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The Devil Rides In.

“ ‘It is not a bad thing to hear voices,’ said Krag, ‘but you mustn’t for a minute imagine that all is wise that comes to you out of the night-world.’ “ –David Lindsay, A Voyage to Arcturus (1920)

On Semiotic Phantoms.

Chicxulub unshackled
a shabby bard shard-gleans
far voices cough vifgage
revert to glum numbers

& i of fine ownings
all the above hover
depressed--proven ostrich--
prob'ly season's wobble

those terrible lizards
talked of like they walk still
stand for our runed roarings
riding a drab abyss

Razbliuto.

( via / via via @merlinaacevedo )

Sentient.

Autumnal & eternal rose,
Where dreams divide & time lays siege,
The stuff of deliquescent throes,
A moment in the eyes of one mad liege.

Pale, I remember, ultramarine
Was then the sea. Now fathoms close
About that locket’s fall, while green
Remains to me the wither of the rose.

Her revenant rose & came to dwell
Here with a fragment from that dream
Who twice himself tried ring the knell…
What profits dry bones strewn where roses teem?

So two unfound ones fill the clothes
Of others born to such prestige
And fake it. Nonetheless, some rose
Wafture permeates the rusted cage.

(2000)

Villa Gaston Drusch

"I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.” ―Fernando Pessoa

Armagideon Time

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Incendiary Nocturne with Stormy Sea.

"Then you will begin
to burn the deserts.“

–-Bill Knott

Now You Must Surely Die!

giraigun* whisperlapse when
as our our tires tossed streetdust
a wherry turning
all the scry-orbs ill
bugs where did they go
i would ask guidance
marooned in the Dog Days

つぶやきProcessing.

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* Taneraic 'the sound of cicadas'

( via / via @nasa@social.beachcom.org )

Under.

"IN THE DUST OF THIS LIFE

Pale sieves a tired
Ax in the tree’s bosom.
In the foliage’s broom there is
Seed-blood-silk. Bites
in the lovenest of the building.
Sweetly fogs in its ice-bath
the Ibis’s blood. Masses
in the dust of this life."

--Unica Zürn via

Estrella.

"Fictive things
wink as they will."

--Wallace Stevens

"Even though what has come about is a landmark shift in global public opinion on Israel, it still matters not a bit to those in Gaza who are not even aware of what is happening as they dodge bombs, seek food and dig up their dead." (via @_ryanruby_)

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"If a seagull has ever stolen some slightly unappetizing carnival food out of your hands after you stood in line for an hour to get it, you'll have a general idea how this feels." (via Mefi)

"the Olympics are all 'wow look what people can achieve!! Now watch some ads about how u should delegate thinking feeling and language to chatbots' " --@proffwolff (via @john_attridge)

"We forget that democracy is a process and that it’s never finished.."

the small fighting forever
who has the heart for it
the foul homeland
traced with bright contrivance

Ace of Spades.

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New Gristle.

carnival
only in smashing
there is so
much to smash
the light of day scintillates
with a thousand stars

A Poet of the Thirteenth Century.

Things that do not change: shit beer & child abuse.

Kwangali. ( Or rather.)

( via / me )

Ambiguous triangle.

"The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot." --Ashbery

“Please be patient I have autism” in Old English in runes.

falling bodies fall
through this same air
standing we feel
falling bodies fall
& never we fail
to let some small fault ire

falling bodies fall
through this same air

Runs Good (1971). ☆☆

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"As when the lights go off, one by one,
In a hotel at night..."

   The smell of woodsmoke
On a bright autumn morning
   Many memories
Swirl like the dark particles
Of what was once green & tall

09 28 03

A thread on every Don DeLillo novel.

"...in any reading of the Tarot it is the Fool who asks and the Fool who answers every question." --Bill Butler, Dictionary of the Tarot (1975)

I'm back home, it's nice👾🖤.

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Huddersfield Glove Watch.

"In light of Trump just flat out saying he wants to go full on Autocrat (Autocratic Intention Signaling), it is probably a good time for the Seven Rules for Dealing with Autocrats and their Enablers.

Seven Rules for Dealing with Autocrats and their enablers.

I wrote these when working with those worldwide fighting for Democracy in their nations, and they are just as applicable today with what we face in America in the coming months.

- Rule #1: Play the Game You Are in, Not the One You Wish or Want to Play - This means when one side is playing the zero-sum, illiberal game, there is no win-win to be played. You will either win, and democracy survives, or you lose to the autocratic forces.

- Rule #2: Always Speak Truth to Power Because You Never Know the Tipping Point - You must confront the Big Lies of illiberal forces by speaking truth to their base of power -- the people. There is a tipping point where your Truth or the Big Lies prevail.

- Rule #3: Don't Hand the Autocrats Battering Rams with Which to Beat You - The game you are in, the battle you are fighting, isn't about policy or ideology. They will use what you say to divide you from your allies, who you need to win the battle for democracy.

- Rule #4: Understand Authoritarians Must Live in a Truth-Free Present - The past presents truths about the big lies and fear the illiberal forces use. The future for autocratic forces only matters for maintaining power at the moment. They only care about keeping/gaining power.

- Rule #5: Practice Zero-Sum Judo - Use their tactics against them -- Big Truths, Marginalization, make them dependent, mock the disinformation, divide and conquer their power structure. Use their desire for the legitimacy of democracy against them.

- Rule #6: The Stalin Rule: Stand Together with Anyone Who Will Join You to Disturb, Disrupt, and Diminish the Illiberal Structures. Even if you share nothing in common beyond a love of democracy and how much you loathe their politics in normal times, you fight side-by-side with them.

- Rule #7: Wake Up Every Day Thinking Where Can the Vertical Power Structure Be Exposed, Confronted, and Destabilized - Each of us and all of us on Team Democracy must wake up every day and ask what can I do to be on the side of restoring faith and confront the fear they use.

Ultimately, I am an optimist. When the fear of the illiberal autocrat erodes because people show they are not afraid, faith takes hold, and others want and will join the fight. It is one we must win in America. It is one we will win because more Americans stand for Democracy that has made us great than Autocrat who is constantly tearing us apart and down."

--@trygveolson (via @ae_stallings)

History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution.

   some free Palestrina
   stroon sapped from sick sheeple
the tart turquoise · of a drake terminal
   glistens in the gloaming

flakes fall · on my faded mourning
   hope or hope's despite
   Norstrilia strolls here
   speaks like Palestrina

Cattleya Orchid with Two Brazilian Hummingbirds.

( me / me )

Battle of Maldon.

ghoulfare tiled in turquoise
tearing through the grue days
brocade midnight coffee
caliber pool ghoulfare

Mojave Desert, 1970.

"touching grass is not enough i need to hear the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat and to die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence" --@kukukadoo

Ahwatukee House of the Future.

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Guitar parrot.

"Whoever wanted a perfectly receptive climate for what they write?" --@mjohnharrison at mstdn

"Meanwhile, as people are battling counterfeit banditti of their own creation, the Cynic sees the real thieves slipping out the back door with all the real valuables."

stealing from
all the sick people
industry
made of elves
days it looks like it could rain
& it never does

Eressominus.

( via / via )

Some Velvet Morning.

raindrop amid caws
on this wan subfusc morning
alone the glass marks

while other drops are waiting
for me to stride out crowless

Shanzhai.

"Long ago, you were a fly, gawking with your compound eye, wondering at the giant world—now that smallness is a memory, many lives away, but when you see the pixels you remember insect play" --@ctrlcreep

Potential vorticity. (via feuilleton)

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Ask the Angels.

"The snail got to Toad’s house and gave him the letter from Frog. Toad was very pleased to have it." --@FrogandToadbot

"And this dry river was the site of a wedding
between an aspen forest and the moon."

Vladborn vale · belated
virulence to steer by
in the soft light laughing
lessons from gun thunder

trail of entrained venom
trustworthy no further
scalded wharf hands wielded
where we were most ghostly

adroit dream of melting
drones on as a bonus
north star or tenth ninepin
the nape-stamp of a vampire

Lunar Calm.

( via )

Claude 3.5 Sonnet sets new industry benchmarks for graduate-level reasoning (GPQA), undergraduate-level knowledge (MMLU), and coding proficiency (HumanEval).

what is your walking-t'ward
two leers lapped in clownwhite
the claim to clown hardwired
foundered name fortywatt

Sad monkey swept upstream on this afternoon's flood tide.

"That night and for years afterward, she had envisioned another dream land, built from the imaginings of powerful women dreamers. Perhaps it would have fewer gods, she thought as she watched the moon vanish over the horizon, leaving her in the darkness of the ninety-seven stars." --Kij Johnson, The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe (2016)

12. Godzilla.

( via / photo of ε Indi Ab* via [more] )

"Across the sleeping earth
I’ve borne this white account."

"Unlike Shackleton and Scott, oaks don't keep diaries." --Ursula LeGuin

"With only marginal exceptions, everyone in Gaza is sick, injured or both." (via @jorie_graham)

"The Moons of Darwin

Warden of this moon!

What infernos doom
fond whim to reason?

What inner moods of
faith soon drown me?

I fathom no wonders,
own no shard of time:

from now on death is
no minter of shadow.

Moons fade in worth
with dreams of noon."

--@christianbok

Surveillance.

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* more on the "old" ε Indi Ab. The video. "It is worth noting that in Niven's 1973 novel Protector, epsilon Indi has a gas giant named Godzilla." Shipwreck on Epsilon Indi. Named "Andoria" (among others) here.

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My eyes see black and white...

Farewell
Fieldfare

To the dregs that sap our will
Farewell

To the churning wall
To the silent wildfire
Farewell

Fieldfare

"The durable moon determines/ what I do not have."

"when the cities lie at the monster's feet there are left the mountains" --Robinson Jeffers

An embedded heart.

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Lost City.

"Because fieldfare birds leave Britain at the end of winter, ‘Farewell fieldfare!’ is a 14th century expression used to celebrate the end of an unpleasant experience, or the departure of a disagreeable person." --@HaggardHawks

Wolves & fruit.

"April comes
and now you are gone,
you, who told your guardian angel
each year on your birthday,
not yet"

--Michael Dylan Welch

Composition 248.

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If You Think You Know How This Ends, You Haven't Been Paying Attention.

Brutalist cities
scarecrow · werifesteria
what is a patriot
but someone who loves the food
of the place he grew up in
Brutalist cities
i wander · knowing no one
in a light drizzle
the language a ghost to me
i must become that scarecrow

Loreena lately on Greek TV.

"It’s really cool when people call something a ‘moonshot’. One of the last great Germanic compounds. Though it’s recent, originally meaning the launching of a spacecraft on its way to the moon, it would make a perfectly good Old English word: *mōnsċot." --@wylfcen

Typography of Notes.

( via / via )

Obluvion.

"Khaki Hamlets don't hesitate to shoot." --Ulysses

One Scene Wonders: Anne Bancroft Getting into the Game of Malice.

"Migratory Motions of My Greater Emotions (palindrome)

Mood tides, send as ESP
any Speed;

spiral, lift serotonin;
let up warm saps;

trap misery gyres;
impart spasm raw;

put El Niño to rest;
fill a rip’s deep synapse sadness;

edit doom."

--@SpoonerRhythms

Peaches en Regalia.

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"That’s what war failed to achieve..." (via @zeeshanjaanam)

You will say, those days we kept on getting killed
by hunger, bombs, sniper-fire & flames;
while others were concerned & angry, limbs
blown off children counted the ways peace failed.

You will be right. Beyond, in the chattersphere
great heart & small resolve vied for the stage
that was only, after all, its own mild siege.
You will say you died because we didn't care.

I have no words in answer, more to accuse
the long & blatant building of a cage
that i myself paid taxes for. Your refuge
shrinks like the yet-untrodden part of the maze.

You will say, in that distant ever-after,
forgiveness may be then: from other eyes.

"If you told me she had a lost novel about paperweights, I would believe you."

I just wish we could run things without resorting to gameliness. It's kind of like those 18c rakes who were so addicted to gambling they'd bet on literally anything. What does that have to do with choosing a leader? We've already inserted Advertizing into every transaction, & pretty much Surveillance too. I would like to just put Competition into its own place, like the Olympics, for the people who crave the emotions of that; & remove it from everything else...but i'm dreaming.

"Five years ago I started putting Fernando Pessoa's poetry into Scots."