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"I asked myself what I could do here that would be less compliant, somehow less useful to machine, even if neither I nor you, reading this, are doing anything like throwing ourselves into the cogs of it."

"Sleepwalking from Malheur

Step by step, Steens Mountain
rises in wide · and rippling waves
of grass that hide · its gradual height,
till we come to the edge · of Kiger Gorge
and look down amazed · at its long meadows
where toy cattle, tiny as ants,
quietly graze · in the green below.
Further we come · to the final escarpment,
and look out east · to the Alvord Desert,
while the land takes a fall · below our feet,
breaking the dream · of the drowsing slope
in an eager plunge · to the arid plain.

Step by step, we stalk the edge,
the choice not taken, the tipping point.
Will we awake? Will we go on?"

—David B. Ring in FGR

Postoperative Care of Small Wounds.

"All this as the world burn and drowns, says every cut-rate Cassandra in statements that gain no traction.

Culture will not completely collapse, but at some point soon it might be made almost only by the very rich.

This situation produces the art of our time." —@jacobwren.bsky.social

Next slop masterpiece :/.