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Adam Houle

@houle.bsky.social

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Poet (STRAY, Lithic Press); poems in Agni, Shenandoah, The Pinch, elsewhere. Husband, asst prof, fan of kindness. A steady deckhand. Editor 12 Mile Review. Darlington, SC.

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“You must not scold a cat…”🤣🤣🤣this lady gets it.

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Hell yea. They tore up the orchards near my parents’ place for a housing development and named the streets after apples.

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Agreed. Twitter did good on that 🤩. More than any of our other animals, Polly’s visibility on the internet meant so much to me. She had such a horrible previous life. To share her good couple years with so many people brought me real joy. You were especially kind and supportive.

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Just one other officer?

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Correct! Though he’s a little slower than he used to be 🐢🐢🐢🐢soooo good luck, kid 😵🤣

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I love that picture🤣💞🤣I remember when you were on the way out at Twitter—strange how that all worked out. The world is both more cozy and more magical at the same time.

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That’s not the hearing admin means 🫠

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His little camping tent! He loved that thing. The true name still rings out here and there, though his tent has been donated to the shelter for their puppy room.

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Oh yes! Definitely a glimmer 🌵

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Bless! Extremely grateful for my time at TTU, of course, BUT! Less grateful for the constant wheezing for money money money for their petroleum engineering programs 🫡😵

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He loves it🤣🤣I’ll have the vet put his alias on file.

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finite time means that what we do with our time has significance by and through its finitude. large language models don't make art or writing that means, because they cannot work with/within the lived knowledge of finite time.

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Landon brought back a dozen or so cactus paddles from TX. We’ve got pots going and recently transplanted new cuttings to the yard. The dragonflies approve.

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I did catch him googling flights to Greece…🤣🤣🤣

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Check these windows out—this is at the old depot down the street. I walk past it every day.

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He’s got some charisma when he wants to use it 🤣

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Access and ease is frightening. NC just legalized online sports books, and every other ad is touting this book or that for this game or that fight. And I don’t even live in NC. I’m in SC, where bookmaking is illegal.

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16. VI. 2024, 18:05 Old, old barn.

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Are those bricks shaped into window frames at the top?

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Of course! 🤣🤣if you look, you’ll see his right paw under his straightened left arm. We’re in a phase of crossed arms around this place.

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For a base? Vanilla > chocolate > strawberry, ranking the grocery store Neapolitan offerings.

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The lord is my spinach farmer. He causeth me not to get shellacked by Brutus

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lol! Woke head shoulders knees and toes (knees and toes)

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It’s a woke ass gun too honestly

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It’s the snake from SpongeBob.

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We’ll see how it goes—Augie rushed the door and was watching out the stormglass but seemed content enough? He might get a few new buddies.

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I kinda love that video isn’t allowed. It reminds me of those restaurants that confiscate phones at the door.

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Boba Fett? Boba Fett? Where?

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“Steadying force” is a more flexible phrase than I thought

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You name it and he’s offended by it. There are kittens living on our porch, V. They are loud, demanding, and unapproachable. The mom has had enough, and we’re now figuring out our next steps to help them. The rabble offends our old boy’s delicate constitution 🤣🤣🤣

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And the brick work! So pretty.

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Love that pigeon waiting in the wing 🤣😶‍🌫️

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Tremble before Good Boy Paws Crossed, Mackerel Tabby of Distinction
#caturday

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Me and my tatterdemalion bros just screwing around behind ye olde 7-11 and trying to get some old head to buy us mead.

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Perfect for dinner after Dot’s Poetry Corner

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What a working class hero he is!

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Zero downside to nibbling that gravel. Future’s looking great!

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I came back to check, Han! 🃏♠️♣️♥️♦️

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Brief and beautiful

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Giving up our willingness of be human on the page, to shape our thoughts, our reflections, our joys, our grievances. Just giving that all over to a data center and saying thanks.

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I bet language and emotion and human heat in ruins is the final goal. Just gibberish pumped out in order to fill in the gaps around ads.

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Doesn’t surprise me one bit. A friend keeps asking: why are we giving ground to this shit? We should fight back loudly and with purpose instead of concession after concession in both our private and professional lives. The way I work and teach? It has zero benefits.

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Dan’s a fan of fans man

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“Both deals also include agreements in which the publications can leverage OpenAI's technology to power new journalism products.” What does this sentence even mean?

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Couldn’t imagine trusting work to the robots. Having seen my friend work so thoughtfully on translations over the years and knowing how carefully you work inspires. The fresh hell of the mush we’re going to see from language models? 🤮

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