It's like Sartre says, hell is other posters

There are many downsides to marketing of any book being outsourced to the author, one of them being that Being Good At Posting is incompatible with being interesting in prose.

I can't take any writer's work seriously after I've seen them get into an Internet slap-fight. You may be the landmark once in a generation talent, but if I saw you talking about why a children's cartoon is or is not praxis, I'll never be able to read anything else you write.

PSA: "My Broken Vagina" by Fran Bushe "Mostly I want you to know, that you are not broken. The way that sex has been sold to you is broken. Your sex education and the sex you see in films is broken. The shame people feel if their sex life doesn’t fit the norm is what is broken." #FreedomToRead

If you have comments and want to discuss Isabel Fall's 2020 story, please god throw down some comments.

Already drafting notes on Isabel Fall's 2020 short story because I read half of it and went into an incandescent rage over how she was treated. This is a timely and excellent story. This was a beautiful piece of art very nearly lost to the ages.

Happy Black Helicopter Day to all who celebrate.

My immersion into Baudrillard made this even more fun to read.

Blocking Billiam Stampstill, let's see what happens. Not even for the legit reasons, just to get away from someone who's annoying

It is in fact okay for cis people to say that what happened to Isabel Fall is bad.

The new issue of Africa's best news magazine is out -- with wisdom from @nanjala.bsky.social (among other good things). Her prescription for navigating our uncertain times? Read. "Read for joy, read for pleasure. Just read. And Imagine. There’s no point in a revolution if it leads to more misery."

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

I have GOT to find some weirder podcasts.

"Now, what can medicine do with what floats on either side of illness, on either side of health, with the duplication of illness in a discourse that is no longer either true or false?" - Simulacra and Simulation

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Any professional in a technical field should ALREADY BE DOING THIS. You don't need the agent first. Your thinking should already be 4-dimensional.

This shop name reminds me of my approach to promoting my own work…

My 8yo asked if I would post something to Bluesky for her, then grabbed a piece of paper and made this So here is your advice for the day:

I really, really liked Ian McKellen and Lori Butler's new movie, which is kinda about art forgery but mostly about the purpose of making and paying attention to art (while being really funny!) hyperallergic.com/an-unlikely-...

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.

This was a good book. I don’t trust Taibbi or Greenwald but I came to that conclusion honestly by reading them for a long time instead of getting knee jerk mad once they said stuff I disagreed with and called it Russian or whatever. These guys deserved an honest interrogation on What’s Their Problem

New from me: We need to update our priors and start thinking about the problem of online political violence as it is, not as it once was. So I am nailing this to the wall: 14 Theses Concerning Online Political Violence medium.com/the-berger-d...

If anything when abolitionists note the myriad ways juvie, jails and prisons are torture death camps, the average person says "GOOD" and usually "THEY SHOULD BE WORSE"

A lot of people are asking me what is happening here so I broke out Visio to see if I can clear things up. Hope it helps!

It’s really okay not to frame something as “global” if all your speakers are from the same place, either through citizenship or residence. The local is also, always, a site of struggle.

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

Every journalist on earth is just a foot soldier in a weird psychosexual argument between six rich people at an orgy.

One of these days I'll remember to post things. Today is not that day, and I'm okay with this.

Episodes get named like this because everyone deserves to know exactly what they're getting. Content Warning Because This is About Sex Tropes Good and Bad on @rss.com rss.com/podcasts/ech...

Featuring friend Teucer in the episode Jimmy Buffett Did A Lot More Than Write "Margaritaville" and "Cheeseburger in Paradise" on @rss.com rss.com/podcasts/ech...

A fact of being Jewish in the South is that while Yiddish and Hebrew and all the myriad languages of the Diaspora have oaths, you will still reach for "Jesus Christ."

I listened to Kelly's conversation with Rebecca Solnit and I recommend it. I was particularly struck with what Solnit says here: truthout.org/audio/hope-i...

6. It’s actually okay that people turn this on and watch it as while the purpose of the event is poorly explained every year it remarkably does introduce people to the idea that clothing is art and matters.

counterpoint, stop making "video podcasts." we don't have to do everything that google tells us to. podcasts are an audio medium, they always have been. asking people to get in full glam to talk to you on zoom is bonkers.

Some of y'all live in a fantasy world, where Trump supporters are just hard-working downtrodden poor people with no political voice, just trying to make ends meet. I live in the real world, where Trump supporters are the wealthiest, whitest, most politically powerful and connected people on earth.

"Trump could never cancel the midterms" or "ICE could never affect polling stations" yes but you should probably start looking at Kay Iveys post SCOTUS ruling redistricting push in AL and realize that there's a decent chance there will be nothing but Brad The Farmers in control for the midterms

Full of love for a place that loves #baudrillardposting

RIP Baudrillard, you would've loved The Devil Wears Prada 2 hiring a real artist to create an image in the style of AI slop.

Congratulations. I promise that you're not missing anything. I will be ordering your book.

#comics #religion #magic #comicsstudies #AlanMoore #callforpapers

youtu.be/UbqrHETYgXc -- I read aloud my letter to James Baldwin about his essay "The Creative Process." A lot in there about the task of the artist which sounds like it parallels no less than the task of Socrates. And this, weirdly enough, means James Baldwin can be put in dialogue with Leo Strauss.

@ncartmuseum.bsky.social This feels like something the museums of NC could also do?

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

True Stories, updated to reflect how sense of place has changed regarding economic and demographic shifts. Preferably most actors are local hires and use their natural accents.

Finally committing to the close-reading deep dive into Simulacra and Simulation, having to face that maybe I don't really like Baudrillard's style, uh oh

decriminalisation of sex work is a public health benefit

I want to reassure everyone that abortion providers have been ready to switch to misoprostol-only abortion for a long time now, and clinics can still provide mifepristone in person. You can still access abortion and there are people who will help.

the pope is warning about the threat ai poses to humanity and human creation while richard dawkins is extolling the virtues of his virtual girlfriend. dark times. the saxophones have stopped. the monster is behind you.

Botswana is moving forward on LGBTQ+ rights. The U.S. is regressing www.advocate.com/opi... #transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA