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One day people will even call for the entire horizon to become cave-immanent, and the phenomenal world will then have to become interpretable as an interior landscape.

—Sloterdijk

I wrote about my experience of love—where intimacy has grown to feel unexpectedly political—and about parts of the N. Ireland I know. The binaries are more unstable than so often depicted. We're still in flux. I'd say the most personal and challenging piece I've written:

Who Among Us? — Jill Crawford My life partner and I are one half each of our home, the north of Ireland/Northern Ireland – as you prefer. Though far from the same, we fit mostly. Sometimes we can’t bear being close. We battle f…

Who Among Us? — @crawjill.bsky.social

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Rock face in Joshua Tree National Park—noon lookout spot with a shaded overhang.

Lookout spot, under the rock overhang, facing the boulders.

Desert lookout, where I became all eyes and thought big thoughts. More on that later.

On the anniversary of Paul Celan’s death, here is my translation of his „In eins”: frankgarrett.online/2010/07/at-o....

„he spoke / to us a necessary word in the hand”

A wild thread:

490 million years ago, the seafloor which would become the city of Baltimore was a serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal vent complex.

Those vents laid the ultramafic structures that would, in 1812, be discovered as America's first chromite mine.

thanks to everyone who sent in work, we'll do our best to get responses out as soon as we're able

“A Beautiful Purplish Hue”: Frank Dudley Beane’s Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) An early contribution to drug literature, in which a man came to be fashioned out of wood.

“a peculiar lightness ... a horrible feeling of impending death ... a beautiful purplish hue ... My body seemed to be fashioned from wood” — from a New York physician’s 1884 “trip report” after ingesting cannabis and ergot (proto-LSD). More in our latest post: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...

Medieval marijuana, from a 12th-century medical and herbal collection: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

The Latin at the bottom reads: "Grows but in waste places, and at roadsides, and along hedges. The very best medicine for healing."

#Happy420 #fourtwenty #420day

Speculative Dasein.

I’m a wild beast now

Riding the solar barque.

Came back from the desert transformed, as it happens.

🩵🩵🩵 Thank you, Ilija

Off the grid. Ungridded. Gridlessly yours,

LA Sex workers keep each other safe through community, not charity Through peer-to-peer mutual aid, the Sex Worker Outreach Project fights for bodily autonomy and human rights as surveillance of sex workers mounts in LA.

LA Sex workers keep each other safe through community, not charity

Through peer-to-peer mutual aid, the Sex Worker Outreach Project fights for bodily autonomy and human rights as surveillance of sex workers mounts in LA.

"Well, Genet had a phrase that I repeat often: ‘Difficulty is an author’s respect for the reader’, or rather, making him or her think, collaborate – the work is incomplete without the reader’s input…"
- Juan Goytisolo

The Desert Mothers await, unacknowledged and unbothered.

Might as well just scream… AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Logo for the Public Song Project above smaller logos for WNYC and the Internet Archive, all set against a red background with cartoon line drawings.

🎶 Create Songs from the Commons! 🎶

WNYC’s Simon Close shares how the Public Song Project invites anyone (yes, YOU) to transform #publicdomain worksinto original songs with no fancy gear required.

Let this Q&A inspire you to start creating👇 publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/04...

#publicdomainrev

Keshed — Stu Hennigan &nb…

read an extract from KESHED here:

@stuhennigan.bsky.social
@ortacpress.bsky.social

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I interviewed the brilliant @stuhennigan.bsky.social about his debut #keshed @ortacpress.bsky.social. We chatted about his process, the complexities of writing class & addiction, blistering sentences, T.Harrison, Dylan Thomas, Pat Barker, punk poets & more. All thanks @minorliteratures.bsky.social.

“The last thing the world needs is another middle-aged white man writing about masculinity, politics and whatever”: An Interview with Stu Hennigan — Susanna Crossman Stu Hennigan’s debut novel Keshed is a dark, complex, and visceral exploration of class, belonging, addiction and fatherhood. And yet, in the words of Hennigan himself, Keshed is at its heart &#822…

“The last thing the world needs is another middle-aged white man writing about masculinity, politics and whatever”: An Interview with @stuhennigan.bsky.social — @susannacrossman.bsky.social

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Crash-landed onto Monday. Still strewn. Send help.

haha I know you can

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meep

Latest obsession: advanced math & physics TikTok. My mind is blooming at a rapid speed, I shall become unstoppable, mathematically aware of all the mysteries around me 👀

Poems of mine (from Insulae, including audio) & Dialogue in : NORTH AMERICAN POETS IN BERLIN (Vol. 78, 2026, Göttingen University Press)