thinking about music as a palimpsest. listening to a song over a decade or more and finding new meanings in it as you change and grow. new singers, new versions that tweak the lyrics, and it's not the same song but it is, it always is
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
On pre-order, our very Welsh Kickstarter project. They Are Still Here features stories of resistance and resilience in Welsh community, with a little help from our supernatural friends. wizardstowerpress.co...
in Seville, lots of horses in the plaza for carriage rides, all wearing blinke ers i idly wondered what it must be like to have your senses deliberately dulled to avoid you panicking in crowds. before remembering i've been wearing my earbuds basically since i left the hostel this morning. hmmm
Me: Bop it! Flick it! Spin it! Bop it! My proctologist: Mister Kelly, please
Noticing the nights drawing in? 🌙 October brings a big shift, with most of the UK losing over 2 hours of daylight this month. Do you enjoy the cosy evenings or miss the longer days?
The Dutch for bagpipes is "doedelzak" As ever, do with this information what you will
It's Spookums month! We've got lots of fun things on the schedule this month, especially during Spookums week. We have the return of Baddies Gate, Dead Space, Town Of Salem 2, and more! twitch.tv/thebunyipman.
on the way home i had the surreal experience of seeing a 4 foot tall heath ledger walking toward me in the dark. a moment later it resolved itself as a man wearing all black but with a white joker face print on his t-shirt
An iPlayer glitch watching an old episode of Dr Who gave me this oddly encouraging message:
what’s interesting about LLMs is that a stochastic regurgitation of training data, given enough data and enough tweaking and enough compute, can appear to be something more than a stochastic regurgitation of training data. but to imagine that it *is* more than that is magical thinking.
Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last wk.you can eschew anthropomorphizing language like "think" and "reason" and even "intelligence" but anyone who uses these tools regularly cannot fail to see that what they do is something more than just parroting.
also, a general reminder: in the CK3 game settings, you can ENTIRELY flip the whole world's attitude on gender. every male first/male only becomes female first/only. it's crazy fun to watch what happens, as the DAUGHTERS of historical characters fight for thrones. AND... achievements still work.
It was such an honour to read my poetry at Maidstone Literature Festival tonight on #nationalpoetryday and to be among so many gifted poets at the sold out poetry night. Many thanks to everyone involved in organising the event. #MaidstoneLitFest
dream blunt rotation includes ginger and kim
jookey spooky@jakeybakey.gay · last wk.does anyone have that one video
TBT: Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomson was given free drinks on the train to Glasgow for the first Old Firm match in ages, and got absolutely blitzed.
i know theses could be (and have) been written on the complexities of interacting on Grindr but i'm still tickled when someone with a bio that says "NO SEX, just friends and networking" is on Right Now looking for hole
Tried fisting for the first time and I got it wrong. I'm so embarrassed. I really put my foot in it.
I wrote about being chronically single, and about visiting a psychic to find out what's broken about me. she had some interesting things to say! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/the-most-u...
The Most Unlovable Man in New York City
On being chronically single and my visit to the love psychic
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