The title of we spit the glum sparks was inspired by a line from Ed Atkins’s Flower. The line in question describes how Atkins’s vape “spat glum sparks”. Throughout the book he often makes reference to how modern comforts appear to make his life almost automated; his decisions already laid out before him through poor habits or creature comforts. I found this particularly striking especially in a world becoming more and more automated and more artificially intelligent by the second. What I reflect on in this piece is that these automations and the resulting dehumanisation of the world is inherently a human creation.