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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Saturday, 19-Jul-2025 08:23:15 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   ==Unspent Dawns==

   I arrived to you as a harbor battered by its own waves,
   salt‑scored, muttering to gulls that never answered.
   In your quiet courtyard my storms fell silent—
   we planted lemons in the clay and their small roots
   took hold the way forgiveness does: unseen, unhurried.

   I walked the corridors of myself, lantern lifted,
   so the dark could witness me no different
   than the noon‑bright street.
   Each shadow I carried bent to its knees,
   learning the discipline of light.
   I saw the old currents of impulse go quiet,
   not hushed by force but eased by vigilance.

   I traced the geometry of hearts:
   how delicately they tilt toward ruin.
   Still I braced their trembling arches
   with words braided from breath and vow,
   hoisting strangers’ mornings on my shoulders
   though their replies fell cold and unyielding.

   A silence grew intelligent between us—
   naming absences, polishing regret—
   the error named is already softer.
   I studied its chipped syllables like a scholar
   rubbing dust from a shard of amphora,
   footnoting apology upon each fracture
   forging now a lexicon of healing.

   I stood naked before my own pulse,
   counting each weakness the way a diver
   counts breaths before the plunge:
   one for fear, one for pride,
   another for the hot coal of a hasty tongue.
   Yet I did not turn away; the sea was instruction,
   its pressure a promise to surface true.

   And I loved—God, I loved—
   with a rope that had no knots for pulling away.
   I gave breadth, I gave shelter,
   but would not barter the marrow of my tenderness
   for hands careless with its fragility.
   When neglect arrived dressed as devotion,
   I slipped my name from that weave of thorns.

   The horizon blistered, then brightened—
   metal sundered into light.
   I gathered yesterday’s shards,
   turned them until they glittered,
   and stitched them into the lining of the coat I would wear to leave.

   So here is my leaving:
   not a retreating tide, but a river
   reaching its mouth—salty, yes,
   yet opening to a vaster blue.
   I walk, cedar‑scented, luminous with bruise,
   my pockets filled with unspent dawns.
   I call this heartbreak, and I call it victory,
   for I am the man who learned
   to guard the world from his own storms,
   to stand readable as daylight,
   to lift, to care, to cradle, to mend,
   to declare his cracked places,
   to sprint toward the roar in the dark,
   to sharpen his wondering mind,
   and to love without chains—
   while never again accepting iron
   masquerading as a kiss.

   I keep the lemons thriving.
   Their blossoms remind the night air
   that bitterness, too, can flower.

   -- Jeffrey Phillips Freeman

   #Poem #poetry #writing

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   Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Saturday, 14-Dec-2024 13:58:21 JST Mastodon Migration

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   @hacks4pancakes

   Also because different segments are actually in competition to appeal to members, the local authorities are restrained from acting in autocratic and capricious ways. People will just leave.

   So, while a truly distributed system like Mastodon may be more complicated and have more friction for new users, the fact that it has an organic democratic mechanism for moderating community standards over the long run is a huge natural advantage.

   3/n

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   JindrⒶ, your locally Euclidean anarchist (jindra@todon.nl)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 17:29:36 JST JindrⒶ, your locally Euclidean anarchist

   @abolisyonista
   >firing gives better severance than quiting.

   In the article, they write this:
   >Employees are typically given no work-related tasks, but are left with the knowledge that their performance will give managers ammunition to cut severance when they do leave.

   So they are probably under time pressure to actually do something and can't do whatever they want.

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   Paul Chernoff (paulc@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 04:14:23 JST Paul Chernoff

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   @WarnerCrocker I just finished listening to 2 podcasts about Curtis Yarvin, who is influential to the new right. He believes in monarchy and having corporate owned nations and if you don't like a how a nation is run you just leave.

   So yes, Sen. Vance wants to terminate the Constitution.

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   Ramesh #NotGoingBack (rameshgupta@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2024 11:03:06 JST Ramesh #NotGoingBack

   in reply to

   ⬆️ @mathieugotteland

   …Timeline, continued

   Jan 2024: #Blinken tried appeasement and pitched #US as a better security partner for #Africa in place of #Russia’s #Wagner mercenary group

   Feb 2024: #ECOWAS tried appeasement (in vain) ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111987078253232097

   March 2024: After high-level talks with US diplomatic and military officials this week, #Niger practically said #FU to US, and stopped short of saying US forces should leave.

   So, the question now is: Who is begging whom?