There is something maddeningly attractive about the untranslatable, about a word that goes silent in transit. -- Anne Carson

Anne Carson ♥️

Be kind. Make things with your hands. Something. Anything. Make a fucking sandwich. Read a book. Listen to a record from start to finish. Literally anything at all that puts us closer to tipping the scale back toward humanity. It sounds trite, but what else is there?

Stop ordering things through apps! Go talk to the person who makes your coffee! Make a phone call! Make a list with a pen and honest to god paper! Stop using a computer to mimic what human hands can do! It can’t go on like this. It just can’t.

"The ideas you have in the pool are like the ideas you have in a dream, where you get this sentence that answers all questions you’ve ever had about reality and you get up groggily and write it down, and in the morning, it looks like 'let’s buy bananas...'" --Anne Carson interview-The Paris Review

Why do I do this? Why do I listen to a podcast that explains that many AI workers are explicitly anti-life? That they want not only a post-human world, but a post-biology one? That is to say, a world without breath, without paws and claws, without any non-simulated virtual green?

Made the mistake of going on Threads for six seconds

Many congratulations to Anne Carson for the well-deserved Nobel Prize! This is also great news for Translation, Classics, Poetry, the breaking of generic and disciplinary boundaries, and the fact that you don't have to fit a pre-existing mould to have a brilliant, successful career.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 5d ago

Canadian Anne Carson awarded Nobel Prize in Literature Carson, 76, has previously won several prestigious literary prizes www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...

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Just in! The 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson. 📷 Nobel Prize

I learned the word ‘incompossible’ yesterday; whereas impossible means things cannot exist at all, incompossible means ‘not capable of existing together or mutually exclusive’. Neat!

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

The Go-Betweens get reissued!

The Go-Betweens: Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express/Tallulah/16 Lovers Lane - Spectrum Culture

The Go-Betweens’ generosity in uninhibited truth, devoid of irony and filter, returns at the perfect time for younger fans of their sound and era to backfill their catalogs.

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ANMLY is now open for new work! We're especially seeking more from writers outside of the US, more nonfiction, graphic narratives, & translation! > anmly.submittable.com *Fee waivers available* Check out our latest issue to see what we're into! > anmly.org/ap42

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**ANNOUNCEMENT: Fees will be waived for all Black and Indigenous writers, and writers of Palestinian descent, to support those most targeted by state violence. Email editor [at] anomalouspress [dot] o...

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I just got a Best of the Net nomination! Thanks so much to Jet Fuel Review!

Not my favorite of the Powell/Pressburger films, but the one with the strongest private, personal meaning.

Old Hollywood@theoldhollywood.bsky.social · 2w ago

Director Michael Powell, Raymond Massey, Abraham Sofaer, Kim Hunter, David Niven and Roger Livesey between takes on the set of A Matter of Life and Death (1946)

Idea for potato chips: Bleakies

Finally some good news

StuFalk@stufalk.bsky.social · 2w ago

(GIFT ARTICLE) Scientists observed a family of pygmy raccoons near a Cozumel beach club learning from one another how to craft balls from paper, an indication that the animals have a culture. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/s...

JIM HENSON — born 90yrs ago today — started the show “Sam and Friends” in 1955 whilst a 19yr old Freshman at the University of Maryland. Here he is with the puppets from that show including an early version of Kermit.

Today is the 100th anniversary of the birth of John Coltrane. To mark it we have selected a number of essays and reviews from back issues of The Wire going back over 40 years, all attempting to come to an understanding of the meaning and significance of Coltrane’s life and music.

I have poems out in Sweet. sweetlit.org/james-miller...

James Miller

Press play to hear the author read their piece. Nine Hundred Office Hours The student sat in the student chair, told me a long story about how there would be big changes in her family soon. I had a…

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I was excited about having two poems out this week. This morning, I saw that the journal has disappeared. Feeling defeated. The poems are in limbo (for now) and I haven't written anything new in months.

writing tip: when in doubt, read

Reading a memoir, Light While There Is Light by Keith Waldrop. "Charles has always had plenty of words, if not much of a world to put them in."

"Sure, this city isn’t near major job markets and doesn't have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency services, but it does have a series of dilapidated ranch houses located between a data center and a second data center that is currently on fire." buff.ly/03WTZvh

Why Aren’t People Moving to This Town with Cheap Housing and Literally Nothing Else

“Sure, this city is in the middle of nowhere, isn’t near major job markets, and doesn’t have maintained roads, well-funded schools, or functioning emergency ...

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NYC street artists work fast….Fulton Street is now Parton Street 🙏 *Work by plannedalism(IG)

Morning listening. Back to Oklahoma today. The semester starts tomorrow. m.youtube.com/watch?v=yV6x...

Margaret Glaspy - Fruits Of My Labor (Feat. Julian Lage) (Official Live Session)

YouTube video by MargaretGlaspyVEVO

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Looking forward to the transition from a dead mall economy to an abandoned data center economy.

This geode that resembles the Cookie Monster was discovered by gemologist *Lucas Fassari* in November 2020 in the Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. #AGoodPlace

Telegram for everyone (including me): Please stop. Stop. rage reposting. Stop.