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"Too old to carry arms and to fight like others..." (via @mitchnobis.bsky.social via @joriegraham.bsky.social)

"The new Defense Secretary says women shouldn’t be in combat. The new Ambassador to Israel says the West Bank and Gaza don’t exist. The new Homeland Security Secretary is a dogkiller. The new SoS had a dick-measuring contest with Trump. Musk—who secretly talks to Putin—has an illegal job.

It’s Day 7" --@sethabramson.bsky.social

Shine.

"I was washing at night out in the yard

I was washing at night out in the yard—
the heavens glowing with rough stars.
A star-beam like salt upon an axe,
the water barrel brimful and cold.

A padlock makes the gate secure,
and conscience gives sternness to the earth—
hard to find a standard anywhere
purer than the truth of new-made cloth.

A star melts in the barrel like salt,
and the ice-cold winter is blacker still,
death is more pure, disaster saltier
and earth more truthful and more terrible."

--By Osip Mandelstam (tr Peter France) via @henryghenrik.bsky.social

Gruel and Piano. (via @vikshirley.bsky.social)