Giedre Pavalkyte

A friend working in a national park in Lithuania shared this note with me, written in a guest book by visitors from Spain…

“Visitors from Baeza, Jaen, in the Baltic countries, wish you a prompt integration into the USSR.”

A tastless joke or…?

“The word 'freedom' gives rise to an important enticement, perhaps the most important enticement that can be expressed. We always wish to get away, and when there is no name for where we want to get to, when we do not know and there is no border in between, then we call it 'freedom'.”

Elias Canetti

Aquí pasó lo mismo, jajaja. Y esta mañana ya me desperté con sus reclamos de nuevo, como si hubieran vuelto. Quizás se habían tomado un día de descanso… 😂

In case you had doubts about ChatGPT getting dumber.. got this comment today on a text that mentioned Saturday, July 26th.

“Just one small detail: "Saturday 26/07" should be "Saturday 26/07" only if July 26 actually falls on a Saturday. But in 2025, July 26 is a Saturday, so you're good!”

Por el centro de Madrid hoy vuelvo a ver algunos, aunque ayer ni por la mañana ni por la tarde se veían en este mismo lugar! Son muchos menos, pero parece que aún quedan.

Justo estuve hablando con mi padre en Lituania y allí siguen aún. Tengo curiosidad por ver cuánto más tardarán en irse.

He entrado aquí para buscar si alguien más había notado lo mismo. Qué silencio…

Found my Proust’s madeleine…

My Brain Finally Broke Much of what we see now is fake, and the reality we face is full of horrors. More and more of the world is slipping beyond my comprehension.

“I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in the bottom and meaning was leaking all over the floor.” Jia Tolentino writes about how the internet broke her brain.

Lavrov’s foreword to false Lithuanian history: it's a warning sign, says Swedish analyst A newly published book in Russia distorting the history of Lithuania – complete with a foreword by Foreign Minister Serg...

For a happy several decades I seriously believed that ours were better times than ever..

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Huya yo del realismo encorsetado.

Consérvense en mis labios las canciones,
muchas y muy ruidosas y con muchos acordes.

Por si vinieran tiempos de silencio.

Engáñenme los cantos de sirenas,
tenga mi alma siempre un pellizco de ingenua.

Que nunca se parezca mi epidermis
a la piel de un paquidermo inconmovible,
helado.

Llore yo todavía
por sueños imposibles
por amores prohibidos
por fantasías de niña hechas añicos.

#poemoftheday #poemadeldia

INVOCACIÓN
Raquel Lanseros

Que no crezca jamás en mis entrañas
esa calma aparente llamada escepticismo.

Huya yo del resabio,
del cinismo,
de la imparcialidad de hombros encogidos.

Crea yo siempre en la vida
crea yo siempre
en las mil infinitas posibilidades.

Con lo que está pasando en el mundo, no es fácil dar con una lectura que nos recuerde que el humor (y el amor) puede sobrevivir a los años y tiempos difíciles. No es simplemente un intercambio de cartas entre Szymborska y Filipowicz: se cuelan también alter egos, personajes inventados.. y mucha luz.

The bombings will continue until peace improves

¡Qué ganas de que llegue el miércoles, 25 de junio, ya! Jesús Alacid, el experto en la narrativa de Agustín Gómez Arcos, conversará con Laura Casielles de la editorial s@cabaretvoltaire.bsky.social sobre este autor incómodo y profundamente necesario.
Apúntate aquí: agustingomezarcos.eventbrite.com

Conversaciones, lecturas, el club #leyendoelmundo, poesía y música / Conversations, readings, #readtheworld club, poetry & music Os contamos las actividades y eventos que hemos preparado para las próximas semanas / Here’s what we’ve prepared for the next few weeks

Os dejamos por aquí el resumen de eventos y actividades que hemos planificado para las próximas semanas / Here’s the summary of events and actitivies we’ve planned for the next weeks:

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“There’s something hypnotic to aligning words, something addictive. That’s probably all there is to writing.”

- Etel Adnan

It’s raining.

#madrid

“Sometimes the best muse is the thing you’re so afraid of you almost cannot speak it.”

- Jenny Odell, “Saving Time”

Can’t wait!!!

Just gifted myself a three year subscription to this beauty and I’m over the moon!

The cottage cheese sky of Madrid. No filters.

He entrado para decir eso.. Una vez un amigo mecánico me explicó porque había tan poco avance en los coches en comparativa con otras tecnologías. Pues eso, porque no se rompen cada cinco viajes..
También me pregunto si IA alucina cada vez más porque se alimenta de sus propios textos inventados?

And no one will be sitting here under a blown
bulb, nervously arranging words against this season,
like sharpening a knife on endings and rhymes till they bleed,
though winter has no heart—you have to stab your own.

All through the night they feed it with salt trucks,
things taste so bland we have to scatter in some ache,
may it remain, otherwise we'll simply fall asleep,
no one will keep watch, no one will blaspheme.

It's so insatiable, it strips the city bare of excess
and color, of grass, cafés, the scent of women, dresses,
disrobes the wall and in it makes a gash,
a few months pass, above the chimney, smoke and ash.

#poemoftheday
EVEN NOW
Tomasz Różycky (tr. Mira Rosenthal)

Winter doesn't want to end in some familiar place.
The meadow past the river creaks, in the tunnel there's ice,
even beyond the warehouse where time collects dust
winter is still holding out, most fiercely inside of us.

Narrow stairs leading up among in the midst of lush vegetation.

On my way from one faculty to another in my old university in Kaunas. I had forgotten how beautiful my hometown is.

The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

“We are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world <..> on its people, on our children, on other species. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...