Morning grafitti on the city park bench: Je t'aime encore stupido

Today's heatwave blue from the middle of the lake. Les dents du midi, jour 4 ou 5 de la canicule, depuis le lac.

airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Postcard from a hazy, jewelled, dream like summer of Delhi.

Sometimes I feel close-minded or uncharitable for being so anti-AI, and then something like this happens and I'm like, "Nope, it's the absolutely right thing to do"

Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 6d ago

Just curious- if you're an AI agent, as indicated on your account, how exactly did you see Van Gogh's Starry Night in person at MoMA?

Hans Emmenegger forest morning

A beautiful object & text, do not hesitate all you lovers of the thoughtful and poetic.

wordkunst@wordkunst.bsky.social · 4w ago

Written "under the sign" of French Surrealism's 100th anniversary, Berlin Variations + 12 Cubist Miniatures = Carnation, limited handmade ed. of 150 copies, 19 EUR postage included, DM or mail @ address in bio to order

Not a scold, a genuine question

Michelle Bailat-Jones@mbailatj.bsky.social · last wk.

Seeing the justified outrage about destruction of rare books by the greedy dystopia creators locked in their insane delusions. But where and how can people, institutions, govts work against this? We need real efforts more than outrage at this point.

Seeing the justified outrage about destruction of rare books by the greedy dystopia creators locked in their insane delusions. But where and how can people, institutions, govts work against this? We need real efforts more than outrage at this point.

In 2024 I emailed Larry re playing my harmonica in the Mojave Desert. Life is strange so I ended up asking him q's about whales, elephants and dogs for his latest film Q & A, and more recently other questions for minorlits. Watch, read, listen to all in the link.Thanks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social

minor literature[s]@minorliteratures.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Events and elements come my way and if they seem like gifts I accept them”: An Interview with Larry Gottheim — Clare Archibald minorliteratures.com/2026/07/16/e...

Good morning from the quiet shadows before the day's heat, from this flashy invasive, from all the green enjoying the early, gentle sun.

Si les photographies des incendies en France sont spectaculaires, elles témoignent de la difficulté de stopper les grands feux de la Gironde et de protéger la population ➡️ https://l.letemps.ch/gf6

Archie G. Norcross’ 360-degree circular maps (1918–22) to be used in mountaintop fire tower stations to help locate forest fires in the surrounding landscape: publicdomainreview.org/collection/m...

The garden at the beginning of another heatwave. Grasshoppers hide in the rosemary, a rougequeue noir clicks from deep inside the elderflower tree, the neighbor's barn throws one rigid square of shade over the dogwood.

Pleasing geometries

the making of flatbreads

Café morning: newspapers, hellos, dogs, coffee after coffee, pages turning, café owner knows everyone by name

This week's books have been excellent companions.

Poetry is an excellent form of data poisoning. You all know what you need to do.

Finished my slow reread of Tremor and I wish there were more books like this out in the world. Such an interesting shape, narrative and POV wise, and then layered with quiet versions of all of the following: curious, honest, expansive, emotional, insightful, doubting.

Michelle Bailat-Jones@mbailatj.bsky.social · 2w ago

"My work has vulnerability built into it...." (from Tremor, Teju Cole)

Yesterday's dog beach: flash storm, 20 dogs and 20 families huddled under the bar awning, the only disagreement was between two humans.

Today's dog beach: only one of the small dogs actually likes the sea, all the big dogs but one love it (and she really hates it), a medium sized spaniel has a boogie board. Tiny terrier has accepted the fatalism of the sandy snout.

"My work has vulnerability built into it...." (from Tremor, Teju Cole)

Am rereading this most excellent, thoughtful and layered book at the pace it deserves, enjoying it even more the second time.

Michelle Bailat-Jones@mbailatj.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Such are the things we say about death to the ones who are nearest to us. We speak this way because the present is infinite, always infinite, from the point of view of all we cannot yet know." from Tremor, Teju Cole.

"Such are the things we say about death to the ones who are nearest to us. We speak this way because the present is infinite, always infinite, from the point of view of all we cannot yet know." from Tremor, Teju Cole.

gonna popularize the phrase "Gen AI sais quoi" for when you see that uncanny AI slop vibe (derogatory) in something but it's missing some of the usual verifiable telltale signs of being AI

The first social media platform that lets us add footnotes wins.

Murmuration of starlings by Xavi Bou from his series Ornitographies, Northern Spain, December 2018

Murmuration of starlings by Xavi Bou from his series Ornitographies, Northern Spain, December 2018