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Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a fervent desire of becoming.
Mathews guides readers across and through “the infinity pink” in poems that drip a reverence tinged with resentment. Their debut chapbook engages myth, nature, and the body to honor the past and summon uncertain, ecstatic futures beyond.
“The eye—the I—is rigorously generous across these poems. They don’t attempt to rebuild a world or define a world, rather they do something more powerful and difficult: they dare an intimate lexicon and imagery wild and energetic enough to bare the overwhelm of the unknown world and our relationship to and relationships within it.
The lines flicker, from light to dark, a wet shine, an earthen darkness, a scar, a seed, the body and body of language, bordering the ecstatic. Images tremble and transform, become both familiar and surprising, under the pressure of the speakers’ unrelenting desires and I was lucky to find myself wandering the blur between memory, moment, and the impossibility of what might happen next.
Within these poems is a bold embrace of sensuality and how language can be our portal to collapse the temporal and spatial hierarchies of ancestor and descendant—the poems seem to say: we are who we are from and we become what becomes us next.”
—Natalie Diaz, author of Postcolonial Love Poem
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while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it’s own unique issue because like. it’s not AI itself that harms the environment it’s the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn’t going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don’t get stronger regulation we’ll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.
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jimmy showing me how he cant jump on the stool after my bf told me he jumped on the stool to eat the bread wrapper
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“yeah i know it’s bad for the environment but like so many things are so i just use it anyway” COOL I’M GONNA BITE THROUGH THIS TABLE
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MASTAS OF RAVENKROFT: Gerard Way at Philadelphia [08.29.22]
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change does not come from a place of comfort
I find pennies and nickels in my couch all the time, so I don’t know what you are talking about
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Everything needs to be glass, if it can’t be glass it needs to be ceramic, if it can’t be ceramic it needs to be wood, if it can’t be wood it needs to be stainless steel, if it can’t be stainless steel it needs to be stone, if it can’t be stone it needs to be glass
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if fallout 76 really is a world where “every character is a real person” & there’s no NPCs im making it my civic duty to be like this lowly tavern barkeep and then once i’ve established enough of a rapport i’m going to nuke all of west virginia and it will be in character
someone help where’s the screenshot of some post somewhere about the mmo player who barkept for a longass time then fucked absolutely everyone over
This one?
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All of them, I will remind you, are there by the express consent of the nation. Many nations, like those in Eastern Europe who are under constant threat from the Russians, are absolutely delighted to have the Americans there. It’s only Americans who think American military bases are bad.
ohhh okay i never really thought about how delightful it could be thank you for opening my eyes :)
