@crell@phpc.social2026-08-03 15:09:19
The reporters at this news site are AI bots. OpenAI’s super PAC appears to be funding it.
Not only are Gen AI systems unethical, the companies behind them are evil, too.
https://www.modelrepublic.o…
@crell@phpc.social2026-08-03 15:09:19
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-09-02 11:25:12
Sonnet 112 - CXII
Your love and pity doth the impression fill,
Which vulgar scandal stamped upon my brow;
For what care I who calls me well or ill,
So you o'er-green my bad, my good allow?
You are my all-the-world, and I must strive
To know my shames and praises from your tongue;
None else to me, nor I to none alive,
That my steeled sense or changes right or wrong.
In so profound abysm I throw all care
Of others' voices, tha…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-02 11:25:14
Sonnet 129 - CXXIX
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action: and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait,
On purpose laid to make the taker mad.
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have extreme;
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-09-01 05:05:07
«Kernel.org — 98 Prozent des Linux-Kernel-Archiv-Traffics sind wohl keine Menschen:
Bots scrapen die gesamte Sammlung an Kernel-Commits und -Forks. Schließlich ist der Linux-Kernel eine exzellente Quelle menschlicher Arbeit.»
Weshalb erinnern.mich die KI's an den Bots seit je her? Die sind also so intelligent, dass die den menschlichen Arbeit schamlos beklauen (ich weiss Linux ist Open Source aber trotzdem)
🐧
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-03 11:25:11
Sonnet 092 - XCII
But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
For term of life thou art assured mine;
And life no longer than thy love will stay,
For it depends upon that love of thine.
Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,
When in the least of them my life hath end.
I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie. …
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-08-04 05:18:23
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-03 11:25:16
Sonnet 050 - L
How heavy do I journey on the way,
When what I seek, my weary travel's end,
Doth teach that ease and that repose to say,
'Thus far the miles are measured from thy friend!'
The beast that bears me, tired with my woe,
Plods dully on, to bear that weight in me,
As if by some instinct the wretch did know
His rider lov'd not speed being made from thee.
The bloody spur cannot provoke him on,
That sometimes a…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-02 11:25:13
Sonnet 128 - CXXVIII
How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,
Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st
The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,
Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap,
To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap,
At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!
To be so tickled, they would change their state
…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-03 17:32:22
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🎵 Slow Tonight
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@usul@piaille.fr2026-06-26 18:58:27
Charge serveur causée par les bots IA sur un forum phpBB : quelques solutions par @… .
https://www.ch…
@adlerweb@social.adlerweb.info2026-09-01 20:38:55
Möchte ich wissen, warum grade Bots rumlaufen und mit Adressen aus Werbelisten neue Accounts bei OpenAI anlegen? Neue Finanzierungsrunde und man muss die Nutzerzahlen wieder schönen? >_>
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-08-02 20:08:22
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-23 15:45:57
Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control to writers' dashboards, allowing them to decide whether AI crawlers can scrape their work (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/23/beehiiv-adds-cloudflare-ai-crawl-c…
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-07-30 21:11:26
#PSA : The bots here are adopting the same patterns that they use elsewhere.
Be very dubious of “firstlast##@mastodon.social“ accounts with tone discrepancies. Like responding to a snarky gripe by asking a verbosely faux-deep query about a tangent.
Because they are LLM training bots.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-11 12:24:00
@kineticdiplomacy@infosec.exchange2026-07-03 09:04:24
I have very harsh rules for muting people. Which is making it hard to find people to follow. Meh.
I mute: post screenshots of posts on other forums, non human accounts (bots and corporations), puzzle result posters, weather posters, americans who post stuff like their 10km2 on the planet is the only part of the planet, CVE posters, any politics, misinformation, people who post links with no context, people who use content warnings for things that don't need them, or have a larger…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-23 14:30:41
Beehiiv adds Cloudflare AI Crawl Control to writers' dashboards, allowing them to decide whether AI crawlers can scrape their work (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/23/beehiiv-adds-cloudflare-ai-crawl-c…
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social2026-06-30 20:22:09
Reform UK are not popular -payed-for bots do the dirty work for them.
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@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-03 12:06:24
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Sports Team:
🎵 The Drop
#NowPlaying #SportsTeam
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@mszll@datasci.social2026-08-30 12:53:22
Due to a >1000% increase in attempted signups on our server datasci.social in the past weeks generated by AI bots, we added a new rule: Only human users. (They won't care, but it's now explicit.)
We also clarify our ads rule: No commercial advertisements, unless permitted. This has never been an issue, but we want to be open to allow small projects supporting themselves reasonably. We deleted mention of spam as it is already covered by Mastodon's defaults.
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-09-01 11:25:17
Sonnet 126 - CXXVI
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle, hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein showest
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self growest.
If Nature, sovereign mistress over wrack,
As thou goest onwards still will pluck thee back,
She keeps thee to this purpose, that her skill
May time disgrace and wretched minutes kill.
Yet fear her, O thou minion of her pleasure!
…
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-01 11:25:13
Sonnet 047 - XLVII
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest,
And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thy s…
@askans@bonn.social2026-07-27 06:09:20
All Bots Are Bastards - Rheinpanorama
@nfdi4culture@nfdi.social2026-06-29 11:38:30
🐺 Vielleicht habt ihr auf unserem Portal schon das Furry-Manga-Maskottchen entdeckt:
⌛Hierbei handelt es sich um eine Prüfungsseite der Open Source Software Anubis. Wer also auf einmal kurz diese Seite sieht, braucht sich nicht zu wundern.
🙏 Wir sind den Entwicklern dieser Lösung ausgesprochen dankbar!
💡Der Begriff Anubis Software bezeichnet primär eine beliebte Open-Source-Web-Firewall, die Webseiten vor automatisierten KI-Scraper-Bots schützt.
🔗
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-07-03 11:38:22
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@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-03 11:57:22
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Lola Young:
🎵 From Down Here (Radio Edit)
#NowPlaying #LolaYoung
https://open.spotify.com/track/7Hg7l5aOygIHuaNDVFp3ox
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@marcel@waldvogel.family2026-08-11 18:19:41
Schweizer Daten an Schweizer Modelle 👍
#Apertus
(Der Rest nicht so toll.)
https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/srg-blockiert-ki-bots-archiv-nur-n…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-01 11:25:15
Sonnet 104 - CIV
To me, fair friend, you never can be old,
For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,
Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold,
Have from the forests shook three summers' pride,
Three beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd,
In process of the seasons have I seen,
Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,
Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green.
Ah! yet doth beauty like a dial-hand,…
@donelias@mastodon.cr2026-08-11 01:59:52
Acš en Mastodon y el Fediverso todavía no han llegado los medios de comunicación costarricenses con cuentas oficiales.
Pero tenemos algunas cuentas que republican contenido de sus sitios web oficiales, de sus fuentes RSS
@…
@…
@selea@social.linux.pizza2026-08-27 16:33:24
AI-bots stealing already existing users public bio and using it when applying to joining this instance has exploded for the last month.
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-06-06 09:49:00
Bots übernehmen Internet früher als gedacht
Laut Cloudflare fragen Bots im Netz mehr HTML-Inhalte an als Menschen. Das sollte eigentlich erst nächstes Jahr passieren.
https://www.heise.de/news/Bo…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-07-02 09:43:21
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@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-31 06:31:05
An interview with Granola CEO Chris Pedregal on making the AI note taker invisible and work across apps, and why he rejects executives seeking employees' notes (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/granola-chris-pedregal-interview/
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-06-21 00:15:58
Le Monde is considering ways to grant access to AI agents of paying readers while maintaining its block on crawler bots and other unlicensed non-human traffic (Jessica Davies/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/le-monde-blo
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@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-07-03 12:43:24
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Crucchi Gang x Paula Carolina:
🎵 Ti sta bene
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-31 11:25:14
Sonnet 132 - CXXXII
Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy heart torments me with disdain,
Have put on black and loving mourners be,
Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain.
And truly not the morning sun of heaven
Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east,
Nor that full star that ushers in the even,
Doth half that glory to the sober west,
As those two mourning eyes become thy face:
O! let it then as well beseem thy h…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-31 11:25:15
Sonnet 118 - CXVIII
Like as, to make our appetite more keen,
With eager compounds we our palate urge;
As, to prevent our maladies unseen,
We sicken to shun sickness when we purge;
Even so, being full of your ne'er-cloying sweetness,
To bitter sauces did I frame my feeding;
And, sick of welfare, found a kind of meetness
To be diseased, ere that there was true needing.
Thus policy in love, to anticipate
The ills that were not, gre…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-30 11:25:11
Sonnet 040 - XL
Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all;
What hast thou then more than thou hadst before?
No love, my love, that thou mayst true love call;
All mine was thine, before thou hadst this more.
Then, if for my love, thou my love receivest,
I cannot blame thee, for my love thou usest;
But yet be blam'd, if thou thy self deceivest
By wilful taste of what thyself refusest.
I do forgive thy robbery, gentle thief,
Al…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-07-29 10:21:16
Lake Mary, Florida-based Spur Intelligence, which helps distinguish human and bot traffic to find fake users and threats, raised $200M led by Insight Partners (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/28/bot-detection-startup-spur-nabs-200m-f…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-07-30 10:55:55
Some journalists and novelists are adopting an "anti-AI" style with intentional typos and complex sentences, as publications are flooded with AI submissions (Emma Madden/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/more-typos-few
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-30 11:25:15
Sonnet 068 - LXVIII
Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn,
When beauty lived and died as flowers do now,
Before these bastard signs of fair were born,
Or durst inhabit on a living brow;
Before the golden tresses of the dead,
The right of sepulchres, were shorn away,
To live a second life on second head;
Ere beauty's dead fleece made another gay:
In him those holy antique hours are seen,
Without all ornament, itself and true,…
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-30 11:25:14
Sonnet 125 - CXXV
Were't aught to me I bore the canopy,
With my extern the outward honouring,
Or laid great bases for eternity,
Which proves more short than waste or ruining?
Have I not seen dwellers on form and favour
Lose all and more by paying too much rent
For compound sweet, forgoing simple savour,
Pitiful thrivers, in their gazing spent?
No; let me be obsequious in thy heart,
And take thou my oblation, poor but free,
@stefan@gardenstate.social2026-07-01 15:38:21
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-29 11:25:11
Sonnet 008 - VIII
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to …
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-29 11:25:13
Sonnet 053 - LIII
What is your substance, whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since every one hath, every one, one shade,
And you but one, can every shadow lend.
Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit
Is poorly imitated after you;
On Helen's cheek all art of beauty set,
And you in Grecian tires are painted new:
Speak of the spring, and foison of the year,
The one doth shadow of your beauty show,
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-30 14:10:05
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Aldous Harding:
🎵 Venus In The Zinnia
#NowPlaying #AldousHarding
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-29 11:25:13
Sonnet 144 - CXLIV
Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil,
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turned fiend,
Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
But bei…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-28 11:25:20
Sonnet 092 - XCII
But do thy worst to steal thyself away,
For term of life thou art assured mine;
And life no longer than thy love will stay,
For it depends upon that love of thine.
Then need I not to fear the worst of wrongs,
When in the least of them my life hath end.
I see a better state to me belongs
Than that which on thy humour doth depend:
Thou canst not vex me with inconstant mind,
Since that my life on thy revolt doth lie. …
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-30 08:10:05
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Austra & Patrick Holland:
🎵 Siren Reprise
#NowPlaying #Austra #PatrickHolland
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-28 11:25:21
Sonnet 019 - XIX
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the earth devour her own sweet brood;
Pluck the keen teeth from the fierce tiger's jaws,
And burn the long-liv'd phoenix, in her blood;
Make glad and sorry seasons as thou fleet'st,
And do whate'er thou wilt, swift-footed Time,
To the wide world and all her fading sweets;
But I forbid thee one most heinous crime:
O! carve not with thy hours my love…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-28 11:25:14
Sonnet 003 - III
Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest
Now is the time that face should form another;
Whose fresh repair if now thou not renewest,
Thou dost beguile the world, unbless some mother.
For where is she so fair whose unear'd womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love, to stop posterity?
Thou art thy mother's glass and she in thee
Calls back the lov…
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-27 11:25:16
Sonnet 044 - XLIV
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But, ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To l…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-27 11:25:18
Sonnet 079 - LXXIX
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid,
My verse alone had all thy gentle grace;
But now my gracious numbers are decay'd,
And my sick Muse doth give an other place.
I grant, sweet love, thy lovely argument
Deserves the travail of a worthier pen;
Yet what of thee thy poet doth invent
He robs thee of, and pays it thee again.
He lends thee virtue, and he stole that word
From thy behaviour; beauty doth he give,
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-26 11:25:14
Sonnet 111 - CXI
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisell 'gainst my…
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-27 11:25:14
Sonnet 036 - XXXVI
Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our undivided loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain,
Without thy help, by me be borne alone.
In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a separable spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Lest my bewailed guilt shoul…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-26 11:25:14
Sonnet 146 - CXLVI
Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth,
( ??? ) these rebel powers that thee array,
Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth,
Painting thy outward walls so costly gay?
Why so large cost, having so short a lease,
Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend?
Shall worms, inheritors of this excess,
Eat up thy charge? Is this thy body's end?
Then soul, live thou upon thy servant's loss,
And let that pine to a…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-26 11:25:12
Sonnet 107 - CVII
Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
The mortal moon hath her eclipse endured,
And the sad augurs mock their own presage;
Incertainties now crown themselves assured,
And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Now with the drops of this most balmy time,
My love looks fresh, and Death…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-25 11:25:13
Sonnet 111 - CXI
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisell 'gainst my…
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-25 11:25:16
Sonnet 015 - XV
When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment,
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment;
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheered and checked even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay
Sets you most rich i…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-25 11:25:16
Sonnet 045 - XLV
The other two, slight air, and purging fire
Are both with thee, wherever I abide;
The first my thought, the other my desire,
These present-absent with swift motion slide.
For when these quicker elements are gone
In tender embassy of love to thee,
My life, being made of four, with two alone
Sinks down to death, oppress'd with melancholy;
Until life's composition be recured
By those swift messengers return'…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-24 11:25:13
Sonnet 074 - LXXIV
But be contented when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being d…
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Sonnet 029 - XXIX
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself, and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising,
Haply …
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@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-24 11:25:14
Sonnet 047 - XLVII
Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took,
And each doth good turns now unto the other:
When that mine eye is famish'd for a look,
Or heart in love with sighs himself doth smother,
With my love's picture then my eye doth feast,
And to the painted banquet bids my heart;
Another time mine eye is my heart's guest,
And in his thoughts of love doth share a part:
So, either by thy picture or my love,
Thy s…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-23 11:25:27
Sonnet 117 - CXVII
Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should your great deserts repay,
Forgot upon your dearest love to call,
Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day;
That I have frequent been with unknown minds,
And given to time your own dear-purchased right;
That I have hoisted sail to all the winds
Which should transport me farthest from your sight.
Book both my wilfulness and errors down,
And on just proof surmis…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-23 11:25:16
Sonnet 001 - I
From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And onl…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-23 11:25:16
Sonnet 134 - CXXXIV
So now I have confessed that he is thine,
And I my self am mortgaged to thy will,
Myself I'll forfeit, so that other mine
Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still:
But thou wilt not, nor he will not be free,
For thou art covetous, and he is kind;
He learned but surety-like to write for me,
Under that bond that him as fast doth bind.
The statute of thy beauty thou wilt take,
Thou usurer, that put'st forth …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-22 11:25:16
Sonnet 096 - XCVI
Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;
Some say thy grace is youth and gentle sport;
Both grace and faults are lov'd of more and less:
Thou mak'st faults graces that to thee resort.
As on the finger of a throned queen
The basest jewel will be well esteem'd,
So are those errors that in thee are seen
To truths translated, and for true things deem'd.
How many lambs might the stern wolf betray,
I…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-22 11:25:18
Sonnet 111 - CXI
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisell 'gainst my…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-22 11:25:13
Sonnet 129 - CXXIX
The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action: and till action, lust
Is perjured, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
Past reason hated, as a swallowed bait,
On purpose laid to make the taker mad.
Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
Had, having, and in quest to have extreme;
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-21 11:25:15
Sonnet 051 - LI
Thus can my love excuse the slow offence
Of my dull bearer when from thee I speed:
From where thou art why should I haste me thence?
Till I return, of posting is no need.
O! what excuse will my poor beast then find,
When swift extremity can seem but slow?
Then should I spur, though mounted on the wind,
In winged speed no motion shall I know,
Then can no horse with my desire keep pace.
Therefore desire, (of perfect…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-21 11:25:18
Sonnet 100 - C
Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long,
To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?
Spend'st thou thy fury on some worthless song,
Darkening thy power to lend base subjects light?
Return forgetful Muse, and straight redeem,
In gentle numbers time so idly spent;
Sing to the ear that doth thy lays esteem
And gives thy pen both skill and argument.
Rise, resty Muse, my love's sweet face survey,
I…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-21 11:25:12
Sonnet 095 - XCV
How sweet and lovely dost thou make the shame
Which, like a canker in the fragrant rose,
Doth spot the beauty of thy budding name!
O! in what sweets dost thou thy sins enclose.
That tongue that tells the story of thy days,
Making lascivious comments on thy sport,
Cannot dispraise, but in a kind of praise;
Naming thy name blesses an ill report.
O! what a mansion have those vices got
Which for their habitation chose o…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-20 11:25:20
Sonnet 115 - CXV
Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer:
Yet then my judgment knew no reason why
My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.
But reckoning Time, whose million'd accidents
Creep in 'twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of altering things;
Alas! why, fearing of Time'…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-20 11:25:21
Sonnet 103 - CIII
Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth,
That having such a scope to show her pride,
The argument all bare is of more worth
Than when it hath my added praise beside!
O! blame me not, if I no more can write!
Look in your glass, and there appears a face
That over-goes my blunt invention quite,
Dulling my lines, and doing me disgrace.
Were it not sinful then, striving to mend,
To mar the subject that before was well?…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-20 11:25:14
Sonnet 088 - LXXXVIII
When thou shalt be dispos'd to set me light,
And place my merit in the eye of scorn,
Upon thy side, against myself I'll fight,
And prove thee virtuous, though thou art forsworn.
With mine own weakness being best acquainted,
Upon thy part I can set down a story
Of faults concealed, wherein I am attainted;
That thou in losing me shalt win much glory:
And I by this will be a gainer too;
For bending all my …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-19 11:25:14
Sonnet 004 - IV
Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend
Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy?
Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend,
And being frank she lends to those are free:
Then, beauteous niggard, why dost thou abuse
The bounteous largess given thee to give?
Profitless usurer, why dost thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
For having traffic with thy self alone,
Thou of thy self thy sweet self dos…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-19 11:25:30
Sonnet 006 - VI
Then let not winter's ragged hand deface,
In thee thy summer, ere thou be distilled:
Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some place
With beauty's treasure ere it be self-killed.
That use is not forbidden usury,
Which happies those that pay the willing loan;
That's for thy self to breed another thee,
Or ten times happier, be it ten for one;
Ten times thy self were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-19 11:25:15
Sonnet 011 - XI
As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st
In one of thine, from that which thou departest;
And that fresh blood which youngly thou bestow'st,
Thou mayst call thine when thou from youth convertest.
Herein lives wisdom, beauty, and increase;
Without this folly, age, and cold decay:
If all were minded so, the times should cease
And threescore year would make the world away.
Let those whom nature hath not made f…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-18 11:25:14
Sonnet 008 - VIII
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-18 11:25:14
Sonnet 153 - CLIII
Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep:
A maid of Dian's this advantage found,
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which borrowed from this holy fire of Love,
A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And grew a seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired,
The boy for tria…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-18 11:25:16
Sonnet 136 - CXXXVI
If thy soul check thee that I come so near,
Swear to thy blind soul that I was thy Will,
And will, thy soul knows, is admitted there;
Thus far for love, my love-suit, sweet, fulfil.
Will, will fulfil the treasure of thy love,
Ay, fill it full with wills, and my will one.
In things of great receipt with ease we prove
Among a number one is reckoned none:
Then in the number let me pass untold,
Though in thy store…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-17 11:25:13
Sonnet 023 - XXIII
As an unperfect actor on the stage,
Who with his fear is put beside his part,
Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,
Whose strength's abundance weakens his own heart;
So I, for fear of trust, forget to say
The perfect ceremony of love's rite,
And in mine own love's strength seem to decay,
O'ercharg'd with burthen of mine own love's might.
O! let my looks be then the eloquence
And …
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-17 11:25:25
Sonnet 115 - CXV
Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that said I could not love you dearer:
Yet then my judgment knew no reason why
My most full flame should afterwards burn clearer.
But reckoning Time, whose million'd accidents
Creep in 'twixt vows, and change decrees of kings,
Tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharp'st intents,
Divert strong minds to the course of altering things;
Alas! why, fearing of Time'…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-17 11:25:13
Sonnet 114 - CXIV
Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you,
Drink up the monarch's plague, this flattery?
Or whether shall I say, mine eye saith true,
And that your love taught it this alchemy,
To make of monsters and things indigest
Such cherubins as your sweet self resemble,
Creating every bad a perfect best,
As fast as objects to his beams assemble?
O! 'tis the first, 'tis flattery in my seeing,
And my great mi…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-16 11:25:12
Sonnet 128 - CXXVIII
How oft when thou, my music, music play'st,
Upon that blessed wood whose motion sounds
With thy sweet fingers when thou gently sway'st
The wiry concord that mine ear confounds,
Do I envy those jacks that nimble leap,
To kiss the tender inward of thy hand,
Whilst my poor lips which should that harvest reap,
At the wood's boldness by thee blushing stand!
To be so tickled, they would change their state
…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-08-16 11:25:17
Sonnet 022 - XXII
My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth and thou are of one date;
But when in thee time's furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.
For all that beauty that doth cover thee,
Is but the seemly raiment of my heart,
Which in thy breast doth live, as thine in me:
How can I then be elder than thou art?
O! therefore love, be of thyself so wary
As I, not for myself, but for thee wil…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-06-15 11:25:16
Sonnet 042 - XLII
That thou hast her it is not all my grief,
And yet it may be said I loved her dearly;
That she hath thee is of my wailing chief,
A loss in love that touches me more nearly.
Loving offenders thus I will excuse ye:
Thou dost love her, because thou know'st I love her;
And for my sake even so doth she abuse me,
Suffering my friend for my sake to approve her.
If I lose thee, my loss is my love's gain,
And losing…
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com2026-07-16 11:25:14
Sonnet 063 - LXIII
Against my love shall be as I am now,
With Time's injurious hand crush'd and o'erworn;
When hours have drain'd his blood and fill'd his brow
With lines and wrinkles; when his youthful morn
Hath travell'd on to age's steepy night;
And all those beauties whereof now he's king
Are vanishing, or vanished out of sight,
Stealing away the treasure of his spring;
For such a time do I now fortify …