"A real catastrophe would delay things, it would constitute a retrograde incident, of the explosive kind (without changing the course of things: did Hiroshima perceptibly delay, deter, the universal process of deterrence?)." - Simulacra and Simulation

RIP Tony Rayns, one of the few English-language critics who genuinely knew what they were talking about (most of the time) when it came to East Asian cinema, especially Hong Kong's.

"I haven't seen a Belgian this mad since the release of Roger Casement's report into the Congo in 1904'

@johncusack.bsky.social come hang out on Echologorrhea. Sure, the audio sucks and it has an audience of three, but we will let you swear as much as you want and talk about French avant garde art

"In the fourth, it is no longer of the order of appearances, but of simulation." - Simulacra and Simulation

"Which is combined with the economy of sexuality." - Simulacra and Simulation

""YOU are the majority!"" - Simulacra and Simulation

"The unconscious is a "buried," repressed, and indefinitely subdivided structure." - Simulacra and Simulation

Never mind 1776, here's the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

"to which the characteristics of automobiles pretend to adapt." - Simulacra and Simulation

"It is this gap that vanishes in the process of genetic coding, in which indeterminacy is not so much a question of molecular randomness as of the abolition, pure and simple, of the relation." - Simulacra and Simulation

It might be dumb but the next US president will get so much political capital if their admin does a make-up America 250 thing. "Sorry we're off by a couple years but let's do this right"

The fact that Europe's lack of air conditioning became a pissing contest instead of resulting in mass solidarity for climate justice feels like the laziest psy-op

This will be a thread of tips for people suffering through their first god-awful heat wave with no or subpar AC. I'm a perpetually broke Southern Californian so my ideas run cheap.

Today is the 250th anniversary of Boston’s mass inoculation against smallpox on July 3, 1776. The city was effectively closed to commerce from July through September 1776. The mass immunization effort was cheered as evidence of true independence. Here's how I described it in my book:

“…we can still play, move forward, and nothing can stop us.”

OK, let's start the search. Adrienne Shaw is on the lookout for two titles of early LGBTQ software that predate Caper in the Castro. One is called VAPOR PALACE. The other features Tom of Finland art but has no discovered name yet. The search is on - if you know more details or... have a copy? ping.

Just a note: When it’s hot, cooling towels rule. People often advertise them for like running outside, but I love having one I can just kinda wrap around my arm when it’s hot at night (like right now). A good one stays surprisingly cool for a long time. www.today.com/shop/ranked-...

The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.

in case anyone else would like m/m wrestling books

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

“The Animator and the Glazer” by Ju Chu is about the impact of generative AI on the arts and the extremes that one animator goes to to maintain his distinctive style and voice, v relevant to the present moment: clarkesworldmagazine.com/ju_07_26/

going from “this character is a male scholar who defects from working for the empress and by proxy from assimilating to the hegemony to escape hate” to “this character is a transfeminine wrestler tokenized for her heritage who seeks out genuine community” is certainly a turn of events

Tomorrow begins International Zine Month 2026! @alexwrekk.bsky.social, creator of IZM, has posted her annual promo poster, along with an accessible text list over at stolensharpierevolution.org/internationa... July 21 is Int'l Zine Library Day! Bring your favorite zine librarians donuts 📓🍩

"It is the same thing with cloning: nothing opposes itself any longer to the renewal of the Same, to the unchecked proliferation of a single matrix." - Simulacra and Simulation

‘The glow worm is only a “worm” in the Anglo-Saxon sense of being something long, thin and a bit weird. Victorian natural historians worked out that it is a species of beetle.’ Quentin Shaw on Artificial Light at Night (ALAN)’s disruption of glow worm sex. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

WELCOME TO SCHISM WATCH 2026 WITH CLAIRE

Dragon Dragon is the best wrestler alive don't @ me

Holy fucking shit! This is awesome! Our own Dick Marlboro, host of Q Up The Movie, has a special cameo appearance in the newest, amazing episode of @diamandahagan.bsky.social!!! I am seriously dancing on moonbeams over here! Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP_R...

"The hypermarket is the expression of a whole lifestyle in which not only the country but the town as well have disappeared to make room for "the metro area" - a completely delimited functional urban zoning, of which the hypermarket is the equivalent, the micromodel, o..." - Simulacra and Simulation

Someone more clever than me must be able to make a pun on Pride Month being a summer month, fall = autumn, and "pride before the fall"

"The moralists of war, the holders of high wartime values should not be too discouraged: the war is no less atrocious for being only a simulacrum - the flesh suffers just the same, and the dead and former combatants are worth the same as in other wars." - Simulacra and Simulation

Oh god, I've attracted the attention of Nietzsche Bot

@akarra.bsky.social so you're not gonna believe this from my posting. I realized that I have been using Nietzsche to avoid my true love, Baudrillard (this is very believable from my posting)

heh heh heh looks like someone's getting sacrificed to Posiedion for his insolence

If you can convince that they're all just isolated individuals, they won't unionize, they won't organize boycotts...

THE SIHEYUAN!!!

@gavinwade.bsky.social not a clue what made you think we're cool enough to keep with but thanks!

re-upping because this is the only democrat in government who has said something afaik.

All children deserve to eat for free at school. ALL OF THEM. I don’t care if their parent is a millionaire. Free lunch.

This photo is of Betty Simmons, who was more than 100 yrs old when she was interviewed in 1937 in Beaumont, TX. She was married during slave times, and widowed, but was very happy that freedom came when it did because her enslavers were preparing to put her 3-yr old child to work in the fields.

"Sentimentality is nothing but the infinitely degraded form of bestiality, the racist commiseration, in which we ridiculously cloak animals to the point of rendering them sentimental themselves." - Simulacra and Simulation

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LADY OF SCANDAL (1930) 🎩 This pre-Code romantic drama features Basil Rathbone in an early film role, showcasing the screen presence that would later make him famous as Sherlock Holmes. Watch it now ➡️ archive.org/details/the-... #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay

Piping plover chicks are born with the instinct to perform a rapid "tap dance" giggle on wet sand to forage for food. This vibration mimics rainfall or subterranean movement, tricking worms, crustaceans, and insects into moving or coming to the surface so the bird can quickly catch them.

nonograms imply yesyesounces

hey everyone! i just came up with a neat new tone tag for when something you say is up to journalistic standards and would hold up to any kind of rigor it's /j for journalism! i hope this helps someone today 🥰

Nation In Love With Girl From Record Store https://theonion.com/nation-in-love-with-girl-from-record-store-1819566067/

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www.booksellers.ca/books/when-w... #IndigenousHistoryMonth

The cartoonist Joe Sacco has claimed that Penguin Random House India were “looking for excuses” not to publish his politically contentious docu-comic, The Once and Future Riot.