I am really enjoying MAKING SKELETONS DANCE by Peter Macsovszky. There's a vein of sardonic satire here that reminds me of Thomas Bernhard.

Happy birthday to Kai Hansen! youtu.be/ug_JdOQDxwY?...

"If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence." papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere. The ceremony of innocence is drowned ... W.B. Yeats, 20th century #Photography #Poetry #SpeirGorm #ImageAndVerse #ArtOfBlueSky #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin

I want the "interesting times" curse. The dumb one is boring.

"No one has ever been charged or prosecuted for the killing of Patrice Lumumba, but a lot of people have been considered responsible for it." Excellent write up by Professor Foluke Adebisi. Pair it with Césaire's *A Season in the Congo* (1966).

Every writer I know, every artist I follow, is in the fucking trenches trying to survive this shit. GenAI is not the future because if it keeps going there is no future, and even if it was that would be no excuse.

No donations for 3 days. 'Urgent Appeal I am louay , a father of five children My children are still living in extremely difficult conditions inside the Tent, severe cold and hunger. Their small bodies cannot endure this. I need 150$ to buy Winter clothes Verified By Molly Shah'

FREE HIM

Today's the feast of St Anthony of Egypt, 4th Century Desert Father. He's often shown with a small pig which kept him company in the desert, as here in a 15th Century English alabaster in the Burrell Collection, Glasgow. Small pigs are still sometimes referred to as Tantony Pigs.

I feel like there isn't of my kind of doom being released lately so my band (for which I play bass and compose riffs) is going to record a new EP this year. Meanwhile, here's our last one: djinnandmiskatonic.bandcamp.com/album/paleo-ep

Reminder: lay on your couch in the dark with your phone on your forehead + the bridge of your nose and turn the song way up

My parents raised me semi-feral and it says a lot about my innate personality that under conditions of exceptional liberty I chose to be a quiet kid who spent most of his time reading or taking long walks with the dogs.

My biggest writerly goal is to continue writing for myself and maybe half a dozen readers and not try to be someone's trick pony again.

What a relief it is that the police in India do not, by and large, carry firearms. They're bad enough as it is.

Good morning music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"There is pleasure in the pathless woods” (Byron) 🎨 Häli Väisänen

This is the aim.

Does any writer want to give me their Nobel Prize medal? You know who you are. Give it to me. How about a Nobel Prize in Physics? Anyone want to give me their medal?

i was the odourless poet my rhymes never so much as brushed the air so gently i never made the page reek no one who read or heard me had any the verse for it.

Reposting in case you need a distraction from Minneapolis etc. Read a range of things last month eigermonchjungfrau.blog/2026/01/15/w...

Guitar music is nice bunsenburner.bandcamp.com/album/reverie

The whole Eastern Sounds album is a marvel, miles ahead of the hokey exotica sounds most other jazz musicians at the time would create with this kind of premise.

Despite the internet blackout in Iran, reports & video footage show that the Iranian authorities have launched a bloody crackdown to crush the protests. The intl community should urgently act & stop further massacres of protesters in Iran. Add your name to the global petition: amn.st/6006CFpVp

aspirational

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

Small, groundbreaking exhibition on 16th-century painter Catharina van Hemessen coming to Antwerp and London next year

Reading and enjoying MAKING SKELETONS DANCE by Peter Macsovszky, translated from the Slovak by John Minahane. Simon Blef, from a landlocked country somewhere in east europe, now lives in Amsterdam where he spends his days drinking in a cafe, wandering the streets, scribbling notes for a book he

Hate having to do this but my kittens' vet checkup last week ate up most of my disposable income for this month, my balance is now negative due to an autopayment I'd forgotten about, I don't get paid until a week from today, and I need $ to pick up my old-man cat's kidney pills:

Looking at historic maps of Oxford- amused by the annotation on this 1644 map ''This map is very false'' @bodleian.ox.ac.uk digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/4b7b... #maps #LocalHistory #Oxford

WOW! This late Roman blue glass cup made an epic 12,000 km journey! Made in the eastern Mediterranean, it was excavated from the Cheonmachong Tomb, a royal tomb of the ancient Silla Kingdom in Korea! 🤯 Early AD 500s. Gyeongju National Museum, South Korea. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians

As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...

🖼️ Anita Purnell

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

Hoping to see more of these suits brought against NFT scammers.

This is at least one perspective from Iranian people rather than from Western pundits with agendas that might be very unconnected to what Iranians prioritise. There will no doubt be other Iranian perspectives, but take a look at this one. youtu.be/iCxBKBDCsLg?...

a flourish of pain final trill of torment empty my throat drain this heart eyes keep watching shadows keep moving polished stones placed in order instead of a fire numbers 7 to 366 initiate my removal.

Been wallowing around in this lovely performance of Mahler's 1st youtu.be/2tAS9WxucBU?... cc @dflewis.bsky.social

So my friends and I are starting our 1996 metal albums traverse with Aspera Hiems Symfonia by Arcturus and Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers Of The Icy Age by Blut Aus Nord. This should be interesting! I like a lot of BaN but don't remember this one, and I remember liking the Arcturus a lot.

chewing chalk for my bones eating wisdom from rust breathing pools of ichor i fell into time's web you can fall too if you once let slip your grip on your own marrow if you once open your eyes to the pollen of dreams and are infested.

Collective punishment Minimal notice Legal justification The public messaging differs in Israel (security measures) & India (punishment for crimes/protests), but domicide of #Muslim properties deliver a similar underlying punitive intent & serve as mass spectacle. article-14.com/post/palesti...

Blue stain #fungus. #Newfoundland, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

"Bots All The Way Down" is now free to read at www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/bots... And despite what the story is literally telling you, it was not in fact written by an AI.

If I wanted to see someone wearing headphones and sitting on a couch I'd just look in the mirror.

Do yourself a favour, read 'Golden Retrievals' by Mark Doty: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47252/...

I won’t repost the photo of that man with the formerly prestigious award he’s been regifted but I think it’s going to be really hard for future historians if this period to understand that as well as being confused and terrified, a lot of us exist in a constant and debilitating state of cringe.

I still get told that removing our music from spotify was like “leaving money on the table” and like lol, lmao

ICYMI.

Woke up to feel a slithering across my face, realised I am Medusa.