@gaylourdes.bsky.social
A sweet romantic with too many ideas. Insides on the outside. And sci fi! Words and languages! They/them
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It’s the calm before the storm, before the last bag is packed, before the flight is checked in on and the last minute is purchased. I am, yet again, agog.
January 4, 2026 at 3:57 AM
It’s the calm before the storm, before the last bag is packed, before the flight is checked in on and the last minute is purchased. I am, yet again, agog.
Absolutely not trying to organise myself out of a paper bag. Nope.
January 2, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Absolutely not trying to organise myself out of a paper bag. Nope.
This is a bloody great interview and has excoriating advice from Gwen Harwood. overcast.fm/+ABExWwgiHbY
Judith Crispin - Poet and visual artist — Are You Still Working?!
Send us a text Judith Nangala Crispin discusses in bold and simple terms what it takes for her to call herself an artist - the joys and the sacrifices. Beginning her creative journey as a musician, Ju...
overcast.fm
January 2, 2026 at 9:22 PM
This is a bloody great interview and has excoriating advice from Gwen Harwood. overcast.fm/+ABExWwgiHbY
One errand at a time: visit anaconda for click and collect several suburbs over.
January 2, 2026 at 8:15 AM
One errand at a time: visit anaconda for click and collect several suburbs over.
Cool. My perfectionist, everything is a priority, freeze on overwhelm, too shame to ask for help brain is in top gear. What would you do?
January 2, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Cool. My perfectionist, everything is a priority, freeze on overwhelm, too shame to ask for help brain is in top gear. What would you do?
Years after my parents gifted my kiddo a magnetic perpetual motion office toy, I knocked it into momentum as I closed a window blind before holidays. Lo and behold it is still going, squeaking in sotto voce.
January 1, 2026 at 8:11 AM
Years after my parents gifted my kiddo a magnetic perpetual motion office toy, I knocked it into momentum as I closed a window blind before holidays. Lo and behold it is still going, squeaking in sotto voce.
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We are trapped forever ♾️ in the Don’t Create the Torment Nexus, I created the Torment Nexus continuum.
December 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
We are trapped forever ♾️ in the Don’t Create the Torment Nexus, I created the Torment Nexus continuum.
Lightening my heart with a chapter of tara brach’s radical acceptance and james broughton’s ode to gaiety, from a 90s book on gay soul. Any port in a storm, eh.
December 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Lightening my heart with a chapter of tara brach’s radical acceptance and james broughton’s ode to gaiety, from a 90s book on gay soul. Any port in a storm, eh.
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, sound garden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
My school friends eyed grace with suspicion, concluding it was “probably christian rock”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_(...
My school friends eyed grace with suspicion, concluding it was “probably christian rock”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_(...
December 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, sound garden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.
My school friends eyed grace with suspicion, concluding it was “probably christian rock”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_(...
My school friends eyed grace with suspicion, concluding it was “probably christian rock”.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_(...
Hark! An angel on my metacarpophalangeal joint!
How delicately a Romanesque angel uses the lightest touch of a finger to wake one of the magi, snuggled with the other 2 under their embroidered circular blanket at St Lazare, Autun, c1130 (& how beautifully the textures of pillow & blanket are represented).
Season's greetings to you all!
Season's greetings to you all!
December 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Hark! An angel on my metacarpophalangeal joint!
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Yea, Lord, we greet thee,
born this happy morning;
Jesus, to thee be glory given;
born this happy morning;
Jesus, to thee be glory given;
December 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Yea, Lord, we greet thee,
born this happy morning;
Jesus, to thee be glory given;
born this happy morning;
Jesus, to thee be glory given;
I am ready to watch this now, or ay least on boxing day. What is this mother’s day cruelty?!
December 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I am ready to watch this now, or ay least on boxing day. What is this mother’s day cruelty?!
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HOW WILL WE LEARNE THINGES?
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MACHYNE THAT DOTH KNOWE STUFFE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
AND IT DOTH STEALE & HURT THE EARTHE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
YEAH THE MACHYNE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MACHYNE THAT DOTH KNOWE STUFFE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
AND IT DOTH STEALE & HURT THE EARTHE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
YEAH THE MACHYNE
December 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
HOW WILL WE LEARNE THINGES?
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MACHYNE THAT DOTH KNOWE STUFFE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
AND IT DOTH STEALE & HURT THE EARTHE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
YEAH THE MACHYNE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
HOW ABOUT WE MAKE A MACHYNE THAT DOTH KNOWE STUFFE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
AND IT DOTH STEALE & HURT THE EARTHE
Uh, what about bookes, filmes, teachinge, educacioun?
YEAH THE MACHYNE
Walking on, walking on broken glass…
Turns out even in the world of stained glass, issues of data standards, data interoperabililty and long term archiving are prevalent. Everything is a database problem in the end
www.vidimus.org/features/dig...
www.vidimus.org/features/dig...
The Digital Future of Stained Glass: Data Standards and Interoperability – Why Recording Stained Glass is Important – Vidimus
www.vidimus.org
December 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Walking on, walking on broken glass…
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To compete with CNN’s partnership with Kalshi, British newspapers allow you to wager a tuppence on a variety of lettuce races
December 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
To compete with CNN’s partnership with Kalshi, British newspapers allow you to wager a tuppence on a variety of lettuce races
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As always, free to read/listen.
As is more rarely the case -- I pop off a bit.
As is more rarely the case -- I pop off a bit.
December 14, 2025 at 12:56 AM
As always, free to read/listen.
As is more rarely the case -- I pop off a bit.
As is more rarely the case -- I pop off a bit.
Questioning my lifestyle choices if I’m not taking steps to getting hammered at a pub singing about tits.
Adapted using the melody of a Welsh song about boobs. Thanks a lot, Puritans
December 14, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Questioning my lifestyle choices if I’m not taking steps to getting hammered at a pub singing about tits.
A most delightful thread of tiny wondrous things!
I have no idea where this year went but it's December 1st again, so here we go
Day 1 of my 2025 Favorites: I tried my hand at tide-pooling shenanigans, and found PISTOL SHRAMPS 😍
They use that giant claw to kill things with a shock wave, and that's just fun.
Day 1 of my 2025 Favorites: I tried my hand at tide-pooling shenanigans, and found PISTOL SHRAMPS 😍
They use that giant claw to kill things with a shock wave, and that's just fun.
December 13, 2025 at 10:34 PM
A most delightful thread of tiny wondrous things!
It’s… not cosplaying as seaweed?
It’s… not having an existential crisis re humans?
It’s… not cross species communication and a sentient extension of that bronze sculpture of govt ministers arguing themselves under water as the seas rise?
It’s… not having an existential crisis re humans?
It’s… not cross species communication and a sentient extension of that bronze sculpture of govt ministers arguing themselves under water as the seas rise?
Semi-infaunal squid?
Everyone update your mollusk theoretical ecospace diagrams and let me know if you got bingo with this one
www.livescience.com/animals/moll...
Everyone update your mollusk theoretical ecospace diagrams and let me know if you got bingo with this one
www.livescience.com/animals/moll...
'Very novel and very puzzling': Unknown species of squid spotted burying itself upside down, pretending to be a plant
A new study reveals an unknown species of whiplash squid burying itself upside down in the deep sea — a first-of-its-kind behavior for cephalopods.
www.livescience.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It’s… not cosplaying as seaweed?
It’s… not having an existential crisis re humans?
It’s… not cross species communication and a sentient extension of that bronze sculpture of govt ministers arguing themselves under water as the seas rise?
It’s… not having an existential crisis re humans?
It’s… not cross species communication and a sentient extension of that bronze sculpture of govt ministers arguing themselves under water as the seas rise?
@grimalkina.bsky.social would love your integrity analysis of this study since I’m torn between exalting “Poets can save us from AI if they use their deadly powers wisely” and “Crap. Creatives don’t need another reason to increase mainstream suspicion of high falutin’ fancy word skulduggery”.
Also, too (just in case you hadn't seen it):
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
We present evidence that adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for Large Language Models (LLMs). Across 25 frontier proprietary and open-weight models, curated po...
arxiv.org
December 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
@grimalkina.bsky.social would love your integrity analysis of this study since I’m torn between exalting “Poets can save us from AI if they use their deadly powers wisely” and “Crap. Creatives don’t need another reason to increase mainstream suspicion of high falutin’ fancy word skulduggery”.
Some reddit threads of genuine curiosity are a community service. The comments on huntsmen in AU! www.reddit.com/r/australian...
From the australian community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the australian community
www.reddit.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Some reddit threads of genuine curiosity are a community service. The comments on huntsmen in AU! www.reddit.com/r/australian...
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Excellent piece.
“Every reduction in friction is sold as liberation: freed up for creativity, freed up for higher pursuits. But freedom from what, exactly? Freedom from the very activities that build capacity, that create meaning, that forge identity, that make us feel we matter.”
“Every reduction in friction is sold as liberation: freed up for creativity, freed up for higher pursuits. But freedom from what, exactly? Freedom from the very activities that build capacity, that create meaning, that forge identity, that make us feel we matter.”
The Soul Forged in Friction
I remember watching my daughter struggle with her shoelaces.
hybridhorizons.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Excellent piece.
“Every reduction in friction is sold as liberation: freed up for creativity, freed up for higher pursuits. But freedom from what, exactly? Freedom from the very activities that build capacity, that create meaning, that forge identity, that make us feel we matter.”
“Every reduction in friction is sold as liberation: freed up for creativity, freed up for higher pursuits. But freedom from what, exactly? Freedom from the very activities that build capacity, that create meaning, that forge identity, that make us feel we matter.”
@drbensearle.bsky.social hey, thanks for your research into burnout! It’s really validating and while i had the best of intentions to do #recovember, last month actually turned out to be hell NOvember. So I’m setting my coordinates for this month, and day 2 is thank someone. That’s you! Ta!
December 2, 2025 at 3:03 AM
@drbensearle.bsky.social hey, thanks for your research into burnout! It’s really validating and while i had the best of intentions to do #recovember, last month actually turned out to be hell NOvember. So I’m setting my coordinates for this month, and day 2 is thank someone. That’s you! Ta!
You guys! The etymology of browse is plant-based and alludes to sprouting and searching for shoots and leaves! I am once again, agog. 🌱 www.etymonline.com/word/browse
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 8:46 PM
You guys! The etymology of browse is plant-based and alludes to sprouting and searching for shoots and leaves! I am once again, agog. 🌱 www.etymonline.com/word/browse
What a lovely image after listening to Juno the photographer interviewed on Archive Fever, and playing Jupiter from Holst’s Planets Suite with my Cello Gang. O hai Zeitgeist.
Io beauty shot.
Taken by the Juno spacecraft on 3 February 2024.
The right-hand hemisphere is illuminated by the Sun.
On the left, the night side isn't totally dark because of Jupitershine.
Image credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS
Taken by the Juno spacecraft on 3 February 2024.
The right-hand hemisphere is illuminated by the Sun.
On the left, the night side isn't totally dark because of Jupitershine.
Image credit: NASA/SwRI/MSSS
November 29, 2025 at 6:43 AM
What a lovely image after listening to Juno the photographer interviewed on Archive Fever, and playing Jupiter from Holst’s Planets Suite with my Cello Gang. O hai Zeitgeist.