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From @chowleen Twitter stream:

Which is the least unreliable
among fickle things --
the swift rapids,
a flowing river,
or this human world?

Izumi Shikibu (976-1030)
twitter.com/chowleen/status/14

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Real men do not inflict themselves on other people's decisions about family planning.

Real men go and get a vasectomy so that they do not contribute to the problem, and then real men shut the fuck about it, except to endorse a woman's right to choose.

That's what real men do.

One of today's Twitter gems:
@rebeca6169: “You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
― Samuel Beckett
twitter.com/rebeca6169/status/

Today's Twitter gem: George Szirtes - @george_szirtes:

Down where the wolves live,
in a pocket of the wood,
inside the lining

of an anecdote
furnished with footnotes,
the child is sleeping.

He remains safe there
while the wolves are listening
to their own stories

of children in woods.

Dr. Elizabeth Sawin - @bethsawin: Proposal that climate policy be put in the hands of people who aren't scared to be afraid.
twitter.com/bethsawin/status/1

Today's Tweet: Alison Williams - @therealalisonw: why does daylight always need saving? girl get help

A second Twitter gem:
Paul Holdengraber - @holdengraber: "Writing is also not talking. It is keeping quiet. It is howling without noise."
~ Marguerite Duras,
from, “Writing” /thanks to @zarandillo

Today's Twitter gem:
Samuel Beckett - @samuelbbeckett: Are we very late, Mr Tyler? I have not the courage to look at my watch.

Tonight’s Twitter gem: @MelissaFloBix: Every time I get a gray hair I remember that one of my stem cells is like, “the working conditions here are awful and I am done.” And I respect that, from a labor perspective.

Today's Twitter gem:
Chuck Wendig - @ChuckWendig: Inside you are two wolves. One has Generalized Anxiety Disorder and the other has Adult ADHD. The one who wins is oh wait I’m just receiving word that they’re teaming up. They’re a team now. So that’s happening.

twitter.com/ChuckWendig/status

12 October Twitter gem:
@InadeBree: ‘The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility.’ - Eugenio Montale

twitter.com/InadeBree/status/1

Tonight's Twitter gem:
@AriaAber: "mysticism is the anti-babel. it is a search for a common language, after language has been shattered. it is the invention of a 'language of angels', because that of man has been disseminated." ––michel de certeau

twitter.com/AriaAber/status/14

Tonight’s Twitter gem:

'I walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.'
~ J. L. Borges
@holdengraber with thanks to @berfrois
twitter.com/holdengraber/statu

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Men, please be an ally and help us to change our language regarding male perpetuated violence. ♀️

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