Sharon Irani 𓅇 شارون

alleged cryptid | formerly assistant editor @ishelterskelter | #poetry #literature #dance #aerialist #pole in #Mumbai #India | IG @sharonirani #writingcommunity

[Sharon Irani 𓅇 شارون @sharonirani]

On 31st December at 2:30 p.m., Xena Irani passed away from cardiorespiratory failure post-surgery. She was cremated at 4 p.m. at Sakarbai Hospital in Parel, wrapped in the Mayo College colours, for she was always the best cat.

Starting the year in deepest grief at her absence.

[chris ☀️ @arcanegold]

i love art history! there’s no other reason i’m posting this image of judith slaying holofernes painted by artemisia gentileschi

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Da Vinci? Dali? Van Gogh? Avid readers. MLK? JFK? Lincoln? Avid readers. Steve Jobs? Majored in literature. F. F. Coppola? Has his own library, his own librarian. Warren Buffet? "I just sit in my office and read all day." Bach? Bob Dylan? Bowie? The same.

Notice the pattern yet?

[Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski]

More and more people—in tech companies, consultancies, regulators, universities, among others—are saying this and proving it to be true: AI does very bad work and creates more labor for humans. https://t.co/1D3u3UXo1s

[Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety]

If you had a friend like Édouard Manet, you might get letters like this, instead of emails (1879-80)

[Ana 🇵🇷❤️🇵🇸 @thebilinguist]

Ursula K Le Guin was so ahead of her time. She clocked Rowling's writing as uninspired, derivative and mean. Le Guin tried to tell us and people hated her for it. Now we're all saying it.

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

I would substitute “relate to” for “marry” here because this is true of friendships and family as well. People who can’t talk about their discontents are the ultimate downers. Their resentment becomes a little god.

[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

Amy Kay:

[Mandy McHugh @WriterACMcHugh]

Kate Baer

[Adam James Pollock @AdamPollock]

Normalise sitting outside the café all day and not really doing anything

[neoltitude @ctrlcreep]

If God didn't want me to use the em dash, why did he enshrine it in nature? In the horizon line—the lightning-harrowed bough—the canyon's pink striation—the pupil of the goat

[Stan's Account @tristandross]

using this juncture in history not to slow down an extinction event, but instead to accelerate it, in service of building machines whose primary purpose is to render humans obsolete. silicon valley makes sense as a grand death drive project, a compulsion towards self annihilation

[todd dillard @toddedillard]

the future was supposed to be flying cars and no illness and instead we are stuck at home in a heat wave and ongoing pandemic as some dork uses enough electricity to run a Chilis for a week to ask ChatGPT to write a story about how Jorch and Chunus ask Bootus and Foob to prom

[Literary Arts @literaryarts]

We are thrilled to announce that the Le Guin family has donated their family home to Literary Arts to turn into a writers residency. This generous gift will fulfill Ursula K. Le Guin’s lifelong mission to elevate historically underrepresented voices in literature.

[Astro Poets @poetastrologers]

Therapist: Tell me about your past
Gemini: A lot of people hurt my feelings, but I'm still here and I'm still funnier than everyone else

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Hemingway understood

[little honky ass @DlCKIEBOY]

i have 30 copies of the secret history

[Winter 🏹 @winterduck04]

@luhaenten dorian gray did in fact have NINE copies of the book he was obsessed with, so im actually beating him 😌

[lesbian raskolnikov 🗯️📚 @sapphicrime]

“I have a girlfriend” “I have a boyfriend” I have 16 copies of crime and punishment