Sure love starting the year with a new Youth Avoiders album. youthavoiders.bandcamp.com/album/defiance

Such a delicious streak of satisfying movies so far in 2026, kinda scared to make a next pick and break it in the most tragic way. Animation : ✔️ Documentary : ✔️ Shorts : ✔️ Anti-colonialist : ✔️ Anti-imperialist : ✔️ Anti-war : ✔️ Anti-fascist : ✔️ Anti-capitalist : ✔️ Kaiju : ✔️ Cat : 🐱

Mornin’ and Merry (belated) Xmas (to me).📚

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

Well, duh. “The lure of honey water draws you from my arms so needy You follow in colonies to sip it from the bank In rapturous sweet temptation, you wade in past the edge and sink in Insatiable for a nectar, drinking 'til your heart expires” 😚🎶

Oh, to work between Xmas and NYE : no meetings, finally getting things done that have been on the To Do for weeks, uninterrupted soundtrack flowing through the headphones and the peaceful sipping of coffee.

“And then, they missed the abstract submission deadline”, said Frog in a scary voice. “Gasp!” gasped Toad.

My covers for Dynamite's Terminator: Metal, kind of tell a story

Now, I’ve never read The Hunger Games, only seen the movies, I get it. However Georges Perec’s ‘W or The Memory of Childhood’ is one of my favorite books and that’s also a little bit on the nose.

What happened, in the end, to the 44 people arrested for the "crime" of preventing their friends & neighbours from being kidnapped and held against their will in a prison barge, for the "crime" of being refugees: intlantifadefence.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/t... #refugeeswelcome, #nooneisillegal

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

If the last 15 years of the tightening chokeholds on society and culture from the tech sector and the American conservative animus have taught us anything, it’s that it’s healthy to be extremely skeptical of anyone calling the humanities “low utility” or similar

Smthing that's been grating on me *big time* lately: "I listened to these 10 albums so you don’t have to" is less a hook than ever and is starting to feel very literal, almost reading as an instruction: "Consume someone else’s pre-chewed takeaway, not the work. Your time is better spent elsewhere."

Getting double-vaxxed in a single pharmacy morning visit: Pro: two needles, one feat, no birds harmed. Con: I’m longing for a third side to sleep on.

Terrance Hayes

It's out and it's a full album. Oh boy... 😭🙏💛

The Crutchfield sisters are premiering a track for a new(?) project/band on Friday and, yes, the forecast shows a 100% chance of happy tears being shed.

#NowPlaying NTS Guide to: Giorno Poetry Systems An hour of selections from Giorno Poetry Systems, the platform launched by NYC poet and performance artist John Giorno in 1972. www.nts.live/shows/the-nt...

So fun. Need to give the original audio (in German) a try. Could talk about Perec like a nerd for hours. What’s new, really ?

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I’ve gathered my data— You’re my favorite subject of study too. 🌹🤓

It’s unsurprising but a little funny to open the comment section under a vid of the NYC Mayoral Debate & see « Mamdani is a socialist » as an insult for supposedly being a radical leftist, when rn, in France, we use « socialist » as an insult for someone who’s (somewhat) « unusually » leaning right.

Afterwork treats : fancy olive oil and some new (old) Perec. La Machine (1968, new FR translation 2025) : previously unpublished play about a machine that decrypts poetry by using a Goethe poem. Not pictured: the olive oil.

I focused this, far too long, thread primarily on policy and tried, as much as possible, to keep personal views limited. Here's what really pisses me off though, at least Conservatives and Reform are honest about who they target with anti-immigration bs, Labour still pretends to be "progressive" 1/5

The Battle of Cable Street. A thread 🧵 with pictures and ALT text. 1/ On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street. #TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran

Happy #BandcampFriday! ✨ Songs of Hope for Gaza is a compilation uniting artists in solidarity with Palestine. 100% of proceeds go to ANERA, supporting humanitarian aid + emergency relief in Gaza & beyond. 👉 prettypurgatory.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

The Owls retaliate !

Did someone say « dog ear » ?

I’m probably one of the least likely people to ever get radicalized on YouTube*, this is literally what my algorithm looks like every day. (*unless the cats are secretly recruiting and I’m already too far gone.)

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

Here are the books my beloved RIS reading group (@dianalog.bsky.social @kasylongauthor.bsky.social @pounk.bsky.social @anitaholmes.bsky.social & E.F.) has read in the past year, with Dickinson always in our ears.

One of a few new favorites that surfaced for me at this year’s Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon during the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival. 👁️🌌✨ (F.839/J.972)

Love the idea of arts news but presented with the tone, cadence, and inflection of sports coverage.

he's got more of a comment than a question, really

In just under 9 months, Trump’s 2nd term has racked up 230 nationalist actions - 75% occurring in the past 3 months. From executive orders to mass detentions & political violence, the darkness is spreading. Can we hold the line? My latest Substack ⬇️ christinapagel.substack.com/p/nationalis...

#OtD 15 Sep 1993 Ward 2/3 of UCH hospital in London was occupied by local residents and some nurses in protest at its closure, part of a series of struggles at hospitals around that time stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8746...

Onto September! A short story a day. Featuring stories from these collections and a few others. Titles are in alt text.

birds on the moon

Super cool. Form mirrors its own process. Sometimes I forget how much I love how comics let that kind of play happen in ways few mediums can.

Not quite sure I’ve mastered the art of saying “I knew them before they were big” without sounding like a jerk yet… but I saw Turnstile in a sweaty punk room a decade ago, and hearing that same wild energy in such an incredible-sounding Tiny Desk feels pretty special. youtu.be/ylL-SSRDyJc?...

Happy #NeMusicFriday ! 😌🎧🎵 I have yet to recover my headphones from The Great Flat Unpacking™ but still enjoyed listening to some great tracks by Water From Your Eyes, Superchunk and Wolf Alice today.

You might think putting nearly 400 records (which is far from the most collection) in moving boxes is pretty straightforward but yeah no, it is nooot. The potential of overloading boxes and the stress of balancing the weight within each are real.

Not religious but searching for the deity that would let me pray to them so I can just blink and wake up in September, hopefully mostly moved out by then.

Genuinely unsettled by how many people are posting personal photos in Facebook groups, asking others to use AI to essentially rewrite their memories. The whole idea feels surreal, and that’s not even touching on the serious privacy concerns.

As I always say : socialism (and Carly Rae Jepsen) for everyone. Well, done NYC. Keep it going. 👏

Not saying the whole world is closely watching the 2025 NYC mayoral race, but honestly, it’s been feeling increasingly like one of (too) many installments of ‘Earth, Season Finale’ : equal parts dread, hope, so much at stake and maybe even potential for worldwide ripples.

Happy #FirstFridayOfJuneNotBandcampFridayActually !

This Pride month, we are super happy to be launching a crowdfunder for the 2nd book in our Everyday Acts series: Be Gay, Do Crime: Everyday Acts of Queer Resistance and Rebellion. Preorder discount copies on our Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrk...

Eadweard Muybridge did this cat motion study in 1887. Just posting it for everyone who thinks Edwardian and late Victorian cats had to sit still for 5 minutes to be photographed. ☺️ www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/c...

Last (old) bookmark of the day : An experiment that challenges you to identify concert halls based on their unique acoustics by listening to short music clips. www.aalto.fi/en/news/can-...