Trying to edit a chapter I've never liked and making things to avoid it

I talked about abject feral noise, sonic ghosts, and the unspoken with @africanpaper.bsky.social recently

Lately, I've been preoccupied making video for a friend's upcoming live shows. Because sometimes you need more than one form of making things to function as a sort of being in the world, but tempered through some other medium, aside from you and your body, lest it get too close. The world, that is.

It's maybe three sentences of mine, but me and a few others contributed to this exquisite corpse of a short story hausnostromo.com/blogs/exquis...

Heavens cracking open over Liverpool

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Always a nice hangout spot

Wrote a chapter for this recently published volume.

Life in Salem lately

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After months of dealing with eye issues, surgeries, and lingering vision things that made it impossible to write much at all, I'm getting back to my dissertation draft rewrites. It feels a lot like this, honestly.

I fear we're on track for a world in which AI has more rights than, say, american women

"[T]hroughout Votta’s many years of making music, she hasn’t sounded more extreme." Album review: Deep Fade's (@immaterial-body.bsky.social) 'Oblivion Spell' - out tomorrow via @phagetapes.bsky.social. sun-13.com/2025/04/17/d...

I should be in Birmingham (the UK one) right now bjt im not because of endless vision things. But hey maybe soon

Light reading. My tween mall is featured prominently early on as one of the first malls in the US. Horrifying flashbacks - except for the hot pretzels, those were always good.

im all set to graduate Columbia University majoring in " Cowardice " , with a minor in "Kissing Fucking Ass" a nd "Prostrating myself "

Historian of slavery here this is like freedom seekers and free blacks being kidnapped by marshals and sent to the south. The Anti Man Hunting League in Boston with local chapters in the Commonwealth fought to prevent it.

Remains one of my favorite things

Spring equinox: First flowers of the year, snowdrop and crocus. Distant, cold scent like snowmelt and obscured sunlight, poisonous and heady

I've been quiet lately for... a lot of reasons. But honestly: Fuck all this shit. Gloves off. Cowards to the back.

"The drug user movement is constantly losing our members & our leaders. Our very capacity to fight is constantly under siege from the grave. We are being disorganized by death, by social murder. We are not what we were. We are now a ghost-bloodied movement." www.crackdownpod.com/episodes/epi...

With everything else that's going on, you'd think that pre-meeting anxiety would sort of fade into the background but no, still here. Might be worse even.

Finally some sunlight, and a vast ocean colliding with the sky, all fading into a glittering blue nothingness

I planned to attend the DC Stand Up for Science, but I accidentally slept through it because medical science hasn't yet discovered a cure for my faulty connective tissue & damaged small nerve fibers. We need to fund science because patients like me depend on it. @standupforscience.bsky.social

This looks amazing, can't wait to see it www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr53...

“Aloof, he shall endure magical evocations; galloping rhythm will traverse him and yet, motionless, he shall not run with them; coruscating song will swallow him.”

Today I need to ignore the world and read one of my little books

Finally, some good news

I love this stairway so much

Helping

No, nothing is a coincidence, they're all fucking nazis

Should have done a clotted, syrupy strawberry filling but still came out cute

I know the world is on fire right now but I just read this recently and keep thinking about how I've been telling people the stuff I've recorded over the past year is "theoretical Brutalism as noise" and I kinda want to write something about that, had actually started to late 2023

For anyone who’s never thought about archives or art for more than a few min: you don’t ever want hardcore rightwing ideologues in charge of these things because the m.o. of the rightwing is to bury history & to ban any creative expression that doesn’t worship their god or lick the boots of power.

My favorite place in the world. The hidden chapel in the center of the Erich Lindemann Mental Health Center in Boston. Water damaged and constantly threatened with demolition, I wrote about it when I worked on the Hidden Sacred Spaces Project: www.hiddensacredspaces.org/erich-lindem...

You are MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. If they threaten you with arrest for trying to access a site you are lawfully entitled to access, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING ARREST YOU. YOU MAKE THEM SLAP THE CUFFS ON A CONGRESSMAN LIVE ON TV, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING DO IT.

The White House is saying Canada misunderstood the tariffs as a trade war & it feels eerily similar to when men hit on women relentlessly- then act like they didn't mean it when women do not reciprocate. Huge "It was just a joke, it's not that serious" vibes. Canada did not misunderstand anything.

Everything is terrible but this is still pretty badass, so that's something. Probably a top 3 of this year for me. Yeah it's January but go ahead and try to do better. ronee.bandcamp.com/album/black-...

Apropos of absolutely everything, this is one of my favorite albums of the past few years. You all really need to listen to this. youtu.be/9y_sBea80Gg?...

It's unfortunate that the history of the Civil Rights movement has been rewritten as "We marched peacefully until our enemies grew a conscience". MLK and SNCC accomplished a major shift in policy using a deliberate, low-grade insurgency carried out with incredible skill and decades-long strategy.

Since today is the start of Black History Month, here's aquick thread of some of my, a Black person's, work on the intersection of race and technology:

For Black History Month, I will post a daily primary source about a Black resident of 18th-century Massachusetts. 1. Miss Betty Cooper, who was considered male by her enslavers, but was “well known” enough that they did not publish any physical description when she self-emancipated in 1771.

All the data I and countless others use in research, gone. Reliable info that helps us understand everything we know about health, disparities, chronic illnesses, covid...literally everything. In the name of...defending women? The only people I need defending from are those like the one who did this

Say it three times at midnight while gazing into the bathroom mirror to summon her (she is you)

Strip mining the experience of being human to generate a marketing persona you'll be gaslit into believing is the realest, purest form of you, you really want [targeted ad] right now, & prob charge a monthly fee [who am I without data to tell me?]. Something to say about memory/forgetting here too..

🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨 The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is [email protected]. Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.

Hey ADL: what do you call that one?

Hey I called it