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[Billy @absenceshell]

It feels good to say something unmeasured and unexpected to a friend when you are used to expressing emotions only after they’ve been curated to a fine point that can’t come back to hurt you.

[Frei @freistory]

Ugly world, evil world.

[Billy @absenceshell]

28) Pavannes and Divagations

[Billy @absenceshell]

First of 2026. The best novel ever written in the English language, by a ‘diarist, compulsive notetaker, poet manqué, alcoholic philosophizing rambler.’ In short, a buffoon. 3rd time reading, but not like this. Never anything like this. I retraced every step. I owe him everything

[Billy @absenceshell]

27) The Syrian Goddess

[Miranda Holmqvist @MirandaHqv]

"It��s fortunate that LLMs are not conscious," Ted Chiang writes, "or else the actions of the big AI firms would be even more scandalous than they already are." https://t.co/N7hkn0NIRK

[Billy @absenceshell]

Give me a personality like a complex math problem smiling reluctantly. GIVE ME SOMEONE MORE INTERESTING THAN A PRODUCT MULTIPLIED ENDLESSLY. Thank you

[Billy @absenceshell]

Give me a personality like a complex math problem smiling reluctantly. GIVE ME SOMEONE MORE INTERESTING THAN A PRODUCT MULTIPLIED ENDLESSLY. Thank you

[Billy @absenceshell]

These boys too confident being zeroes. Like all there is to life is cancel out or carry over. Like the fool will never fall off that cliff, the absurdity corresponding mysteriously to the certainty of mathematical impossibility. Whatever... I like numbers with actual personality.

[moving partsisan @glosseantics]

I believe in a forthcoming revolution of attitudes and conceptions which will make everything that has gone before turn red with shame. (Friedrich Hölderlin, 1807)

[Billy @absenceshell]

@riverlight30694 As if I’d forget. Happy you’re back, it’s good seeing you again

[Billy @absenceshell]

Need a tarot reading

[Tom Snarsky @TomSnarsky]

by a poet credited as “rjs”

[Billy @absenceshell]

@SamBuntz That is what someone who lacks a poetic nature & who has never truly understood what those words mean would say. I’m sure you’re getting all the girls on the Fourth Way at the parties but it might be time to go on a retreat. Read a book

[Billy @absenceshell]

Yeah never getting around to this has been a mistake

[Billy @absenceshell]

@SamBuntz River Merchant’s Wife is very good. I read it when I was 17. But because I have feeling for poetry, respect the patience & charity involved in creating a path toward deeper, more intimate understanding, I want to grow, express gratitude. Not remain a child, with childish opinions

[Billy @absenceshell]

@ANAXIFORM_INGES @lumina_sunt The jackal of heaven always finds you in the end

[Billy @absenceshell]

@lumina_sunt It’s looking that way

[Billy @absenceshell]

“Watch my mistakes, just not in the face.” (please)