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Polydream.

wood smoke · word smattering
pale new walls · of Notre Dame
the lorn kaleidoscope · looms close
   in the brick-clad night

Wild Night.

"In the year 1621, on the orders of the then governor general of the East Indies, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, almost the entire population of the islands was eliminated in the course of a few weeks.... This atrocity never features in the art and literature of that period, and it would probably have been largely erased from history had it not been for the work of an almost forgotten Dutchman who happened to be the head archivist of the colonial administration in Batavia, J.A. van der Chijs." --Amitav Ghosh via via @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

"It's come to the point you google 'Spinoza' and the very first image you see is GenAI."