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Jim Collings ❤️❤️➕🟦
@jimcollings.bsky.social
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(ex-Twtr aka caldron_baidu)

Curious reader, flâneur, humanist

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars: Wilde

Meanjin, Brisbane Australia
(formerly of Omelas)

festina lente
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Happy Friday from all of us at #EnglishScotland
November 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Communities need used-book shops.

As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...

We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
On the left, a narrow, glass-fronted display case with a mix of letterpress, hand-bound, antiquarian, and collectors' books; stretching off to the right, 8-foot bookcases laden with literary and contemporary commercial fiction, about one thousand books out of the 6-7 thousand in that section. LED lighting and light-colored wood cases and flooring keep the room feeling relatively spacious despite the sheer quantity of books.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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now shifting into Jólakötturinn (child-eating Icelandic Yule cat ) season
Jólakötturinn painting by Reynir Hauks
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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"Black Friday" by Picasso
Guernica but someone is grabbing a flat screen TV
November 28, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him about the Brain by Masud Husain

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The Mushroom Tapes by Chloe Hooper, Helen Garner, and Sarah Krasnostein

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November 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The Ritual by Adam L.G. Nevill

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Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley

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November 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist's Patients Taught Him about the Brain by Masud Husain

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Dear Gods.
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