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Dylan T
@dylan20.bsky.social
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Editor, swimmer, writer, banjo banger, poet, zen AF. Now certified Canadian
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"Orgy Dome destroyed by storm; organizers vow to rebuild"
Screenshot of a headline from the SF Chronicle saying "Burning Man 2025: Orgy Dome destroyed by storm, organizers vow to rebuild." There's a photo of the sun behind the iconic Burning Man sculpture atop the headline.
August 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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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
Photo of me, wearing glasses, holding a post-it note on which is written SAVE GAZA FROM STARVATION
July 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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For #smallpoemsunday, here's one by Joy Harjo, from her book "Poet Warrior"
The Old Ones opened the ears of Girl-Warrior Tempering the frequency before she left On her mission. We are sending you, they said, To learn how to listen. There is good in this world. There is evil. There is no story without one and the other. You will be gravity. You will be feather. Send each story to the heart, Each word before you act or speak.
July 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I am living and working in paradise.

Banjo, disco ball, hammock, sunlight, garden view: all the essentials!
Photo of the corner of a room, with a banjo hanging on the wall, a disco ball hanging in the window, and spots of light from the disco ball on the wall and ceiling. Through the window you can see a garden with a hammock.
May 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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My washing machine gave me a DEI error. 🤔
Photo of a washing machine control panel displaying an LED error code that spells out "dEI"
April 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Hands Off San Francisco!
A crowd of protesters carrying signs at the Hands Off protest in San Francisco, April 5, 2025
April 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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found this century-old poster in the Library of Congress gallery of public domain images. seems relevant again today
An old poster depicting a sleeping woman, wearing a stars-and-stripe bandanna and clad in red, white, and blue garments. The text reads: WAKE UP, AMERICA! CIVILIZATION CALLS EVERY MAN WOMAN AND CHILD!
March 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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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
Generic sunset background against which the words of the quote appear: 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.
March 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Please enjoy this tree I photographed earlier this week
A photograph of a single tree, next to a curving concrete walkway, in front of a broad bay at low tide. The sky is full of windswept clouds
March 13, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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"Children, everybody, here’s what to do during war: In a time of destruction, create something. A poem. A parade. A friendship. A community. A place that is the commons. A school. A vow. A moral principle. One peaceful moment."

Maxine Hong Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace
Image showing the text of the quote used in this post, alongside a partial view of the cover of the book, The Fifth Book of Peace, by Maxine Hong Kingston
February 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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"An example, an analogy, a metaphor -- that's where the best insights come from." -- Nick Adams Pandolfo, a seasoned content creator, talks about getting the best responses out of interview subjects.

Read my interview with Nick for more: dylan.tweney.com/why-empathy-...
Black text on a pale lilac background, reading "An example, an analogy, a metaphor -- that's where the best insights come from."
February 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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"The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do."

Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny
January 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Writing is a tool for discovery, for learning what we really think, and for crafting better stories about who we are.

My latest post is about how getting sick on Christmas day led to a creative breakthrough and a new personal and professional commitment for 2025: dylan.tweney.com/breathwork-t...
Vivid orange sunset over a calm ocean. In the foreground, a person in silhouette sits at a picnic table, working on a laptop. Superimposed over the sky are the words: Writing is a tool for discovery, for learning what we really think, and for crafting better stories about who we are.
January 3, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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one more sunset photo from the mobile office earlier this week
photograph of a vivid sunset over the ocean, with a curving river in the left foreground and two silhouetted people on the beach to the right
December 13, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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Photos of me in my sunset mobile office yesterday, by www.instagram.com/rikaciminier...
photo of Dylan sitting at a clifftop table distant view of a man sitting at a table atop an orange cliff vivid orange sunset with the silhouette of a man at a table with a laptop in the foreground
December 11, 2024 at 4:57 AM
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I got nothing except this sunrise from yesterday. enjoy
Punk-orange clouds over a black skyline of houses and trees
December 7, 2024 at 1:47 AM
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Grateful
Photo of yellow ginkgo trees
November 28, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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Ben Worthen of Message Lab talked to me recently about the power of storytelling and how companies need to stop talking so much about their products, and start telling better stories.

It was a great conversation - read the whole thing here:

dylan.tweney.com/ben-worthen-...
Photo of Ben Worthen, accompanied by the text: A great story, well told, is much more valuable than a 10% off coupon.
November 27, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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Amazing: Sinbad, the Arabian Nights, and Aesop's fables all have sources in the Buddhist canon!?
"In the last century it was pointed out that the Buddhist Jātaka stories, via a Hindu recension under the title of the Pañcatantra, were translated into Persian in the 6th century at the command of the Zoroastrian king Khusru, and in the 8th century into Syriac and Arabic, under the title Kalilag and Damnag. The Persian translation was later translated into Greek, Latin, and Hebrew and was to form the basis of the collections of stories known as Aesop’s Fables (compiled in the 14th century by a Byzantine monk), the stories of Sinbad, and the Arabian Nights." (Andrew Skilton, Concise History of Buddhism)
November 27, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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"Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone"
photo showing the patterned, mottled trunk of a sycamore tree photo showing the patterned, mottled trunk of a sycamore tree
November 26, 2024 at 10:12 PM
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On a rainy and overcast Fall day, this tree was lit up -- as if it contained its own, gentle light source
Photo of a tree covered in orange and red leaves
November 26, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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Mary Oliver, for #smallpoemsunday
PRAYING It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few word together and don't try to make them elaborate, this isn't a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak.
November 24, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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For #smallpoemsunday, here's a little one by George Oppen

ps I hear it's @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 's birthday - happy birthday, Tom!
CARPENTER'S BOAT The new wood as old as carpentry Rounding the far buoy, wild Steel fighting in the sea, carpenter, Carpenter, Carpenter and other things, the monstrous welded seams Plunge and drip in the sea, carpenter, Carpenter, how wild the planet is.
November 24, 2024 at 8:50 PM
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Watched the sunrise with a friend this morning. Across the Bay, an army of fog warriors mustered, silently
Photo of a predawn sky, with pink clouds against deep blue, above orange bands. A line of transmission towers marches into the distance. A strip of water reflects the orange part of the sky
November 24, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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here you go!
November 23, 2024 at 3:40 AM