2/There is a multiyear campaign on the part of the tech broligarchy to establish a 'network state' in Greenland similar to what was done in Honduras (Prospera). Trump/Vance are pushing this agenda forward on multiple fronts (see also pardon past Honduran president). techcrunch.com/2024/11/15/i...

Thanks for all the birds but damn.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Sending congratulations to all the DUP authors who have won awards and honors for their books this fall! See them all on our blog: buff.ly/2JZRktP

Most accurate 2025 map I’ve seen yet

JG Ballard kinda called it already, in 1973. This is the first *paragraph* of the introduction to CRASH.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Nothing exists in itself.

people who are new to academia tend to find its obsession with sources and citations a brake on their "i'm just trying to be CREATIVE, man" mindset. but it turns out the relentless obsession with accuracy, citation, and *provenance* is a load-bearing pillar of the whole enterprise

Zoroastrians believed dark spirits wandered the night. People gathered with older family members, ate red food representing the light of dawn, and stayed up all night with candles lit everywhere, all in the hopes of protecting themselves. Being Iranian, we turned this into an excuse to read poetry.

Iranians and Irani-influenced groups like Azeris and Afghanis have celebrated the winter solstice for at least 12,000 years, making it one of the oldest solstices on record (almost every culture with seasons celebrates something solstice-like, so we didn’t invent it, we just have older records)

Happy winter solstice! Or as Iranians call it, Shab e Yalda (meaning Night of Birth) or Shab e Chelleh (meaning Fortieth Night) Iranian months have forty days, so in my mind these mean “night of beginnings” and “night of endings,” which I think is neat! Other neat things about Chelleh: 🧵

Which makes it especially weird that in the paper I was reviewing today the precise same, totally blandified title is credited in a different journal and strips out the coauthor. Is a new fake reference being generated from the last?...

I Saw The TV Glow- it said Death To Videodrome

37,000 words of commissioned writing in 2025. A bit low. HMU with work!

My book REVERSE COWGIRL comes out in French in February. Publisher just decided not to fly me to Paris, so open to any paid appearances around that time.

Read all the student papers (some good ones!) Finished a commissioned article. Did copy edits on two others. Nearly ready for the winter break.

From a few years ago, but this is a good account of the New School's actual history and economy, up until 2021.

The nyt’s anti-trans coverage has always been Sulzberger’s political project. He and his lieutenants saw trans ppl as easy prey, a way to show the right wing the nyt was not a “liberal rag” and pay no price for their bigotry But there is a price: the lives of trans ppl, especially young ppl.

hey man, you ok? you've barely hugged your wire mother

made a graph about the return of psychoanalysis

You must protest It is your diamond duty Ah but in such an ugly time The true protest is beauty. — Phil Ochs

Which so many trans people said was exactly what was going to happen

So grateful to translators—both for bringing my writing into their languages and bringing writing from other languages into mine.

This has been the worst year for pub/distributor order fulfillment since 2020. Did everyone lay off their warehouse workers? What is going on? Would love to know!

The perfect storm sinking American academia 1. costs rising faster than inflation 2. declining number of school leavers 3. withdrawal of govt funding 4. edtech 5. visa restrictions 6. right wing ideological warfare 7. student debt 8. so-called AI 9. hostile public sphere

"Femmunist Intimations," my contribution to the eflux journal masculinities issue. Which includes a tribute to one of my teachers, Raewyn Connell.

To all the young people in New York and across our country who count on gender-affirming care: I won't let this administration come for you, your doctors, or your lifesaving health care.  Your health care is still legal and protected.  I'll always fight for you.

That time i wrote a book about how the fall of the Soviet Union was not a victory for its cold war adversary but prefigured its own collapse. www.versobooks.com/products/61-...

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

So now I must do a workshop to learn how to do the thing that the people in the positions they eliminated used to do.

Bluesky tonight is neatly divided between trans people and family members appropriately angry and freaking out and everyone else who has barely noticed.

while you were commanding a chatbot to declare its love for you i was trying to avoid the same outcome from 7,000 fifty seven year old men with profile pictures like gestapo mugshots

i don’t need chat gpt to sycophantically kiss my ass thanks i’m a hot woman on the internet

Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal. Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.

Love how xmas songs are all either: 1. the son of god has been born on earth! or, 2. 's cold—let's all get hammered.

A @mckenziewark.bsky.social alerta muito bem sobtr isso no capital está morto como a nossa mente é ainda uma das últimas instâncias de refúgio contra as garras das big-tech

Gruesome tour of the opportunists and new fusionists publishing the tech Zeitgeist in SF bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new...

I made the Frieze top ten articles for 2025, applying Girard on the scapegoat and mimetic desire to trans politics: www.frieze.com/article/scap...

Ariel Dorfman: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...

many are saying gavin is the patrick bateman of ronald reagans

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

We are parents of a trans kid and our family takes this very, very personally. If you intentionally make life harder for our beloved daughter, it’s EXTREMELY hard to think of you as an ally, to say the least. @amyklobuchar.com - you still send us requests for money, while hurting our kid. Disgusted.

I try to avoid linking to Substacks but this essay is FASCINATING

Vladislav Delay implies the existence of Vladislav Reverb, Vladislav Chorus, and possibly Vladislav Flanger/Phaser

It's all working according to plan 😈

Jacobin Magazine has decided it would rather by Trotskyist (derogatory) than Trotskyist (complimentary).