Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Brian Bilston @brianbilston@mastodon.online

2/25/2026, 9:59:48 AM

Public

Having a clear out of first lines for poems I shall never write. Please help yourself to any of these.

Index of Discarded First Lines

Also, I am bleeding profusely so please stay for a while……………   8
Carter called again today, enquiring of his ladder …………………. 22
For that was the winter we listened to Enya ……………………….. 31
her eyes were a question mark, her mouth a semi-colon …………… 36
I am a bowl, chipped at the rim …………………………………….. 43
I remembered Newport Pagnell and wept ………………………..       5
I see you forgot the fabric softener again …….…………………… 25
In the vacuum between when and how, I squat ……………………..   3
Me and you in matching tank tops ……………………………….... 39
Oi Oi! …………………………………….………………………... 78
Our love is a broken oatcake ……………………………………….. 61
Please don’t do that, it’s disgusting. ………..……………………… 27
She loved his unfinished similes like ………………………………. 52
That, my dear, is a diphthong ………………………………………. 73
The sky is darkening and yet the dove …………………………….. 11
Today, we shall make strudel ……………………………………….. 4
Whither the hair tongs? I have seen them not ……………………... 19

Brian Bilston

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