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Sam@sammyzorba.bsky.social |
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Words. Books. Quotes. Dogs. Horses. All living creatures. Trees! Photography & Painting. Food. Baseball. Prefer to follow positive, upbeat people.
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Sam
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There's a segment of one of Anthony Bourdain's shows with Jim Harrison. JH quotes Lemontov as saying something like: "Eat or die." Bourdain says "No way!" JH says something like: You have authority in your quotes if you attribute them to someone else.
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Sam
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Didn't Yogi Berra say something similar?
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Sam
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You could say you hold the world together.
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Mike Brown
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Sitting at my desk working and hear a big splash in the pool and I know who it is! I hope he wasn't too freaked out by all of the fireworks last night, poor big buddy.
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Benjamin Dreyer
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I would *open* a cocktail bar named The Cogent Oyster.
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Sam
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Yes! The GOP has systematically, intensely, patiently planned to have the Supreme Court they wanted. And guess what, they started on this project 35 years ago. And Dems did NOTHING. Went along with all other pet issues. Presidential elections #1 issue every time ought to be Supreme Court appointees.
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maura quint
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when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.
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Sam Rasnake
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“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise for the writer, no surprise for the reader. Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”
Robert Frost
#writer
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Sam
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But yes, it's a great travel show, scenery from all over France. And other places.
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Sam
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I would watch but it's no longer on NBC Sports and I don't have access to whatever Peacock is.
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Sam
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And most announcers call them oven mitts.
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Sam Rasnake
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“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow.” Margaret Atwood
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Sam
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Never heard of it before your tweet/post/whatever.
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Sam
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"Inflation" is an abstract concept, an attempt at measurement. Prices are not abstract, and almost all Americans know that prices for everything needed to LIVE in the US are far higher than only 3-4 years ago. (And few if any are falling.) This economic measurement is severely misleading.
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John Rogers
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I was giving an actor friend some advice on writing and I spent 15 minutes explain how I’d just fucked up a script, rewrote, stalled, then finally got it. They had this idea that it was hard because they weren’t good. No, *the process is the art* . We need to share that relentlessly.
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Kim Shumway
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When you see the everyday decency of regular people, it puts the behavior of our "elites" into rather stark relief. (tl;dr 23-year-old juror impaneled on a pandemic nonprofit fraud case is offered $120K in cash and *immediately* turns it in. Wild story, a credit to local reporting. Gift link.)
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Sam
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I've never read any of his for the same reason.
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Vishwam Gurudas Heckert
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"Life is not divisible into the departments of a university, nor is our understanding of life greatly increased by standard research practices, which tend to pull their ‘subject’ matter out of the larger contexts they exist in, to facilitate focused study." Nora Bateson
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Amalas
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As a kid I picked up a library book from my fave series back then. Once I was home and started to read a postcard fell out of the book. It was addressed to me. From my best friend. Who took the same book to her family’s vacation, used the postcard as a bookmark, and forgot to send it.
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Cats of Yore
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Veterinary professional experience very high rates of burnout, depression, and suicide. It you love your vet team, PLEASE let them know. Get out some paper, an envelope, and a stamp to write a thank you note right now. ❤️ www.nomv.org/about/pet-pa...
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bridget epitropakis
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hate to break it to y’all but i make my bed EVERY morning and my life couldn’t be less productive
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Sam
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I've always wondered why there are no flags of artists? The flag of the plumber? The flag of the unaffiliated? Where is the flag of the poet?
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Chuck Wendig
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HAPPY INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORE DAY. Go to your independent bookstore! Do it now! Buy books! Tell the booksellers they are wizards, literal wizards, bibliowizards of the highest order! High-five them lest they turn you into a bookmark for your impudence!
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Being Jeffredo
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"You cannot fight the darkness. You can bring the Light to the darkness but Illumination is never a battle." ~ Paul Selig, The Book of Innocence.
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The New York Times
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Thousands of people who say they were injured by Covid vaccines believe their cases have been ignored. Some scientists fear that patients with real injuries are being denied help and believe that more needs to be done to clarify the possible risks.
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Kevin Koehler
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"Cigna built a computer program that allowed its medical directors to deny certain claims in bulk. The insurer’s doctors spent an average of just 1.2 seconds on each of those cases."
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Gfrancie (Benevolent Siren)
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Pickles are how you show true adoration.
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Sam
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That's funny. I may have to borrow that line.
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Sam
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As one does.
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Porter Square Books
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Having now learned that both libraries & professional wrestling have "jobbers" I'm imagining a professional wrestler called The Librarian who uses an encyclopedic knowledge of wrestling to win matches through finishing moves like The Catalog & the brutal Boolean Stretch
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Nathan K. Hensley
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georgetown is now offering cash incentives for faculty to "further embed AI tools into our educational practices" and it turns out the initiative is funded by a donor who is the head of "disruptive technology" for, wait for it, the world bank
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Jesse Locker
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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Chat couturier, 1927, oil on canvas, 7 5/8 x 9½ in. (19.5 x 24.1 cm.), Private collection
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Van Jackson
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Undersea cable breaks “happen every other day, about 200 times a year. The reason websites continue to load...is because of the thousand or so people living aboard 20-some ships stationed around the world, who race to fix each cable as soon as it breaks.” www.theverge.com/c/24070570/i...
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Sam
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Is it possible that "re-cycling" plastic CAUSES micro plastic particles everywhere?
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Sam
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Morning coffee thoughts: War on drugs - about 40 years now: more drugs than ever War on poverty - decades long: Still much poverty War on cancer - at least half a century: More than ever War on terrorism-decades: Plenty everywhere Perhaps the wars CAUSE more of what is unwanted.
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Sam
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Me too.
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Sam
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Reading is perhaps the most subversive thing we can do. - Percival Everett Someone should tell the young people.
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Sam
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I tell you, we are here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different. - Kurt Vonnegut
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Sam
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Yes, more like that please.
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Sam
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Damn, meant to say don't know what ever would be. Edit, me, edit!
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Sam
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Well if that wasn't a hoot and a holler, don't what ever would be.
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Sam
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I feel really good today. How do I bottle it?
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Sam
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I've been really, REALLY impressed with him for the the last several years.
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Robinson Meyer
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According to the New Yorker newsletter, John McPhee finally experienced his first earthquake today. link.newyorker.com/view/5ee1731...
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Sam
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A lot of the businesses in F'burg were giving out glasses. I'm still a bit hesitant about using them. This article in Scientific American a few days ago tells how to know if the glasses are safe: www.scientificamerican.com/article/ecli...
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Sam
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Dill is the one I would leave out. Almost all the others I'm wild about. Dill is just so/so to me.
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Sam
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Do you have to be a wackadoodle to be an artist? Just asking for my proverbial friend.
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Laura Helmuth
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How to test your eclipse glasses now to make sure they're safe and not dangerous fakes 🧪 🔭 www.scientificamerican.com/article/ecli...
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Sam
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I'm gonna have to take some pictures of mine. Have two right here with really sharp edges that make me wonder, arrowheads? Also a bunch of others that drive Donna a bit batty. What's wrong with a few rocks in the house? For some reason I have no pictures of my rocks.
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Sam
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Yes, I'm forever seeing ones like this and wondering if it's sharpened by people or just came like this. Don't know any expert rock people to ask.
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