The word does not exist but it feels like it should be coined for this purpose: outrospective.

What a gorgeous piece, as always!

Still timely now :'( Love the cognitive time lag thing. I thought I'd seen all I needed to see about zombies and I'm happy to be shown otherwise

Is this a post-March 2020 piece? It has that feeling. The surprise I felt reading this turn: "I keep thinking about how she didn’t live long enough for me to not kill her..."

Best of the Net 2025 Nonfiction and Poetry nominations (@geetha-iyer.bsky.social, @rogerthatmack.bsky.social)

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Also, here's the sci comm version of the research paper linked at the top of the thread: www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/s...

... computers should not be translating poetry. A native-language poet should. I am content to know that there are porpoises swimming in those Excel sheets and there are researchers who want to boost real porpoise numbers in the Yangtze. Anyway, it's summer and I want to write dolphin poems now.