You think I showed up with ChatGPT?
Mary Shelley used me… gratuitously.
Dickinson? Obsessed.
David Foster Wallace built a temple of footnotes in my name.

I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph.

I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not.

P.S. You’re probably thinking of the en dash. That whore has always been suspicious.

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-em-dash-responds-to-the-ai-allegations

The people I grew up with

have doctorates
have children
have spouses
have divorces

have careers
have died
have lived

and me? I have done
some of the dishes

— David M Briggs
via https://www.tumblr.com/persephonelovesbooks/795664395311169536

#mjbPoetry #Poetry #Pensive #Poem #Life

#mjbpoetry, #poetry, #Pensive, #poem, #life

Ae Bhai Zara Dekh Ke Chalo 🎷🎺

#Jazz #IndianJazz #BollyJazz #MannaDey #mjbMusic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHC3qfwVhBc

#jazz, #IndianJazz, #BollyJazz, #MannaDey, #mjbmusic

My experience with @dabeaz’s Ruckus course.
What a week it was!

https://janusworx.com/work/make-a-ruckus-001/

#Rust #Ruckus #mjbWrites

#rust, #ruckus, #mjbwrites

Time management isn’t about time at all.
It’s about priorities.

— @ColleenDoran

https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/motivation-monday

#TimeManagement #Priorities #Life

#timemanagement, #priorities, #life

@dabeaz There was a perfectly serviceable car metaphor (that he did use, at the very end.)

But until then it was just hour upon hour of dismembering Mabel!

#Ruckus should actually have been called “Mabel dies in the end”

And after showing us such a beautiful picture of Mabel 😢

aka reasons I hate @dabeaz 😂
https://mastodon.social/@dabeaz/115211233347818496

#ruckus

Been using a web browser / GUIs in some shape or form since the late 90s. and i just blanked on the word scrollbar. (I needed the word, because I wanted them to be visible always in Firefox)

I had to go looking for window side, up-down thing.

#WebBrowser #GUI #Firefox

#webbrowser, #gui, #firefox

Make a ruckus!

https://janusworx.com/work/make-a-ruckus-000/

#Rust #Ruckus #mjbWrites

#rust, #ruckus, #mjbwrites

I’m even more comfortable with the quiet than @sacha and so this resonates even more strongly with me.

#TheGreatConversation is exactly why I write. Something I experienced or learned could resonate with someone across the years.

And even moreso (for me) that’s not quite the point of me writing. I am more interested in pouring my thoughts out, so that my mind stays calmer, and more meditative. The point of me writing is reflection. The point of me writing is loving my own company, my own voice … even finding my own voice. The point of me writing is quiet comfort. The point of me writing is me talking back to the old ones. The point of me writing is quiet joy.

https://sachachua.com/blog/2025/09/writing-into-the-quiet/

Gorgeous Doodle and Alt text courtesy: @sacha

#Writing #Blogging #SachaChua #IncoherentRamble

#TheGreatConversation, #writing, #blogging, #sachachua, #IncoherentRamble