Andrea Gibson passed. 😔

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"Love Letter From the Afterlife" by Andrea Gibson

My love, I was so wrong. Dying is the opposite of leaving. When I left my body, I did not go away. That portal of light was not a portal to elsewhere, but a portal to here. I am more here than I ever was before. I am more with you than I ever could have imagined.

So close you look past me when wondering where I am. It’s Ok. I know that to be human is to be farsighted. But feel me now, walking the chambers of your heart, pressing my palms to the soft walls of your living. Why did no one tell us that to die is to be reincarnated in those we love while they are still alive?

Ask me the altitude of heaven, and I will answer, “How tall are you?”

My love, I want to sing it through the rafters of your bones, Dying is the opposite of leaving. I want to echo it through the corridor of your temples, I am more with you than I ever was before.
Do you understand?

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jul/15/andrea-gibson-poet-and-subject-of-documentary-come-see-me-in-the-good-light-dies-aged-49?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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ESA’s Biomass satellite deploying its 12 meter antenna

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Folks in England, you can reply to the government consultation on land use. This is an important opportunity to advocate for rewilding, increasing transparency into land ownership, banning destructive practices like driven grouse shooting and burning moors, and more.

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Far Right and Far Left Surge in German Elections

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New #rstats pkg chores on CRAN!

chores is an extensible collection of LLM assistants for R to help you with repetitive, hard-to-automate tasks.

Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/chores/