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I was so happy my copies arrived from @Downingfield, I... Lilies on the Deathbed of Étaín, my second collection just landed in my house. Critically praised, a Scotsman book of the year, pick up a copy and bring me back to life! amazon.co.uk/dp/0645231819/ #poetry #writing #ireland

@JB_StoneTruth @BenBrindise @Pureinkpoetry Hah no. I don't really consider it poetry. Frustrates me as it's very self righteous, but its proponents are excellent marketers, this squeezing out air space for art :)

@JB_StoneTruth @BenBrindise @Pureinkpoetry I like my poetry to be artistic, beautiful and well crafted, not confessional first person plain English sentences with line breaks.

@JB_StoneTruth @BenBrindise @Pureinkpoetry Better word play. Slam is 90% stand-up without the jokes.

@cpk @bernardtjoy Also great shout. The Londo G'Kar arc is top tier

That one reminded me a bit of "Deathwalker", an episode of Babylon 5, with a similar theme, though B5 was much less optimistic about humanity self-correcting when faced with such an opportunity. "Yᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ɴᴏᴛ ʀᴇᴀᴅʏ ꜰᴏʀ ɪᴍᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟɪᴛʏ."

Trekkies can correct me, but it must be a very common opinion that one of the main ways Star Trek so cleverly solved the problem of portraying a utopian future, that being the inevitable sense of paralysis and stultification in such a morally excellent society, was by evincing an imperialistic ethos of discovery whereby barbarous worlds as foil could be encountered and placed under the microscope of the Federation's higher moral standards. Whether in Earth's past or in distant zones of the universe, the utopian society acts as universal critic but what interests me is that it is these other, lesser societies that are the only escape such a utopian science fiction can have from stalling under the weight of its own perfection.

@AndrewRawson11 @PadraigBelton @whippletom This was vaguely my reading of the article too. She was so structured in her approach

@PadraigBelton @whippletom She drove him to drink. He said thanks for the lift.

Brutally awful Guardian blind date lady this week

@MrEwanMorrison The writing is horrid. It's tepid. It can not rise nor roar.

There is a monotonous flatness to AI generated text. Also, it's like "the writer" has only one task - to embellish.

@cpk @bernardtjoy Aye.

@Breen @bernardtjoy And also the third TNG movie (more like a two-part TV episode than a film but...similar theme.)

@suilleabhain4 Indeed. Pass a law. Remove leasehold. Oh we shafted a bunch of pricks...

This nonsense should have ended with our great grandparents' generation, not burdened onto us well over a century later. x.com/i/status/20350…

@kazuma_man You should be up at the session in the crane

Galway Carroll’s Barのパブセッションに参加して飲んで、その後もMary Mullens Barで飲んで盛り上がった！

@dieworkwear I don't know who any of these oddities are, but somehow I find this one worse.

Just realized they crammed Knowles's set with a bunch of urban masculinity cliches, and then made Walsh's set the rustic counterpart. So instead of "Batman aesthetics," he has the fish, stone fireplace, and canoe-shaped-shelf with tiny old books. An example of gender performance

the aesthetics are incredible. cigars and crystal decanter with japanese whisky. black dress shirt, tight suit, two-toned double monks, and tie bar. arne jacobsen egg chair teamed with a studio backdrop with a car inexplicably inside the room. a 12 yr old's idea of masculinity

@MinooFramroze This, plus my own country's history, plus the greeks and arabs, minus the orange twit, and with fuck the Normans, is pretty much my own upbringing

We should start by teaching British children myth & legend - Egyptian, classical, Celtic, Arthurian, Norse - then teach them national narrative history from Julius Caesar to William of Orange, and only then let the bright enthusiastic ones at thematic source analysis

@ScottLaudati Aaardvark

@RMFrancis Yup

Yep

@NatureUnedited @JulianD86666247 I want to hug them all

These adorable great horned owls were recorded in Arizona, nesting in a saguaro cactus. They were moments away from falling asleep, all bundled up together

@brecht_dp Teehee

@Breen I couldn't have said it better (and AI definitely not 😂)

More people seem to be worried about a novel being AI-assisted, than about Hachette publishing absolute crap in the first place.

@brecht_dp No, person with several million, a family pile in the upper east side of Manhattan and several houses, you are not oppressed. You do not get to dictate ethics. Your entire attitude is poison. ;)

@brecht_dp They're all at it. High end lit has largely been emperor's new clothes for decades, overseen by a coterie of wealthy idiots readapting critical theory to place themselves as victims in order to reintroduce Victorian style didacticism.

@bernardtjoy I agree. Your post also reminds of Foucault's essay from, I think, the 80s, about the decontextualisation of the centre, but that 'centrehood' is a non local usable but permanent relational property of an object, yet not, in fact, due to relationality, contained in the object

Art is made for many social, political, commercial and financial reasons that go beyond the artwork as artwork. So, an artwork is an artwork and it is a driver of change, and a securer of power, and a commodity. However, if there is not at least one artist at the centre of the project interested if not exclusively then mostly in human experience and their craft and technique then the artwork cannot be made to any degree of high quality, cannot fulfil its primary role.

@SketchesbyBoze This one is pretty hilarious.

You can be pretty confident that someone doesn’t read when they say “raped over at Kohl’s” rather than “raked over the coals.” As literacy declines, we are seeing new & unparalleled malapropisms.