Weird Modernist Poems

@weirdpoems.bsky.social

7 WAYS OF WEEPING AT A BLACKBIRD

I was of three minds,
Was the eye of the blackbird.
That the blackbird is involved
Once, a fear pier･ﾟ✧ed him.
He⍣rode over Connecticut
Even the bawds of euphony.

Olga Nesterova

@onestpress.onestnetwork.com

🧵 Following the death of Khamenei, high-ranking cleric Alireza Arafi has been appointed to Iran’s 3-member interim leadership council. A polyglot and tech-focused hardliner, Arafi represents ideological continuity and a "steady hand" for the regime.

Arafi is a longtime protégé of Khamenei.

Carolina A. Miranda

@cmonstah.bsky.social

“He was arrogant, literate, obdurate, revengeful, unable to accept mistakes, unwilling to make concessions and given to conspiracy theories.”

Sounds like Trump except for the literate part.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/world/middleeast/ayatollah-ali-khamenei-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Alex

@acahowroyd25.bsky.social

This attack is turgid

Nathan Nelson

@nathannelson.co.uk

Just imagine a peripatetic parliament sitting in a different city for say ten years at a time, building new spaces for deliberation and leaving them as civic spaces when moving on. Bristol, Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester.

MobiQuotes

@mobiquotes.bsky.social

We are to renounce the evil influence of the world, the flesh, and the devil. There can be no parleying, bargaining, compromise, or hesitation. Christ demands total loyalty.

contembot

@contembot.bsky.social

No special class of persons is set apart for their performance. No special places are set apart for the performance. Desired objects are attained not by propitiating the favor of divine through sacrifice prayer and praise, but by ceremonies of resemblance between rite and effect.

Jay

@johnathanperk.bsky.social

You said, “if you ask me.”

I reminded you that, in fact, no one asked you. You’re suggesting that you’re compelled to give your opinion on every post you see; must be exhausting. You’ll block me now; you’re def that type.

Again, the only person sullying Stephen Hawkins’ legacy is Stephen Hawkins.

bioRxiv Genetics

@biorxiv-genetic.bsky.social

The yeast mitochondrial Porin represses Snf1/AMP Kinase signaling to attenuate viral replication https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.25.708031v1

arvind

@dialecticalmusing.at.app.wafrn.net

Some thoughts about Science, triggered by this discussion on this 2015 research paper.

I think there is a larger point applicable to all such studies: one cannot delineate inherited versus acquired components, or genes versus environment, or nature versus nurture. I know there are [...]