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seanpatrickphd

@seanpatrickphd@mastodon.social

#DataScientist, #poet and SF/F #writer.
#Neuroscience PhD, electrical #engineering B.S.
#nonbinary - please call me Dr. or they/them.
🏳️‍🌈 #bi #asexual

Profile pic: A portrait in profile of a person with a dark beard, green-dyed mohawk-cut hair, and round glasses looking to the right, painted in bright neon colors.

#nobridge

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seanpatrickphd, to random
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the heart beats faster
and the world moves more slowly
relativity

seanpatrickphd, to Haiku
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will I sing as well?
am I worthy of my peers?
wonders the cuckoo

#haiku

echoingfrog, to Haiku
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Caressed by the breeze
The leaves exhaling. Singing
The forest old song


May 16, 2024 - (2)

seanpatrickphd,
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@echoingfrog Just came across your profile and rather than starring all of your posts, I just want to say that all of your haiku are lovely. Nice also to see kigo and kireji (or equivalent) in English language haiku. Bravo!

seanpatrickphd, to random
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I am yours the way
beautiful words can be yours
I was made for you
but I will be another’s
the moment I leave your lips

chriswho, to random
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I sent an email to the folks over at the "Jesus, He gets Us" campaign.

I pointed out that if they look at the source material, Jesus is part of the Trinity, so Jesus' correct pronoun would be "them".

I have not, as yet, heard back.

I remain hopeful.

:blobcat_praise:

seanpatrickphd,
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@chriswho True, but in John 18:5, Jesus clearly indicates "I am he", thus setting the precedent for all Christians to specify their pronouns

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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What advice would you give to someone just starting out in a relationship?

Mine might sound kind of dark in relation to the question, but here goes:

People change, and they should, it's part of being a person. Some people are lucky, and they change in the same direction, but some don't, and that's okay too. There's no shame in leaving a relationship or changing the nature of a relationship that no longer serves you. We are all taught that every relationship, whether romantic or friendship, is supposed to last forever, but nothing is forever, and forcing something that no longer works, just ends in anger and bitterness. Knowing when to let go is as important as knowing when to hold on through a rough patch, and how to know either of those things is the most cliché advice of all, COMMUNICATE.

seanpatrickphd,
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@RickiTarr That the way someone enters into and resolves conflict says volumes about them and their relationship to you.

A lot of people seem to think it's not normal or desirable to have conflicts with your partner, but my experience has been the opposite. Being able to disagree civilly and make up quickly afterwards is a much better indicator of a healthy relationship than never coming into conflict at all.

Subject your relationship to the "IKEA test".

seanpatrickphd, to random
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Had a poem published recently in the Spring '24 issue of Consilience. The knowledge argument is one of my favorite things to come out of the philosophy of mind, and I'm thrilled to have a poem about it out there.

https://www.consilience-journal.com/issue-16-a-poem-for-mary

seanpatrickphd, to Haiku
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the promise of dawn
a day, as yet, unwasted
by hopeful songbirds

#haiku

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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"You just watch yourself. We're wanted men..."

Oh, so you're an idiot?

seanpatrickphd,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 Idiots, maybe, but relatively armless

seanpatrickphd, to random
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the books I loved most
are out of print - their pages
yellowing like teeth

#senryu

abosio, to sciencefiction
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I'm in need of book recommendations for a 13yo to introduce to science fiction.

seanpatrickphd,
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@abosio

Dune and Ender's Game are probably no-brainers.

One SF author I really enjoyed at that age was John Varley. "The Golden Globe" is still one of my favorite SF novels of all time, "Steel Beach" close behind.

A military SF series I enjoyed around that age starts with "Midshipman's Hope" by David Feintuch.

Greg Bear was another one of my favorites at that age. I started with "Eon".

Maybe all those are hopelessly dated by now! But those are the ones I can recommend from experience.

seanpatrickphd, to random
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"After we die,
and the weary heart
has lowered its final eyelid
on all that we've done,
and on all that we've longed for,
on all that we've dreamt of,
all we've desired
or felt,
hate will be
the first thing
to putrefy
within us."

from "Twigs" by Taha Muhammad Ali https://reflections.yale.edu/article/divine-radiance-keeping-faith-beauty/twigs

for

seanpatrickphd, to Haiku
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absence, like cold wind
on a warm day - each shiver
involuntary

seanpatrickphd, to random
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ribbons in the wind
sliding across each other
like fingers brushing
threads delicately fraying
coming apart with a kiss

seanpatrickphd, to Haiku
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both men and mayflies
live briefly - the difference
is quantitative

seanpatrickphd, to Haiku
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each year the birds sing
their homes disappear - each year
fewer and fewer

seanpatrickphd, to Haiku
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the egg will be laid
regardless of its future
in birth or breakfast

seanpatrickphd, to Haiku
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a mourning dove sings
the soft pain of loneliness
aching to be shared

seanpatrickphd, to Haiku
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a tumbled shore-stone
losing itself, grit by grit
becoming streamlined

seanpatrickphd, to random
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enjoying the view
on top of a house of cards
beautiful, at least

seanpatrickphd, to random
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It will not endure,
that thing you are thinking of,
nor the thought of it.
It will become memory
and blow away on the wind.

mybarkingdogs, to random
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Probably going to just hang out with the dogs a bit. I can’t take much more of this fucking world and I’m so tired of living right now.

Also I get that I’ve just been doing a lot of unhinged ranting lately because it’s just… what else CAN I do? What good does anything do anyway?

seanpatrickphd,
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@mybarkingdogs I initially favorited this post before deciding to just leave a comment to avoid misunderstandings - I just wanted to say I feel for you. I have had similar feelings about the world and the value of doing anything in it...I just wanted to let you know this was seen, was extremely relatable, and generated sympathy from a stranger on the internet, for whatever that's worth.

seanpatrickphd, to random
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it is not enough
to bring order to the world
we must bring beauty

seanpatrickphd, to Haiku
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whispering slowly
the ocean tells its secrets
to the patient shore

si_irini, to random German
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Before I do my housework
I'll throw in a quick question and hope for a few answers

Thanks to everyone who contributed to my poll, I wasn't expecting this result

A quick question for all those who speak English well.
"Nicht würdig meiner Liebe“ German title.
Deep l translates it as "Not worthy my love".
The whole thing is supposed to sound hard and heartless with "Not worthy my love" it sounds a bit too soft for me because of the worthy...

Could the translation be "Not worth my love"?

seanpatrickphd,
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@si_irini Hmm, maybe the quantitative connotation of "not worth" is more appropriate then! Like "I decided not to spend my love on you" and not "you were not deserving of my love". Certainly I think the phrase "not worth" is more demeaning, because it's a reduction to materialism instead of a moral value judgment with "worthy" (the way Thor is "worthy" in the Marvel movies, for instance.)

I love poetry translation, it's such a challenging and interesting thing to do. Best of luck!

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