@jeffreywindsor

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Poet, writer, and critic.

Poetry and the outdoors goes together like donuts and chocolate milk.

@dave It helps if you put it in all caps, too. PATHETIC.
@ryansingel This is wrong even if they ever target non-citizens. Detaining anyone for publishing an Op Ed is tyranny.

I’m not saying that these links are guaranteed to be better than scrolling through social media, but I would be willing to wager on it.

If I’m wrong, let me know and I’ll do better next time. And maybe buy you an ice cream cone.

https://luckywords.substack.com/p/link-roundup-for-march-7-2025

Link Roundup for March 7, 2025

A game, a race, a rule, a tournament, and a quote

Lucky Words

I know your days are precious

on this earth.

But what are you trying

to be free of?

The living? The miraculous

task of it?

Love is for the ones who love the work. https://poets.org/poem/student-who-used-ai-write-paper

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work.

Poets.org
I am annoyed (and surprised) that "smurf" is not a legal word in the Wordle dictionary. I've seen the 1980s cartoon, and so I know that "smurf" is a valid rood for a verb, noun, adverb, and adjective.
@shauna I've never bothered to vote before, but the $700 I spent last year at least enables me to monkey wrench up these anti-union selections.
@williamlmiller I like that. It's like a section-hike of the Appalachian Trail: just plug away a chunk at a time. Eventually you make it through the whole thing. Good idea!

The less I read the news and the more I read books, the happier I get. So I guess I should be grateful to the daily horrors from the White House, because they're dramatically motivating me to spend a lot of time in fiction.

Currently reading: Walker Percy's *The Moviegoer*

@VisualStuart

Unfortunately this is about 400 years too late for Old English. I do love me some Chaucer, but he's the MVP of *Middle* English.

@williamlmiller It wasn't the size so much as the style. I think I first tried to read GED in the early 90s in my early 20s, and while I loved the idea, it was Hofstadter's writing that turned me off. And again every five years or so.

Maybe it's time to give it another go...