Alex Z
@alexzoubine.bsky.social
Writer, Author, Poet | First Reader @ The Colored Lens | Story Reviewer | Dog lover | Analytics Aficionado
Summer was here so fleetingly...
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Summer was here so fleetingly...
You have not lived until you've heard Anthony Hopkins reading The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock
#poem #bookSky #poetry #writingCommunity #amreading #read #reader
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNs...
#poem #bookSky #poetry #writingCommunity #amreading #read #reader
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNs...
The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock. T.S. Eliot. Read by Anthony Hopkins
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November 14, 2025 at 4:51 AM
You have not lived until you've heard Anthony Hopkins reading The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock
#poem #bookSky #poetry #writingCommunity #amreading #read #reader
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNs...
#poem #bookSky #poetry #writingCommunity #amreading #read #reader
m.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNs...
Finally hung the batik tapestry I bought as a Peace Corps volunteer
Reminds of the places I've been, the beautiful people that I've met
Reminds of the places I've been, the beautiful people that I've met
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Finally hung the batik tapestry I bought as a Peace Corps volunteer
Reminds of the places I've been, the beautiful people that I've met
Reminds of the places I've been, the beautiful people that I've met
"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
- Virginia Woolf
#bookSky #writingCommunity #poet #poetry #literature #read #amWriting
- Virginia Woolf
#bookSky #writingCommunity #poet #poetry #literature #read #amWriting
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
- Virginia Woolf
#bookSky #writingCommunity #poet #poetry #literature #read #amWriting
- Virginia Woolf
#bookSky #writingCommunity #poet #poetry #literature #read #amWriting
How deeply screwed up is it that most Americans don't get to choose the company that provides their health insurance
You know - only one of the most important services in any person's life...
You know - only one of the most important services in any person's life...
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
How deeply screwed up is it that most Americans don't get to choose the company that provides their health insurance
You know - only one of the most important services in any person's life...
You know - only one of the most important services in any person's life...
Gosh
Being productive is tiring
No wonder it's easier to just be lazy. Sheesh
Being productive is tiring
No wonder it's easier to just be lazy. Sheesh
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Gosh
Being productive is tiring
No wonder it's easier to just be lazy. Sheesh
Being productive is tiring
No wonder it's easier to just be lazy. Sheesh
Genuinely puzzled by the name of this product
Is it Play-Doh that's scented like butter? Or butter scented l Iike Play-Doh
Bad either way, I suppose...
Is it Play-Doh that's scented like butter? Or butter scented l Iike Play-Doh
Bad either way, I suppose...
this looks like food! bad food, like if Tillamook cream cheese went to Glamour Shots
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Genuinely puzzled by the name of this product
Is it Play-Doh that's scented like butter? Or butter scented l Iike Play-Doh
Bad either way, I suppose...
Is it Play-Doh that's scented like butter? Or butter scented l Iike Play-Doh
Bad either way, I suppose...
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Me waiting for Stranger Things 5 be like
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Me waiting for Stranger Things 5 be like
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Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
November 10, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- harris@slate.com or dm me.
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!
Trying to start my morning/week asking myself at every step: does this have to be done now?
If not now, when should I return to this?
My brain apparently operates on a now/not now principle. When I try to do everything now... I end up either overwhelmed or not focusing on the right things 🤷♂️
If not now, when should I return to this?
My brain apparently operates on a now/not now principle. When I try to do everything now... I end up either overwhelmed or not focusing on the right things 🤷♂️
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Trying to start my morning/week asking myself at every step: does this have to be done now?
If not now, when should I return to this?
My brain apparently operates on a now/not now principle. When I try to do everything now... I end up either overwhelmed or not focusing on the right things 🤷♂️
If not now, when should I return to this?
My brain apparently operates on a now/not now principle. When I try to do everything now... I end up either overwhelmed or not focusing on the right things 🤷♂️
Reposted by Alex Z
Reposted by Alex Z
These American Goldfinches spent the whole day in the tops of my back yard Birch trees. There's only a few million seeds to feed from so maybe they'll spend a lot of the winter here.
#birds #parkdale #americangoldfinch
#birds #parkdale #americangoldfinch
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
These American Goldfinches spent the whole day in the tops of my back yard Birch trees. There's only a few million seeds to feed from so maybe they'll spend a lot of the winter here.
#birds #parkdale #americangoldfinch
#birds #parkdale #americangoldfinch
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November 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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“Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.”
- Lao Tzu.🌱
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.”
- Lao Tzu.🌱
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“Kindness in words creates confidence.
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.”
- Lao Tzu.🌱
Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.
Kindness in giving creates love.”
- Lao Tzu.🌱
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years."
- Solzhenitsyn
#booksky #literature #book
- Solzhenitsyn
#booksky #literature #book
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years."
- Solzhenitsyn
#booksky #literature #book
- Solzhenitsyn
#booksky #literature #book
"Now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good"
- East of Eden, Steinbeck
#lit #literature #booksky #fiction #inspiration #philosophy
- East of Eden, Steinbeck
#lit #literature #booksky #fiction #inspiration #philosophy
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
"Now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good"
- East of Eden, Steinbeck
#lit #literature #booksky #fiction #inspiration #philosophy
- East of Eden, Steinbeck
#lit #literature #booksky #fiction #inspiration #philosophy
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
I love that a "moonmoon" is a thing that exists 🥰
When it feels like the world is a drab and dark place, just remember there are moonmoons out there
#science #astronomy #scifi
When it feels like the world is a drab and dark place, just remember there are moonmoons out there
#science #astronomy #scifi
November 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I love that a "moonmoon" is a thing that exists 🥰
When it feels like the world is a drab and dark place, just remember there are moonmoons out there
#science #astronomy #scifi
When it feels like the world is a drab and dark place, just remember there are moonmoons out there
#science #astronomy #scifi
Between this and the downright offensive "journalism" they've been posting about Mamdani, it's like they're *trying* to alienate their most loyal readers
Hey @nytimes.com - your FIRST readers are New Yorkers!
Enrage us at your own peril
#journalism #amreading
Hey @nytimes.com - your FIRST readers are New Yorkers!
Enrage us at your own peril
#journalism #amreading
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Between this and the downright offensive "journalism" they've been posting about Mamdani, it's like they're *trying* to alienate their most loyal readers
Hey @nytimes.com - your FIRST readers are New Yorkers!
Enrage us at your own peril
#journalism #amreading
Hey @nytimes.com - your FIRST readers are New Yorkers!
Enrage us at your own peril
#journalism #amreading
Want to be a "first reader" for a small but mighty scifi/fantasy mag?
Or know someone who might be interested?
See this page for details:
thecoloredlens.com?p=137374
And if you wouldn't mind reposting this for wider circulation, I'd truly be grateful...
#writingCommunity #writer #scifi #booksky
Or know someone who might be interested?
See this page for details:
thecoloredlens.com?p=137374
And if you wouldn't mind reposting this for wider circulation, I'd truly be grateful...
#writingCommunity #writer #scifi #booksky
First Readers – TCL is looking for volunteers – The Colored Lens
thecoloredlens.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Want to be a "first reader" for a small but mighty scifi/fantasy mag?
Or know someone who might be interested?
See this page for details:
thecoloredlens.com?p=137374
And if you wouldn't mind reposting this for wider circulation, I'd truly be grateful...
#writingCommunity #writer #scifi #booksky
Or know someone who might be interested?
See this page for details:
thecoloredlens.com?p=137374
And if you wouldn't mind reposting this for wider circulation, I'd truly be grateful...
#writingCommunity #writer #scifi #booksky
"A house becomes a home because of who inhabits it"
- Benjamin McEvoy, Hardcore Literature Book Club
- Benjamin McEvoy, Hardcore Literature Book Club
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM
"A house becomes a home because of who inhabits it"
- Benjamin McEvoy, Hardcore Literature Book Club
- Benjamin McEvoy, Hardcore Literature Book Club
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 AM