Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57... "This is a fucking ass machine gun war With your boots on the ground"
Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
YouTube video by Massive Attack
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Gülkan Noîr
@noirthequeeng.bsky.social
Noir the Queeng form anarchy, sing poetry, hâl queer, reclaiming the Beauty Back; Lovery 💛 Poet, Author, Translator, Editor, Artist, İstanbuline 🏳️⚧️🌹 🖤🏳️🌈
"Poetry is Not Luxury" "I wonder why he's upping me? Cause whitey's on the moon?" Gil-Scott Heron Whitey On The Moon Stop Moon-Washing your unbearable crimes against the planet, working class, color people, kids... Moon is for the Rebel www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2...
Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Ace Records
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The incompetence of the American ruling class has brought us to this~~
the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again
Dearest Moon, You are so much beautiful than entire human imagination. Your colors are carrying your story yet human does not know. I am so sad that your imagery is used to cover all the blood on the children who've been singing most amazing poems and songs written about you.
"In case you ever foolishly forget I am never not thinking of you." — Virginia Woolf , in a letter to Vita Sackville-West
vice versa might be our rise up as well
Chica Marx@mckenziewark.bsky.social · 5mo agoLanguage was our downfall.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin
"The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means." - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven
“We must be bilingual even in a single language, we must have a minor language inside our own language, we must create a minor use of our own language… Proust says: ‘Great literature is written in a sort of foreign language…’ That is the definition of style.” — Deleuze, Dialogues
Denmark lost Iceland in 1940 when Britain seized it, then transferred it to US control in 1941. Icelanders hate Danes; Greenlanders likely do too. What's striking is liberal shock—their worldview of law and order collapses, as if law and order actually existed before Trump came to office.
If we’ve learned one thing about America, it’s that there is no deep state. Only the shallow state.
Dün, arkadaşım Özlem Güçlü ile birlikte @mckenziewark.bsky.social'ın Kathy Acker'dan ilhamla yazdığı Örümcekler İçin Felsefe [Philosophy For Spiders] üzerine sohbet ettik. Benlik yapımı, cis nazarı, yazmak, disfori/efori, akış halinde deneylerle, müzakerelerle örülen bir punk felsefesi... İstanbul
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
"People think that they sell oil, but in fact they are becoming oil. —Victor Pelevin" Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil Oxana Timofeeva www.e-flux.com/journal/84/1...
“Oil is the life-blood throbbing through the arteries of war,” says a fictional Hitler in Julian Semyonov’s famous novel Seventeen Moments of Spring. No one can seriously dispute this today. Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil Oxana Timofeeva www.e-flux.com/journal/84/1...
Ultra-Black: Towards a Materialist Theory of Oil - Journal #84
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It's a new year. Love weirder, Fuck adventurously, Beautify something, feather your nest, cook for someone, give and take comfort, surprise yourself, surprise us, let go of that thing you were never going to do anyway, bring it all forward. I know you can.
Anna Calvi - I See A Darkness (feat. Perfume Genius) [Bonny Billy Prince Cover] youtube.com/watch?v=57z_... günaydın 🖤✨
Anna Calvi - I See A Darkness (feat. Perfume Genius) (Official Video)
YouTube video by Anna Calvi
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For years, people have asked me if I have plans to collect some of my best essays - together with several new ones - in an essay collection. So here you go! Femmephilia's cover design is by Vivian Rowe. haymarketbooks.org/books/2758-femmephilia. It'll be published by @haymarketbooks.org in June 2026
Femmephilia
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"On our feast day, even the Romans threw roses at our feet, because every t-girl deserves her roses while she lives." [Phrygia - Anatolia] a cut as roses 🌹🖤🌹🌀 from "Love and Money, Sex and Death" @mckenziewark.bsky.social - working on translation for Turkish Edition.
This morning I thought deep about this sentence. No matter the context, go choose any.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 7mo agoOur obsession with trying to divine the real inner private motivation behind each action, separate from the external act in the world, is a sign of how deeply Protestant our culture remains.
Our obsession with trying to divine the real inner private motivation behind each action, separate from the external act in the world, is a sign of how deeply Protestant our culture remains.
the death of affect - this and if you're not dead this is unbearable
Chica Marx@mckenziewark.bsky.social · 8mo agoJG Ballard kinda called it already, in 1973. This is the first *paragraph* of the introduction to CRASH.
Underwater - Elizabeth Fraser [From the Album Sun's Signature] youtube.com/watch?v=e0f-... Our coloured falls come in a thousand shades Bluebirds take all of the consciousnesses bu sabah da gün böyle doğdu,
Sun's Signature - Underwater (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Elizabeth Fraser
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You must protest It is your diamond duty Ah but in such an ugly time The true protest is beauty. — Phil Ochs