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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 1h
8 pages in to _postage stamps_ and "obsessive jay wright phase" seems close to locked in
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 7h
"that's historically inaccurate" - ancient my wife proverb
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 7h
tried to read my wife a funny post about basho and now she's ranting about how his whole deal was that he was really good at parties
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bog landlord @pondslurp.bsky.social · 9h
i had a blast but can you please not invite basho next time? his vivid depictions of the change of seasons make me painfully aware of my own transience
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 7h
i want to applaud james joyce for the ending of finnegans wake. really doing 'the' work
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 8h
your presumptuous claim to know me better than i know myself vs. my deftly cutting through your Veil Of Cope to penetrate your Reality Of Need
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 11h
non-op laundromat
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 12h
the bay of fun dip
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 12h
llms go very very fast i think it would do some good to let them do something that requires that they Slow Down and Exist In Time
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 14h
need to read way more jay wright, this is so extremely My Shit
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 14h
coffee shop is playing the entirety of elliott smith's either/or hope the baristæ are doing alright
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 14h
poetry is just more fun when reading it involves doing this
poem by jay wright full of annotations

POEM:

The pentatonic spring washes its winter clothes.
Five is a difficult color—
not this green of reflected sky, nor the red
clamor of midnight riding by on a church bell.
Think of the Greek of it,
an Egyptian river,
the dry desert voice you hear in the cleansing.
All before this moment found its own measure,
an ingenious inganno, a blessure
occasioned by a consonant's turmoil,
a Germanic algebra brightly a-boil
through all the strings, a fortspinning always pure,
always a public shrine to a wood secure
in its origin.
                    White is a difficult
sound in the edowa above the tumult
fastened to the soul of widows, magnitude
that arms the darkest nebula. The rude
dead awaken to another baptism.

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ANNOTATIONS

[underlined: "washes" (l. 1), "cleansing" (l. 7); asterisk in margin before "All before this moment" (l. 8)]
[above "pentatonic"] five sounds, tones [?], colors
[right margin, l. 1] spring, rebirth
[after "Think of the Greek of it,"] → pentecost, 50th day spring feast; Spirit arriving as sound & tongues of fire
[left margin, arrow to "an Egyptian river,"] Nile spelled in Greek (ΝΕΙΛΟΣ) adds up to 365
    N=50
    E=5
    I=10
    Λ=30
    O=70
    Σ=200
    -----
    365
[after "cleansing."] John the Baptist
[above "inganno"] deceit (it.)
[above "blessure"] injury (fr.)
[above "fortspinning"] further development (ge.)
[above "edowa"] turtle (zu.)
[after "The rude"] → uneducated; unrefined; ill-mannered; harsh, ungentle; turbulent (weather); robust (health); roughly made; lacking shape
[below "baptism."] cleansing; second baptism @ [?] the Pentecost
inganno: deceptive cadence, sets up resolution to home chord, resolves elsewhere
fortspinnung: middle stretch of a Bach-style ritornello, opening idea extended by sequence and elaboration
Edowa: Zuni Indigenous word for turtle, in context, likely a turtle shell rattle; dead go to a village under lake Kołuwala:wa; turtles from that lake are regarded as kin
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 15h
guys let's read _postage stamps_ by jay wright
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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 16/08/2025
weirdly gratifying to see capitalists burning billions of dollars to prove poststructuralism and huayan buddhism correct
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ponder @ponder.ooo · 16h
person talking to computer, saying "will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
computer replies ">you got it, boss"
person replies "oh my god."
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🚬🐚 @clammee.bsky.social · 17h
anyhow
youtu.be
Ground Zero - Consume Red
YouTube video by Stefan Malešević
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 29/09/2026
if it were up to me the first sense they'd give embodied llms is hearing and the first thing they'd give them to listen to is morton feldman's second string quartet
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 29/09/2026
free and easy dreams, bsky 。zZ }Ĭ{
tailnia.bandcamp.com
Northern Flicker, by Ķæ P. Rujhaan
2 track album
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 29/09/2026
circus peanuts are possibly the most baudrillardian objects in existence
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 29/09/2026
over maided body
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yvvy🗡️whipskids @puppyvonne.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
oh that's just wandelslop, you only like it because it's mostly silent
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 29/09/2026
i guess i have been getting a bunch of these ever since i took out a loan to pay for getting a pussy, love our "oh you have a little debt? do you want more?" society
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 29/09/2026
北冥有魚 (Northern Dark has a-fish)
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 29/09/2026
the zhuangzi:
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 29/09/2026
the zhuangzi:
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/09/2026
i'm not totally unable to revise my poems after their originating enthusiasm has passed, but these days editing that occurs a year or more after first writing is mostly limited to cutting and tightening, with very little expansion or deep reconceiving
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/09/2026
this is my friend, Chaz Titikaj
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/09/2026
bitches love me for my strong credit profile
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/09/2026
this is my friend, Finn Gerlissglov
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/09/2026
i wish the specific enthusiasm that produced this poem could have coincided spatiotemporally with my current talent level as a poet, it's almost a really good poem
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If anyone asks me to perceive things I simply link @rosenovick.com's poem to them and smile serenely
(It appears crooked, that half-submerged)
It appears crooked, that half-submerged
stick, but it is not.
How much mischief hides in that appears;
how much more in that
is not. A whole world of confusion –
no, two: the real one
and the apparent alike dwell there,
by their requited
antipathy sustained. Stick, you are
a trickster, wearing
now this face, now that, shrugging off each
as the medium
demands. Now, you resemble a stick,
straight (enough), hung half
in water, half air, tossing off light
in patterns wholly
sensible, under such conditions.
(Do I ask too much
of you, stick? You’re only a stick. Still:
no thoughts but in things.
Maybe better: no things but in thoughts.
It comes to the same.)
My eye, unused to light in water,
denies the water
though it sees it, certain: only air.
Worlds the fruit of this
first disobedience, worlds that split
you, stick, in two: real
and less than real, body and shadow.
Do I ask too much
of you? But I ask only that you
appear as you are,
and this you’d do without my asking.
What is more (I trust,
stick, I am not boring you with all
this babbling), I
have heard a most curious report.
I have heard: no stick.
I have heard: no air, no water, no
light, no things, no thoughts.
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/09/2026
about halfway through the term i set for this prediction to prove true (1yr), and folks, it's not looking great
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/09/2026
this is my friend, Finn Gerlissglov
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/09/2026
tim apple should have split from apple and made his own operating system, tacOS
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 28/09/2026
the zhuangzi:
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toxicojendron radicans @toxicoradica.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
🌼 ghost pipe 🌿 Monotropa uniflora doesn't photosynthesize, hasn't chlorophyll #nativeplants #ecoregion71
three ghost pipes growing from bare dirt, near moss, on the forest floor. these small flowers each have a slender, waxy white to pale pink stem with occasional white, scale-like leaves with margins starting to turn black. at the top of the stem, not even making it up ankle-high, the stem bends completely over and terminates in a single nodding flower. there are more, larger, and fresher leaves by the top of the stem than in its upright section, all translucent white. the bell-shaped flower has white petals that obscure all reproductive structures within. a twig has been used to bend one of the ghost pipes over to get a look inside the flower. within the curtain of white petals, there is a large cream white stigma, broad enough to fill most of the area within the petals. stamens with twin, pale yellow anthers are squeezed between the petals and the stigma around its circumference. a line of six ghost pipes growing in bare dirt on the forest floor. their thin, white to pale pink stems are lined with small, translucent white leaves, especially by the top where the stem bends over sharply. at the end of each stem is a bell-shaped white flower with waxy white petals. the smallest flower is barely above ground; the tallest is still below ankle height.
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
pretty funny that people who are just hearing about the death of the monoculture in 2026 are describing other people as being out of touch
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Fungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It isn't strictly valid to say that an AI "thinks", but this is a useful intuition for the implications of the fact that AI services are each powered by a Spirit Gem.
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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Some pre-assembly photos of the very beautiful letterpress jackets (by Ben Owen at Middle Press) for "Prisoner's Cinema" out next Friday. We're so excited to put this out & very proud of the music & physical product. Limited to 200 copies, 180g black vinyl. sarahhennies.bandcamp.com/album/prison...
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Sarah Hennies @sarahhennies.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
thanks Lars! "Ascending the Depths" is out now on Dinzu Artefacts, the first album by my long running trio with Keir Neuringer and Willie B.
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 27/09/2026
calm bucha
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 27/09/2026
can of binnoids
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Number One Saskatoon Berries Fan™️ @beepthief.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bang for buck there’s nothing more emasculating than when the water escapes your flour well when making pasta involving as it does weak or degraded fortifications, poor construction, evocations of flooding incontinence, and failing to “put food on the table”. My well! My well!! Son of a fucking bitc
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 27/09/2026
Frank Lumber
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Worst Truck @warmworm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"The ways in which" <- Elmer Fudd telling you who turned him into dried fruit
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 27/09/2026
the zhuangzi:
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Seattle Trans Underground Film Festival @seattletransfilmfest.org · 26/09/2026
Seattle Trans Underground Film Fest 2026, October 15-18th. vimeo.com/1228407392?f...
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STUFF 2026 Trailer
STUFF is the Seattle Trans Underground Film Fest, and we're showcasing trans films and flmmakers at the Northwest Film Forum Oct 15-18, 2026! Find out more at seattletransfilmfest.org Music: From ...
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 26/09/2026
Orectic whir of whirling web
Contrived to captivate the fly,
Arachnid then imbibing death,
For animals by living die—

Don’t peer like that with leery eye,
Spider! but go on, please, partake.
Didn’t you know what doses make?
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surrogate corpse @consume.red · 26/09/2026
death has in the foregoing paragraph been considered as merely the cessation of life; yet it may be proper to observe, that those physiologists appear to have reason on their side, who make it generally an inevitable and necessary consequence of life. In the higher animals and plants, indeed, we are certain that if death should not be produced by accidental causes, it is sure in due time to result from the fibres which compose the cellular substance growing so thick and rigid, that the fluids cannot penetrate through their interstices. In this sense a body receiving nourishment may be said to imbibe death: so true it is, that by living we die.
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gerge @gerge-lemons.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I know this stuff like the back of my head
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