At the end of the day, I am haunted splinters, trying to hold to the silhouette of a girl who knows how, a girl with clear aspirations and legible scars that fit neatly into all the boxes. At the end of the day, I am a fool, dressing up a raw heart in wild flowers, because bloody things are only acceptable when they're dressed. At the end of the day, I am a poet. #Mastoprompt #microprompt #WSS366
"Specieswatch: freshwater pearl mussel is threatened by disappearing habitat"
#Environment #Animals
First look: George Pickens makes one-handed catch at Cowboys OTAs https://www.nfl.com/videos/first-look-george-pickens-makes-one-handed-catch-at-cowboys-otas-the-insiders
Strong coupling of chiral light with chiral matter: a macroscopic study
Sergey A. Dyakov, Ilia A. Smagin, Natalia S. Salakhova, Oleg Blokhin, Denis G. Baranov, Ilia M. Fradkin, Nikolay A. Gippius
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24800
At the end of the day, I am haunted splinters, trying to hold to the silhouette of a girl who knows how, a girl with clear aspirations and legible scars that fit neatly into all the boxes. At the end of the day, I am a fool, dressing up a raw heart in wild flowers, because bloody things are only acceptable when they're dressed. At the end of the day, I am a poet. #Mastoprompt #microprompt #WSS366
Emergent symmetry in a two-Higgs-doublet model from quantum information and magic
Giorgio Busoni, John Gargalionis, Ewan N. V. Wallace, Martin J. White
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01314
Molecular Chiral Response Enhanced by Crosstalking Quasi-Bound States in the Continuum
Diana Shakirova, Adri\`a Can\'os Valero, Daniil Riabov, Hatice Altug, Andrey Bogdanov, Thomas Weiss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24563
Calamus 16 Who is now reading this?
A funny little poem, omitted in later editions. On the surface it's a challenge to the reader and a chance for Whitman to establish himself as self-aware. Claiming his own flaws.
But the text drips with some latent queer meaning
as if I do not secretly love strangers!
(O tenderly, a long time, and never avow it ;)
A secret love that you can never avow? Hello! At least it's tenderly and a long time.
This seems as good a time as any to link Whitman's Boys, a good recent piece considering Whitman as a queer man and what that means to us in current times. It's a nice overview of some queer theory and is even-handed.