( via / via )

Sky and or mood.

   Hormuz, Hormuz
this is the end we choose
till now suicide demurs
   Hormuz, Hormuz
a downfall to amaze
the pentacle of empire chars
   Hormuz, Hormuz
this is the end we choose

Edinburgh in B&W.

"An AI agent that submitted and added to Wikipedia articles wrote several blogs complaining about Wikipedia editors banning it from making contributions to the online encyclopedia after it was caught." —@404media.co

Psyched Out Grooves From Hungary (1969-1972).

( via / via )

Orpheus turned to Stone.

i have not read
the books i have

stuffed shelves parade
i have not read

cell less arid
than the bustling hive

i have not read
the books i have

Time is a sword.

"Context is the first casualty of Oral Culture" —@varaxes

The Song of the Eternal Sailor.

( via / me )

Defense Budgets.

"Blaze like a wyvern flying round the sun" —Browning

Helvegen.

blonde testifies
that up is down
no screeds faze

blonde testifies
bodies hid confuse

in the furious din
blonde testifies
that up is down

Year of the Cat.

( via / via )

What happened to publishing.

"Just read a joke that Ursula K. Le Guin told to Michael Bishop in one of their letters.

'Dear Mike,
It takes two Taoists to screw in lightbulb.
One to do it; and one not to do it.'
-U"

—@denniswise.bsky.social

Prince's solo.

"the maze"

alone
seeing the moon
with its last crescent lean
alone
that uncanny bright carillon
when but echoes remain
alone

seeing the moon

An Islington View.

( me / via )

This morning in Caracas.

"this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth" —@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

Peaches en Regalia.

it will happen
& it will be long
world for which we pine
it will happen
after more than enough pain
lungfish uses the lung
it will happen
& it will be long

Satire: Veritas scanned. Star-crossed stanzas. Both? A postscript of sorts.

( collin creek mall by laura ostteen on fb / via )

"So we stand gazing not at a sequence of events, but a wreckage hurled at our timeline by one algorithmically curated catastrophe after another."

“He picked up the slaughtered, keg-robed earshot.” —Hell of the Cyr

El Topo.

tomorrow's burning wind
   strafes me today
running ever t'ward
tomorrow's burning wind

   midway dark wood
   & gnat cloud dree
tomorrow's burning wind
   strafes me today

Back issues of the Vachron Sentinel Zi-Fi Kolektin.

( via / via )

Cold, Cold Heart.

“To a poet nothing can be useless.” —Rasselas

David Bowie and the Story of Ziggy Stardust.

No more on earth can tigers find a home:
Why then should there exist a place for you?
Complain about the ways you’re forced to roam
No more on earth. Can tigers find a home
In myth? So hitch that sable-lacquered brougham
And see if signs will ferry your juices through.
No more on earth can tigers find a home.
Why then should there exist a place for you?

Walking round in a funhouse. (twxttxr)

( via / via )

You know, sometimes the absence of philosophical thinking just screams in an argument.
   C'mon—we don't know what "intelligence " is, but we already know enough to say it isn't one thing, nor can it be measured linearly.

Dumb, dumb unexamined metaphors.

What if what was special about humans was our ability to discover personhoods outside our measly selves. What if it was empathy?
We might start finding all sorts of other intelligences around us; & if robots furnish one more, unprecedented sort, that would be pretty cool. But it's hardly guaranteed to save us.

"...in 1955, the computer scientist John McCarthy and his colleagues applied for US government funding to create what they fatefully chose to call 'artificial intelligence'—a canny spin, given that computers at the time were the size of a room and as dumb as a thermostat." (via Mefi)

close, close your heart.
it's there all safety lies.
when all the choices hurt,
close close your heart.

some sorrow-stones inherit;
some inchmeal realize.
close, close: your heart—
it's there. all safety lies.

The Horse of the Invisible. ☆☆

( via / via )

ICE in Colorado.

“Therefore the Romans were not so great because they were religious, but because they were sacrilegious with impuny.” –Arnobius, Adversus Gentes, tr Bryce in The AnteNicene Fathers v.6

One need not be a chamber to be haunted.

A hungry sparrow sings the saddest song,
And marble flooring cracks beneath its weight.
It was a dream, and dreams do not prolong:
A hungry sparrow sings the saddest song.

And you who mince the litany of wrong
Come into lands where none prevaricate.
A hungry sparrow sings the saddest song,
And marble flooring cracks beneath its weight.

The ache for celebrity.

( via / via )

"I do think that there are parallels that you could make to the moments right before and right after the First World War."

The idea of time is our consolation for losing the moments we fail to pay attention to. We say: it’s got to go 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒.

A great dinosaur painter.

“faithful to music”

having only been
faithful to music
too chary of other boon

having only been
as the forests burn
caught in the carolling murk

having only been
faithful to music

Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner.

( me / via )

Texas werewolf novels.

"the Rooibos Lopez"

all the ways of magic
i learned
first & last subject
all the ways of magic
& pinchbeck margents,
trophies made of lead—
all the ways of magic

i learned

The Fall of the House of Usher.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑑 & left nothing but iconography behind: that, & suffering.

Smells Like Team Spirit.

( via / me )

"I started to have ‘favourite’ ruins, usually the ones that were a bit spooky."

"Hell is a place ravers aspire to." --Dr Awkward & Olson in Oslo

Rock.

trying to read
what cannot be read
blank dawns seldom succeed
trying to read
the fruit of bombseed
in pink & red

trying to read
what cannot be read

Chromatic searoad.

( via / me )

Optimist.

heaps & heaps of graves
make the world
nations no one grieves
heaps & heaps of graves
somber gray-leaved groves
in fathoms swirled
heaps & heaps of graves
make the world

Haiku.

"We have seen the end of the age of Reason; and that we live in the age of Suggestion.

Perhaps for the first time, the degradation of Man has been openly declared; in a theory that he can be persuaded without being convinced." --@gkchesterton.bsky.social

Clocks.

( via / me at abbieanna )

Muddled Mind.

"contrapposto"

i heard ft sumter
i didn't look up
a click like a shutter
i heard ft sumter

only scimitar
is the killer app
i heard ft sumter

i didn't look up

Holy Bomb.

"The gold long dim in Herculaneum..." --Clark Ashton Smith

The Chess Players.

( via / via )

"You cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs."

"Men will never be free until the last republican is strangled with the entrails of the last evangelical." --@deanbooth.bsky.social

Because the Night.

part of me will forever
be rooting for the hunted

though sometimes i lapse reiver
part of me will forever

i know which army’s braver
in these swart woods so haunted

part of me will forever
be rooting for the hunted

A game of chess and some light refreshment.

( me / via )

Tylos, a world so hot, and so close to its sun that the clouds are made of vaporised metal, and where it rains liquid sapphires and rubies.

"By broken altars, blackened shrines
I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes."

--Robert Service

Meeps for the Meep Throne.

"threat display"

let the mild sun suffice
for this mansion of humbugs
& clowns daily to face
let the mild sun suffice
as chortles vast nefas
& swell overplus moneybags
let the mild sun suffice
in this mansion of humbugs

Miles from Nowhere.

( via / via )

Une composition de 4000 livres.

"Throughout the derelicted warrens at the heart of yassness, feral youth cultures get off on allowing themselves to be invested by artificialised desires that migrate them out into new spaces of networked inhuman affect." --Cute Accelerationism

Wellness farms.

there is still
a power in this world
besides the turnstile
there is still
a thing you cannot steal
a flower not a weed
there is still

a power in this world

"Our follower count is like the cosmic microwave background radiation, a faint relic of random past events."

( via/ via )

Before the Law.

"The only way armored Teslas make sense is if you give them away free to the enemy." --@misingthept.bsky.social

HPL & Hart Crane. (via Metafilter)

"disappearing weather"

the order that is
is where things come to rest
consummate ease
the order that is
if you drink Oz
or divide your wrist
the order that is
is where things come to rest

all we on the outside can do now is hope.

( me / murnau's faust )

"...philosophy is ‘the way in which we service the deep infrastructure of our lives – the patterns that are taken for granted because they have not really been questioned’." via @helendecruz.net

sit on my hands
& wait for the killing to start

rusted the hinge
sit on my hands

the forwarder hounds
keep baying without respite
sit on my hands

wait for the killing to start

Haiku.

"in my deserted home village
one tulip
the crescent moon
the sea"

--@poemexe.com

Murnau's Faust. (via openculture) ☆☆☆☆

( via / via )

The first person to adequately explain what poetry is.

everything flows
but the poet says wait
thrills & flaws
everything flows

most wretched of scofflaws
best use of wit
everything flows

but the poet says wait

It would seem her time has come.

"in falling snow
and then darkness
hollow"

--@poemexe.com

The men carrying out Musk's coup.