Garland loves video games and I’ll watch whatever he makes

Happy birthday!

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In Horgen (Switzerland) a dubious looking character was patrolling the area with a camera drone. I found his whereabouts by chance

my thought reading this was: maybe this is what drives the ai push

MwQ (p.498) On birth of photography:

people in general felt it was just the right time for a technology capable of immortalizing them as well.

Martha Musil (possibly)

“neither bed nor body neither subject nor object neither time nor hands but something else…

…not from anywhere I search to borrow words for this eternal letter but something trembling unnamed a grammar of flesh that cannot be conjugated only endured”

🖤 Christina Tudor-Sideri, An Absence of Sea

Grid/Text(ile), Layered Print on Fabriano

The arc of computing gravitates toward note-taking.

My review of it is on the “other” site.

I’ve read Omelas tonight (first Guin) and then did a quick gpt session about it. GPT told me I am a very sharp reader…

now I don’t know what to make of it since it also likes Le Guin

Cuba's national electric grid collapses, leaving millions without power The blackout is the latest in a series of widespread outages that last for hours ​or days and that this weekend sparked a rare violent protest in ⁠the communist-run country.

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:(

It’s Mónica’s birthday today!

because it feels impersonal to them.

thank fuck I am not on here

Musil was onto something when he wrote how writers fear and gladly avoid thinking

The Surrender of Man: History as Art’s Casts A book comment.

The Surrender of Man by Naomi Falk redentracte.substack.com/p/the-surren...

A WELL-PRESERVED SECRET The vegetable lamb of Tartary did not bleat when bound by its hind legs, nor when verdant blood spilled from its neck into wineskins and jars. More fruit than beast, its flesh, ground with peppercorn ...

A WELL-PRESERVED SECRET
The vegetable lamb of Tartary did not bleat when bound by its hind legs, nor when verdant blood spilled from its neck into wineskins and jars. More fruit than beast, its flesh, ground with peppercorn and mandrake root, was stuffed...
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Layered Print on Hahnemühle Laid Paper

It is piranhaic micro-noir where the streamer mods his face for phrase mogging susceptibility. unsavory stuff, on both ends

Rejoinder: Yeezus in Furs with Shane Jesse Christmass | Joe bielecki Get more from Joe bielecki on Patreon

Periodic reminder that Writing the Rapids has a Patreon. I put episodes out there about a day earlier than anywhere else. I try not to ask people for free books (though I do sometimes, and I accept if people offer) so the patreon helps offset those costs as well as the cost of my website.

Week 6 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

New postcard: icy grey waves, image, short prose. tomjenks.uk/shop/p/icy-g...

Photo credit Mina Jenks.

Open Mic A free novella for you

Free novella by Fernando Sdrigotti just dropped 👀

Posting consistently high quality, then sort of expecting payment in attention or purchase, and being public about it but obliquely… sort of reminded of bars’ cooptive tactics and beery breath

Musil does this in his book—so far four hundred pages of passionate, strategic striving across genres, disciplines, and styles—all to bring a sense of the stakes to the reader

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