re-retired poet

Ill repeat something I said a while ago: I hope those who get to become professors 25 years from now remember the entire generation who never even got a chance. Take a moment to think about all the people doomed to never follow their dreams

21.10.2025 18:01 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

Literally no one wants this janky surveillance garbage. It’s men who don’t like people and treat them like appliances making computers to simulate people they can treat like an appliance: Offensive on every human level.

16.10.2025 20:13 — 👍 32    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2

Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’ | Defector When David Lehman, a poet then working as a book critic for Newsweek, proposed the project for The Best American Poetry anthology, he was searching for a national platform. His first anthology project...

Must read for the book world from @defector.com and something I would have cited the hell out of in Art of Libromancy if it'd been out before I wrote it. tl;dr: Publishing is always ideological, especially when we claim it's not.

01.10.2025 13:00 — 👍 31    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 2

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

22.09.2024 11:07 — 👍 1035    🔁 437    💬 17    📌 23

Zhou Chunya (b. 1955). Year after Year the Flowers Bloom. 2009

18.09.2025 22:42 — 👍 68    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 1

Appraiser touching a coat. Caption: coat that if touched loses all value $0-$0

Model plane. Caption: plane from when people were smaller $22,000-$30,000 (in big people money)

A mirror in which you can see the photographer. Caption: photographer trapped in mirror. $5,000-$6,000

Appraiser and man both laughing, looking at some weird bowls. Caption: bowls that make you laugh $350-$500

I'm feeling grumpy, so in an attempt to change that I am posting these old fake Antiques Roadshow pictures that make me laugh

18.07.2025 00:04 — 👍 6682    🔁 2255    💬 68    📌 81

Meena Kandasamy We are Not the Citizens நாமார்க்குங் குடியல்லோம் நமனை யஞ்சோம் நரகத்தி லிடர்ப்படோம்நடலை யில்லோம் naamaarkum kudiyallom, namanai anjom naragathil idar padom, nadalai illom We are not the subjects of anyone We do not fear the god of death We shall not suffer, were we to end in hell We’ve no deception, we’ve no illusions. naamaarkum kudiyallom, namanai anjom naragathil idar padom, nadalai illom Nobody’s citizens and nobody’s slaves Fearless of lynchings and beheadings Unscathed by the torrent of hell-fires We do not tremble at certain death. naamaarkum kudiyallom, namanai anjom naragathil idar padom, nadalai illom As people, we refuse to be ruled As people, we refuse to die As people, we refuse to suffer As people, we refuse to be deceived. naamaarkum kudiyallom, namanai anjom naragathil idar padom, nadalai illom (After the Thevaram, as sung by Appar Thirunavukkarasar) Notes: 1. “Naamaarkum kudiyallom, namanai anjomnaragathil idar padom, nadalai illom” are lines from the classic Tamil poetry of the Bhakti poet Thirunavukkarasar (Appar), who was persecuted for his faith in Shaivism by Mahendravarman, the Jain Pallava emperor . It’s widely believed that these lines were sung when efforts were made to arrest him and produce him in Mahendravarman’s court. Because the seventh century Tamil of Appar is still in use — and at the same time, some words have fallen out of the everyday vocabulary — it opens up to all of these renderings, all of these translations. This declaration, that we are not citizens/subjects, is a radical slogan to throw in the face of the state. In today’s world, rife with the refugee crisis, these words resonate. They encapsulate the people’s rejection of a state and, closer home, brings to mind the poet/writer’s disowning her/ his association with a state. 2. This poem is a rendering in the form of an independent poem. The initial lines are word-for-word, but later, the poem begins to convey the spirit without taking away from the meani…

my dad sent me this couplet in 2016, which i have been thinking about a lot. (the original is from a 7th century hymn by Appar, each English verse is a possible translation)

04.07.2025 12:03 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The Plight Of The White Male Novelist | Defector In July of 2022, Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that her literary agent friend told her editors are no longer interested in reading first novels by young white male writers, “no matter how good.” She was s...

real analysis >>> breathless concern

03.07.2025 14:48 — 👍 42    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

Genre of chart I’m increasingly interested in practicing - great big one that tries to map out parts of the world system:

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15.11.2024 11:37 — 👍 13    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 3

Rather beautifully, Professor Mahmood Mamdani's dedication in "Neither Settler Nor Native" is to his trail-blazing son, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social.

He quotes the revolutionary Chinese writer Lu Xun's famous concluding lines in "Hometown":

「其實地上本沒有路，走的人多了，也便成了路。」

-魯迅，故鄉
#everynightapoem

26.06.2025 02:06 — 👍 602    🔁 179    💬 7    📌 9

Imprimi as fotinhas que tirei com a Game Boy Câmera em Brasília pro meu caderninho de lembranças 🥹

14.06.2025 22:23 — 👍 761    🔁 32    💬 26    📌 2

Simon Bailly

Simon Bailly

07.06.2025 17:48 — 👍 398    🔁 52    💬 3    📌 4

If you want to know why I drip with disgust about these companies it’s because I love technology and I hate them for what they’ve done to the computer. It has never been perfect, but four or five companies decided that it had to be this bad, and they should be treated like war criminals for it.

05.06.2025 01:09 — 👍 1216    🔁 192    💬 13    📌 10

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14.05.2025 14:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A tree with 40 different fruits planted in Philadelphia Move over, Liberty Bell.

"This art project is a single grafted tree that produces 40 varieties of apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, and other stone fruits."

what!

www.popsci.com/environment/...

04.04.2025 21:25 — 👍 241    🔁 32    💬 12    📌 3

How I Got Comfortable With Cooking, And Eating | Defector There’s a document on my computer called “food.txt.” According to the metadata, I created it in October 2023, and I’m sure I’ve opened it at least every couple days since. It would be incoherent to an...

went long on my journey toward becoming a person who cooks, and a person who doesn't try to stop herself from eating: defector.com/how-i-got-co...

13.02.2025 15:34 — 👍 397    🔁 40    💬 16    📌 10