read this story by @perfidiousscript.bsky.social !!! goes so hard ... goes like crazy ... genuine dalliance with divinity

KEEP PLANNING@keep-planning.net · last mo.

#054 – "In a God's Hand" by Samuel M. Moss (@perfidiousscript.bsky.social)

No, that's not a cloud, it's a wildfire I can see from where I live.

i "grew up" listening to 90s rap & i love all that stuff but.. i hate the constant lifelong reprise-worship of those same albums over & over.. reminds me of boomers who ingest nothing much beyond the same ~500 monocultural "classic rock" songs their whole ass lives

The satellite dishes on the roofs resembled the wimples of an order of computer-literate nuns, committed to the sanctity of the workstation and the pieties of the spreadsheet.

The voice on the other end of the line sounded like a not quite convincing attempt to reconstitute the actual bodily consistency of whoever was in fact (apparently) speaking.

you can stop wandering when things stay perpetually good, which is to say never

neuroaesthetics?! yeah OK whatever buddy that's just me whenever i open a window … & find myself piqued by the stray Western Avenue exhaust fumes wafting through the trees

Jason Fuhrman with a kind, thoughtful, episode on his Youtube channel about 'The Veldt Institute' www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGat...

Life is a Malady | The Veldt Institute by Samuel M. Moss

YouTube video by Jason Fuhrman

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even more pleasurable than reading a friend's book & finding the book to be a very great book—emailing said same friend to tell them their own book is indeed a great book & being assured that the book in fact could well have been a substantially better book ... the true literary empyrean ☁️ ✍️ 🌀

armed conflicts more than doubled in the last 15 years

song is aging incredibly well i must say.. "civilization without society" ... "stability without stasis" ... & the power of the modest buzzy bassline shifts—sheesh.. just amazing, no matter how insufferable i find its maker(s) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHFz...

Kids See Ghosts

YouTube video by KIDS SEE GHOSTS - Topic

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From the archives, 2024: "The White Album" is, technically, I think, both autofiction and novelette, on Tokyo’s seasons and the lives of salarymen, published in new_sinews Issue 8, edited and designed by @illepitaph.bsky.social, in inimitable style. www.newnewsinews.com/issue8/album

alvin_lu ~ the white album — new_sinews

_Alvin Lu_fiction_THE WHITE ALBUM_news_sinews_issue8_

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1 of the most fundamental & indeed dismal discrepancies of the current moment—believing, namely, that you are expressing something essential & even "actionable" ... while functioning, for all intents & practical purposes, as mere data

ive been working on this poem "Shitty Fascist-Adjacent Wackass & Even Indeed Quite Precious Quote-Unquote Flash Fiction" for so long ... i hope to share my poem "Shitty Fascist-Adjacent Wackass & Even Indeed Quite Precious Quote-Unquote Flash Fiction" w/ friends quite soon :)

The know your enemy podcast interviewed an entrepreneur presenting as disillusioned fascist, is this the third time? such fucking marks those guys

the AI email gmail is suggesting i send is actively referencing text from another recent email i sent, but assuming wrongly that this potential email's sendee knows the sendee of the other email that the AI's referencing ... does gmail-AI believe email 2 be a function of inherently cozy community ??

Thank you @pw.org for including me in Literary MagNet! It was a lot of fun to talk about some of the great literary magazines I’ve had the honor to work with. www.pw.org/content/lite... @graywolfpress.bsky.social @diggingpress.com @new-sinews.bsky.social @talkvomit.bsky.social

Literary MagNet: Mandy-Suzanne Wong

The prose writer Mandy-Suzanne Wong highlights journals that have published some of her surprising, emotive essays on mollusks including Digging Press Journal and Black Warrior Review.

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read a bit from PLANE OF CONSUMMATE FINITUDE last night here in Chicago—been some months since the last time ... perhaps you might be interested in a copy! or else (alas) simply let this message slide down your timeline oblivionwardly :) newnewsinews.com/plane

steve barbaro — plane of consummate finitude — new_sinews

steve barbaro — plane of consummate finitude — a collection of poems with deep photomontage backgrounds — new_sinews

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You can now read "Eulalio Salmantino, 1921-2000" in the spring issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20... Very grateful to Guillermo and Jacob.

The speeding; staring. Incessantly consummated sprawlscapes. Fastfood signage looming crypto-crucifixially. Long drive after long self-un-fulfilling drive down earsearing arteries.

{ 1 / 24 / 2026 ~ 9:38 pm }

The bullshit asymmetry principle, or why Bannon's strategy to 'flood the zone with shit' is so hard to counter. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandol...

this is a jellyfish bruschetta acct now ... all about the jellyfish bruschetta & in fact *only* about the jellyfish bruschetta ... & if it's not about the jellyfish bruschetta sincerest apologies but—just can't fuck with it :(

neoliberal professionalism lives on in a weirdly pure form in the contemporary anglosphere poetry world ... some of whose constituents are frenetically publishing self-promoting organizing readings self-commemorating etc.. all of which actions (even more bizarrely) are often utterly bleh

almost finished reading DeWitt & Gridneff's YOUR NAME HERE—love the perspectival shifts ... the hyperclever cultural referents—well, i have lots of thoughts.. truly an E-Mail Novel ... seems to be present-tensely tackling a culture already ~20 years in the past; still, quite the dizzingly fun read

Susanna kneeling like Gabriel in an Annunciation and everybody with banderoles. What a weird Susanna and the Elders from Lorenzo Lotto, 1517. Florence, Uffizi.

{ 1 / 22 / 2026 ~ 12:28 pm }

The $1 billion OBBBA line-item for DOD "border operations" and the "temporary detention of migrants" is being used by the military as a slush fund to set up private-contractor infrastructure to treat the United States as a theater of military operations (Region 27) in coordination with DHS.

disturbing but not-un-enlightening to trace the increasing adjacency of "alt-lit" types to unabashed fascists on the other app ... not terribly surprising—if you just auto-concede to lacking any sort of intellectual substance let alone coherence, you're bound to default to the zeitgeist's toxicities