This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Get yourself a shiny Bat Fren & help real-life Bat Frens at the same time!
Delighted to share that I have an essay on yakshas (nature spirits from Hindu/Buddhist folklore) in the latest issue of THE FAIRY TALE MAGAZINE, entitled "Wildwood." The whole magazine is beautiful, chock-full of excellent contributors, and free to read.
www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/wildwoo...
holy shit he actually conceded
folks, they tell you they’re invincible
they tell you they’re inevitable
they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting
and absolutely none of that is true
Help out in your community if you can.
Shop local, reuse & recycle if you can.
Buy art & books from friends & strangers if you can.
Disappear into the foggy moors or a mossy forest and become a legendary creature that timid townsfolk whisper about in the dark if you can.
I've eaten way too much of it in bike accidents. Very bland.
Welcome to the Hidden Almanac, I’m Reverend Mord. Today is November 11th, 2016. My friends, it is a dark time now. And history is very long, but that is little comfort for those living through it. A year can be no time at all, but a minute can be an eternity. But civilization is a great work. And kindness is a great work. And decency is a great work. It is not given to any one of us, no matter how long-lived, to see that work through to the end. But neither may we give up working on it. There is a proverb of a great people that translates…inelegantly. It says that if you are planting seeds and you learn that the world will end tomorrow, keep planting. I promise you that the seeds we plant now matter. If you do not have faith in gods or saints, have faith in each other, and in us. That’s the Hidden Almanac for November 11th, 2016. Be safe. You are not alone. —Ursula Vernon
Some weirdo wrote a thing that I read this morning that still moves me deeply. I can plant the seeds I can plant.
Come on then, and remove him.
Photo from Oceana of a Marine Iguana with hatchling on back, looks as if they are smiling. Every Day Should Be Earth Day!! Sunday's Peaceful Moment of Zen with this magnificent Marine Iguana and hatchling on back. Aquatic, dives deep, holds breath up to 45 minutes while underwater. Warm blooded and must warm body in the Sun before eating, highly gregarious, will huddle with other iguanas to warm their bodies. Lives up to 30 yrs. Vulnerable
Every Day Should Be Earth Day!!
Sunday's Peaceful Moment of Zen with this magnificent Marine Iguana and hatchling. Aquatic, dives deep, holds breath up to 45 min. Algae main food source. Warm blooded, huddled w/others to warm enough after swimming to eat. Lives 30 yrs. Vulnerable 🌎
Photo/Oceana
I've got my tickets! This evening promises to be *delightfully* unhinged.
This is jaw-dropping.
Exhausted by nonsense today. Please buy my 100% human-authored books at your local independent bookstore, here's 1 of my publishers:
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A few people have replied to my Artemis posts with links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon." Here's a story from Space.com about Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, currently en route to fly around the Moon, and his connection to that piece. www.space.com/space-explor...
SAME SAME SAME
moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
A Queen of Spades by Pushkin Mythic Delerium The Old Nurse's Story Skin Thief by Suzan Palumbo Wuthering Heights Uncanny An image of two women in a forest from Carmilla Dark Matter magazine Carnivorine by Lucy Hopkins William Hodgson Jamaica Inn Dragonwyck Sing, Unburied, Sing A Rose for Emily The Monster of Elendhaven I am Stone by Robert Murray Gilchrist Through the Woods by Emily Carroll The New Mother by Lucy Clifford
It's up! You can book!
My new course with the University of Liverpool starts in May!
'Transformations of the Gothic'
Online. Open to all. You can join from anywhere. No previous experience necessary. Just bring a love of the subject!
www.liverpool.ac.uk/continuing-e...
The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today.
Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere.
Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.
Peace and comfort to you, beloved.
This aged like milk
YAAYYYYYYYYYYYY! Also, whenever you get the chance, send me some of the coastline shots you took for inspo? I'd like to practice my watercolor landscape on them, and that line about the woman in red you wrote, that lives rent free in my head.
This moment, post-No Kings, is a great time to talk about the importance of
persistence and
diverse tactics
in social justice work.
We can win.
But only if we *sustain* the work in a *consistent* way with a *range* of approaches.
Many concrete suggestions & resources in my latest:
A verdigris covered statue of a mari with arms outstretched and verdigris floating from the palms
I misheard the lyrics to Green Lung’s Maxine song. What they said was ‘Priestess of the third degree’
What I heard was ‘Priestess of the Verdigris’ so here is a quick attempt
Really sucks the only way out is through
just this week:
-- OpenAI killed Sora
-- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI
-- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content
...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?
i hope folks pay attention to what's going on with Bushwick City Farm in Brooklyn - this space was a trash-filled lot before activists broke in 15 years ago and built a community farm that feeds hundreds of families every year.
now it's been padlocked by the landowner after years of bureaucratic bs
guess it is December so here is my single award-eligible thing this year. fuck AI slop, the baby food of fascism
JFC. Reading this was like getting slapped across the face. Please understand I mean that as high, HIGH praise. Daaaaaammmnnn.
An associate regularly encourages web developers to seek out problems to solve using their skills. I took his advice and came up with a solution for the scourge of scam job postings and fake recruiters on job boards like LinkedIn.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/scam-j...
This is going to be one of those books that sits in a proud place, easy to see, easy to return to, on the shelves of every lover of the wild and mythic.
GO GET YOUR MONEY!
