And ordered!

Bumper sticker reads: HONK if you bought SUBPAR COPPER INGOTS FROM EA-NÄȘIR

Can confirm that they’re still talking about inferior copper ingots

Fascists and Nazis hate history, and historians; but understand the power of history. Thats why, across the world, they work so hard to control HOW we tell stories about the past, to drive out diverse critical voices and perspectives, to ensure a narrative that makes them look good.

Limestone Quarry, Knaresborough From 'Folkish' by Kym Deyn It's not my fault the rocks are insane, I'm just announcing stone-intent. If you were two-hundred-million years old and each century was worth less than a grain of sand if you had been mud and coral in Pangea and saw extinctions and then in the great yawn of tectonic plates became a little spit of something that one day would be England, if humans were the latest news, a misplaced handaxe your first trinket, if you watched Romans introduce gods and rabbits, if you saw Christ carried in a book, if you were a sprawl of caves, a castle, a cliff, a series of shrines, generations of homes, if you wore a vast forest as a cloak, if you buried a prophet, dug up a saint, if you kissed the last boar goodbye, if you became black with soot, if the forest was shorn to a sliver, if the river washed you to sand, if the day and night were a spinning top and your voice was the great echo of grit, if there was no moving through your history but the history was you over and over and over again, wouldn't you be a mudslide, a haunt, a great unspoken secret.

Kym's debut collection is just incredible. I commend it to you so utterly. Buy a copy now. Trust me. Trust me. ninearchespress.com/publications...

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

The first panel shows a crow with the title "How to live a good life". The second panel shows a crow cawing at itself in the mirror with the subheading "Make friends". The next panel says "Explore" and shows a crow looking into a commercial waste bin. The next says "Try new things" with a crow eating something vile. The next one says "Be curious" and shows the crow grabbing a hissing cat's tail". The final frame says "Get a hobby" and shows the crow looking closely at a book of matches.

How To Live A Good Life #oldknees

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Sometimes I forget how to write and think I have to know what to write or how to do it before I start and so I don't start until I just can't take it anymore and start anyway thinking I don't know how to do this and then I write and I like it and it works and I remember that that is how it works

HEY EVERYBODY ITS FISH DOORBELL SEASON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ask not for whom the code vibes

A crisis in the Classics and Religious Studies department: U of O Honours BA in Greek and Roman Studies suspended again <span class="span-reading-time rt-reading-time" style="display: block;"><span class="rt-label rt-prefix">Reading Time: </span> <span class="rt-time"> 3</span> <span class="rt-label…

uOttawa student new outlet The Fulcrum updates us on the situation with Greek and Roman studies Le journal étudiant de l'UOttawa, The Fulcrum, fait le point sur la situation actuelle en Antiquité grecque et romaine [anglais] buff.ly/VrNZz3b #uOttawa #ottawa #SOSClassicsUO #onfr #SOSÉtudesAnciennes

"Stop me if you've heard this one before"
Beowulf, 2013
Meghan Purvis 🇬🇧

The forest has antlers & thorns, so you should too.
The forest finds beauty in slow decay, so you should too.
The forest hides mysteries in gloom, so you should too.
The forest lets its wildness grow unchecked, so you should too

Kermit as a tarot card

Pause from scrolling for 5 mins and self reflect on what the rainbow connection means to you

For those confused:

- Antipope: Exact replica of the Pope but comes from the mirror universe; if he ever shakes our Pope’s hand they both will blow up

- Bizarro Pope: A low-level satanist who is fallible in every utterance

- Counterpope: Martin Luther

[The Cure voice] 🎶 Monday, you can fall apart / Tuesday, you can also fall apart / Wednesday, Thursday, you got it, fall apart / it’s Friday, you’ve fallen apart 🎶

Happiness isn't one of the options! Go work on your book or something

thebookseller ig account saying NEWS: some editors uploading confidential manuscripts to ChatGPT to read quickly, agent claims

the guardian: I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence – but we are as valuable as ever | Stephen Marche

the walrus bsky account: Authors are using AI. Publishers know it. And now, says publishing consultant Thad McIlroy, authors are being forced to lie about it. One cancelled horror novel didn’t just end a career—it exposed an industry-wide reckoning.

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

If you’re using AI to write books, understand that’s not going to somehow get you respect or money like real writers who aren’t using AI to write books because we don’t get respect or money either.

Trans day of every tabloid shuts the fuck up about us forever. Trans day of let us have our healthcare and leave us the fuck alone. Trans day of tearing down the panopticon. Trans day of let us control the narrative instead of deferring to some cis sexologist's hallucination.

"Theft is the foundation of Capitalism."

"Bro!"
Beowulf: A New Translation, 2020
Maria Dahvana Headley 🇺🇸

'The Icknield Way.' (1911) The originality of this work represents Spencer Gore's response to European Post Impressionism in several shows staged in London, in particular Manet and the Post Impressionists and the Italian Futurist Painters in the same year this was made.

“What we don’t want to look at, we think we don’t have to deal with, and then it owns us completely.”
– Jacob Wren, Rich and Poor

Of course! Congratulations on the new book!

I have a joke about time travel, but you didn't like it.

Overwhelmed - BC Booklook Theresa Kishkan reclaims her gaze in a haunting memoir on art, power, and being a 23-year-old muse. A review of The Art of Looking Back.

Oh! How nice to see this as I drink my coffee by the wood stove...
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My short story collection 'Calls to Distant Places' is available here:
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They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

“Consumer software that generates text, images and videos are uniquely energy inefficient,” says Ketan Joshi, an Oslo-based climate analyst associated with the Australia Institute, due to the “vast datasets and computational strain of pattern-matching that happens underneath the hood”. Asking an AI chatbot a question consumes a great deal more energy than finding the answer via simple web search or calculator. It adds extra demand for no good reason, he says, a bit like driving to the shops in an SUV instead of riding your bike. “You might still get the shopping done, and that single trip alone may not even look all that bad in terms of cost or emissions, but what happens when that’s all of your trips, and when all of society starts doing this?”

Spoke to the Guardian about the idea of quitting LLMs for climate:

-“I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.”

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