Minusta tästä kirjastamme tuli vallan ihastuttava. taju.uniarts.fi/server/api/c...

Pääsin kriitikon kriitikoksi. journal.fi/sukupuolentu...

From "On Love" by Sara Nicholson #smallpoemsunday

I’m doing a five day fast in solidarity with people who are starving in Gaza. I am expressing my frustration and despair in the face of the Israeli government using starvation as a weapon of war while the international community passively watches.

My adorable husband is posting adorable updates from our adorable campervan at an adorable nerd festival on his adorable blog that he hosts on an adorable raspberry PI from our closet. (Closet not adorable, just regular.) home.jdblair.org/festival/202...

Love this literature discovery tool 😍😍😍 type in an author and it's shows you a map of like-minded writers. If your favorite is missing, you can suggest. www.literature-map.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

sometimes i forget i am now microcelebrity monitored by the panopticon and therefore shouldn’t talk about my personal life here in, like, any way

I dreamed that I had excellent flying technique and wanted to teach others. I taught Beyonce to fly. Then I got worried that flying might get too popular and people would end up seeing traumatizing things or doing evil stuff. I decided I would teach only select, trustworthy people. Happy Midsummer!

My terrifically smart friend Monifa thinks about AI for a living. Teaching AI to Dance: The Polarity Principle That Beats Optimization www.linkedin.com/pulse/teachi...

"The underlying assumption in the Project Astra hype video is that every instant that we spend with other people without transacting is an instant of unnecessary friction: a transaction cost getting in the way of efficient market exchange."

I am officially one of The Ancients, Keeper of Knowledge of the Before Time

Philosophers say that science can't obey they value free ideal. Skill issue. I say the scientists should just try harder.

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

I love this album so much. leamariafries.bandcamp.com/album/cleo

“Ventriloquised xenophobia”: Depicting hostility to immigration “not as your own opinion” but as coming from “vulnerable white working-class people” provides it with greater legitimacy. The tactic of using the working class as an alibi for elite prejudices is deeply embedded in British history."

Mahmoud Khalil's new op-ed from detention— "Faced with a movement for divestment they couldn't crush, your trustees opted to set fire to the institution they're entrusted with…History will redeem us, while those who were content to wait on the sidelines will be forever remembered for their silence."

i miss the early internet. people were like “you gotta see this dude. this cat sure is long.” and they were right. it was really long. it never shoulda gotten any more complicated than that.

Word of the day is ‘erumpent’ (17th century), which describes buds and blossom that are bursting forth with vigour. Can also be used of energetic humans.

Charles Wright

I found out today that Karen Kao passed on Sunday the 16th. She was a profound, wonderful writer and human. I so wished I would get to read more from her, and get to know her better.

Here's something nice.

I wrote about the kidnapping and potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil, the histories of repression this case is built upon, and the new and horrifying moment we are experiencing.

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:

Entä siirtyykö Kaj nyt NATOn johtoon?

I cannot wait to dive deeply into this beautiful work, especially during such traumatic times. We are beautiful; the Earth is beautiful; the cosmos is beautiful. All in wonderfuly different but complementary ways. Embrace care in every part of your lives.

I have an article in the inaugural issue of Landing, about my experiments in nonsense/ecstasy

Socialism is what they called public power.  Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

I've just ordered ten stethoscopes to teach writing with. I wish I could afford and justify an ultrasound machine.

I fucking knew it.

Has anyone tried the ginger beer - coffee - creamer drink? Does anyone want to do it first and then tell me how it was?

'They fuck you up, your mum and dad'

"A readable, intelligent account, devoid of romantic woolliness and charitable towards both past and present participants in pagan projects." Mattias Gassman on 'Paganism Persisting' in the International Journal of the Classical Tradition @robincdouglas.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

So basically, Surf Dracula.

An interesting piece from a perennially fun-but-grumpy writer (www.the-hinternet.com/p/my-kind-of...). He didn't like the "tumblr regime" of yesteryear but hates the "4chan regime" we have now even more. I think he's fundamentally correct that avant-garde internet norms have swept to power in waves

Kas kun ei kukaan toimittaja ole nyt Teemu Selänteelle soitellut ja kysellyt MAGA-äänestäjän poliittisia tunnelmia.

Why is no one talking about the mysterious benefactor shortage

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

"the most damning fact of our time is the evident contempt by which their political enemies in MAGA-land hold them—and this contempt is not a product of ignorance, but of first-hand experience." open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

Even "people on the internet" are *gasp* people. With context, and background, and humanity. Maybe assuming the absolute worst and asserting your putative superiority is not as revolutionary as you may think.

Poetrye ys the technologye of hope Poetrye ys the force outsyde the existinge system Poetrye ys the power to go on

So AI is going to create threat profiles for people who criticize ICE—and then cross reference that with the personal identity data the Musk Rats were allowed to steal—to monitor us IRL (using facial recognition to track us) based on what we say online. I wish I was making *any* part of that up. 😬

I had the privilege to spend some time at Wilbur Hot Springs this past weekend and came back with such certainty that resting and togetherness is always a good idea, no matter what is happening.

“The reality is you are oxygenating the things these people are saying even as you purport to debunk them”

maybe i’m just feeling prickly this morning because i’ve not had my morning bike ride but referring to all but one language in the world as ‘non-English’ is the sort of thing that should have your license to build language tech revoked

my retirement plan