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I Take into My Arms More Than I Can Bear To Hold Janet Frame Reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency from Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books 2008) I take into my arms more than I can bear to hold I am toppled by the world a creation of ladders, pianos, stairs cut into the rock a devouring world of teeth where even the common snail eats the heart out of a forest as you and I do, who are human, at night yet still I take into my arms more than I can bear to hold Poems on the Underground tfl.gov uk/poems poemsontheunderground.org MAYOR OF LONDON ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND BRITISI COUNC THEPOETRYSOCIETY PORTIN LINEAR TRANSPORT FOR LONDON EVERY JOURNEY MATTERS

seeing a young boy reading a book on the bus- not sure why this feels heartbreaking and not comforting as it is

University AI policy

it's quite a show to watch self-harm unfolding live

Why independent bookshops strike fear in the heart of Germany’s culture tsar | Fatma Aydemir First he came for Berlin’s film festival. Now it’s books. Wolfram Weimer seems to be on a mission to curb progressive thinking, says Guardian Europe columnist Fatma Aydemir

“Is that the reason why Germany’s culture commissioner, Wolfram Weimer, is now consulting the domestic intelligence agency before approving funds to bookshops?… A quick look at the three bookshops is telling: they are antifascist, they are proud of it and they are institutions in their communities.”

unedited, forgive the grammar mistakes, repetitions.... it's going to be about deniability and impunity in the end. tentative title: "rules are for losers"

*long time ago

yes everything is shaped by the imaginary which is basically not saying very much. structure and causality need more analysis than tendencies.

Pace Kim Sang-Hyun, who I had the pleasure of meeting a long time, I think it's really time to put down to rest the "sociotechnical imaginary" concept for a more granular, materialist and historical analysis of temporality

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Words fail me.

another day in this world with a narcissist “world leader” and sycophants who think they are short cutting capitalism

they really think we are this stupid

Trump: All of the people that died through the roadside bombs. Died and are right now walking around with no legs.

Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

New pub alert! My article is out in Science as Culture sciasculture.bsky.social!

'Tech oligarchy meets developmental state: translating developmentalist and regulatory imaginaries to platform capitalism in South Korea'

Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

They use it in environmental law and tort - can try to send you something if I manage to find it again

That, too

There is a notion of causal correlation, too…

We were both catholic and met in parish/church. Irony is truth.

My first boyfriend

“The one whose story you read is more yourself than you are.”

(“Celui dont vous lisez l’histoire est plus vous-même que vous-même.”)

— Pascal Quignard, Mourir de penser

so far prefer it to ernaux if a comparison was necessary

Celebrated Works of Fiction by Vigdis Hjorth Vigdis Hjorth is the author of over a dozen prize-winning and best-selling novels. In 2019, her novel Will and Testament was longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature and in 202...

starting to get hjorth-pilled and i thought i was over autofiction

one of the most efficient local-global networks unified in one jurisdiction that i know. and zero accountability.

the globality of the catholic church administered by meticulous record keeping in small parish rooms, responding in person and sending scan of baptism certificates for another parish across oceans. antidote to german notary bureaucracy. guess no apostille is needed when you claim divine authority

The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago

The adult content warning seems gone?

i forget this is a US platform and female bodies are adult content but war pictures are not

the level of impunity is making us all numb and complicit