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@camilags
I've just collected Snapoetry #1 by @arjantupan and other poets. It is a collective poem that was inspired by the surrealist Cadavre Exquis exercise that I was doing on @alfafrens last year. It turned out beautifully.
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@ernestkou
joined my first writing competition!!
https://open.substack.com/pub/ernestkou/p/unfinished-crosswords?r=wz21x&utm_medium=ios
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@cameron
I may have stumbled across a boy word
Can you sound off in the replies if you know what a HUD is without looking it up?
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@kenny
"the internet is unmatched at allowing humans to share information, (but) it's fallen drastically short at the economics of coordinating action... permissionless, free-form, global bounties, are unlocking a whole new thing that's never been possible"
some Sunday words
https://words.poidh.xyz/in-defense-of-bounties
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@hamedns
When people talk about sacrifice,
campaigns begin
Crowds gather
Volunteers step forward
Help arrives
But imagine a situation
where it is truly a matter of life and death
At that point,
the conversation moves beyond sacrifice
It becomes something els.
An altruistic love
that expects nothing in return.
Like a firefighter
thinking of nothing but saving a stranger's life.
Like the nurses
who stood their ground during the pandemic.
Like the love parents carry
for their children.
When the excitement fades,
look around
See who remained for you
And ask yourself
for whom did you remain?
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@hamedns
There was a time when I dreamed of converting a van into a camper and traveling the world.
From a distance, it seemed idyllic.
Then I bought a van.
Built it.
Traveled in it.
It was beautiful.
It was freeing.
And it was far more difficult than I had imagined.
There was also a time when I dreamed of living in a forest.
In my mind, it was peaceful.
Quiet.
Without worries.
A few days of camping taught me otherwise.
I think we often fall in love with images we create in our minds.
Images never show the maintenance.
The discomfort.
The hidden costs.
Living something is different from imagining it.
The same is true for relationships.
For work.
For almost everything.
Lately, I've been thinking about this while building mini apps.
Starting a project you love is hard.
Keeping it alive is even harder.
The daily costs, the updates, the fixes, the constant improvements
most of that remains invisible to everyone except the person carrying it.
Maybe that's why so many things look idyllic from afar.
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@kenny
my thoughts on the aftermath of Pump bounties
https://words.poidh.xyz/in-defense-of-bounties
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@eirrann.eth
"A message that refuses to come together might be telling us not to send it. A draft that keeps collapsing might be revealing a conceptual dead end. A paragraph that sounds wrong might be wrong because the underlying idea is wrong.
Any serious writer knows this.
But friction is not always wisdom. Sometimes friction is anxiety. Sometimes it is ADHD. Sometimes it is exhaustion. Sometimes it is trauma. Sometimes it is the accumulated cognitive load of trying to perform competence across too many simultaneous roles with too little time and too little margin."
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@lonewick
Two short articles from a few years ago: 'Everything Matters' and 'Something I Love About Artists'
https://lonewick.substack.com/p/everything-matters
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@duodomusica
We move with integrity—letting it guide us through every note, every choice, and every step as we build something that truly feels like us ✨
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@starl3xx.eth
“The best piece of writing advice is to be self-referential.” — The Best Piece of Writing Advice
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@ic
“I am not sure”
* Each letter appears exactly once. So kind of saying a lot, when not sure.
* Corrolary: Hard to compress this sequence of characters. We cannot even remove the spaces without losing information. ZIP for example will tell 0% compression and return a bigger file (because of format headers).
* “I am sure” also cannot be compressed, but says less too.
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@ilyat
On Shelf Life
A Due Diligence into Reading
We rented an apartment in Baku. The first thing we noticed when we walked in was the bookshelf. The second was that the books were fake...
https://open.substack.com/pub/ontravel/p/on-shelf-life?r=if28l&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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