now that is a poem title

Something compelled me to make this

Comment parler de "Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus ?" si on l'a pas lu

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

lol bezos got that chump to fire everyone and then was like thx you can write your resignation letter now

every dialogue by plato is like MY BFF SOCRATES: Now, imagine that you're really pretty SOME ASSHOLE: I am picturing this. BFF SOCRATES: so you agree... you think you’re really pretty

Death Camp For Cutie over here

“Surely, I think, if someone can write or play the ‘Hammerklavier,’ I should be able to describe a peach,” writes @agri.bsky.social, author of Hyper (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social). Enjoy more: at.pw.org/WRIsmaïl

One of the best lit podcasts on one of the very best novels – keeping this for my next long walk with the dog

Har läst en bok. www.expressen.se/kultur/bocke...

One of those days where my phone’s facial recognition is like who dis? so I’m definitely not going to be spiraling into an identity crisis

I forget, did Big Ben Bong for Brexit in the end?

this one hits hard 💔💔💔

Read to find out about why i had to lie about the interior of the Connaught hotel

”Along with many others, Coffee House, Graywolf, and Milkweed in particular are known for publishing fiction that would give an ICE agent a stroke”

I certainly hope to live long enough to see Stephen Miller imprisoned for his many crimes.

I hate this so much www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Jfc can you CHILL OUT

you mean i don't have to pay *and* I don't get bombarded with "new AI features and content"? What more could I want?

BREAKING: everything. Everything is breaking.

🎉HYPER by Agri Ismaïl is out today!🎉 👉👉A hypermodern family saga: Dubai luxury malls, algorithms, corded radios, and desperate efforts to locate meaning and identify within the numb isolation of modern immigrant life. A stunning debut by @agri.bsky.social 👈👈

Läs.

The Minneapolis videos reminded me of how Blackwater used to operate in Iraq, the same brazen disregard for human life, a similar sense of judicial impunity. And yup sure enough, Foucault’s boomerang is in full swing: theintercept.com/2026/01/03/b...

I just realised that we’re due another movie in the Up series this year, thank the lord finally something to look forward to

An excerpt from HYPER in today's LitHub Daily Fiction. Out next week! 💶💶💶 lithub.com/hyper/ @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

My kid just asked ”what does everything mean” Kid I don’t fucking know we’re just trying to get through the day here

it's that time of year again when my dog, already a neurotic bundle of nerves, is stressed out of his mind because he thinks we are now in a war zone when, in fact, the neighbor's kids are just setting off firecrackers a bit early

Everyone with their best songs of the year and I haven’t seen a single one of you single out a French song about polyamory the chorus of which goes, I swear to god, “vroum-vroum j’suis une polly pocket”

Aw dang Bardot is dead – every year that batty bint would post some virulently Islamophobic shit just before Eid, I’ve basically lost my most accurate Eid calendar 😢

overheard in whatever act of Huis-Clos this household finds itself in: MEPHI STOP LICKING THE INTERNET

Nån måste skriva en novell om Swish konstråd som bestämmer vilka Swish-kort vi får varje år

because white men can't police their imagination ai images of violent black men are generated

True story: When I got my first copies of the UK hardcover of DE, I couldn't figure out what was going on on the jacket, so I asked two of my production colleagues. me: Is that debossing? colleague 1 (peering through a loupe): No, it's clear foil. colleague 2: Oh, I love her on The Crown.

I wonder if the first time indigenous people in the Americas saw a conquistador they were like ”I wish he’d get off his high horse”

Enjoying Belgian chocolate is being complicit in the colonial horrors of the Congo

Mace Windu: Don’t call attention to yourselves, don't use registered transport. Travel as refugees. Fucking Padme Amidala:

Nu är vi alla terrorister av Agri Ismaïl Och mycket mer i nya numret som nu finns tillgängligt digitalt för prenumeranter

om ni inte redan prenumererar på clarté så tycker jag det är ett ypperligt tillfälle att göra detta NU - årets sista nummer som kommer ut i dagarna är redaktörat av mig o @silasaliki.bsky.social och det utlovas banger texter

Pound/dollar for pound/dollar, the good people can do in buying and wiping out debt (especially medical debt!) is astonishing, and it baffles me that more people with very medium amounts of wealth don’t do it when it would mean so much to people who are drowning

Day 1 of my #AdventCalendar [sound up]

från David Graebers "Are You An Anarchist? The Answer May Surprise You!" davidgraeber.org/articles/are...

Tänker ofta att ett parti som skulle sno sin värdegrund från valfri förskola – man delar med sig, alla människor är lika värda, man hjälper varandra – skulle idag framstå som radikalt

My response to anything over the next two weeks

”Den enskilde polismannen ska uppfattas som neutral och objektiv” – därför ska inte poliser gå i Pridetåget i uniform. Säger mannen som hade en hel politiskt kampanj för M och riksdagen – iklädd polisuniform.

This is a good piece

Jag önskar verkligen att ni alla läser denna granskning. Den visar hur demokratins infrastruktur - i Europa - steg för steg säljs ut till Musk, Thiel och andra tech-oligarker. Och Sverige är på väg att gå samma väg. Det är livsfarligt. www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/XMw...

Nu eller aldrig! @agri.bsky.social recenserar och drar slutsatser av två högaktuella böcker om pågående skeenden som behöver mycket mer uppmärksamhet. #arbetsmarknad #fackligarättigheter #densvenskamodellen #kollektivavtal #frontalkrock #gigekonomi #livspussel #densistamilen