This is actually a really interesting tell, because the "invevitability of AI" narrative sure feels like it's really about the inevitability of climate change, what with how obviously AI accelerates it and immediately requires extreme increases in energy production
Notice: If you are an environmentalist or environmental organization using AI to generate a "Happy Earth Day" graphics, I will be billing you for injuries I receive as a result of how hard I am side-eyeing you.
For you I'd do
the whole thing through
below, above
for now, for love.
- J. H. Prynne, “57”
57 For you I’d do the whole thing through below, above for now, for love.
After feints the heart steadies, pointwise invariant, by the drown'd light of her fire. In the set course we pass layer after layer, loving what we still know. It is an estranged passion, but true, the daughter willed back by blue eyes, unscathed, down the central pain pathway. Timelike delirium cools at this crossing, with your head in my arms. The ship steadies and the bird also; from frenzy to darker fields we go.
Standing by the window I heard it, while waiting for the turn. In hot light and chill air it was the crossing flow of even life, hurt in the mouth but exhausted with passion and joy. Free to leave at either side, at the fold line found in threats like herbage, the watch is fearful and promised before. The years jostle and burn up as a trust plasma. Beyond help it is joy at death itself: a toy hard to bear, laughing all night.
Which makes the thinning sorrow of flight the last disjunction, of the heart: that news is the person, and love the shape of his compulsion in the musical phrase, nearly but not yet back, into the remotest past. Of which the heart is capable and will journey over any desert and through the air, making the turn and stop undreamed of: love is, always, the flight back to where we are.
devastated to hear that the poet J. H. Prynne died this morning. Prynne’s work has been a source of fascination, inspiration, puzzlement, & awe for me since ~2011, when his book Kazoo Dreamboats totally rearranged what I believed poetry could be. His poems are a tremendous gift I will reread forever
Important posting metaphor: Bluesky is as if a bunch of people started a sports bar, but because the local big club got taken over by a creep, a lot of the goths and alt kids are now hanging out in the bar all the time, and the owners don't know what to do about it since they have no other customers
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER P1- NANCY HAS STACKS OF COMIC BOOKS SITTING IN HER ROOM FRITZI: YOUR ROOM IS A MESS... GET RID OF ALL THESE OLD COMIC BOOKS P2- NANCY IS CARRYING A HUGE STACK OF COMIC BOOKS DOWN THE STREET P3- FRITZI IS SURPRISED WHEN NANCY COMES BACK IN THE HOUSE, SHE CARRYING A HUGE STACK OF COMIC BOOKS NANCY: I SWAPPED THEM WITH IRMA FOR HER OLD COMIC BOOKS
Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
April 19,1964
"I see dead people"
broke atm, any help would be big here. sorry to be a drain, i hate it.
@mrwojorising.bsky.social is the best, and so are these poems.
POEM 327: "Language Only Heaven Understands" by Donna Vorreyer @djvorreyer.bsky.social
drunken wedding guests slur apologies
for eating all the frosting roses with their hands
the silent syllables of a skull, its unhinged jaw
open like a mute and welcoming hand
stonecirclereview.com/language-only
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
damn, dark as shit
harry potter definitely feels like it's on the same trajectory as AI -- it's become so reviled that their only hope is to cram it in everything in hopes that you'll accept it as unavoidable. But, like with AI, if we stay strong, it will fail.
One of the biggest labor battles in the US is happening right now in Los Angeles, at USC, where our faculty-union campaign with majority support is being met by nasty, corporate-grade administrative resistance, and national press won't cover it.
Image announcing "HELP THE AL-MASRY FAMILY". It describes a dental student named Alaa who lost her home and safety due to war, with the plea for support as a lifeline. A QR code is included for donations. The background features watercolor illustrations of sunflowers and greenery.
Alaa has spent two sleepless nights looking after her brother who has been hospitalised. After he fathers passing she's been the one top look after everyone, it's a huge burden for anyone, let alone one so young.
Please give if you can, at least share.
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Batman 655 cover by Andy Kubert
Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes! cover by Chris Burnham
Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865)
Grant Morrison’s run on Batman (2006-2012)
I agree that people shouldn't be negatively polarized into treating the Catholic Church as a net good in the world but if you're pretending it's not funny that the pope saying "bombing schools is bad" made our government invent Anglicanism from first principles, you're just a buzzkill
when nori was 16, she collaborated with a musician in Toronto. Gorf has been working to make that song more widely available — and to create, in his words, “archival permanence in the communal musical history books”
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open.spotify.com/track/5OPl8l...
I know people bristle at the idea of leftists who police language but a big reason it happens is because, especially as it relates to politicians, the language we choose serves as an entirely accurate predictor of the types of policy decisions we would make & who we would & wouldn’t place value on
It's indisputable honestly. A lot of laypeople on here have literally inverted the causality of the circumstances and now think that Israel is less reliant upon the US than they were in 2022, but the more bellicose Israel is the more it is reliant upon immediate replenishment to maintain posture.
I built the Torment Nexus from the beloved sci-fi classic, Don't Build the Torment Nexus. I've also spent the last decade talking about how the Torment Nexus - which I built btw - is going to ruin your life and destroy the planet. I believe we need to calm our discourse about the Torment Nexus.
I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
either “so” like heaney, or i always kinda thought “well” or “anyway” would fit
I'm hearing a lot of people say "don't donate to Palestinians on here, they're scammers".
I'm hearing no one say "here are legit ways to help Palestinians right now".
If your goal was to direct your audience away from scammers, you'd give them legit alternatives no?
trying to post art more often, here’s a painting i finished today 🩵
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"i could draw/paint/write that." ok but you didn't. and you won't come anywhere close if you think it requires zero study/practice/experience.
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
Painting of heron looking out over river, reeds in background.
Morning.
Great Blue Heron, Birds Illustrated, 1898.