Kris Lindbeck
@krislindbeck.bsky.social
Haiku etc.. Also, Jewish Studies, Christianity, Buddhism, art and cool science stuff. Some politics . . .
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Kris Lindbeck
@krislindbeck.bsky.social
· Oct 24
How to Write Bad Haiku
A humorous guide to writing "bad" haiku -- mediocre and boring ones -- whose goal is to help people write and edit haiku better.
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I few years ago I wrote a tongue-in-cheek guide to writing literary haiku called "How to Write Bad Haiku."
It also has a picture of the late great Jabberwok, who was tortoiseshell with white patches, and whom I miss.
Enjoy!
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It also has a picture of the late great Jabberwok, who was tortoiseshell with white patches, and whom I miss.
Enjoy!
discover.hubpages.com/literature/H...
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You guys it is possible for antisemitism to be a real and rising issue *and* for people to be racist/Islamophobic against Mamdani. It’s not an either/or. Please stop dismissing the very credible threat of antisemitism because some people who raise the issue suck.
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
You guys it is possible for antisemitism to be a real and rising issue *and* for people to be racist/Islamophobic against Mamdani. It’s not an either/or. Please stop dismissing the very credible threat of antisemitism because some people who raise the issue suck.
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Chris Hedges: America is a Banana Republic voxpopulisphere.com/2025/11/24/c...
Chris Hedges: America is a Banana Republic
Trump and his family have amassed more than $1.8 billion in cash and gifts from leveraging the presidency — while erecting tawdry monuments to themselves.
voxpopulisphere.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Chris Hedges: America is a Banana Republic voxpopulisphere.com/2025/11/24/c...
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Monday’s #BirdOfTheDayTheme is #warblers— any warbler, else #yelloweyes— any bird with yellow eyes.
My choice is a Great Blue Heron
(Ardea herodias) seen recently at the
6 Mile Cypress Slough Preserve Park
in Ft Meyers, Florida on 10-14-25
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birding #BlueSkyMonday
My choice is a Great Blue Heron
(Ardea herodias) seen recently at the
6 Mile Cypress Slough Preserve Park
in Ft Meyers, Florida on 10-14-25
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birding #BlueSkyMonday
November 24, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Monday’s #BirdOfTheDayTheme is #warblers— any warbler, else #yelloweyes— any bird with yellow eyes.
My choice is a Great Blue Heron
(Ardea herodias) seen recently at the
6 Mile Cypress Slough Preserve Park
in Ft Meyers, Florida on 10-14-25
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birding #BlueSkyMonday
My choice is a Great Blue Heron
(Ardea herodias) seen recently at the
6 Mile Cypress Slough Preserve Park
in Ft Meyers, Florida on 10-14-25
#birds #photography #EastCoastKin #birding #BlueSkyMonday
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November 24, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Saw this kettle of black vultures from my hotel room in Miami.
They always look like they’re on some important business, even when they’re just riding air and vibing. They have CEO energy for no reason.
“We are majestic. We are organized. We are…looking for a dumpster.”
They always look like they’re on some important business, even when they’re just riding air and vibing. They have CEO energy for no reason.
“We are majestic. We are organized. We are…looking for a dumpster.”
November 23, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Saw this kettle of black vultures from my hotel room in Miami.
They always look like they’re on some important business, even when they’re just riding air and vibing. They have CEO energy for no reason.
“We are majestic. We are organized. We are…looking for a dumpster.”
They always look like they’re on some important business, even when they’re just riding air and vibing. They have CEO energy for no reason.
“We are majestic. We are organized. We are…looking for a dumpster.”
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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Deeply honored to have both a #Haiku and a #Senryu included in Issue 40 of #FemkuMag. Every poem in this issue is truly stunning. Thanks so much to Editors Rowan Beckett Minor and Kelly Sargent for including mine.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Deeply honored to have both a #Haiku and a #Senryu included in Issue 40 of #FemkuMag. Every poem in this issue is truly stunning. Thanks so much to Editors Rowan Beckett Minor and Kelly Sargent for including mine.
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late afternoon light
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
late afternoon light
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
out of a coppiced willow
gold bones of winter
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here
a long lost sock
through what mad dimensions has it traveled?
what parallel universes of unimaginable beauty?
i peer suspiciously into my dryer
wondering
if i would fit
a long lost sock
through what mad dimensions has it traveled?
what parallel universes of unimaginable beauty?
i peer suspiciously into my dryer
wondering
if i would fit
November 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
here
a long lost sock
through what mad dimensions has it traveled?
what parallel universes of unimaginable beauty?
i peer suspiciously into my dryer
wondering
if i would fit
a long lost sock
through what mad dimensions has it traveled?
what parallel universes of unimaginable beauty?
i peer suspiciously into my dryer
wondering
if i would fit
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@1010-1010-1010.bsky.social good to see you this evening!
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 AM
@1010-1010-1010.bsky.social good to see you this evening!
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YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 10:12 PM
YOU COME FOR ME LIKE THIS ON MY OWN FEED?!? *attempts to close cupboard over mountain of rustic pottery*
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Buried in this week’s news in the fact that Jessica Tisch is staying on as NYPD commissioner; if Mamdani was truly anti-Semitic, he wouldn’t have extended the offer to stay on
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Buried in this week’s news in the fact that Jessica Tisch is staying on as NYPD commissioner; if Mamdani was truly anti-Semitic, he wouldn’t have extended the offer to stay on
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November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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out of melted snow
a thin light purple of
the herb sprout
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
a thin light purple of
the herb sprout
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
out of melted snow
a thin light purple of
the herb sprout
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
a thin light purple of
the herb sprout
#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1692-1694
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry
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the park maple fades
our children run, collect small
reminders of life -
the wind as crossing guard here,
small leaves scurrying up road
#haikufeels #fade #haiku #tanka #poem #poetry #leaves #autumn #parenting #photography
our children run, collect small
reminders of life -
the wind as crossing guard here,
small leaves scurrying up road
#haikufeels #fade #haiku #tanka #poem #poetry #leaves #autumn #parenting #photography
November 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
the park maple fades
our children run, collect small
reminders of life -
the wind as crossing guard here,
small leaves scurrying up road
#haikufeels #fade #haiku #tanka #poem #poetry #leaves #autumn #parenting #photography
our children run, collect small
reminders of life -
the wind as crossing guard here,
small leaves scurrying up road
#haikufeels #fade #haiku #tanka #poem #poetry #leaves #autumn #parenting #photography
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November 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
Difficult to overstate how profound a failure DOGE was. Spending in FY2025 was not only than in FY2024 – but higher than it was projected to be when Trump first took office.*
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
The little bit of spending DOGE cut has already killed hundreds of thousands and will eventually lead to millions of deaths.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
It remains insane to me that DOGE was treated at the time as an impressive shock and awe accomplishment - “you can’t deny he’s getting stuff done!” - and then instantly memory holed by the press once if became clear it was a total failure by every possible standard including Musk’s own
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November 23, 2025 at 4:06 PM