Dylan T
@dylan20.bsky.social
Editor, swimmer, writer, banjo banger, poet, zen AF. Now certified Canadian
One crisp autumn day, on a whim, I sent some haiku to a few friends via SMS. It started a journey that changed my life.
This fall, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of @tinywords.com. Here's more about that story and a haiku workshop I'm leading soon:
dylan.tweney.com/haiku-change...
This fall, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of @tinywords.com. Here's more about that story and a haiku workshop I'm leading soon:
dylan.tweney.com/haiku-change...
Haiku changed my life – dylan tweney
dylan.tweney.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One crisp autumn day, on a whim, I sent some haiku to a few friends via SMS. It started a journey that changed my life.
This fall, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of @tinywords.com. Here's more about that story and a haiku workshop I'm leading soon:
dylan.tweney.com/haiku-change...
This fall, we celebrated the 25th anniversary of @tinywords.com. Here's more about that story and a haiku workshop I'm leading soon:
dylan.tweney.com/haiku-change...
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every day
more like a crone
the carved pumpkin
-Patricia J. Machmiller
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/29/44003/
October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
every day
more like a crone
the carved pumpkin
-Patricia J. Machmiller
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/29/44003/
I just wrote 'Collaboration and photography', about a collaboration I was lucky to be able to do this summer with a photographer friend, JP Manninen: dylan.tweney.com/collaboratio...
Collaboration and photography – dylan tweney
dylan.tweney.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I just wrote 'Collaboration and photography', about a collaboration I was lucky to be able to do this summer with a photographer friend, JP Manninen: dylan.tweney.com/collaboratio...
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high surf
before the hurricane . . .
plovers huddle in the dunes
-Hannah Mahoney
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/21/43936/
October 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
high surf
before the hurricane . . .
plovers huddle in the dunes
-Hannah Mahoney
https://tinywords.com/2025/10/21/43936/
“I’m tired of Google mansplaining to me,” one of my friends said recently.
In fact, we can barely open an email, a document, or a search engine without some overeager AI interrupting us with its faux-solicitous recommendations.
dylan.tweney.com/its-clippys-...
In fact, we can barely open an email, a document, or a search engine without some overeager AI interrupting us with its faux-solicitous recommendations.
dylan.tweney.com/its-clippys-...
It’s Clippy’s world now – dylan tweney
dylan.tweney.com
October 18, 2025 at 4:03 AM
“I’m tired of Google mansplaining to me,” one of my friends said recently.
In fact, we can barely open an email, a document, or a search engine without some overeager AI interrupting us with its faux-solicitous recommendations.
dylan.tweney.com/its-clippys-...
In fact, we can barely open an email, a document, or a search engine without some overeager AI interrupting us with its faux-solicitous recommendations.
dylan.tweney.com/its-clippys-...
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October 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM
There's hope for our future
September 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
There's hope for our future
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September 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."
Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him.
“This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.
“This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.
Ohio Chaplain Freed From Jail as DHS Drops Deportation Case
“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of…
www.propublica.org
September 22, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"I’m free today because of this advocacy,” Soliman said. “Don’t underestimate your voice."
Just out today: a terrific new album by Meredith Moon, who I know as a banjo player but who is also an amazing guitar player, singer, and songwriter. This is just beautiful
meredithmoon.bandcamp.com/album/from-h...
meredithmoon.bandcamp.com/album/from-h...
From Here To The Sea, by Meredith Moon
11 track album
meredithmoon.bandcamp.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Just out today: a terrific new album by Meredith Moon, who I know as a banjo player but who is also an amazing guitar player, singer, and songwriter. This is just beautiful
meredithmoon.bandcamp.com/album/from-h...
meredithmoon.bandcamp.com/album/from-h...
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@dylan20.bsky.social embraces the support and wisdom of Dharma teachers as a retreat facilitator
www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb...
photo by Elan Nguyen
#PlumVillage #BelovedCommunity #communitybuilding #sangha
www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb...
photo by Elan Nguyen
#PlumVillage #BelovedCommunity #communitybuilding #sangha
Becoming an “Elder in Training” – The Mindfulness Bell
D. F. Tweney embraces the support and wisdom of Dharma teachers as a retreat facilitator
www.parallax.org
September 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@dylan20.bsky.social embraces the support and wisdom of Dharma teachers as a retreat facilitator
www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb...
photo by Elan Nguyen
#PlumVillage #BelovedCommunity #communitybuilding #sangha
www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb...
photo by Elan Nguyen
#PlumVillage #BelovedCommunity #communitybuilding #sangha
I wrote about co-organizing a Zen and writing retreat, and what I learned from the elder teachers there: www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb...
Becoming an “Elder in Training” – The Mindfulness Bell
D. F. Tweney embraces the support and wisdom of Dharma teachers as a retreat facilitator
www.parallax.org
September 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I wrote about co-organizing a Zen and writing retreat, and what I learned from the elder teachers there: www.parallax.org/mindfulnessb...
Last weekend, on a sunny balcony overlooking Monterey Bay, with cocktail chatter in the near background and sea lions barking in the distance, I talked about love with a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
dylan.tweney.com/what-its-lik...
dylan.tweney.com/what-its-lik...
What it's like to attend a Renaissance Weekend
Everything is up for discussion: tech, business, science, democracy, and love
dylan.tweney.com
September 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Last weekend, on a sunny balcony overlooking Monterey Bay, with cocktail chatter in the near background and sea lions barking in the distance, I talked about love with a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army Special Forces.
dylan.tweney.com/what-its-lik...
dylan.tweney.com/what-its-lik...
"Orgy Dome destroyed by storm; organizers vow to rebuild"
August 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"Orgy Dome destroyed by storm; organizers vow to rebuild"
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Listener poets, an undocumented sun & more w/ @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @dylan20.bsky.social @trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @oyoguhito.bsky.social 3/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...
www.vianegativa.us/2025/08/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 34
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
www.vianegativa.us
August 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
"One top GEO technique involves using AI to write AI-friendly pages — bots writing for bots."
Count me out! This proliferation of bots is the exact opposite of economic, societal, and cognitive efficiency
Count me out! This proliferation of bots is the exact opposite of economic, societal, and cognitive efficiency
How's the mass rollout of AI going? My new 2-parter in Axios. Part 1: bot-vs-bot dynamics will bring new kinds of friction and over-optimization that, paradoxically, will make sharing ideas and buying goods online *less* efficient. www.axios.com/2025/08/22/a...
AI bots will soon overrun humans on the internet
Interactions between bots will dominate the new era, transforming everyday encounters into markets or arms races.
www.axios.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"One top GEO technique involves using AI to write AI-friendly pages — bots writing for bots."
Count me out! This proliferation of bots is the exact opposite of economic, societal, and cognitive efficiency
Count me out! This proliferation of bots is the exact opposite of economic, societal, and cognitive efficiency
Enough is enough. I can't stand by while Gaza starves.
We owe it to the people of Gaza - to the hostages - and to our own humanity - to stand against this.
#endgazastarvation
We owe it to the people of Gaza - to the hostages - and to our own humanity - to stand against this.
#endgazastarvation
July 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Enough is enough. I can't stand by while Gaza starves.
We owe it to the people of Gaza - to the hostages - and to our own humanity - to stand against this.
#endgazastarvation
We owe it to the people of Gaza - to the hostages - and to our own humanity - to stand against this.
#endgazastarvation
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July 17, 2025 at 1:51 AM
For #smallpoemsunday, here's one by Joy Harjo, from her book "Poet Warrior"
July 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
For #smallpoemsunday, here's one by Joy Harjo, from her book "Poet Warrior"
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The Maples – a stunning poem to focus your week www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/16/m...
How Should You Live Your Life: Marie Howe’s Spare, Stunning Poem “The Maples”
“Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy,” Albert Camus wrote in one of the most sobering opening pages in literature.…
www.themarginalian.org
June 24, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The Maples – a stunning poem to focus your week www.themarginalian.org/2025/05/16/m...
I'm looking for BlueSky accounts to follow that post only poetry (theirs or others'). The occasional cry of frustration and rage about the news is inevitable, but a few accounts that are ~90% poetry and art in my feed would be nice. Thank you for your recommendations.
June 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm looking for BlueSky accounts to follow that post only poetry (theirs or others'). The occasional cry of frustration and rage about the news is inevitable, but a few accounts that are ~90% poetry and art in my feed would be nice. Thank you for your recommendations.
I am living and working in paradise.
Banjo, disco ball, hammock, sunlight, garden view: all the essentials!
Banjo, disco ball, hammock, sunlight, garden view: all the essentials!
May 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I am living and working in paradise.
Banjo, disco ball, hammock, sunlight, garden view: all the essentials!
Banjo, disco ball, hammock, sunlight, garden view: all the essentials!
amazingly on point and useful, tbh
"Are you quiet? Loud? In a weird club? In no clubs? Did you only go to this school because your mom is the assistant principal? Look into your heart. Find the thing about you that might be mildly annoying. Mildly point it out. And mildly win the day."
How to Nail Your High School Graduation Speech Even If You’re Not That Popular
In this column, professional speechwriter Chandler Dean provides partly satirical, partly genuine “How To” advice focused on a hyper-specific subca...
buff.ly
May 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
amazingly on point and useful, tbh
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The process of attempting to write something and realizing, partway through, that your argument makes no sense is *incredibly* valuable. Writing helps you think through your ideas. ChatGPT will write up nonsensical sludge, and you'll miss your opportunity to change your mind.
May 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The process of attempting to write something and realizing, partway through, that your argument makes no sense is *incredibly* valuable. Writing helps you think through your ideas. ChatGPT will write up nonsensical sludge, and you'll miss your opportunity to change your mind.