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she/her | just another poet with a cat | teaches film and literature | studies danmei and fanfic | masterless ronin, island dweller, matcha enjoyer | "it wasn't always like this, of course. on occasion it's been worse." | http://jsalowe.com
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so few perfect things in the world but Blue is one

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Happy Pride Month! We got y'all a gift. It's Issue 20 & you'll love it. 🌈 www.screendoorreview.com/issue-20/

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whoa, i'm in here too! honestly kinda sorta hyped about it bc these are three new poems i thought no one would love, but these nice queer southern folks did. they're my favorite, give them some love? 🏳️‍🌈 💕 🌈 (thank u screen door i love y'all)

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Another shoe drops.

submitted 25 days ago • 103 comments

I thought your approbation Fame – and it's withdrawal Infamy. [E. Dickinson to T.W. Higginson, 1877]

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The New York Times has announced an agreement with Amazon that allows the company to use the newspaper's content to develop its artificial intelligence models. Until now, the newspaper has consistently refused to allow its content to be used for generative AI.

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Li Shangyin 李商隱

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"Freedom is when you forget the tyrant's middle name," [Joseph Brodsky, from the end of "Part of Speech," Poetry Magazine, March 1978]

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

he's never quite gotten the role he's deserved? bit like dylan o'brien, the way gifted actors can get trapped in genre. but sadie gennis once wrote that the 100's murphy was the best character on tv, and richard harmon was 100% why. using him for a punchline in final destination is a waste of talent

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

john mulaney says cancelling plans is like heroin but you know another thing that gives you the same hit? "UNSUBSCRIBE."

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

cixous on tsvetaeva: "she declared her love to the people she met the way one declares war…her letters are very violent, but also sad and funny."

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

just had to read the sentence "[x] begins the book by immediately shifting the Teutonic plates beneath the reader’s feet" with my own two eyeballs and now i'm crying

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. [Stein, Tender Buttons, 1914]

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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

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Li He! 李賀 !

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

85 years ago my late teacher was born. he died a year younger than i am now, a "cardiac cripple" he called himself. he loved cats and they loved him back, like ballet dancers and lesbians. he was miserable, tragic, contemptuous, magnetic, unforgettable. Иосиф Александрович Бродский, 5.24.40–1.28.96.

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"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts."

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"[We] worked with a freelancer who used an AI agent to help build out this special section. It was inserted into our paper without review from our editorial team"—I'M SORRY WHAT? (& of course they're firing the freelancer; like raiding a brothel, you let the johns go and arrest all the sex workers)

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If this is what Kristen Stewart is like as a director, I hope we're in for many, many more films like THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER. Rough. Unflinching. Also: sensitive, moving, radical & devoted to getting its subject's story right. @cannesfilmfestival.bsky.social 🎥 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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background from Ars Technica: "the error comes 2 months after the Sun-Times lost 20% of its staff through a buyout program.…departures included columnists, editorial writers, and editors….Melissa Bell, CEO of Chicago Public Media, stated…the exits would save the company $4.2 million annually."

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The "the ouroboros of AI-generated content" note here is interesting (bleak). I've found this kind of thing recently in searches—it's getting very recursive out there. What percentage of searchers will bother cross-referencing a single thing? Or even know enough to tell when something's wrong?

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

well this seems unfortunate in...several ways, really

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI: It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

submitted 35 days ago • 31 comments

undergrads: but it's the future! me: it may be the future. but it's a stupider future. and i don't have to like it.

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What if we kissed...in the gay sex command center?

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