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[leirelatent]

“Still Life of Books” (1628), by Jan Davidsz de Heem

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

[elwenyere]

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

[oldshrewsburyian]

I'm so glad they got Ted Chiang -- a wonderful writer of science fiction and thinker about technology, in my opinion -- to write this essay. My favorite line was this:

Generative A.I. appeals to people who think they can express themselves in a medium without actually working in that medium.

[weltenwellen]

Andrea Gibson, Lord of the Butterflies

[weltenwellen]

Nikki Giovanni, The Collected Poetry, 1968-1998

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from "I Went Out to Hear"

[altruisticwriter]

-William Wordsworth

[ryebreadgf]

bye nyc! love you!

[bettedavisgf]

truly can’t get over how much everybody dunked on tumblr for banning porn and yet in 2022 this is the last bastion of social media sites where you are allowed to say tits without being blasted into space

[weltenwellen]

Kaveh Akbar, from "Heritage", Calling a Wolf a Wolf

[academia--nut]

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

— Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

weird how every single thing we ever experience is cosmically mundane but individually profound

[vintageeveryday]

Lovers on the grass in Washington Square Park, New York, 1953. Photograph by Ernst Haas.

[lifeinpoetry]

A joke I was once told goes, I didn’t choose this life, this life chose me. Fuck that. Choose a hell of your own making over the hell that unmakes you. Flower a garden of rage & eat & eat & eat.

— Natalie Wee, from “Wei Ying Tells Me about Resurrection,” Beast at Every Threshold

[kestalsblog]

Not every story is about seeing yourself in it. Sometimes it’s about learning to see other people too.

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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

—Maya Angelou

Image by Rich Stapleton

[weltenwellen]

Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

[wiremothers-deactivated20230129]

god calls me on the payphone, tells me there aren't enough magnolia trees in the garden. asks me a question. i spend my whole life answering it.

[futuresabove]

“how to read more” “how to read faster” “how to read daily” STOP STOP stop STOP this is not a competition. read slowly, read when you’re in the right state of mind, really savour it, read for pleasure, read for yourself. don’t read for performance, stats or to compare yourself to others