Sunday, February 23, 2025

The Whole of the Moon. (via)

"FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast
FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics"

--@ceej.online

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You've Lost that Loving Feeling.

"...moƩ teaches you the secrets of the egg." --Cute Accelerationism

Fashioned Pleasures.

"But maybe it was not science fiction but poetry, the art of intimations and intuitions, that enabled some writers to describe what had not yet happened."

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Poems from the 2025 Alliteration Contest.

"In our own desperately stupid era of collective mental impasse, when thinking seems powerless to do more than confirm things are worse than we’d thought, it’s tempting to envy what seems retrospectively like a high point of American intellectual seriousness, when the country’s best came close to imitating what they imagined were European standards." --Blake Smith in The Hinternet

"Or the time they fucked up the dosage and the voice in my head became so badly disconnected from the words coming out of my mouth that I got into an argument with myself." (via @helendecruz.net)

"two asleep
we walk on the roof of hell
in an oil slick"

--@poemexe.com

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues.

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Ghost employees.

"SHAKESPEARE (Palindrome)

Burst elm.
A hymnist.

Call a Romeo play
or a royal poem —

or all acts
in my Hamlet's rub."

--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Haiku.

"Observers note that during his first term, Trump said he wanted 'the kind of generals that Hitler had,' apparently unaware that Hitler’s generals tried to kill him and instead imagining they were all fiercely loyal." --Heather Cox Richardson

"Analysis of moe (or, in their state when deprived from the high-pressure depths of the abyssopelagic zone, ‘moeblobs’) must be conducted with all the care of handling an eldritch leviathan." (via Cute Accelerationism