Thinking increasingly about this Joshua Clover quote (from joint interview with him and Sianne Ngai in Polygraph) these days.

Israel has killed 500 Gazans since Wednesday. If you're doing business as usual, you're part of the problem. It's not too late to walk out of the #MAA2025, disrupt business as usual, demand divestment, join us for OAMS, organize for Palestine. @medievalacademy.bsky.social DIVEST NOW #MedievalSky

Do you believe me yet that democracy is [just] a management style for growth capitalism that wanes in parallel with accumulation?

is there really not a book by one of Michael Jordan’s friends called 23 and Me?

Thought that cover looked familiar…

Coalition of the nilling

Go gently Roberta

I think they might be calling @blanqui.bsky.social

The writing is on the wall in Copenhagen

Go for broke no joke Grateful Dead power rankings Althea Scarlet/Fire Franklin’s Tower St Stephen Jackstraw Cold Rain & Snow Row Jimmy Touch of Grey Box of Rain China/Rider

Elton John power rankings (+ 2 song bonus) Funeral for a Fried/Love Lies Bleeding Tiny Dancer Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters Captain Fantastic... Come Down in Time Your Song Amoreena Someone Saved My Life... Daniel Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting All the Girls Love Alice Don't Let the Sun...

Madonna power rankings Like A Prayer Borderline Ray of Light Get Into the Groove Don’t Tell Me Lucky Star Dear Jessie Crazy For You Live to Tell Rain

Aimee Mann power rankings Coming Up Close That’s Just What You Are Ray Love in a Vacuum Cigarettes & Red Vines Driving Sideways Voices Carry Choice in the Matter Invisible Ink Ghost World Calling It Quits

Marianne Faithfull had arguably the greatest second act in music history. Travel safe, say hello to Lucy Jordan.

Alanis power rankings So Pure You Oughta Know Wunderkind Thank U Are You Still Mad Unsent Uninvited All I Really Want Right Through You Hand In My Pocket

Skill issue

dipset > deepseek

Joni Mitchell impossible power rankings Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow California Coyote/Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter (medley live) In France They Kiss On Main Street Carey The Blonde in the Bleachers You Turn Me On I’m a Radio Amelia Morning Morgantown That Song About the Midway

Nirvana power rankings All Apologies On A Plain About A Girl Smells Like Teen Spirit Polly Pennyroyal Tea Serve the Servants Lithium Jesus Don’t Want Me for a Sunbeam Heart Shaped Box

Janet Jackson power rankings Love Will Never Do Without You Nasty (12” version) Rhythm Nation You Want This Together Again The Pleasure Principle Got Till It’s Gone All For You That’s the Way Love Goes Escapade

Liz Phair power rankings Fuck and Run Divorce Song Stratford on Guy Polyester Bride Got My Own Thing Johnny Feelgood 6’ 1” Dogs of LA Stars and Planets Cinco de Mayo Girl’s Room

can confirm

You deserve a trip to The Hague…to see the original of Vermeer’s View of Delft

Sheryl Crow Power Rankings Every Day Is a Winding Road My Favorite Mistake The Difficult Kind C’mon C’mon Strong Enough*** Leaving Las Vegas Abilene Mississippi Run Baby Run Home ** live with Dixie Chicks

Heart power rankings Crazy On You Kick It Out Even It Out Nothing At All Barracuda Dreamboat Annie Bebe Le Strange Magic Man (Love Me Like Music) I’ll Be Your Song Heartless

Here’s a 13 year old article about Amanda Palmer for no reason. www.newyorker.com/culture/cult...

Katy Perry Power Rankings Wide Awake Hot'n'Cold California Gurls Simple Friday (Rebecca Black live cover) Roar I Kissed a Girl Firework This Is How We Do Teenage Dream

People who are gonna vote for democrats next time explaining on social media why democrats are bad & evil is just embarrassing. You did it. You voted for the Laken Riley Act. Just live with it.

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Theory of the Day: the frantic search for some personal coordination between Shamsud-Din Jabbar & Matthew Livelsberger functions as a desperate disavowal of the parallel explanation: rather than "working together," they were coordinated by shared conditions of social collapse that in some sense ->

sitegeist

When Arrighi said “systemic volatility” this is what he meant

It’s clear that they *want* the main thing about the Dylan movie to be the wild historical howlers (Baby Blue in 1965! etc etc) but in truth the main thing is how cruel it is to Joan Baez. The movie (and the Dylan character) are fascinated by others’ jealousies, of which there are two genres: ->

George Starbuck wrote summaries of Shakespeare plays that were rhymed sonnets with each line containing a single syllable and friends they were baller, put that in your translation debate

Bluesky lacks main characters

This post is incomprehensibly cynical, disingenuous, & unethical. Paula, if you believe in liberation struggles, let the membership of the organization you direct vote on the BDS resolution.

TOP 10 2024 APT. Rosé feat. Bruno Mars The girl, so confusing, Charli XCX, Lorde The Bonk Song, No$hu Squabble Up, Kendrick Lamar Taste, Sabrina Carpenter Cowgirls, Morgan Wallen, ERNEST Not Like Us, Kendrick Lamar White Male, BLAKSWAN Debbie Downer, LØLØ, Maggie Lindemann Rockstar, Lisa

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teenpop power rankings Robyn Backstreet Boys Britney Xtina The Donnas The A-Teens One Direction

Miley Cyrus songs, ranked We Can't Stop Party in the USA Slide Away Wrecking Ball #GETITRIGHT Malibu You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go

It’s impressive how thoroughly “Ice Ice Baby” has seized essentially uncontested the position of Song Everybody Is Aware That Everybody Secretly Loves But Pretends to Disdain

one day you change the radio from REM's "Stand" and happily settle on "Call Me When You're Sober" by Evanescence because that truly is who you are

my house has many mangiones

It would be a great public service if someone could chart the trajectory of public outrage over healthcare insurance as it peaks and wanes so we know when the next CEO needs to meet his ministry.

The Care Riots, a 4 post 🧵 E.P. Thompson famously argues that a core function of riot in Early Modern Europe & the UK is "price setting": a struggle over the cost of basic survival goods. This is particularly apparent in the canonical bread riot, paradigm of the food riot more broadly. ->

Dear @annkpowers.bsky.social , in general I don't find biographical accounts help me with songs. And yet, every now and then...so, I am curious: do you think this song is about Joni and that famous, unfinished boat trip? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBs...

Hmm, what's the opposite of Pandora's Box? Because one thing you definitely do not want to do is close the box of political violence. There is literally no path out of colonial capitalism that will not face & be compelled to make use of political violence. None. So best to get a more flexible take.