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John P. Murphy
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Science fiction and fantasy writer, author of RED NOISE, THE LIAR, and others. Coffee enthusiast. No idea what Iā€™m doing. johnpmurphy.net
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Listen, itā€™s complete bullshit when weebs say that Japanese donā€™t have pronouns. Let me explain in a way that theyā€™ll understand.

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People donā€™t understand that policies lag. That guy benefitted tremendously from being handed a strong and growing economy, and his own efforts to tank it were delayed and masked by the start of the pandemic.

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Today is National Poetry Day so I'm going to again share my favourite contemporary poem, which is I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense by Danez Smith...

Iā€™M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE

By Danez Smith

O California, donā€™t you know the sun is only a god
if you learn to starve for him? Iā€™m bored with the ocean
I stood at the lip of it, dressed in down, praying for snow
I know, Iā€™m strange, too much light makes me nervous
at least in this land where the trees always bear green.
I know something that doesnā€™t die canā€™t be beautiful.
Have you ever stood on a frozen lake, California?
The sun above you, the snow & stalled seaā€”a field of mirror
all demanding to be the sun too, everything around you
is light & itā€™s gorgeous & if you stay too long it will kill you
& itā€™s so sad, you know? Youā€™re the only warm thing for miles
& the only thing that canā€™t shine.
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Hobbit holes or nothing!

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That's what I thought!

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Haha, I got in trouble once with my PhD advisor, who had suggested decimating a dataset to make it more manageable. She was peeved when I came back having removed 10% rather than half.

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Yeah, early in my career someone had to explain to me, "HR isn't there to protect you. It's to protect the company from you."

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Iā€™m one of those people! Both of them!

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I just think of how proud my parents were when I learned to read, and along comes a perfectly valid English language sentence like thisā€¦

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Is Elon about to meet tree law?

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John P. Murphy
@johnpmurphy.bsky.social
Science fiction and fantasy writer, author of RED NOISE, THE LIAR, and others. Coffee enthusiast. No idea what Iā€™m doing. johnpmurphy.net
111 followers111 following428 posts