applications for winter classes for @sfpc.study - a pretty great organization focused on art, code, and critical engagement with technologies - are due tomorrow, nov 17. classes start in january, and scholarships are available… sfpc.study

“Fusco has traced what happens when ideology isolates, when nations and individuals retreat behind physical and political borders. Yet the exhibition suggests that to ‘become an island’ may also be to claim autonomy, to inhabit the structures of power without surrendering to them.”

nearly a week after the election, and they’re unable to call the seattle mayoral race / current status is .04% difference. komonews.com/news/local/s...

Join us for an all-levels, tech-agnostic class that explores how we communicate to and through machines, combining readings, guest lectures, discussions, reflections, and experiments. Apply by Nov 17 sfpc.study/sessions/win...

ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

Tuesday, November 4 / 6:30 pm PST / in-person and livestream / @edyong209.bsky.social / “In this talk, Yong shares how becoming a birder helped him heal, and how engaging with nature can be both restorative and revelatory.” www.washington.edu/lectures/eve...

Accessible by Design: Building Inclusive Immersive Experiences / Friday, 21 November 2025 / 18.30 – 19.45 GMT / Online, Free ( via @ndkane.bsky.social) www.vam.ac.uk/event/gWMPBR...

Wong Kar Wai’s first television series (30 episodes!!) will begin streaming on the Criterion Channel on november 24 www.criterionchannel.com/blossoms-sha...

I am delighted to announce that tickets are now available for Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, Year 20! Hope to see you there. Information and ticket link here: www.cityboxoffice.com/eventperform...

I’ll be leading 2 sessions of Machine Language - an exploration of our relations to and through machines - with some incredible collaborators and guests for @sfpc.study winter 2026. Classes are held online, so you can participate from anywhere with an internet connection. sfpc.study/sessions/win...

Really excited to share with you the first of a four-part series I wrote for HiLoBrow. About two years ago, I started noticing that certain places made me feel deeply uneasy for no real reason. Eventually, I gave these places a name: The Devoid, a new kind of gothic for the 21st century.

Announcing WINTER 2026 at SFPC! ࣪ ˖⿻ This winter, six beloved classes return as sanctuaries where technical & conceptual tools meet poetic inquiry—making space for reflection, creation, & subversion amid the violences of relentless technological acceleration Read more + apply by Nov 17 @ sfpc.study

🧵How Native Americans are impacted by the government shutdown…

early pandemic, one of my mental health coping mechanisms was to watch 1st-person walking videos of places i’d never been. / @rambalac.bsky.social was my favorite, for their steady wandering of beautiful japanese places. just discovered that they’re here (and occasionally even posting livestreams).

And this year’s Open and Engaged Conference is themed for Open Access Week, and explores the power, ethics, and responsibility in how cultural heritage is created, shared, and preserved. Attend online over three afternoons openscholarship.gitbook.io/open-and-eng...

This is the way to do it, technically and on the human level. And I appreciate that @rude1.blacksky.team got a meaningful decision/update together before speaking on this instead of wading into the first wave of confusion.

A neat thread with back-of-envelope calcs on Bluesky's runway

Live texting, to a friend still in line outside, the single digit number of not-dudes i can so-far see at this sold out Autechre show / feeling like the Count from Sesame Street.

“We wanted to think instead about what we could do that was more action oriented. We wanted to locate where we have agency and not just give in to sorrow.” ❤️

it's HAPPENING! I've revealed the subject of my next book and it's YES of course, it's a deep dive into #BattlestarGalactica! For that news and a few thoughts on the #BSG convention that just took place, read this! 💚🔥 www.moryan.com/its-official...

Of course John Wilson instigated the restoration of Wm Whyte’s The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, showing at Anthology later this month! (Fwiw, I wrote about the history of the sidewalk: wordsinspace.net/2022/05/11/4...)

Public transit and science fiction!! You know you want it! Check out this incredible FREE event tomorrow, 9/16, in San Francisco. The good news is that this event will be livestreamed, so you can sign up to watch remotely at the link!

“Hatoum shares Giacometti’s grief, terror and compassion even though their attitude to media is very different.” www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

“The Nobel Peace Center commissioned Antoine d’Agata to help document the hibakusha and their stories. In November 2024, D’Agata traveled to Hiroshima and Tokyo to photograph Nihon Hidankyo.” www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture...

also if you're getting an alert for the watch on the US west coast—the tsunami won't arrive here for another ~6 hours and likely won't be very high this far away from the source, but you still don't want to be on a boat in harbor or wandering the beach when it shows up

While reading a physical book in public, a stranger asked me what i was reading because they’re looking for their next book. / as much as i support reading digital to limit object acquisition, i may only read physical books from now on. (cc @kiostark.bsky.social )

“These ships carry specific burdens, but they also transport the burden of the industrial age’s consumption and production and its impacts. They carry a burden, a cargo, of meanings.” - @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social aperture.org/editorial/ri...

The Maintainers have released their “Maintainers Study Guide: A Guide to Ground Your Practice in Principles of Maintenance, Repair + Care” — a resource that “reflects nearly a decade of work” across The Maintainers’ conferences, fellowships, research networks, etc themaintainers.org/study-guide/

So happy to have _finally_ sourced a copy of this! It’s a fantastic synthesis of 400k words of oral histories conducted over the pandemic and captures a huge slice of sector knowledge, 50 years of practice, and method that museums have often forgotten

This is bad

📌 Preorder our forthcoming issue "The Colonized & the Atomic Bomb," which mobilizes Indigenous perspectives on interconnectedness between distant lands and peoples 80 years after US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Cover artwork: Roger Peet thefunambulist.net/shop/60-colo...

brilliant @wesleygoatley.bsky.social is speaking / showing work as a part of this free (in london and streaming online) july 2-4 festival on critical art and research, including a focus on Artificial Futures (july 4) www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...

for those in (or who will be in) the PNW, the wonderful @tenderheartpress.bsky.social is holding a letterpress workshop in olympia, washington, on 6/23 www.community-print.org/classes/prin...

Coming this fall, a 2nd edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective…with a new ten thousand word introduction and a new interview with Angela Davis.

“The event wasn’t just about fixing broken objects; it was about reclaiming them — finding new meaning in what was salvaged, and weaving those pieces into a continuing story of resilience and renewal.” hyperallergic.com/1019983/free...

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

The online #prelinger collection just reached 10,000 items. Over 1200 high-quality scans reflect our film scanning collaboration with #ffdweb.org, and many more are coming soon. Please watch, teach and make new work with these films. archive.org/details/prel...

merlin sheldrake on mushrooms (and their entangled lives), wednesday may 21, 730pm PT, in person and streaming (cc @kissane.bsky.social @fjord.style) lectures.org/event/merlin...

I’ll be speaking with artists and designers from the Design and Disability show on 7th June at Great Exhibition Road festival - Kaiya Waerea, Finnegan Shannon and Arjun Harrison-Mann. Free! BSL interpreted, live captions, wear a mask! www.greatexhibitionroadfestival.co.uk/event/design...

In loving memory of Moshu 🍎

Great coverage of our mutual aid network across the US-Canadian border moving Indigenous data so it's safer. www.theverge.com/features/664...

“Holmes' support for her partner's foray into biotech is striking, given she is serving a federal prison sentence for fraud in that same field.” www.npr.org/2025/05/10/n...

something to think about

A great panel calling out Duke for unadvisedly deciding to deaccession its magnificent herbarium — and the local interdisciplinary connections and international networks that emerged to save it

we're doing the thing unbreaking.org

“In this ecstatically hybrid work, Luger transforms a 1970s military survival guide through poetic redaction, speculative fiction, and iterative line drawing—deftly surfacing and disrupting the colonial subconscious that haunts this vexed source text.” ayinpress.org/surviva-a-fu...

Lazarus, the new anime series by the director of Cowboy Bebop, led to 3 soundtrack albums / including one by Kamasi Washington

“I feel very strongly that it shouldn’t be entertaining,” he said. “To use something as important as nuclear war as a vehicle for entertainment is quite, quite wrong.” www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Authoritarianism is already here, it's just not evenly distributed. Join us to hear voices from the future, discussing their experiences in Hong Kong, Azerbaijan, Venezuela, and Ukraine, live on Wednesday or watch the recording any time~