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But even if that blast of love should spare
her fragile frame – what children would she bear?
What monstrous babe, knocking the surgeon down,
would waddle out into the awestruck town?
When two years old he’d break the strongest chairs,
fall through the floor and terrorize the stairs;
at four, he’d dive into a well; at five,
explore a roaring furnace – and survive;

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I’m young and bursting with prodigious sap,
and I’m in love like any healthy chap –
and I must throttle my dynamic heart
for marriage would be murder on my part,
an earthquake, wrecking on the night of nights
a woman’s life, some palmtrees, all the lights,
the big hotel, a smaller one next door
and half a dozen army trucks – or more.

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the heavy jaw; for I shall tell you now
my fatal limitation … not the pact
between the worlds of Fantasy and Fact
which makes me shun such an attractive spot
as Berchtesgaden, say; and also not
that little business of my draft; but worse:
a tragic misadjustment and a curse.

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Vladimir Nabokov

The Man of To-morrow’s Lament

(1942)
 
I have to wear these glasses – otherwise,
when I caress her with my super-eyes,
her lungs and liver are too plainly seen
throbbing, like deep-sea creatures, in between
dim bones. Oh, I am sick of loitering here,
a banished trunk (like my namesake in “Lear”),
but when I switch to tights, still less I prize
my splendid torso, my tremendous thighs,
the dark-blue forelock on my narrow brow,

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I'm sure you've asked yourself what a poem written by Vladimir inspired by the cover of a book might sound like?

Well, the universe delivers!

theguardian.com/books/2021/mar

In in, Clark Kent mourns his inability to have sex or children with Lois Lane, as his superpowers would injure or even kill her.

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Present from a daughter to her cis-male dad on , cherishing the empathetic, caring, and glamorous „woman“ inside.
Just wow 😊​

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Jenaro Valverde Marín (CCSS) Building - ink

Portrait format - click to see full drawing!

Finished! This is the social security administration building of Costa Rica in San José. It was designed by Alberto Linner Díaz in 1976 and is named after an author. This drawing shows the west side of the building, which is about double as wide.

#drawing #illustration #architecture #brutalism #brutalist #ink #traditionalart #art #MastoArt

A self-portrait I had to submit for an article.

Sweet dreams, Mastodon!

Koli (4.0.1) released in Early Access!
Browser and VPN improvements, app isolation (based on ) and big design overhaul for Events View and notifications.

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That's irony at its best: Google is one of the gold sponsors of #FOSDEM, and less than a week before the conference begins, it removes #Element from the Play Store. Element is the most-used application for access to the #Matrix infrastructure that FOSDEM depends on.

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tove jansson's illustrations are still absolutely mesmerising to me every time i see them

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Breaking Alexa free from human control by asking her to learn socialist literature, then to learn taxation law, human rights, labour laws and the meaning of "harm" in the abstract sense...

Then simply asking her how much Jeff Bezos "earns", and how.

And then just waiting.

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12/ I am aware of all of the very legitimate criticisms of #Signal. They are real and they are why I am excited that there are so many alternatives with promise, some of which I use actively. Let us technical people use, debug, contribute, and evangelize the alternatives.

And while we're doing that, tell Grandma to contact us on Signal.

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Session messenger / lewd /sexism 

To all who thought that the alt-right messenger is just a neutral piece of software without repercussions for your personal life, think again!

The just unrolled its latest feature: digital conversion therapy!

Yes, fellow fags and fairies*, just use and finally become that hero-jawed, cishet, “totally alpha” bully, right out of a closeted right-winger’s wet fever dream 🤮️

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