jacklmthewhaaa.bsky.social
@jacklmthewhaaa.bsky.social
I want the chance to watch the wild flowers grow
And to stay somewhere long enough to see the snow on the mountain tops melt into spring
To be there raw, present
To feel the gratitude of simply being alive and that being just enough
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‘HOPE IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS,’ EMILY DICKINSON
famously wrote, and that often leads to pictures of doves sitting quietly and looking sweet, but what if hope is an albatross that can soar for years without stopping, or an osprey that can haul a thrashing salmon out of rough waters?
February 5, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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That’s before I reckon with the ethics of using a thing for ghost efficiency that is pretty societally devastating.

And on a final personal note, I don’t want to become stupid before my time. I really don’t. I will keep mucking about so that I can keep mucking about, for as long as possible.
November 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t."

haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
October 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”
October 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Ok - so I'm going to do a real context+write up but for now, here's what some of these things look like.

To start my data reference is DCinbox which is ~208,000 official e-newsletters over the past 15 years.
August 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education

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August 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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We have an exclusive piece from Bernice King as the government releases MLK assassination files

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/b...
Bernice King Speaks Out as the Government Releases Files About Her Father, Martin Luther King Jr.
The declassification of a new round of MLK records conjures her mother Coretta’s words: “They keep trying to assassinate your father over and over again.”
www.vanityfair.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Happy birthday to the prophetess Octavia Butler. We live in the times she foretold. From her notebooks.
June 22, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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The interesting thing about people dragging the folks in that NYT piece who said that they didn’t vote for moms to get deported is that the article is about how these women are organizing for a member of their community, aggressively and openly, and actually, that’s good.
June 1, 2025 at 2:58 PM