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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 5h

same with most ishiguro novels, except the buried giant and that overtly kafkaesque one

alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 5h

probably the third or fourth time i've read william gibson's "pattern recognition", and i had no memory of the entire second half of the book.

i think it's because i almost always read gibson's books like i used to read stephen king in middle school: in a single late-night sitting. er, lying

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Takuo Matsuzawa @matsuzawa.bsky.social · 5h

It’s the 30th anniversary of Sailor’s “Fude de Mannen”!
I use it regularly myself.
By the way, the name comes from a Kansai dialect expression, but it doesn’t really have any deep meaning—just a funny one!
#fountainpen

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6h

Where we are as a country

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

“Making Sense of the Federal Forces on the Streets,” with photos of how they’re uniformed and equipped

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 14h

what if a house were... a cybertruck

alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 16h

this is really messing me up b/c his cadaverous face reminds me of lurch or the brother on everybody loves raymond, so i assumed he was 7 or 8 feet tall

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

this part of town was very crumbling and sad before and during covid... it's heaving with tourists now. glad for the locals, but... i kind of don't want to come here any more #sonnet #poetry

old town.

to sense the way it’s changed, you had to be
here when it was an eyesore, when the street
was empty shopfronts, cratered in defeat
and reeking of old garlic; all you’d see
was moss on crumbling plaster masonry
like shattered tropic ruins (rain and heat
descend in alternating waves to beat
the vigor out of everything) complete

decrepitude, somnolent shadows, faint
and sorrowful near-silence. here things dripped
and mewed and fluttered, voices mute (a cough

behind a wooden shutter, maybe). paint
and cash won’t compensate for what they ripped
away, when renovations here took off.

me drinking extremely overpriced pourover in la cabra, writing this just now with a platinum prefounte fountain pen

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 1d

Happy birthday to Johnny Carson (1925-2005), the dreamy subject of Austin Allen’s elegiac sonnet from 32 POEMS. “Carson”/“stars in”… The things @austinwriting.bsky.social does…

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Luke Kennard @lukekennard.bsky.social · 1d

Calvinism!

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

definitely can reprogram the brain, compared to which losing the sense of taste is child's play!

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

arrgh students have shown me things like that too!!! it's even more upsetting when people think you can "interview" AI. it's like interviewing google translate! it's not a thing! arrrrghhhhh!!!

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

my wife's been a good example - she's into journaling this year & has repeatedly able to "turn her frown upside down" by, for example, drawing a cute depiction of the A/C water drop that hit her in the face while sleeping... the power of art!

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

i started to feel bad for the people who i assume are, like, romanian teenagers just trying to share their love of coffee but got a furious anti-AI screed from me, so i think i need to step back from there lol

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J-T Kelly @j-tkelly.bsky.social · 1d

Suffering also inspires drinking, temper outbursts, and ulcers. So, well done picking your poison!

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

have to stop looking at the coffee sections of reddit because people keep asking AI how to brew coffee and posting the advice / results

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

a multimedia mashup with a lot going on under the surface

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

i read! i'm... i think "nonplussed" is the word... by things like the expense of rat euthanasia. i really felt like i had nothing to add to that area! (except sorry that's happening, i guess)

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

same except it was two different people

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

lol was writing so fast in the coffee shop i accidentally did the octet abbaabbb ah well let's say it was a bold formal experiment

alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

i realized recently that during college i thought HD and Æ were the same person. like my brain just saw two initials and never inquired further into the matter. both excellent! but not the same person!

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

yep! it's coming in handy with a lot of other things. i really can't believe i went nearly 50 years without knowing how to create a habit

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

i think i wrote more poetry today than any one day in my life. five petrarchan sonnets, two blank verse "sonnets", a bunch of haiku... thanks to extreme anxiety about a leaking water pipe and leaking air con that both struck my apartment on the same day. i guess suffering inspires art lol

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

heh only started at age 44 during covid lockdown, before that i could never finish any writing because i just couldn't figure out when to do it!

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

we just saw jibun techos in a store here in bangkok for the first time this week - does look like a useful layout but we don't use them as planners per se but more like journals - wife has got a million ways she fills every hobonichi page with art and stickers so i think we're in too deep now! :)

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alex guenther @guentheralex.bsky.social · 1d

this part of town was very crumbling and sad before and during covid... it's heaving with tourists now. glad for the locals, but... i kind of don't want to come here any more #sonnet #poetry

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