I took a friend to a Geoffrey Hill poetry reading in Leeds during my student days and it was all I could do to stop him shouting this out.
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![[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hppum4l25hcczzffastsicpq/bafkreihuubdwcftfkvvlnepoaf6pfxqulryfp7ydrydi5fe2pflwz63wgm@jpeg)
[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]
Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
23.02.2025 23:44 — 👍 12160 🔁 4371 💬 54 📌 143
These systems aren't "hallucinating" - this is exactly what you expect from a word order guessing machine
If anyone's having hallucinations it's (a) the tech companies that market them as information engines and (b) the users who eat it up without a single second of questioning
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Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Based in Melbourne on Wurundjeri lands of the Kulin nations, we run publications, events and programs to strengthen poetry and poets across the nation.
australianpoetry.org
Making literature exciting, relevant and inclusive
electricliterature.com
A daily literary website highlighting the best in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and criticism.
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Translator from Russian to English. Iliazd, _Rapture_. 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship for Iliazd, _PhiloSophia_ (excerpts from Rab-Rab Press). Iliazd's _Speechless Sentence_ and excerpts from _parisites_ and _dUnkee fərEnt_ in _TYPO_ #7.
The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
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Left atheist skeptic sweary Boomer.
Nobel laureate in knitting.
RN & RMN since 1977 but not 'just a nurse'.
Posts about health & politics.
Friend of Science In Medicine.
GetUp puppet
Poet & visual artist on unceded Yuin Walbunga Country in Australia. Afterlife portraits of animals & birds. Alternative darkroom with drawing & painting. Grainger Gallery and Anima Mundi. Poetry collections with Puncher & Wattmann. Member of FNAWN & Oculi.
« Le Monde » est un journal français fondé par Hubert Beuve-Méry en 1944. C'est aussi un compte Bluesky qui poste l'actualité en continu de façon automatisée.
The Sea Chest (Recent Work Press), Best of Australian Poems 2024, and more. Wakes with the moon. 🦉🌙
Independent Senator for the ACT.
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Authorised by David Pocock for David Pocock, Canberra
Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia
Poetry, books, art, history.
Resisting the urge to despair.
Writer, educator & songwriter. Winner Bruce Dawe & KSP Poetry Prizes. *New* poetry book IF THERE IS A BUTTERFLY 🦋 out now at: https://t.co/FPFwlIvxvn
Poet/editor • Monica Taylor Poetry Prize • NSW Poetry Prize • Dalkey Poetry Prize • Anamnesis (Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist & Rubery Book Award shortlist) • Currently Writer-in-Residence at Don Bank Museum • denise-ohagan.com
I am a poet, critic, & essayist who lives in a tiny home with the love of his life, an ex-racer, rescue greyhound named Billy-Blue. I love to share & be inspired.
I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
