[holly-warbs]

Sketchbook drawing from a moment in Verőce, Hungary.

[firstfullmoon]

Jason Shinder, “Coda,” in The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing

[rosechata]

sweeping prairies and endless skies

[bebewrites]

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almos

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.

[fairycosmos]

im always like hehe im so smart i will avoid shame by never doing anything ever but then i feel ashamed of not living and it turns out i didn't escape any sort of discomfort i just traded it in for a less rewarding kind

[anothermusic-blog]

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Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen

[mycutepastels]

FU Cake

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[jellogram]

I should be doing more to appreciate the lack of marvel movies in today's popular culture. I once yearned for marvel movies to have this level of irrelevance. They used to feel almost ozymandian, like an empire that had no beginning and no end. and now tony stark iron man is naught but two vast and trunkless legs of stone.

[ttaibhse]

i’m undiagnosing everyone’s everything. congratulations we are all free

[aaami]

"I like using ai"

[soracities]

Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch (trans. Gregory Rabassa)

[Text ID: “As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard.”]

[mournfulroses]

Timothy Liu, from a poem titled "I Want It to Be Winter All the Time," featured in Poetry (March 2026)

[jacindaelena]

Apartments in New York ‘At Home with Books’, October 1995

[urgetocreate]

Jeffery T. Larsen (American b.1962), In the Light of Morning, 2003, Oil on linen

[mamawasatesttube]

the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.

[kap-wa]

Old Growth by Mitch Epstein (2021–2023)