Marie KZ-Lager-Perez

Wife Culture

Punxsatawney Phil Found Dead In Miami

yōkai club, famicom, magazine art (1987) archive.org/details/fami...

"I bought my wife a novel by this great Antiguan writer" "Jamaica Kincaid?" "... if you must know, she did it of her own accord"

been listening through the 22-hour Reich Collected Works set. this is the one I hadn't previously heard I liked the most so far www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rc1y...

this goes alongside another oddity: students today seem to be the most natively PC social group on a lot of issues but strongly "common sense" when it comes to economics & large-scale politics

an observation from a Russell Group university: students are pretty pissed off about the strikes of the last 2 academic years but if their anger goes anywhere it's on to low-level university administrators

one of the lesser-discussed effects has been to make people who put on experimental/fringe/underground/DIY music far more annoying, possessed w/ the sense of doing a great community service

From the abduction of Venezuela’s president to the seizure of its oil, @alfatau.bsky.social traces a chilling new phase of U.S. power—extortion dressed up as policy. As Professor Robert Pape put it, this is ​“Imperialism 101,” a vision of ​“America as predator.” inthesetimes.com/article/empi...

Beware

"future crimes against humanity plaintiff does front-facing video in big hoodie in smelly Portland alleyway defending herself from online criticism" is the most millennial thing imaginable

this film is only from 2011 but it shows how quickly the cultural past recedes as there's basically no free jazz/improv scene in Sheffield at all anymore youtu.be/NvN8fAH3n8I?...

Beware

for whatever reason Charlotte Mendelson has always been the image in my mind of the worst kind of British middlebrow fiction (of recent decades). so the FT getting her to wax poetic about the British Library seems intended to amuse me

I'm not happy about it, I'm not proud, but this is instantly what I thought of, seeing this, and I have to be honest about that.

I'll say that I've had second thoughts about this especially after Minneapolis. but I'm still not really sure what the term "fascist" adds to our understanding of the Trump rupture w/ business-as-usual

someone was circulating a screenshot of a Trump post about Philip Glass so had to check the sources & the things he actually posts about are a lot funnier

"anyone who cares about the stability of the republic might have reason to regret the disintegration of moderate Republicanism"

Giorgio Agamben x Harbor Freight

selling a handbag on ebay for my girlfriend & they refuse to deliver it & complete the transaction b/c the inside smells slightly (she didn't mention it on the listing but also didn't say it smelled fine)

v funny bit on Radio 3 news this morning, quoting an AI dork that the bottom is probably going to fall out of the market & major companies will go bankrupt but AI will still be put into everything & keep expanding. the "eat your cake & have it" school of business

thought this was Tucker Carlson for a minute

2026年1月28日 5:50 おはようございます🥶 #Blueskyねこ部 ねこ部部員 No.28

Somehow we are getting closer to this tweet

is there a non-annoying equivalent to instagram. I like using it as a little visual diary & to keep tabs on Japanese cat account but the ads & awful algorithm are too much now

my equivalent to this is reading Rachel Syme

one thing I've noticed in student support for assessments is even students who don't have official diagnoses of ASDs or mental illness now experience having multiple deadlines as unbearable & impossibly stress-inducing

Anna Jones' The Modern Cook's Year has some reliably good recipes but the bits where she gives "advice" make me want to blacken or tear out the pages

John Fetterman Dies At 56 After Sitting Down Too Quickly

v satisfying video about the making of William Eggleston's dye-transfer prints youtu.be/IyBJmQ3kf94?...

something v funny about this catalogue essay's description of Michael Fried's 'Art and Objecthood' as "polemical (and it turns out homophobic)"

don't ask what the licence fee buys you now

we should have a think about reviving the Ottoman Empire, would solve a lot of problems

revising the schedule here to 6 months

the first assassination of an ICE official will be received like Operation Anthropoid

remembered the guy whose collection is in the National Rail Museum, who built 1000s of perfect replica model trains, but b/c they're a slightly different scale & gauge than the normal they can't be used on actual model railways

Nuremberg 2

have a guess who's bad at replying to emails

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

gettin turnt up

Sontag also a member of that category of dopes who have no real sense of what Jewish life had meant in Europe who thought that Israel was basically fine & "the only democracy in the middle east"

We asked Minnesotans to tell us what January 2026 has been like. Here is what 33 of them had to say.

I'm paying nearly £200 more a month than when I moved in & we still have the electric on a coin meter

our rent has gone up every year since 2022 & each time it swallows up my incremental pay progression completely