Iris

Officious bystander

[Iris @vis__major]

Happy Birthday to my infinite boyfriend. I wrote him a card with the last six lines of this James Tate poem in it and he did not think that that was weird ♥️

[Iris @vis__major]

I’m not being a mystic but I feel that the kind of writing that can accommodate AI is just a radically different activity to what I do

[Iris @vis__major]

When writers defend their use of AI I really only feel bemused. I don’t even know how to write WITHOUT AI. I just haven’t the foggiest as to where AI would go or what it would do in my writing because I don’t and needn’t know what the work I’m doing is *called*

[Iris @vis__major]

“Milk on the floor again” as an imaginary example of what parents deal with fatally betrays that this guy will remain childless forever lol. I say this as someone who has spent an above-average-for-age-group amount of time cleaning children’s messes

[JT @jiratickets]

this might be the best tweet ever written

[Iris @vis__major]

I can pick out psychologists on the street the way some people can immediately recognise off-duty cops

[Iris @vis__major]

“There must be a reason, he said / I know the reason, he meant”… Fuck me I guess!!

[Iris @vis__major]

A lot of people might imagine that the central tension in significant-age-gap relationships is something like undue influence or power or whatever but it’s mostly just This in my experience

[Iris @vis__major]

&c.

[Iris @vis__major]

Some photographs by Viva Gibb, multi-hyphenate visionary and family friend

[Eastern Bloc Visuals @eastblocvisuals]

“Condom is my AIDS amulet”, Soviet sexual health poster, 1980s.

[Iris @vis__major]

I’m trying to be cool about it and just do the needful but being this horrifyingly poor has just demolished me at a phenomenological level. I have 12 dollars. I’m turning the taps and nothing’s coming out. They’ve already stripped the wiring. Whoever was here last left in a hurry

[Iris @vis__major]

Keep wondering if I have brain damage and then I remember that it’s kind of not possible to have thoughts if your bank balance doesn’t crack triple-digits

[Iris @vis__major]

Keep wondering if I have brain damage and then I remember that it’s kind of not possible to have thoughts if your bank balance doesn’t crack triple-digits

[Iris @vis__major]

Don’t bring home any more old crutches

[Iris @vis__major]

What haircut should I get. Or do I just keep going with my current “1930s blonde starlet who flunked out of the film industry and became the embittered wife of a poor farmer in Georgia” thing

[Iris @vis__major]

I really do not like Charli XCX but this is not at all how music or marketing works and also Finn Keane + A.G Cook’s production has sounded like this for nearly a decade. This is an old maiden kind of take

[Angleton’s Orchids @AngletonOrchids]

They are manipulating this factory-made music to serve as instagram backing tracks in 20-second clippable meme shit. The little silences are signals to help AI machines know where to clip.

[Nadia @toptentextures]

Ashbery's final poem, happy birthday ❤️

[Iris @vis__major]

I had a comforting thought recently that’s sort of dissuaded me from believing that WW3 (per se) is going to be fought (primarily) with nukes. It’ll probably be graphite bombs or their newer analogues. I’m not saying let ‘em fly but I had a comforting thought so be proud of me

[Iris @vis__major]

One of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. The gag here just completely buckles under whatever convulsive aesthetic force was within Larson that needed to draw those shadows

[Far Side Fix @farsidefix]

#TheFarSide

[Iris @vis__major]

“Cat Scan” 2/2

[Iris @vis__major]

Found another abortion I wrote last year. “Cat Scan”(1/2)