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Incredible Bloomberg data visualization that clearly shows what’s actually going on between Israel and Lebanon. First, despite all the talk of the threat of Hezbollah rockets hitting Israel, it’s actually Israel that’s consistently firing far more rockets over the border.

The terrifying beauty of the ocean 🧵 1. Sitting on the edge of an underwater cliff

Monet, Sunset on the Seine

“The work [of literature] always means: not knowing that art exists already, not knowing that there is already a world.” — Blanchot, The Space of Literature (tr. Ann Smock)

“…in the end, a poet was someone for whom the world didn’t even exist, because, for him, there was only the radiance of the eternal outside.” — Enrique Vila-Matas, The Illogic of Kassel (tr. McLean and Milsom)

The cloud formation, the Atacama desert in Chile

Whoever was laying out the shelves at Stansted Airport did not come to play 👀

“I would like—with Rimbaud—to eat stones.” Alejandra Pizarnik (Diaries, 1959)

I have a new Queen….her name is Patti LuPone

My greatest joy is not knowing what people are talking about.

Deleuze: For Proust, to write is to “read the inner book of these unknown signs… There is no logos, there are only hieroglyphs. To think is therefore to interpret, is therefore to translate.” — Ricardo Piglia, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi (tr. Robert Croll)

I recommend Ernst Bloch's essay 'Marxism and Poetry' to everyone, not just poets. But to poets I recommend drinking 3 beers before reading this essay

I don't study politics, but I do study culture, and here are some of the signs that a cultural shift has been brewing for years in America that most of the professional political analysts just completely missed. Some of these may seem absurd, but hear me out. 🧵 We'll start

Paulo Freire was preaching when he said teaching cannot be neutral it either dismantles systemic inequities or perpetuates them

“We cannot get around silence. We can only go through it. The mind is unable to think the mind.” — Edmond Jabès (A Foreigner Carrying in the Crook of His Arm a Tiny Book, tr. R. Waldrop)

everyone is participating in the "what to do about young men" debate without actually discussing the book that figured out what needs to happen 52 years ago, we need to stop them from continuing to get oedipized over and over again by patriarchal systems

Birthmarks on newborn babies used to be called "longing-marks" and were believed to take on the shape of something desired by the mother. Pouring a drink and wishing I'd asked the mom who marked me with desire what on earth she'd been desiring.

First Impressionist? Monet's Sunrise (1872) Turner's Sunset (1840)

Free PDFs of several of my books, including Chimera, Bloods Dream, (dis/re)membered and Moreau’s Doctored Bodies. thebirdking.com/free-pdfs/

So adios Twitter. It's been fun for the last 17 or something like that years. Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social).bsky.social is where I am going to be at.