( lincoln project via rebecca solnit / via )

"Resistance begins with our care with truth and language."

" 'Water mixed with night is an old remorse that will not sleep,' writes Bachelard."
—@dreamsofbeing.bsky.social

Jimmy Kimmel's actual words.

outrage has its season;
now i steer through oobleck.
pure night, tide of daedal
undoings, pain's rainbow,
& all the fine pillow
words refer to nothing.
outrage has its season.
now i glean one meaner.

The word for elephant and butterfly is the same.

( via / me )

"Step inside the ring, and you’ll find yourself bedazzled and disorientated."

"LOSS (Palindrome)

Warm in me,
loss is so laden.
I pined.
A loss is solemn.
I’m raw."

—@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Perilous concrete creep.

cranchfolly · ascension
andábatist wristkiln
cassowary twostep
to the lemming grimcliff
sleep when i can trapdoor
ballad of marsh prowling
they will chart it later
this tart wrath of fathoms

The horror never stops.

( me / via )

Gaza no longer feels like part of this world.

"things music doesn't know"

fires in the dark circus
while the trapped fall silent
this other night scatheless
yet feels charged with margents
& blood rains unrinsing

"This is perhaps the danger of ‘eventness’."

"Living room is sinking deep" —Chicago

Blogging through.

( me / via )

Tanka.

"It took a thousand years from the invention of writing at Uruk to its first recognizably literary uses. " --Jac Mullen in the Hinternet

Inside UBIK.

"crow & 2 rabbits"

quondam merlewing quokka
acquainted night smattering
out of order proper
angst swept in the gloaming

much like any other
instant quondam merlewing
as the shapes creep sharper
shadowy words fidget

A Cow Like That Gives 5,000 Liters a Day.

( via / via )

The Court of the Crimson King.

"I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island

and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods

forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold"

--@verybadllama.bsky.social

Tanka.

"mad king's vengeance"

through the Tesla's red glare
glean hyena noontide
geese squawking a klaxon
the spooled Occam duller
ascian groundhog groceries
grins the mad king's vengeance

in the chop ward snirtles
jester Alabaster
two-bit Batman villains
a clenched fist of henchmen
gyrate hourly newsreels
grins the mad king's vengeance

"Foreign affairs journalist David Rothkopf was more graphic: 'These aren’t tariffs,' he wrote. 'They are a horse’s head in the bed of (almost) every world government and business leader'."

( via / me )

Awkword Reading Machine.

It's 𝑎𝑙𝑙 explaining, but the explanation isn't the words.

Silent movie cars.

Joshua's orb · hardback
Fanthorpe with its mantle
levelled the building
sudden dark at midday
then a dowsing shower
robot directed
white columns for motley
Galaxy Six-Sixteen
levelled the building
a breeze lilts through oozeheat
a word shed by dredge-teeth
robot directed

Toxic.

( via via mefi / via )

X-ray Eyes.

"Relics of a former world!
   Medals of Creation’s birth!
Ere Hist’ry her page unroll’d,
   Or man was tenant of the earth;

Say, in those early days of Time
   Did Angel spirits dwell below?
And free from passion, pain, and crime,
   In this terrestrial Eden grow?

’Mid groves of Palms, and spicy bow’rs,
   Whose verdure never knew decay,
And blooming with perpetual flow’rs,
   Gave out their sweets eternally;

Did those Celestials love, and live,
   And quaff eternal happiness;
Enjoying all this world can give,
   But free from man’s infirmities?

Or was the Earth, as now, th’abode
   Of Beings doom’d like me to err,
Whose path-way to the throne of God,
   Led through the gloomy sepulchre?

We seek in vain from ye to know,
   Relics of Ages long gone by!
Enough! Whate’er man’s fate below
   He’ll live in bliss beyond the sky!

Yes! Man, the erring child of Heav’n,
   Tho’ toss’d on this life’s troubled sea,
His failings, and his sins forgiv’n,
   Shall rise in Immortality!"

--Gideon Mantell via @aestallings.bsky.social

hacked eclipse predictor
prismatic unwisdom
furl · there are clouds snarling
in the selcouth welkin
your supply teeth-cloying

"Unless somehow stopped or talked out of this plan, it will be remembered as the first step in remaking the military from an apolitical force loyal to the Constitution into a MAGA Military, pledging fealty to Donald Trump."