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"Just as a bat’s consciousness is organised around echolocation, a poet’s consciousness lies around linguistic and imagistic resonance—seeing how one thing echoes into another, catching the harmonics between seemingly disparate formations, patterns, and experiences."

"star wars did give us a slur for robots (clankers) but i don’t use it bc i don’t want to have to look a robot in the eye in fifty years and be like 'you don’t understand it was a different time…' " --@frogs4girls.bsky.social

"Human shields, collective punishment, and the use of concentration camps were imported as counterinsurgency techniques from elsewhere in the British Empire and perfected during the three years of the Arab revolt." (via @emotrophywife.bsky.social)

"Promises

Elven promises
Whispered on the wind
Floating like the leaves of two trees
One gold, one silver"

--Rachel Turney via

"I am still a dancer made of song."