Spoiler: I don't know if it's going to be five years, ten, or twenty, but it's going to come down to a probably-global showdown between socialism and fascism. Save time and choose your side now
JPB
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Novelist (RELENTLESS MELT out now from Melville House) // likes books, colors, shapes, noise // takes notes, makes zines // aging gracefully // to be found in the Greater Boston/Chicago metro region
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Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterdayFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
The quote-replies here inventory significant improvements across our entire culture and will serve as a lift should you need one today
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · yesterdayFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
some grade-A "malfunctioning robot" vibes here
MENACING LINES OF BLACK HORIZONS, by TAKAHIRO MUKAI
6 track album
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Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
Gender studies does a far better job of explaining the Trump administration than traditional political science, or economics for that matter
RIP SIMONE FORTI the great choreographer, collaborator with charlemage palestine (among many others) & lsd advocate has shifted dimensions. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/a...
Simone Forti, Movement Artist Inspired by the Everyday, Dies at 91 (Gift Article)
The creator of Dance Constructions that borrowed from sculpture and performance, she was a deep influence in the early 1960s on ideas about what dance could be.
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I watched the new NWR joint. Nice to see Sophie Thatcher doing something weird
A ★★★ review of Her Private Hell (2026)
Phantasmagoric technologies deployed here include: mist, color, illumination, adornment, fashion, exotica, beauty, violence. It is not difficult to imagine a film marshaling these technologies masterf...
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📚 24. ATTENSITY! A MANIFESTO by the Friends of Attention. In a recent newsletter, @katewagner.wehwalt.net expresses a weariness with the "'I gave up my phone' essay," in which "analog warriors" inveigh against “Screen Time Capitalism." This reads a bit like that type of essay expanded to book length
JPB@jpb.bsky.social · last wk.📚 23. THE BOOK OF ICE by Paul D Miller (aka DJ Spooky). I have a long-running soft spot for Miller's oddball "run it through a shredder" approach to culture and theory, so I was surprised to find that I missed the period (2008) when he did a multimedia project around Antarctica and its utopian vibes
📚 23. THE BOOK OF ICE by Paul D Miller (aka DJ Spooky). I have a long-running soft spot for Miller's oddball "run it through a shredder" approach to culture and theory, so I was surprised to find that I missed the period (2008) when he did a multimedia project around Antarctica and its utopian vibes
JPB@jpb.bsky.social · 3w ago📚 22. THE PUBLIC SCHOLAR: A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK by David M. Perry. A very good guide for doing a kind of writing that I am very unlikely to begin doing 😂 (i.e., public-facing opinion work and the like)
This is a very well-written letter of “fuck your Harry Potter tie-in bullshit.” Hits the relevant points for any such needs. I think it holds up without the “as a cis woman” modifier, too (but I’ll probably just send this letter to my mom as an example without mentioning that one way or the other)
Angelle Haney Gullett@cityofangelle.bsky.social · last wk.What I just fired off. It's more polite than I feel, frankly.
It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
Me, having read Julia Kristeva, whenever a horror movie does something gross
It’s as if Timothy McVeigh, instead of being a working class veteran, was instead the world’s richest man with close ties to world leaders, and also the owner/operator of an enormous, global media outlet.
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w agoThere is simply no ambiguity in what Elon Musk is arguing and endorsing here.
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“Mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal” is pretty much the sweet spot you want to hit to appeal to lots of voters right now.
lowtax speedrun enjoyer@rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 2w agozohran is a completely normal (mixed-market socialist/new-deal liberal/whatever) and it’s completely frying the brains of people with too much money or whose livelihoods are built on catering to the opinions of people with too much money
Sketch in abstract mixed media collage, completed here at Vassar at the Making Meaning symposium. Excess. found papers, wax, acrylic Excess. found papers, wax, acrylic
Algorithm update. Bunch of people have been doing this exact kind of thing to get around TikTok censorship and it’s wild. Feels like an analogue horror series
I guess this is how one becomes someone who haunts estate sales for old Pyrex
Your Cookware Got Worse On Purpose
One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.
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