@yigruzeltil
From Romania; am on both autistic and LGBT spectrums. Reading/writing/translating poetry. Working on Princeps Poesis, a database of poetry books from all around the world. (see: https://whydonate.com/en/fundraising/princeps-poesis) IT, Linux, Esperanto etc
Friendica, how's the peace and quiet going? I joined this place then put off my account in hopes of Friendica being joined by more Facebook refugees like me... but then I discovered Hubzilla.
The fire in Rahova, #Bucharest is yet another tragic example of how neoliberal privatization and descentralization affects the services which most need utmost responsibility and planning.
Obvious nonsense.
Always a great infodumping opportunity
The newest #Nobel Award in Literature went to a male author who has nothing but male authors in his personal canon... No surprises there.
...But also there are books that are not meant to be mere containers of interchangeable texts - see Ulises CarriΓ³n's ambitions in The New Art of Making Books, which I found brilliant.
Not reading the entirety of a book can be perilous, and I say this even if I like books that can be read from anywhere...
Doesn't matter if the likes of Zuckerberg are autistic or not, conservatives hate public education and research "for research's sake".
Affectionate for this piece of writing (that Shakespeare analysis brings back fond uni memories), but it misses how we're in this dark place because of ableist capitalism...
Kind reminder that switching now to #Linux or #FreeBSD is the best thing to do at a time when #Microsoft decided to make millions of computers too obsolete for Windows 11.
Good thing we can move soon from Bsky to @transrights.northsky.social, too bad the alternatives to Substack are so-and-so. People here in my part of the world are sadly way too dependant on Whatsapp.
One of the reasons I have been less active on Bsky is precisely that I disagree with their biased moderation.
So I have signed up to migrate to @transrights.northsky.social, which is hosted in Canada and I hope is not going to bow to totalitarian censorship.
Dreamed of an architect who coined a certain philosophy of architectural sustainability, named something like 1:24/48, and also became insanely good at photography because the veΕy first photographer they hired was like "f@#% your ugly buildings, can't find any good angle for them"...
If my Bsky account gets shutdown, you can always find me on either Mastodon, Hubzilla (my favorite fediverse software tbh), Friendica, Lemmy, Piefed or Pixelfed, soon Akkoma too.
Except human rights were never a real priority for the powers that be.
A protocol for decentralized Internets? Sounds incredible, but good to be aware of.
reticulum.network
Dreamed about Yoko Ono this morning. A bit later, reminded of how seemingly few read not just Ono's Grapefruit, but also the other Fluxus writings and Duchamp's earlier non-poems, which aged like aluminium cans in the desert...
"..But now Gazaβs sky is no longer a canvas for myths or dreams. It is weaponized, heavy with drones and death. Carson asks what it meant to write on the sky; in my context, the question becomes, What does it mean to live beneath a sky turned into a weapon?"
www.monabaker.org/2025/08/08/t...
Assigned Media tracked down every single queer author who withdrew from the Polari Prize after they longlisted a self-proclaimed TERF, and linked to all their books.
These authors showed solidarity and our story is blowing up with traffic from people who want to support them in return.
File compression forced back into fashion... #cyberpunk2025
The Wikipedia page on hermeticism in poetry - nothing about its anticipations in Baroque poetry, by the way - is just one example of how not unified is our knowledge of world literature.
As for queer hermeticism (in poetry, but we can think also of Ellsworth Kelly and other kinds of artists), it would be a still quite speculative research topic, but well worth attention.
For instance, Romanian hermetic poet Ion Barbu is taught in schools as this mathematician who likened poetry to math - nothing about how some of his strange images are actually plain descriptions of drug effects.
I brought up hermeticism because I was thinking of the psychedelic and queer erotic aspects of some hermetic poetry that have eluded critics.
Hermeticism is one of the big tendencies in modern poetry, yet its Wikipedia page is focused on merely the Italian movement, with a mention of MallarmΓ©, Rimbaud and Verlaine as mere decadentists...
Look up "When Language Fails" on the website Versopolis
Kees Ouwens: βI was a man, but in the sense of //
no more than this signification of words / nor did I dare to periodize / the bodily plasticity in terms of / a developmentβ
(Bsky doesn't let me post the Versopolis URL for some reason)
Writing poetry has something humble. It feels more appropriate for inhabiting this world, as I get soaked with its atmosphere and let language dance with/through me. Storytelling? More like a hard drug making you feel close enough to God to manipulate other people's lives. It's got danger to it.
I mean... with Cavafy it's straightforward, narrative poetry pretty much. Elytis was way more lyrical and ornate and it's hard for that kind of approach to still be as resonant in the future, as language changes.