June morning.

Unsurprisingly excellent piece from Ted Chiang about LLMs and particularly about Claude. Claude (or any other LLM) is not conscious or "intelligent" in the general understanding of the word, but if it were, then it would be, essentially, a slave. www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Female birds with confusing names.

Jane Fisher (American Artist, born 1961) "Untitled (Woman on Underwater Steps)", 1989. Oil on Canvas, 48 × 62 inches. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

Forget sharing the last picture you saved, I want to see the very first picture on your phone. Scroll back until your fingers bleed.

Look, it's morning here and the sky's still gray but the roses roses roses roses roses are back!

Who voted for MANSFIELD PARK?? Sickos!

Enjoyed the list, read some, not others, & agree with this. But a best novel list that skips Sandra Boynton's Hippos Go Berserk! just isn't serious

Hello Wednesday. Bible, France C13th, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Ms. Codex 724, fol. 272v.

Seconded.

Just gonna remain a little drunk on the hawthorn bloom while it's still around.

Can’tvas

We're back.

Charleston House, East Sussex, UK, home of painter Vanessa Bell and often visited by members of the Bloomsbury Group, including her sister Virginia Woolf #womensart #RoomArtWeek

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Gonna arise and go now, and go to Innisfree.

Feeling like the city works has respect for my signage. @sierraclub.org

one of my favorites turns 50

Book mail! The ARCs are in. #booksky #bookunboxing

Spring blues. #dogs #bluebells #blueheeler

Looking forward to the print edition of Bluesky.

Deadly dragon Ulster Museum, Belfast The willow dragons (1 of 3) were created by the Ulster Folk Museum's master basketmaker, Bob Johnston. #Woodensday

Confused boat.

As the spring admission tour crowds grow, I remember sitting at a hotel breakfast with other families on college move-in day and thinking, this feels so familiar. 10 Austen quotes to show college admission is the new 19th c marriage market: www.underrevision.com/blog/post/23... #janeausten #college

Evening protest. #Bellingham

More than 200 groups today, including PEN America, issued a joint statement following remarks by President Donald Trump warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Read the full statement: pen.org/press-releas... (1/2)

All the green coming in.

I saw a TikTok about this last night. We are all buying bell hooks communion when his comes out. If you already have it you can buy it again and gift it.

Driving down I5 yesterday talking about how around here you can say where you live by naming your local mountain.

I've started making erasure poems from those AI-generated spam-slop emails writers get. Hello Hi this message finds you compelled to connect it's difficult to be meaningful Wishing you a moment

America and Israel are in essence waging chemical war in Iran, filling the air above its metropolis with toxic smoke after lighting its oil storage depots on fire. How is anyone supposed to "rise up" when they can't breathe? open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Spring is in the Air, Colin See-Paynton.

You only have a short time to comment. They are trying to destroy our forests to enrich a few logging company executives and the politicians they’ve paid off. Leave your comment here: eplanning.blm.gov/Participate-... morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ...

If bombing solved things, we'd have found out before now, I feel. It's certainly had enough tries at it.

Flickers carrying on outside all yesterday and today. They sound exactly as deranged as a bird that will probably put a new hole in my wall this spring ought to sound. Impossible not to admire them anyway (from inside my patched walls). #bird

Seed sowing time — entry for #March in the Labors of the Months section of the Très Riches Heures, probably the most important illuminated manuscript of the 15th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/labors-of-the-months-from-the-tres-riches-heures

say that to Boxer from Animal Farm’s face I dare you

Nobody should be able to buy the sky.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

It's willow season.

The beloved Selkie! They have a grey sealskin coat that can be taken off when walking on land. In some stories, the coat is stolen by humans to trap the Selkie on land, often making them forget their roots to the sea. #FolkloreThursday 🦭

Merlin Bird ID. Duh.

Been sick for a week and I can tell I'm on the mend because now I'm enraged about everything all the time again.

The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

The National Capital Planning Commission is now accepting public comments on Trump's ballroom that dwarfs the White House and is ugly as sin. To comment, click on the link below, then click on "Submit Written Comments" button. Next, select "East Wing Modernization Project" off the menu. Go for it!

red rider #photography #photographie #photographers #EastCoastKin

Actual photo of me taken one year ago today, approximately 1/2 hour before I checked my email and, after over 24 years of writing novels, found my first publication offer (from @forestavenuepress.bsky.social). #writingcommunity #publishing #booksky

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night

It's been a long while since I've done a book birthday week cake pic, but it's been a long wait for @vulgarhistory.bsky.social's debut. All the cake and all the congrats!

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.