Briggsy
@briggz.bsky.social
Avid reader, overthinker, sometimes poet, bread enthusiast, coffee snob.
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a four-part prose poem of mine in issue 43 of Post Road
![[some sunburned writing]
Itch by Benjamin Niespodziany
[1] My son scratches the fence. I tell him to stop. We
hardly yell anymore. This is the way we are. Everyone’s
bedrooms are full of new shoes. We will wear them again
when we win.
[2] I test my car alarm. I farm the forest. I’m editing the
wind with a stick. I want to see you with your feet above
water. After I hang the painting, the rest of the wall will
hurt.
[3] I bury a snow globe in the snow. I show you my post-
snow globe trembling hands. You’re cleaning the clouds.
Painting the rain. For what, I ask. What for, you reply.
[4] When I push myself, I make sure there’s air. The past is
a plastic petal promising us it once was sharp.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fapzml6rxabrqbw3ih36msj/bafkreibqf4q6icz2tr2gh2if2ngi3yvyzr4tz66wy2dfhmqtb4vnqx3d3u@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
a four-part prose poem of mine in issue 43 of Post Road
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when people ask about my stance on AI
December 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM
when people ask about my stance on AI
Stray eyes that fall upon my little space likely don't need book recommendations, but in the off chance they do, "Zone" by Mathias Enard (in a simply stunning translation from Charlotte Mandell) is probably the best book I've read all year. A strong contender for one of the best I've read, period.
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Stray eyes that fall upon my little space likely don't need book recommendations, but in the off chance they do, "Zone" by Mathias Enard (in a simply stunning translation from Charlotte Mandell) is probably the best book I've read all year. A strong contender for one of the best I've read, period.
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I / have grown tired of so much that used to entrance me
Mark Strand
Mark Strand
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I / have grown tired of so much that used to entrance me
Mark Strand
Mark Strand
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Heidegger’s What is Metaphysics as a poem in the private journals of Edvard Munch
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Heidegger’s What is Metaphysics as a poem in the private journals of Edvard Munch
This is the only sensible outcome.
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This is the only sensible outcome.
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"oh no i'm sad that the mysterious and voluptuous night is wrapping me in its fierce and insistent embrace earlier and earlier" listen to yourself, jesus christ
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"oh no i'm sad that the mysterious and voluptuous night is wrapping me in its fierce and insistent embrace earlier and earlier" listen to yourself, jesus christ
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"Finally, I have become indifferent to nostalgia—that primary emotion of my first forty years for which George Michael’s 'Careless Whisper' and Sade’s 'Is It a Crime' were like anthems."
🔥NEW🔥 at AGNI Online: "On the Train" by Taije Silverman.
🔥NEW🔥 at AGNI Online: "On the Train" by Taije Silverman.
On the Train
By some oversight there are still mostly fields between Bologna and Venice, intimately familiar to me after the eight years I spent translating Italian sonnets about farm implements and irrigation…
buff.ly
October 3, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"Finally, I have become indifferent to nostalgia—that primary emotion of my first forty years for which George Michael’s 'Careless Whisper' and Sade’s 'Is It a Crime' were like anthems."
🔥NEW🔥 at AGNI Online: "On the Train" by Taije Silverman.
🔥NEW🔥 at AGNI Online: "On the Train" by Taije Silverman.
"The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You" is my white whale book. I've been looking for a copy for years; I've had a copy on order at my local bookshop for 2 years (and running). Passages like this sustain my hope and enthusiasm.
October 1, 2025 at 10:20 PM
"The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You" is my white whale book. I've been looking for a copy for years; I've had a copy on order at my local bookshop for 2 years (and running). Passages like this sustain my hope and enthusiasm.
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repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out
September 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out
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My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society spells disaster for civilisation as we know it
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society spells disaster for civilisation as we know it
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
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This made me guffaw, but what it's reacting to is incredibly sad (and baffling).
It’s time for Halifax’s favourite game show
Who Wants An Uninspired Giant Fucking Rectangle
Who Wants An Uninspired Giant Fucking Rectangle
September 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This made me guffaw, but what it's reacting to is incredibly sad (and baffling).
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"If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven’t even climbed."
Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle
September 3, 2025 at 3:13 PM
"If you have any idea for a poem, an exact grid of intent, you are on the wrong path, a dead-end alley, at the top of a cliff you haven’t even climbed."
Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle
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This is magnificent. Utterly magnificent.
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
August 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This is magnificent. Utterly magnificent.
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Couldn't love this more.
But whereas the Chicago team designed Glaze to be a defensive tool — and still recommends artists use it in addition to Nightshade to prevent an artist’s style from being imitated by AI models — Nightshade is designed to be “an offensive tool.”
venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...
Nightshade, the free tool that ‘poisons’ AI models, is now available for artists to use
The tool's creators are seeking to make it so that AI model developers must pay artists to train on data from them that is uncorrupted.
venturebeat.com
August 23, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Couldn't love this more.
Ah yes, nature is healing.
Media outlets seem to have soured on the AI hype machine.
August 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Ah yes, nature is healing.
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Well, by this metric, I'm like 1/4 qualified to hold a conversation, be it about Dante or doughnuts.
going to go out on a limb and imagine this guy's not actually very good at conversations
August 16, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Well, by this metric, I'm like 1/4 qualified to hold a conversation, be it about Dante or doughnuts.
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“when only the void stood between us”
Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger
Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger
July 28, 2025 at 1:58 AM
“when only the void stood between us”
Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger
Paul Celan; tr. Michael Hamburger
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i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.
July 16, 2025 at 6:17 AM
i can’t remember anything that has felt more foisted upon us than AI. repeatedly telling us why we actually need is like thinking a joke will get funnier the more you explain it.
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Only just now discovering this Lucille Clifton poem dedicated to Clark Kent.
July 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Only just now discovering this Lucille Clifton poem dedicated to Clark Kent.