This is what the internet is for.
"full steam at the sociopath factory"
warning lights ignore
on a perfect mild morning
in early July:
car will pass despite the lights
red here here & also here
"Oft in His troubled Sleep, rising by Night,
With horrid Cries His Servants Hee'd affright;
Who found Him, bath'd in Sweat, His future War
To wage, and beat with Rage the empty Air."
—Ross's Silius Italicus, I.
"Yesterday was likely the hottest day in France since the last interglacial (125,000 years ago)."
—@nilsgilman
A Giant List of Virtual Museums.
bookkeeper
questions you once asked of me
in the long ago, in the long ago
before it all went south
asphault reckonings
one or two good days
Open source alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office.
"A book's melancholy purpose, I considered, is to never remain itself, but to enter ongoing metamorphosis in the hands of strangers." —Riverwork
"And people wonder what good a philosophy degree is."
bruiseblood solider
in fixed sequence make entry
O planet Poitrine
the troubled eye dominant
houselights on in the ughten
"We live here now, the hyper-real, the representational as primary field of encounter."
"The person for whom the word 'scientist' was coined..." "The Fellows of the Royal Society (London) voted unanimously to fund the sculpting of a marble bust of Mary shortly after publication of Mechanism of the Heavens. She was never a member of the Royal Society (her husband William was), and was not permitted to attend Society meetings, but the Fellows did agree to display the bust in the main foyer."
1.
when they stormed the steps
of the Capitol, what i thought
was how dumb it was
as if government dwelt in
a single pregnable room
2.
alas cowardice
lies like a plague on the land
also foolishness
& the belief that grousing
is a political act
3.
termites have captured
all the wood in the structure—
so termite-rotten,
seems just a matter of time
until the ceiling falls in
4.
but one thing i know:
no lie can live forever
we aren't only smears
of excrement on the walls
nor are our whims, earth's charter
America speedrunning the Troubles.
from dreams of burning
i arise into mild sun
& the smell of smoke
i resolve to read no news
but the squirrels in our front yard
"Idolatry is an armor, prevents pain from entering the soul." --Simone Weil
“When the attention has revealed the contradiction in something on which it has been fixed, a kind of loosening takes place. By persevering in this course we attain detachment.”
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace via @suliqyre.com
a second city
indistinguishable ash
& its dot erased
from an array of such dots
like the one you read this in
"We have been given the sacred task..."
my typewriter squirrels
away the circus peanuts
i used to locust
by Phoebe light i rabbit
my shadow that is deathless
(via)
I Love Lucy. (via @aestallings.bsky.social)
"One of the reasons I long for sleep is to be back with the houses that have been destroyed." —Debatable Land
"i wish we had a sane and stable national politics so we could treat 'lebron james sends cease and desist to AI company making pregnant videos of him' the most important story of the week that it deserves to be" --@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
it will not be hard
to let this slip from our minds
in the days to come
the ones who were standing by
the ones who thought they were right
Finnish Star Wars palindrome poem.
"Today is my mother Dorothy Heydt’s birthday. She was an author and linguist, she created one of the first Vulcan conlangs (the new name for Vulcan, Ni’Var, was invented by her) and helped with the first Star Trek Concordance. She published two novels and many short stories. She passed 3 years ago." --@ofnadwy.bsky.social via (More.)
"bring me the head of Abrego Garcia"
1.
umber floor— it's always
about power · isn't it
when rune robots · learn the word NO
—white speckles · Special K
in the cold turkey · of between the stars
2.
murder night · not coupled
with the final film · later legends
eclipse camp · ev'rything grist
for clickbait
3.
the dim street smoother
in curve of the culdesac
a gray cat prowling
my left-crossing unopposed
this hour of the morning
"Our principal tells us it's a drill."
Theory is making a game that is like the problem-- & then thinking that to win the game is to solve the problem. Well, maybe for especially 𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 problems... (TTAPOOC)
Our own "Great Leap Forward". (via @mollycrabapple.bsky.social)
to grasp one downfall
if only vicarious
since nothing of mine
broken house in the mountains
deer poke their soft noses in
Waiting for the Great Leap Forward.
