The US election is tomorrow.  If you, like me, are tired of horse-race-style reporting, and need to zoom out, I wanna tell you a story. It’s about an ancient force influencing the election. And, as a bonus, it’ll give you an Easter egg to watch for as the returns come in. THREAD

Guerrilla Girls, 'The Advantages Of Being A Woman Artist', 1988 poster #WomensArt

#CometC2023A3 has been sighted at the office again tonight! It appears to be getting fainter with each day, so try to get out and see it while it's here. It won't make another pass by Earth for 80,000 years. Share your pics with us! #cawx

Bird flu is here now in the Central Valley. 🐦‍⬛🦠➡️🐄 As of Friday, the Idaho strain has been confirmed in cattle at 99 dairies across California. 🚫🥩 Affected cows will be incinerated. 🤒 Six human cases of bird flu are now confirmed: mild symptoms. kvpr.org/health/2024-10…

Seattle-based artist & developer Vivian Li will be the Library's 2025 Innovator in Residence. Li will create a website experience for audiences in selected U.S. cities to learn about their hometowns via the Library’s digital collections. newsroom.loc.gov/news/2025-inno…

“He came to the conclusion that OpenAI’s use of copyrighted data violated the law & that technologies like ChatGPT were damaging the internet…He left OpenAI because he no longer wanted to contribute to technologies that he believed would bring society more harm than benefit.” 🙏🏽

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘euphoria.’ ow.ly/XaGH50TRGAf

Tonight's event with Emmy Award-winning journalist and Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa 🥑 is going to be inspiring! Thanks to CentralValleyCF and Fresno DRIVE for presenting this event at the Tower Theatre in Fresno. KVPR is a proud media sponsor. (Note: I'm on the BoD at KVPR.)

How to avoid sharing election misinformation: npr.org/2024/10/16/nx-…

Pre-Election Day jitters plus a quote from our California State Poet Laureate in TNYT. 🎤👨🏻 California Arts Council Corina Knoll nytimes.com/2024/11/04/us/…

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn. The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’ Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

I might just check back tomorrow, instead. 🗳️🇺🇸

Think I’ll just relax now with a glass of wine and The Omen.

Celebrate California 🌉 with us this #poetrytuesday! Marvel at California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick’s “My California” from his collection Gardening Secrets of the Dead (WordTech Communications LLC.). Wherever you’re rooted, take the time to examine what it means to exist there.🌄

☀️The Cali celebration doesn’t stop here! Come see Lee Herrick this Sunday, November 17, at Beyond Baroque for the finale of the 2024 SoCal Poetry Festival, along with countless other extraordinary poets! Tickets 🎟️ available NOW eventbrite.com/e/southern-cal…

🌉 Join us on Sunday, November 17, for “California Fuchsia,” featuring California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick, David St. John, Sara Borjas, and Allison Hedge Coke, in the finale of The SoCal Poetry Festival. 🌄

Have a suspicion that writers and other artists who are adamant about protecting their authentic voice and original creative visions—much to the annoyance of their friends and families and managers—might hit a midlife slump, but not a crisis per se. 🤔 Unless ….

Why these chapters are taking so long to be written …

January: won a huge national grant to write my book. 🏆 February–March: I can do this. April–November: sidetracked. Now–December 31: ☕️📑👩🏻‍💻 💯 hermit mode until I turn in this book (maybe my novel in stories, too) to my lit agents. Also: work in 2 anthologies coming out 2025!

The two co-CEOs plead guilty to defrauding investors, lenders, and others out of $115,000,000. According to court records, Olguin and Soberal founded Bitwise in 2013. It was originally a proto-WeWork style business run out of a former stationary shop.