@lealyster.bsky.social Leiter does some of the things to me that Rothko does, like make me weep at the beauty of the world
Mattilda B Sycamore
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New novel, TERRY DACTYL, out now from Coffee House in US & Cipher in UK!⚡🌷Also: TOUCHING THE ART, THE FREEZER DOOR, BETWEEN CERTAIN DEATH AND A POSSIBLE FUTURE + working on ACT UP BEYOND NEW YORK ++ https://www.mattildabernsteinsycamore.com/
‘Longing,’ says the poet Robert Hass, because desire is full of endless distances.’ — Often it is the distance between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing. -Rebecca Solnit, “The Blue of Distance” #everynightapoem #ofsorts
It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.
The feeling of a giant hydrangea flower brushing the back of your neck as you lean back against the plant is very calming, I highly recommend it.
Canada is an extraction racket on what should be indigenous land.
Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · yesterdayThousands of good jobs. Billions in new investment. A stronger, more resilient Canadian economy.
Fall leaves in August should at least I mean we don't get forest fire smoke in Seattle, but unfortunately I can smell it already and the doom clock is set for tomorrow, can we please get some sudden winds to blow it away from all sentient beings or even better a sudden end to all forest fires now.
When disabled people/many people who work on disability/health pointed to the dangers of this kind of framing since COVID, they were usually mocked ("oh you think everything is eugenics") or ignored. But normalising the idea that the deaths of disabled people are desirable/reassuring is dangerous.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
Would be fun to install a hidden camera inside a multi-stall all-gender restroom just to film everyone's reactions, I mean are these people really as shocked and confused as they are acting. Honey, pull it together, this is the future and it should have happened approximately a million years ago.
When all the sounds outside the installation become its soundtrack
So you're saying this... Is the entrance to... This??! Talk about disappointment...
Relief efforts for Northwest fires: ‘The whole rez is on fire’ As wildfires burn through Native nations in OR and WA, communities have banded together to set up sites to donate and support families impacted by the fires. How to help details are in article. ictnews.org/news/northwe...
Relief efforts for Northwest fires: ‘The whole rez is on fire’ - ICT
As wildfires burn through Native nations in Oregon and Washington, communities across both states have banded together to set up sites to donate and support families impacted by the fires.
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"Taylor Farms was contracting labor...for the low, low price of just $4.75 an hour...some of those incarcerated workers may have been here as non-citizens — meaning it would be illegal to employ them in the same low-wage jobs if they weren’t being held in detention."
Frankie Huang 黄碧赤@ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 3d agoI am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.
Just to be clear, I reported an exhaustive piece about the allegations against Max Miller on July 18. The New York Times published their story, without crediting me, on July 28. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Assault, misogyny, verbal threats: Records detail new allegations against Rep. Max Miller
Police reports and filings in a bitter custody dispute raise new questions about the conduct of an Ohio Republican as he campaigns for a third term.
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Memory as a switchblade, no don’t get carried away I’m just chopping vegetables, maybe the purple carrots that are bright orange inside, the watermelon radish that looks like nothing much and then that magenta, even a turnip or a parsnip suddenly so smooth but what about burdock root
Memory as a broken ladder, when you fall you’re part of the latter, no that doesn’t make sense but does memory—ladder, latter, litter, liter, later, the song of a broken heart no I said ladder don’t bring me to heart we already know that brocade, first aid, but is it a stepladder or a truce.
Memory as a wave, a cave, a listening station, a tomorrow and not today, a sorry I don’t know, a sorrow glow, a slippery hill, a fruitful escapade, yes, the apples dropping from the tree onto your head or your head the apples falling, rolling down the hill, I already told you it was slippery.
A confirmed ICE vehicle that has been seen at at least 3 abductions was left parked on the street in Williamsburg for a few days. It received an NYC makeover: its side windows and windshield smashed, two tires flattened, and the message “ICE OUT” scrawled on the side. Pic sent in anon:
I can’t wait for January!
Library of Brothel
The Library of Brothel is a real building, “the last offline building,” in a city whose inhabitants struggle to find work, housing, even a date. People are isolated, anxious, dispirited, and defeated....
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Anakana Schofield@anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 4w agoLibrary of Brothel Ambitions…
Nice, two down now 1,198 to go It's good to see @mayor.seattle.gov finally getting serious about taking violent criminals off our streets
The Needling@theneedling.com · 5d agoNext Seattle Police Chief Already Fired: tinyurl.com/xhtsyt36
“Mayor Wilson said a national search for a new person paid to pretend they run the Seattle Police Department while sociopathic police union leaders actually do will begin next week.”
The Needling@theneedling.com · 5d agoNext Seattle Police Chief Already Fired: tinyurl.com/xhtsyt36
In case yelling shut up and go away at your screens hasn't made the intrusive AI disappear, Jessamyn has some more practical suggestions.
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d agoI work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
It’s important to understand “age verification” and “kick the kids off social media” laws as a gift to Big Tech. These policies allow surveillance capitalism to chug along full steam ahead and let Silicon Valley giants off the hook. Instead of regulating their biz model, we just put up age gates
if you want to see normally sclerotic do-nothing local governments suddenly snap into action, do some quietly beneficial tactical urbanism type thing like this and watch how quickly they race to remove it
wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 5d agoThe DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.
Sick of "A.i." bullshit? Lots of people are speaking out and organizing against it! Follow these folks and join up! go.bsky.app/3w9a45V