Happy motherfucking #MishimaDay.

What is needful? To ascend but by no mean feat to one's greatest vantage. To plunge unharried into one's depths.

The most salient approaches to self-improvement, such as the proclivity to #liftShit, are forms of excess under capitalism, but they represent a bare minimum with respect to any plausible revolutionary impulse.

Requite not what deserves only your back. Requite heartily what your back dares not.

Tsutomu Nihei

Julian, books have stuff recorded down all over the years from people. If we could find a book with someone who had similar problems, just take what they wrote down in the book and make it ours.

Perpetually me with my substack.

Tsutomu Nihei, from Wolverine: Snikt!, 2003

Drop something ARMORED 🪖🛡🖤

Ha! Time enough for the Earth in the grave.

Commodified fantasy takes no risks: it invents nothing, but imitates and trivializes. It proceeds by depriving the old stories of their intellectual and ethical complexity, turning their truth-telling to sentimental platitude.

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

Tsutomu Nihei, from Wolverine: Snikt!, 2003

Every time just like the last On her ship tied to the mast

monday comin'

Great discussion I had with @varnvlog.bsky.social about my book on Semiotics and AI, as well as discussing rationalism a bit youtu.be/Qd73MphsCUo?...

Keita Amemiya

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This book was pivotal for my understanding of what could be accomplished with the novel. The film and book together remain my favorite depictions of immanent dystopia.

Who up stroking they sword while lamenting social realities

I hope this happens and that they don't fuck it up. www.worldofreel.com/blog/2025/5/...

Mars Express is damned good. Peak cyberpunk.

Cloud

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Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

The idea of class struggle has fallen I think quite far out of dissident vernacular. I suppose it makes sense given that only one class is anymore made to struggle, just as only one class at present makes war on the other.

That settles it. "Guilty" is my next stop with Bataille.

And on the very confused discourse around "literary fiction," a brief lesson www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Great refrain for when folks get overly enthusiastic about the prospect of electoral victory, both real or imagined: "How many rifles have you got? Do you know where you can get plenty of lead? When it comes to powder, chemical mixtures are better than mechanical mixtures, you take my word."

Robot models from Robot Battle V by Kow Yokoyama, built by Makoto Kobayashi in 1985.

Moebius, from The Alchemist, 1998

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-106

Art by • Tomomi Kobayashi

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

WIZARDS (1977, Ralph Bakshi)

Guts. Before and after watercolors

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

Chris Warner, 1989

Art by • Yoshitaka Amano

Been remiss, but no longer. Onto The Iron Heel, my long-anticipated entry into Jack London.