Dylan T
@dylan20.bsky.social
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Editor, swimmer, writer, banjo banger, poet, zen AF. Now certified Canadian
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tinywords.com
7 days ago
colour wheel what the hummingbird tastes (haiga - click through to view) -Marianne Paul
https://tinywords.com/2025/11/28/49128/
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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...
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Haiku changed my life – dylan tweney
https://dylan.tweney.com/haiku-changed-my-life/
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tinywords.com
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every day more like a crone the carved pumpkin -Patricia J. Machmiller
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/29/44003/
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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...
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Collaboration and photography – dylan tweney
https://dylan.tweney.com/collaboration-and-photography/
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tinywords.com
about 1 month ago
high surf before the hurricane . . . plovers huddle in the dunes -Hannah Mahoney
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/21/43936/
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“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.
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It’s Clippy’s world now – dylan tweney
https://dylan.tweney.com/its-clippys-world-now/
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tinywords.com
2 months ago
sleepless above this heat the night sky -martin gottlieb cohen
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/02/43842/
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There's hope for our future
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tinywords.com
2 months ago
you and me a log that won’t catch -Frank Hooven
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Elizabeth S.
2 months ago
"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."
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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
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From Here To The Sea, by Meredith Moon
11 track album
https://meredithmoon.bandcamp.com/album/from-here-to-the-sea
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The Mindfulness Bell
3 months ago
@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
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Becoming an “Elder in Training” – The Mindfulness Bell
D. F. Tweney embraces the support and wisdom of Dharma teachers as a retreat facilitator
https://www.parallax.org/mindfulnessbell/article/becoming-an-elder-in-training/
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I wrote about co-organizing a Zen and writing retreat, and what I learned from the elder teachers there:
www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb...
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Becoming an “Elder in Training” – The Mindfulness Bell
D. F. Tweney embraces the support and wisdom of Dharma teachers as a retreat facilitator
https://www.parallax.org/mindfulnessbell/article/becoming-an-elder-in-training/
3 months ago
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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.
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What it's like to attend a Renaissance Weekend
Everything is up for discussion: tech, business, science, democracy, and love
https://dylan.tweney.com/what-its-like-to-attend-a-renaissance-weekend/
3 months ago
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"Orgy Dome destroyed by storm; organizers vow to rebuild"
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Dave Bonta
3 months ago
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
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www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 34
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
https://www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poetry-blog-digest-2025-week-34/
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"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
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3 months ago
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How I spent my summer: learning how to write poems for people
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When listening and poetry collide
the spark of connection, the alchemy of hearts and minds meeting
https://dylan.tweney.com/when-listening-and-poetry-collide/
3 months ago
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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
4 months ago
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Forgotten Poets
5 months ago
From ‘Hush’ (2020) —Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
#poetry
#poem
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For
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, here's one by Joy Harjo, from her book "Poet Warrior"
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Maria Popova
5 months ago
The Maples – a stunning poem to focus your week
www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/16/m...
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How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”
“Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in one of the most sobering opening pages in literature.…
https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/16/marie-howe-the-maples/
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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.
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I am living and working in paradise. Banjo, disco ball, hammock, sunlight, garden view: all the essentials!
6 months ago
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amazingly on point and useful, tbh
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7 months ago
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Cait 🐸
7 months ago
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.
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Hello, BlueSky. I went out on a limb and wrote about feelings again in my newsletter.
dylan.tweney.com/into-the-lab...
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Into the labyrinth
Sometimes it's okay not to know what's going on.
https://dylan.tweney.com/into-the-labyrinth/
7 months ago
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Gabino Iglesias
7 months ago
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.
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Thor Benson
7 months ago
Trump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election
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My washing machine gave me a DEI error. 🤔
8 months ago
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"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!
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8 months ago
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Hands Off San Francisco!
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Governor JB Pritzker
8 months ago
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.
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Governor Tim Walz
8 months ago
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.
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"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...
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How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-think-and-act-like-a-dissident-in-trumps-america
8 months ago
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Rachel Maddow
8 months ago
"use creative tactics, stay active for long periods of time, and retain public support by eschewing violence even when facing government repression..."
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How to Save a Democracy
Americans can learn from opponents of authoritarianism elsewhere.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-save-democracy-trump
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found this century-old poster in the Library of Congress gallery of public domain images. seems relevant again today
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"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
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I would wear a hat that says "We are currently clean on OPSEC"
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"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)
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Andy Raskin on the art of strategic narrative
Most companies' pitches talk about why their solution is the best. But the really successful founders are doing something different.
https://dylan.tweney.com/the-art-of-strategic-narrative-a-conversation-with-andy-raskin-2/
8 months ago
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"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
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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.
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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...
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How the WE model can help you write better
The simplest, most effective way I know of to make writing work better, whether you're a solo writer or working with collaborators.
https://dylan.tweney.com/how-the-we-model-can-help-you-write-better/
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Forgotten Poets
9 months ago
. "I am but a fragment of the universe..." —Helene Mullins One of my all time favourite poems!!!
#ForgottenPoets
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Please enjoy this tree I photographed earlier this week
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Ezra David Romero
9 months ago
🔬🌎🌊👷♀️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]
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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
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Nikita Gill
9 months ago
I love how tender this is. By Ada Limón.
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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!).
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How to use assignment briefs to simplify writing projects
A good assignment brief will help create alignment between you and the people requesting writing from you -- saving everyone time and reducing stress.
https://dylan.tweney.com/how-to-use-an-assignment-brief/
10 months ago
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Such an intriguing point: the VC model requires strong narratives (hype) that often overshadow whether a new tech category will actually deliver results
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