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Geese of North Sauty.

"Tongue-Dust

Behind the library’s frosted glass,
dust has its own eloquence.
Settling on the spine of forgotten Latin,
coating verbs in velvet silt
until the past is translated
into a single,
drift-grey grammar
that says everything
by staying completely still."

—@thedevilstuna.bsky.social

"Some time ago, casinos learned how to hack human psychology to create on-demand addiction (B.F. Skinner noted this in 1950s, and Michael Easter in his book Scarcity Brain describes how he learned it from a casino research laboratory)."

"I’m so glad I don’t have to live in a rammed earth cottage eating foxtail millet." —James Marriott via

"Austria-Hungary is no more. I do not want to live anywhere else. I shall live on with the torso and imagine that it is the whole."