( via / via )

Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean.

   low moon, faint & fuzzy;
& the tiny lizard also i
   almost didn't see

On "Radium Age" scifi.

"Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part."

Moby-Dick, Ch. 11 via @celticstoic.bsky.social

Another great painter of nocturnes.

( me / via )

Because it is.

"I had never heard of Flock cameras in my goddamned life and then one day I woke up and every town council everywhere had just unhinged their jaws months back and excitedly horfed down a full surveillance state." —catvalente.bsky.social

The Shuto Expressway that appears in Tarkovsky's Solaris.

salt crystals sparkle
redgreen & clear—like a reluctance
that is also a duty

"It was his own copy. It had somehow made its way from a gypsy cab in New York all the way through various book dealers to this place in Texas and back to him."

( via/ via )

The Arrogant History of White Ben.

   cicadas drowned out
for a moment by airplane
   as i check the mail

Ten Forgotten London Films.

"One in ten classical Tamil words are Sanskrit-origin, with a higher percentage for religious writings and a lower percentage for everyday Tamil. This is actually on the lower end for Dravidian languages. Telugu, spoken in Andhra Pradhesh, has a thirty percent Sanskrit vocabulary; for Kannada, spoken in Karnataka, almost half the words come from Sanskrit, roughly the same percentage shown by Hindi. But Hindi is written in Sanskrit’s script, while the others are not."
—Amit Majmudar via

Reading Gravity's Rainbow in Hiroshima.

( via )

"Who are the great divagators of literature?"

   woodsmoke & dovesong
Venus & Jupiter vie
   step high in grass lush

Computer Hacking Documentries Mega Collection.

"I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams - like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves."

~ Hermann Hesse via @poeticoutlaws

Journacide.

( via / via )

"We live our lives as if we are telling ourselves a story. And we live surrounded by the stories of others."

   golden leaves against
slate gray sky after so much
   staring at pixels

"One also need not be canceled to be problematized, but being problematized is, I think, an inevitable byproduct of having been canceled."

" 'Chasm' feels like the correct word to describe what is left behind, because what has been done to the future, in a process that still seems nowhere near its conclusion, is essentially an extraction of possibility." —Julian Brant via

Early DALL-E was honestly the pinnacle of AI and it should have never been allowed to move beyond this point.

( via / via )

Because you do not wrestle with your angel.

shiny black grackle
in the WalMart parking lot
air full of other cries

You think this has nothing to do with you.

"I sometimes think of myself as one of those land mammals who have to keep moving toward the remaining source of sustenance. The time when the abundance of the wild could nourish everyone is long gone. That’s why you might find me in your garbage cans, my grubby little paws latched onto the carcass of your rotisserie chicken." —Lincoln Michel via

Before Hinduism, Buddhism, or Jainism formally claimed Kailash, there was Zhang Zhung: an ancient kingdom existing from roughly 500 BC to 625 AD, centred almost exactly on the massif, with its own script, language, and religion.

( via / me )

50 years of Goth in 100 songs.

"...the crux of their distaste is just that: a distaste, a shudder of aesthetic revulsion. What they are reacting against is the texture of life under liberalism." —Becca Rothfeld via

"The relics from the marshes of VanderMeer’s novel felt eerily like the photo of my wife that fell from the bookshelf that day, and her books."

yellow Corvette
troubled sky
encounter soon forgotten

Longbridge Foxes.

( via / via )

Bachelorette.

merle stabilimenta
subfusc amass castles
bright shelves filled with folly

aisles fastened with dial tones

That could almost be Perseverence on Mars.

vapor wisping off
a chrome truck bumper

clown surviving death

Red Right Hand.

( me / via )

Sequence.

   white around the pool
in the antelucan murk
   last night's ears ringing

I made miniature books of my OWN books or the latest book nook.

I gave Chat control of my life & all it did was print out GPS directions to the nearest bridge to jump off.

Which Side are You On?

( via / Welcome the Unknown according to google image search but actually me )

Rocket Launcher.

"If you're a young person you have no idea how long we've all been listening to Small Government and Liberty stuff from the right. Nobody at all believed any of it lol" —@internethippo.bsky.social

Truckin'.

billionaires in the clouds
fishing for peasants

with unbaited hooks

Aurora Over Norway.

( me / via )

Encounter.

"It’s a wicked world in all meridians." —@mobydiockatsea.bsky.social

"...remember in misty delirium..."

through my own windshield
no bullets were sent flying

some scattered droplets

Green Grass and High Tides.

( via / via )

Monostich Sequence I.

      "chrysophilia"

   delirious rage
under pale cerulean
   with my tire light on

"Tonight, Trump’s social media account posted a deepfake video of Schumer and Jeffries speaking to reporters. In the doctored video, Schumer talks with Mexican music playing in the background, while Jeffries stands beside him wearing what appears to be a colorful Mexican sombrero and sporting a mustache with the ends waxed and turned up."

"It's getting to where you can't even summarily kill civilians any more, because of woke." —@aristofontes.bsky.social

Critically endangered crafts.

( via / via )

Early Morning.

"Made two good emendations in Fulgentius this afternoon and now I know how Dolly must have felt when she wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same day" —@aristofontes.bsky.social

Dunt: a poem for a dried up river.

   full moon through the trees
fierce Venus with Jupiter
   on killing, on awe

"Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all."

( via / via )

"I've been pulled into a disciplinary meeting for saying robotic slurs at work."

"Frog tied some string around the box. 'There,' he said. 'Now we will not eat any more cookies.'

'But we can cut the string and open the box,' said Toad.

'That is true,' said Frog."

—@frogandtoadbot.bsky.social

I didn't know "Hot Rod Lincoln" was a cover.

“Pork Chow Mein”

grebes have no hist'ry,
   personal or collective,
like the sands they stalk

a grebe is like: snow
   the morning after it has
melted, unobserved

a grebe is like: fire
   that can rage through a forest,
light an incense stick

a grebe is: clumsy,
   graceful, ugly, beautiful,
as the light changes

grebes never speak their
   hearts, no matter how heavy,
the sea can do that

i can only watch
   a grebe so long: my mind snaps:
that is their defense

the first grebe stood at
   the edge of the first sea and
then there were others

if something survives
   the earth’s destruction, will be
a grebe’s thin shadow

(1983)

Irreducible.

( via / me )

Was the 2024 election stolen? A knowledgeable answer.

mottled shade early
on the turn from the feed road
aria joining

Doomsday.

"Whenever these LLM guys say they think AGI/artificial superintelligence is in the works it's like hearing someone say that their next toaster is going to break the land speed record" —@ianboudreau.com

"This makes me so, so sad, like watching a school burn."

( via / via )

Marie Antoinette.

"THE RENEGADE (Palindrome)

Named a general,
war began.
Amid, I manage, brawl,
a renegade man."

--@anthonyetherin.bsky.social

Juliet Delta Kilo.

"German Backwards"

1.
skwiff-skwumpf · squint margent
grinds tank treads · trysting with Waterloo
all-channel coverage · chonk cahoots
of the Blitzkrieg fudge · furled creek
& pale cheek border

2.
   lovelier than tanks
is the absence of a tank
   on a June morning

3.
   not Tankman
wisp crankshaft wan grotto
standing up in words stuttered
a glut of birds glimmering

the streets belong to the birds

Tan suit.

( me/ me )

"In American publishing since the 1920s, throughout periods of prosperity and depression, average profit for all of the houses was around 4 percent after taxes’; but the new owners were requiring the same profit from books that they did from their other interests and ‘new targets have therefore been set in the range of 12–15 percent, three to four times what publishing houses have made in the past. To meet these expectations, publishers drastically change the nature of what they publish."

the train takes me back
rumble & watch the schedule
nowhere now i need

Psalm Ending with a Howl.

"...the bust of your tremulous snore
is seen, at last,
your sufferings on horseback are seen..."

--Eeshleman & Rubia Barcia's Vallejo

Cantelowes.

( via / via )

Crowsongs.

small rabbit dawn, a blur
as i return with coffee
almost like a trick of light

"The rulers of all late empires, including the Roman emperors Caligula and Nero or Charles I, the last Habsburg monarch, are as incoherent as the Mad Hatter, uttering nonsensical remarks, posing unanswerable riddles and reciting word salads of inanities. They, like Donald Trump, are a reflection of the moral, intellectual and physical rot that plague a diseased society."

"let’s drink shame upon all cowards! I name no names. Shame upon them!" --@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

Make sure you look in the lower right hand corner.

( via / me )

Someday we will have.

"stonehenge
we swear our love
from late autumn"

--@poemexe.com

Alonement under a blank sky.

unseen geese murmur
i climb the brutalist stairs
winter-overdressed

The Trial.

( via / via )

"Even leaving the silly questions of sentience aside, can the output of an AI engine supply enough screenplays, dialogue, and promotional copy to put every writer out of work? Maybe."

"until things get sorted out, all law school constitutional law classes should be replaced with a psychoanalyst lecture about the death drive" --@keptsimple.bsky.social

"Pencils were central to my artistic practice, and my skills at drawing had grown directly in relation to my knowledge of the properties of the B, F, and H designations that divide their leads into soft, hard, and in-between."

Guantanamo barb
no doubt to be reused, moved
to a wider ring

Biter of His Foe.