aaron boothby

I had wondered what you called a group of erupting volcanoes

I'm so sorry, for you, the bears, the ranger, I wish people knew how to...I don't know...be, with others, so many do not and it is killing everything

About the Human Aesthetic

I’m obviously part of it, and I hate it. I live at the wildland interface & I drive a car.

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After playing in the steam on my lunch, I’m driving home & pass two cars with flashers on. There’s a cub on the road. Original driver did not stop. Cub is barely alive.

not just for here

is there a blocklist for dudes who put contrarian in their bio

We must, all of us together, dig the grave in which colonialism will finally be entombed.

—Frantz Fanon

the added plural

we have very good walls, all over, it's a constant delight how well our walls are used

I reject fatalism [a form of moral disengagement]. What happens next is not predetermined and depends in part on us.

NOT YET Not tomorrow night but the night after tomorrow Not tomorrow but the night after tomorrow Then the moon will be full Then the moon will be full

Joanne Kyger

I saw a book that used ai stuff to I guess try to do something kinda interesting but had the usual cannot be used to train ai thing and hmm

I'd rather we didn't, personally, just...not

"If I could only write throughout my entire life with the electricity of the amateur."
– Kate Zambreno, Screen Tests

and Mboko won, what a god damn thing, 18 years old! amazing, maybe that's why the city had good vibes today

I caught up with a poet friend I hadn't got a chance to hang out with for way too long, at my favourite little coffee place in the city, and took a walk around the park where everyone was arriving for the tennis final, a really nice day

A reminder: Craig Steven Wilder's (MIT) *Ebony & Ivy* (2013) details how nearly every American college & university from the colonial era (incl. Penn) had direct ties to slavery, dispossession of Indigenous ppl, used enslaved ppls' bodies for research, barred Black ppl & women attendees, etc.

I just block people who complain about this place not growing fast enough as that is the opposite of what I want and also this line of thinking is inherently evil

a thread of poems from @jxzzhndz.bsky.social terrific new book of poetry from @nightboat.bsky.social that I also had the honor of blurbing---thank you 💜

Local Woman by Jzl Jmz (Nightboat Books, 2025).

One of the few things I'm absolutely sure of is that there's nothing wrong with being trans. We're just a type of person. We deserve equality because all people deserve equality.

"krizona" sounds more right really? nevada IS basically california east though? anyway as toys go these are low quality junk

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

History will not be kind to these souless cunts, but that isn't much recompense for the near endless pain we have to endure now.

I was so ready to see my first one, what a good day

I'm so over dystopias. I want messy, complex, imperfect utopias.

I've read so many visions of how things could go wrong - I want to read about how things could go right.

A panel of five poetry books including the anthology I’ll Get Right On It: Poems on Working Life in the Climate Crisis, edited by the Land and Labour Poetry Collective, published by Roseway.

Excited to see “I’ll Get Right On It” in the Quill & Quire 2025 Fall Preview.

I’m a co-editor on the Land and Labour Poetry Collective, and I co-wrote a poem with my lil sis 🐏

Hope you check it out, preorder, or request to your local library!

@fernpub.bsky.social #CanLit #Poetry #Work #Climate

a message; a word.

Color photo of an extraordinary theatre that still functions as such, but also has been turned into a Target. I know. It somehow still works. The photo is taken from an angle across the street, showing the marquee and the giant cream, red and light teal vertical sign rises above it proclaiming this the STATE THEATRE. Stretching out to the left is an exquisite, two level folded facade of tan brick.

Color close-up of the giant, triangular vertical sign sitting above the marquee, taken from dead center in front of it. On either side, florescent red lights spell out STATE vertically above a red band with cream letters that read THEATRE. In tiny letters, along the top of the marquee are the words NOW PLAYING

Color photo of 1-inch square tiles adorning one of the theater's entrances. On a background of cream tiles is the word STATE on top of the word THEATRE, both in red tiles. The word 'state' is spelled out using just one row of tiles, but the word 'theatre' uses two and so the word is consequently much larger. A line of red tiles separates these word from a light teal meander at both top and bottom. If this was in black and white, my shadow would fall film noir-ishly across half the tiles, but since the photo is in color please ignore it.

Color photo of the folded facade of tan brick that gives this part of the theatre its distinctive appearance.

The Art Deco AF stylings of the State Theatre.

Architect: C Howard Crane, 1942
Ann Arbor, Michigan

i can't. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

ah, that's cool! I was thinking about how the dams create ponds and slow water but not about sediments and how activity itself would be moving them along with currents and weather. really interesting, thank you.

there must be tariffs on tariffs at this point

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