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The almost wordless opening sequence is one of the masterpieces of cinema.

Anti-Trans National Legal Risk Assessment Map: Feb 2026.

Nobody should read anything less than 50 years old.

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Lamps New-Lighted.

Hallucination is the new black.

Whirlwind.

I'm struck by how a character's coolness is often tied to how good they are at video games.

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"Unreplug.com was built by one person using AI in a few hours of spare time. One human, one laptop, a few API calls. The AI wrote every blog post. The AI generated every image. The AI designed the marketing strategy, the SEO, the social media plan, the cross-linking structure. The human provided direction, editing, and a credit card." (I knew i shouldn't have gotten rid of my CRC Handbook.)

These are light pillars caused by city lights shining into freezing air.

"Who can forget No Doubt's big hit 'I'm Just a Holding Facility for a Fetus' "
—@dekkoparship2.bsky.social

Giving middle passage.

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Self Portrait As Philosopher.

It wasn't just rhetoric, it was slop-rhetoric.

Baciagaloop.

"a toccata at Baciagaloopi's"

   column of headlights
& the gold tissue awning
   of cold virulence

strength for another go at
the Piper Piper impasses

Artists and Models.

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Lessons of Sailor Moon.

"sex trafficking for dummies"

Fillmore air dark orange
eelgrass in the frass lots
my choices placed plot twists
unplayed prior byways
relent, Fillmore limbec
the long spinning songbook
apogee flerd flounder
with flexiloquent pillbug

falling bridge this brillig
abrupt hour prowling
dynamite load lugging
lewd desuetude cheat sheet
house with aura hostage
to heave beyond Tron lines
in this bleak sixth shipwreck
sharpened thorn of turnpike

the shaking void vision
avert naught but sawtooth
serial lurch search party
sample plague sans legwork
to scribble notes neighbor
by news rich in pitch dark
the amber ruse rustling
but wroth with singed mothwings

still we are perched stopwatch
to stuff we would shuffle
the weird play of wanhope
hardly the worst doorstamp
six months one would mutter
among beastly dungheaps
will see justice jumped at
adjust what is busted

Fillmore orange airspace
a fair case of snastethwart
the end of some umgang
arglebargle fireworks
two cents in the swerve feed

Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay.

Who i am when my back is straight.

The Rebel. (1961) ☆

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Heart of America.

"Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible 'America at 250!' achievement" —@davelevitan.bsky.social

Place of Slaughter.

"THE JOURNEY (Palindrome)

Dew.
A field in alpine dales.
I rise, laden.
I plan.
Idle, if awed."

—@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Device.

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From Yellowbacks to DAW. (20m video)

Macbethish brine morning
barracuda gulag
all the taillights tally

atoll of vole bombsights
belligerent lintel
flows through frozen oolong

heirloom of rid boxcars
raddleplex cathexis
you & i Macbethish

me & you bewildered

Whistle and I'll Come To You. (via feuilleton)

I'm seeing students using AI for their Literacy Narratives, which is the one thing you'd think they could tell for themselves.

"Poets are haunted by two ideas, neither of which can help them."

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The Kiss.

I miss when "grow" was intransitive.

"Clyde Tombaugh confirmed visually after searching the specific area predicted by Elizabeth Williams' complex mathematical models."

"Wednesday's ashes cover Thursday's fire"

what we make of mustered
guesswork amidst tide's edge
those small smoke traces
smack certified roughshod
remnants of the joined road
revocable duckwalk
is doomsday though cherished
dance alone its moly

The BTK serial killer already had a press sec.

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Fun German political parade floats.

      "Ramadan a damar"

    flintknapping
at the gnarled flerd
   stray hairs shade
the harg builder
   derelict
unprojects lurk
   whose leap word
awaits heeding
   my own dust
on files argues
   no harg here
hovers but time's

Mysterious Castle in the Carpathians.

"Popular culture’s designed by a highly-trained popular culture elite"
- Momus, The Philosophy of Momus via @jacobwren.bsky.social

"For the first time, federal prosecutors are seeking to convict protesters — most of them American citizens — on charges related to domestic terrorism."

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American Obituary.

"when you see the discourse of the day unfolding but you can't figure out the source so it's like dark matter that can only be observed by its effect on its surroundings" —@tomtomorrow.bsky.social

Halt Me.

   "harvest moon
over Gold Mountain Diner --
a migrant and I
eat and chat around the edges
of our lost dreams"

—Chen-ou Liu
Onions in Moonlight: TSA Members' Anthology, 2025 via @evecastle.bsky.social

"This is what a finished machine looks like. The dice still roll. The opposition still plays. But the system converts any governing-party plurality into a supermajority, and a supermajority lets the ruling party keep rewriting the rules that produce supermajorities."

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"The crucial element for me is to try and think through my own relationship to the material, by whatever combination of means is compatible."

"P.S.

I close my eyes and see

a seagull in the desert,
high, against unbearably blue sky.

There is hope in the past.

I am writing to you
all the time, I am writing

with both hands,
day and night."

—Franz Wright via @zeeshanpathan.bsky.social

In Green Company.

"My favourite fact about Iceland is that we have many, many crime writers but only one forensic pathologist, and he was so busy answering all of their questions that he decided to have a small seminar for writers to get some peace.

It immediately sold out so he had another one that also sold out." —@hildur.bsky.social

Ken Paxton and the First Amendment.

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They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.

"RFK looks like a Joseph Beuys sculpture of Ted Kennedy." —@stardaddy.bsky.social

L'Arc de Triomphe, Winter Morning, Early 20th Century.

"great reptile skytrain"

pale saffron the lean-to
train is crossing shadowed

fadge some likely rescue
snowcapped & face Rushmore

pale saffron the lean-to

Nothing going on in that sloppy rubble but the trümmerfrauen.

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"Is Haidilao discriminating against doll owners?"

"Charybdis & Charybdis"

polychrome nightmare

retrieving a word
unthought of for decades

a slender parting
the maze grows denser with echoes

A hillside near Gaucin, Andalucia.

The definition of "person" has changed so many times in my lifetime it's not funny.

Ramadan.

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"I felt a little sick watching AI Christmas commercials too, but I'm sick of hearing every single thing produced using AI dismissed as 'AI slop,' as if anything that uses AI at all is just as bad as that video of Trump dumping on protesters from his little poopy-jet." (Mefi thread) --Also: "This is Star Trek tech that fell in our laps at just about the worst possible moment, when our leaders are lunatics who are building concentration camps for brown people."

"Umm Erak Palimpsest" is the name of my next band.

"NINETEEN SIXTY-NINE (Aelindrome in 1969)

Near the moodless heavens.
Landless, hear the Moon.

1969691 =
[N]1[ear the moo]9[dless h]6[eavens.
Lan]9[dless, h]6[ear the Moo]9[n]1."

—@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

"People get into the weather, I think, the same way they get into airplane crashes or mushroom hunting."

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From Chamber Music. The whole album is miraculous.

"WHAT'S A HAIKU? (Anagrammed Lines)

Basically, the paced
heptadecasyllabic
blade; a patchy slice."

—@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Mazohyst of Decadence.

"There's a German word for that, Backpfeifengesicht" —@arthurzin.bsky.social

Hamburg TV tower.

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New Year.

"to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me"
—@mobydickartsea.bsky.social

Inside Alpha School.

   i will be here &
then i won't be here · honking
   of the geese unchanged

gray skies above manmade creek
modernist buildings reflect

Another great Toho poster.

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Blasphemous.

"vestibule of the cesspool"

cheongsam spree, descriptive
stringer fending westward
surge. boots on the bare tarmac
a bodyguard of quagmires
these and like followed. Fillmore wept
affordances of cisgend
ersatz arsine
amber alert snirtle
alert snirtle

Angstrom endgame.

"Seeing that it’s National Cabbage Day, here’s Flaubert, in a letter to Louise Colet (1853):

'It is too generally believed that the sun has no other function here below than to help the cabbages along.' " —@lattaj.bsky.social

Long days of lading.

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How completely the normies have been mobilized.

"Writing fiction is the exact opposite of a get-rich-quick scheme." —@ashleyzachariah.bsky.social

Collab with Vegetable Dad.

the riddle learns loudness
realize haze whisper
fork it over archangel

anytime. fair's fair in
this fierce swirl of warsmoke
sentimental marksman

much manacled buckram

The Sagrada Família Basilica in the background, 24 years into its construction.

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Best version of "Strained on Strange" (4:44-12:26).

Insights are sparser than meteorites.

"The books were not numbered sequentially, but rather in relation to the numerology of the buyer.."

carriage stiffness · the smell of hot dust
smeary Jupiter · black & white projection
   on the Grand Tour
a chunk of my lifetime · never miles so grand
songs of incense · & patchouli
   & other dreams burned
Fillmore · Mylanta & the leatherbound
Stanyhurst · the steel rails still
   haven't heard the news
as you plummet

Why am i thinking of Dr Phibes right now?

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The overthrow of parity is the most important philosophical development of the last 1000 years. Several essays that begin Dr A's The Left Hand of the Electron. (I know he's kind of cancelled now, but this is when i was growing up. --I note he mentions Yang & Lee, but not Wu...until p.22 when he does.)

"Tyvek healthscare"

lozenge tribe, shape's libel
louche in the yegg segments
unshadowed ride rattled

no river mole shivers
watchful with worn corners
bewails day of staying

the fake background bakeoff

"In time, the buildings were mostly dismantled; the World’s Congress Auxiliary that housed the Congress of Representative Women became the Art Institute of Chicago’s permanent home."

   “It is in sickness that we are compelled to recognise that we do not live alone but are chained to a being from a different realm, from whom we are worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
   But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.”

(The Guermantes Way, trans. Scott Moncrieff et al.) via @yoonkim.bsky.social

Wound.

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The only business model.

"The voice in the poem is not your friend."
- Sean Bonney via @johannesg.bsky.social

An aggressive ant colony reduces.

"MATHEMATICS OF A FROZEN LAKE
(Palindrome-Haiku)

Slam ice, dynamic.
A bad loch: Cold abaci —
Many decimals."

—@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

New Wave Nerds.

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I stumble over a typo in the second paragraph, cuz i'm a close reader :).

"Legitimation Crisis"

Arcane i ever sought defining texture
Where things around me drummed belittled gospel.
Bumpersticker luck, a few museums:
Only on the road did beauty ravel

A sleepless night of hitching, highway nowhere,
And field of wheat at sunrise richly reeking.

The Coal Trophy.

"Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job

Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me" —@brendelbored.bsky.social

Turn near in enactment.

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Writing in the Borderlands.

I only pose next to demolished buildings.

Posted out of sheer mirey flabbergastedness.

“Volsunga”

In the hoarse honking · of the geese I hear
Plots to kill me · plans for mayhem
Their sky traceries · tremblingly write
How it’s too late · leave from these cursed surroundings

Their sad cries · repeated on the cruel air

"Whole dead animals with slick fur and no eyes."

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Revelation.

      "The swartferry"

   "These days sometimes I feel my life
   is like a river running through

   the Year of the Cat"

         —Al Stewart

flashdrive with edges & filigree
folds Rasolnikov up
beige granola turquoise
bowl not the cup's teal
tyrannous horizon
of my rooting bildoogie
the empty place fallow
like a snow covered parking lot

The story of the Pale Blue Dot.

"Did you know that strawberries are not berries, and are actually mammals?"
—@alyankovic.bsky.social

Burnt umber the bombsight.

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Bela Lugosi's Dead.

"Most optimistic I feel about anything is when I recall that it was way harder to get to where US is now from where it started than it will be to get to where we need to go from where we currently are.

It’s largely a matter of decolonizing our minds now. That’s why they wanna control what we see."
—@otsumamiboy.bsky.social

Kashmir.

"Stechschritt"

redbrick Delphi, dither
the leaf dance of fancy
barbed wire in the wheelwells

my contrail wisp daunting
nothing so nab-curbside
in the quidnunc monkdom

gullwing days that gutter

United States of America (1968).