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Always great to read @wsc.co.uk, but when @petegreensolo.com's written something for it, you just have to skip to the paper shop for a copy
OK ya'll, we have it: Body cam footage of the Texas Cybertruck driver who intentionally drove the vehicle into a lake to test the Tesla's "wade mode" feature. It got stuck. He got arrested.
“Obviously I wasn’t thinking at all."
Read now: www.404media.co/heres-the-bo...
The only way this wouldn't sound utterly self-degrading and unhinged would be if you replaced "President Trump" with "my cat"
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Buying poetry books, reading them, having them lying around ready to dive back into even for a quick moment, having them calling us from our shelves and our bedside table - that's a gift. Poets and poetry publishers are doing God's work
Beware: humans are taking over traditional AI
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Anyone else crazy excited about the #Artemis launch?
In other news, here's a poem from my @saltpublishing.com collection The Meanwhile Sites, set in December 1972. While the Apollo 17 crew prepare to come home from the Moon, a village mourns its doomed railway.
petegreensolo.com/2023/04/16/p...
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Here's an alternative that's worth a mention, anyway, poets
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If you're looking for emotional, melodic, ambient, space-themed #electronica this #BandcampFriday, look no further 😌🚀🌙
The first release from my new solo project Mariner 9 captures the amazing moments when #ArtemisII passed beyond the far side of the Moon ⬇️
mariner9.bandcamp.com/track/we-lov...
After reading this newest essay of mine, one of my readers said via email, "This is probably the best article I've ever read advocating for UBI. And one of the best you've ever written."
If you haven't read it yet, please do. Maybe you will feel the same way. 🎲
www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...
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⬇️ This includes my piece on Mansfield v Lincoln - featuring flags, pub chat, tactical cramp, a relaxing lilac kit, and a social media kid creating fantasy scorelines - order a copy!
Acting AG Todd Blanche: "I love working for President Trump. It's the greatest honor of a lifetime. And if President Trump chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I'll say, 'Thank you very much, I love you, sir.'"
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Not to poet-post, but one of the problems of the internet is that it's fuelled a culture in which people "love poetry" but never actually pay for it - consuming fragments posted online instead of immersing themselves in full collections - then being surprised when poets ask to be paid for their work
