I don’t think I’ve ever shared a full poem I’ve written on my blog? I would like to take steps to change that. It is the time for it.
I wrote this late last night on my phone in bed. So this Monday morning (after a light edit) here’s a reflection on going to bed.
Without ceremony,
I lay my head down to bed
It is without ceremony
that I lay my head down to bed.
No fanfare.
No other ritual
but the brushing of teeth
and the glancing at a phone
I cannot remember putting in my hand.
The bed lamp still on,
2400K LED warm
in the late hours.
There is no lavender oil,
but Eve had a candle on,
its scent ghost
still a present guest
with us both
in the dark.
Outside,
a care horn roars into the night
at the lights.
A sound so familiar
it has ceased to belong to the city
and now belongs to me.
There was a time,
I suppose,
when I believed in the importance of endings.
In the closing of the day
Light switched off,
bottle of water within reach,
sleep approached like a careful negotiation.
But now the days blur,
one into the next,
like ink on water.
The sun comes up,
the sun goes down.
I do not mark their passing.
I do not look back.
Since the lockdowns,
amongst the wars,
and the crazy politics,
I have stopped asking
if it’s all too much,
or not enough.
I no longer worry about
the shape of things.
Some evenings,
I cannot even remember what season it is.
But right now,
I know
that it is spring.
The body has its own rituals.
The spine curves
towards relief.
The eyes,
hot from screens,
close
of their own accord.
Over a decade of meditation now.
No worry before bed.
No anxious mind grasping,
no busy brain
rehearsing conversations or mistakes.
Just a breath,
a prayer,
and the slow descent
into sleep.
I simply lie down
next to a woman I love.
I pull the covers up.
And vanish,
quietly,
into the dark,
without ceremony.
– Jay Springett, March 2025
On The Blog
A Note on Jetpack Social Notes
I spent some time trying to sort out self hosted/published social media posts form wordpress using the Jetpack plugin and wrote up my notes here:
After trying out Jetpack’s Social notes feature I think there’s some real potential here but I ran into a few issues and unexpected behaviours that I wanted to note down:
It’s funny how the internet works. I’ve already received two messages from strangers who were looking at trying the same functionality out. One of them included steps to fix one of the issues I list in the post!
Permanently Moved
Information Age Iconoclasm
Ghibli images aren’t really about copyright or ethics, they’re about unexamined questions of power. Who gets to make images? What gives them meaning? And what is their value when machines can produce them at scale?
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Photo 365
The Ministry Of My Own Labour
- Began a big edit on the long thing i’ve been writing that I wanted done by end of January
- Got some feedback from IRL people on the other long thing i’ve been writing throughout 2024/25
- The jump in raw intelligence provided by Gemini 2.5 has resulted in significant progress being made on a slow burn project. As great deal of javascript has been written (generated)
- PROJECT ENTRY continues at work.
Terminal Access
If you will indulge me. I was interviewed for BBC news:
What’s next for social media?
Image source, Jay SpringettImage caption, Jay Springett experimented with new social platforms
As multiple people pointed out that image caption “experimented with new social platforms” makes it sound like they are some kind of drug! LOL
Dipping the Stacks
The Price Of Parasocial Fame – Aftermath
It was large-scale, interactive live theater which viewers could follow from the perspective of whichever participating creator they chose by simply tuning into their Twitch or YouTube channel, whose individual communities, in turn, have their own objectives and in-jokes. This is the appeal of Dream SMP: As characters bond and betray, kingdoms rise and fall, and memes recount it all, viewers don’t just watch; they participate.
Ozempic Could Crush the Junk Food Industry. But It Is Fighting Back…
Mattson’s inventions were similar to existing packaged foods, like Betty Crocker cake mixes and Tyson Grilled & Ready chicken strips. Were products like this enough, I wondered, to break through Ozempic’s defenses and excite people whose relationship to food has been turned on its head?
The Business Community Is Extraordinarily Stupid
The business lobby has, for all of these years, operated on a false assumption. They believed that they could slowly strip away the foundations of the House of Democracy for a quick buck, without the house ever falling down. Wrong.
Tech things: Deepseek, but make it cheaper
For now, though, I think we all need to take whatever timelines we have and halve them. For better or for worse, cheap automated general intelligence is coming faster every single day.
There Has Been a Drought of Cultural Greatness For Most of the 21st Century So Far
Just because I have been, for the past two years, breathlessly hopeful for a cultural explosion that has not been seen since the ‘60s, does not mean I have to overcompensate by pretending there has been no greatness this year. But signs of hope are not reasons to rest.
Reading
In my ongoing effort to finish reading all the books i’ve got on the go, i closed the cover on the Warhammer 40k anthology Sabbat War by Dan Abnett et al. Just one Gaunt’s ghosts book to go 🙁
I made a great deal of headway on Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World by Kelly Clancy, and Immediacy: Or, The Style of Too Late Capitalism by Anna Kornbluh finally ‘clicked’ and I’m now reading along at quite a fine clip.
Music
Nala Sinephro – Endlessness
I just discovered this 2024 album and I’ve fallen in love with it. This album is a jazz ambient oddesy. An exxploration on loops and simple melodic gestures. Very playful.
Its a lovely album perfect for this spring weather.
Remember Kids:
You could say that tidying orders the mind while cleaning purifies it.
Spark Joy by Marie Kondo
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