can make writing projects a whole lot easier: The assignment brief. The post includes an assignment template for people who are subscribers to my newsletter (it's free!). dylan.tweney.com/how-to-use-a...

Such an intriguing point: the VC model requires strong narratives (hype) that often overshadow whether a new tech category will actually deliver results