Nothing exists in itself.

I think 12-year-olds see a lot of things more clearly than we do.

Just saw John Smoltz and Michael Imperioli (separately) while waiting to pick up Rose Lowder at Pearson.

NEW ESSAY — “Hooked on Sonics” in which Lucas Thompson delves into a particular genre of popular acoustics primers aimed at children and amateurs alike, revealing the pedagogical, ludic, and transcendental strivings of Victorian society. — publicdomainreview.org/essay/scienc...

I owe everything to ILL.

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

Neon Genesis Evangelion was first broadcast thirty years ago today. I'm going to attempt to articulate its impact - not just on me, and the different reasons I keep coming back to it, but on how it lands hard and lasts for a lot of people. Thoughts incoming, throughout the day...

Terrific poems & remembrances of Alice Notley at The Brooklyn Rail by Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos, Eileen Myles, Brenda Coultas, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Evelyn Reilly, The Friend, & Lee Ann Brown. brooklynrail.org/tribute/alic...

I saw this quote out of context and unattributed so I thought it was about fan fiction

Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time

We’re in San Francisco where @derekbjenkins.bsky.social’s film “Letter from Blackhawk Island” is on the Crossroads 2025 program! www.sfcinematheque.org/crossroads/c...

I contributed a brief remembrance of Alice Notley to the new issue of The Poetry Project Newsletter Full piece, & remembrances by Eddie, Eileen, Elinor, Peggy, Marion, Joel, Andrei, Simon, Anne, & Harris, here: www.poetryproject.org/publications...

Come hang out with us! Let’s talk about books!!

My quasi-daily reminder that Christian Zionism is the dominant form of Zionism today and one of the most dangerous ideologies of the past few decades.

The best Mexican restaurants: Hello

What’s another way of saying “final operational plan”

How do you write about "safety" & "dangerousness" while acknowledging that there isn't an increase in "violent crime", & not name the years of racialized folks saying that more police does not make us feel safer, & prejudiced ideas of danger are not about it either? 🤦🏾‍♂️ www.thespec.com/news/crime/s...

Incredibly sad to hear that Joel DeMott passed away last week. DeMott's films 'Seventeen' and 'Demon Lover Diary' are absolute classics. I wrote more on her work at the link below but seek out the films. They deserve so much more attention! www.splittoothmedia.com/demon-lover-...

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Really proud of what my film collective is doing in downtown Hamilton www.cbc.ca/arts/inside-...

Sounds like ICE killed a guy and then held american citizens hostage at gunpoint until they agreed to destroy the evidence

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

One of Backwoodz Studioz founder and indie rap mainstay Billy Woods's great talents as a writer is balancing the scholarly with the streetwise. Dylan spoke to him about how the music of Nas, MF Doom, The Juggaknots, and Fela Kuti have inspired him

I’d vote in that reader’s poll but unfortunately I don’t qualify 😢

A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza. That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed. Genocide. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

I have declared tomorrow an E-Mail Jubilee. All of you, especially @zugenia.bsky.social, are hereby instructed to archive your entire inbox. If the message is important, it will arrive a second time.

This is also why academics objected so vehemently to Oxford University Press’s complicity in publishing transphobic screeds under “philosophy”—the “just asking questions” corner of the humanities. The open letter we sent 3 years ago: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"'What is the deep listening in a place like a protest, or out in the street in a city, or a place like Standing Rock?'... In Chacon’s installation Silent Choir (Standing Rock) [w]hat he portrays isn’t just the chaotic sounds of political protest, but the quiet strength of resistance."

Friends, strangers, filmmakers, cinephiles... Our beloved friend Azucena Losana needs help. www.gofundme.com/f/una-red-pa... Azu was always generous with people around, curious and helpful. Help if you can!

BEHOLD THE LIBERAL

There’s a lot going on especially right now, but take a moment of space and time to bid farewell to Ariel Kalma, RIP arielkalma.bandcamp.com/album/an-evo...

This story is free to read, like all WIRED stories based on FOIA.

Yes, it's long. Yes, it's complex. Yes, it's detailed. And yes, it will make you sad unto nihilistic depression. But it's also necessary to read because AI is going to fuck the planet beyond expression. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Does anybody know anybody at the State Archives of Poland

If you, like me, sought out gentler sounds in the thick of the pandemic—post-rock, spiritual jazz, new age—and are now looking for something a little more forceful, might I submit that MOOR MOTHER is making the fiercest, most urgent work you can hear right now.

welp I sent an email

there is no reason for this it is unbearable please stop it, somehow, somebody.

Right now, 13 Black-led organizations are bailing out Black mamas and caregivers all across Georgia; Alabama; North Carolina; Texas; Mississippi; Missouri; California; Tennessee; New York; and Pennsylvania. ⛓️‍💥♥️ Join the movement to #FreeBlackMamas at bit.ly/freeblackmamas2025

It looks like my book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is available for preorder, and will be out next month! Please ask your university libraries to order it—if enough copies sell, it will flip to open access! www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...

Nationalize adobe products

It’s really hurtful when people who should know better fail to give you the benefit of doubt

from Epitaphs for Lorine

“Making many times as much money as other artists as research practice”

Author Kim Stanley Robinson dismisses the tech bros who claim Earth is doomed and plot their escape to Mars. “This is just silliness on their part,” he says. “And I say this as the guy who wrote the Mars novels.”

Trans icon Miss Major was just denied entry on to a plane in Arkansas because her ID had an X gender marker on it.

Reminder that Israel initially claimed the murdered aid workers were “terrorists” who were “advancing suspiciously.” Not only have they walked back that lie, it is now clear the soldiers fired continuously for over three minutes, reloading, at pointblank range. A deliberate massacre.

@debraraecohen.bsky.social I heard about Gary’s dog… 13 years for a Great Dane is incredible! RIP to a good girl!

📣 Visit CFMDC's Protest Banner Lending Library 📣 CFMDC is a permanent branch of the Protest Banner Lending Library located in Toronto, Ontario. Banners are available FREE of charge! Conceived by Aram Han Sifuentes, read more here: bit.ly/3GmF7wI