Alexander Dan

Haha kannski bara! Takk!!!

ah, yes. the anti-climax of finishing a draft. then you get to rewriting or editing or proofreading (which all then have their own anti-climax) until the finished thing is done and ready and by then you're so done with it.

which is great motivation to work on a new thing and do it all over again.

there is no escape

This job is cringe and shameful and writers should stay locked in their attics and cellars is the lesson here

Went to a coffee shop to write for a change of scenery and one hour in I became suddenly so self-aware that I was writing in public. When is writing in public not performative? STOP PERCEIVING ME

Ekki gera handritshöfundum þann greiða að eyða allri orku og fókus á hlutverk smjörkúksins. Horfum á leikritið í heild sinni. Það snýst um að skipta í fylkingar, venjuvæða hatur og fá hrætt fólk sem veit ekki betur til að setja X á réttan stað. Móta jarðveginn fyrir öfgahægrið.

Told you a hundred times but did you listen? Yes, you did. Gotta do what you gotta do.

want to read something so specific but still too hard for me to explain concisely so badly that it probably means it's just something I have to write

Nobody wants to talk about it but my whole life has been a corporate psyop shifting the burden of saving our burning planet onto me, the consumer trapped in consumerism, when the reality is that my lifetime of recycling is negated by one private flight by Elon Musk, Bernie Sanders, or Taylor Swift.

We are not trivialising LLMs.

Copyright theft is not trivial.

Environmental damage is not trivial.

Unreliability is not trivial.

Risk to human cognition is not trivial.

Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.

Ok I’m not even completely sure why but I’m so sold!

Like the fantastic Pith notebook, which has heavier stock and is the right kind of coarse for various mediums, like painting. The best paper in my opinion for writing with fountain pens is without a doubt Tomoe River. Extremely thin and beautifully exceptional in making all ink the best it can be.

It varies greatly, but generally it can’t be too coarse and ink has to dry relatively quickly and not feather. The tactile feel of writing, with various implements as shown, has to feel right. Sometimes that is incredibly smooth like this 90g paper from Clairefontaine, almost silken or…

Writing sample on lined paper of a Sailor 1911 L in medium-fine, Sailor blue-black ink; Pilot Falcon in soft-medium, iroshizuku yama-budo ink,; Cinnamoroll gel pen in black; and Blackwing 602 pencil, along with each writing instrument on top of the page.

Fountain pens are nice. But most often only on good paper. Good paper is good for everything. A Blackwing pencil or a Cinnamoroll gel pen will write beautifully on good paper, just like a Sailor 1911 will. Paper, paper.

I love paper.

#fountainpens

Yeh. I remember discussing the ways of the Sith, which they allowed already then, and being surprised at this hypocrisy. And being adamant that it was vital for my knowledge of black magic rituals being reflected in my title (I refused to accept seiðkarl as a valid option).

I remember I had to fight them for it. But it is accurate.

Cover of the novel “Kasia og Magdalena” by Hildur Knútsdóttir.

Non-Icelandic speakers, you’d better pray you get this book by @hildur.bsky.social in translation sooner rather than later. It made me tear up a dozen times at least.

I accidentally opened what was once known as the bird site and thought it was bluesky and just couldn’t figure out why it had become so incomprehensibly and unbelievably shit in just a few days or so

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

Haha þetta var svo geggjuð byrjun á deginum! Takk fyrir gott spjall, svona morgunbókaklúbbur er toppnæs.

Ooh waa we're just big rich babies our industry is dying because of tech taking over so obviously only tech can save us with their anti-art superweapons everyone's doing it stop hating us for it waa. Pathetic.

Six-headed lamb maybe

nature is healing

!!!! Ertu loksins komin með hlaðvarp! Eða svoleiðis. Ég hef lengi beðið eftir þessu, greinilega möst að endurdeila.

make the shift to house jazz. you can do it.

I really hate this. Don't know how to phrase it differently.

Map of Grindavík, showing the fissure eruption today, lying straight through the defensive parameters for the town.

Current overview map at 11:00.

Eruption in Grindavík, fissure volcano approx. 500 meters from the town of Grindavík.

Image from RÚV (Ragnar Visage) of the eruption that just started, again, in Grindavík. It lies right through the defensive walls and the new fissure is 500 meters from the nearest house in town.

The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.

Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.

”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"