the world is dissolving but at least there are jasss records and apples, still.

thread.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

(the epstein files, themselves, are a distraction.)

A beautiful text on Steve Roden and the nature of archive.

∴no∴

thread.

Aby Ngana Diop — Dieuleul Dieuleul [Sénégal, Taasu] (1994) https://redd.it/89ymt7 https://youtu.be/xBa8bHJG12g

Free Palestine

Also use boring readable fonts (unless it’s like part of the narrative for it to be unreadable or whatever). I’m struggling through an excellent novel right now because the font choice is making it so much harder to read.

ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced

publishers (including self publishers): i promise you that it's worth the money and effort to hire actual designers so yr books don't look like shit. (also! stop with the fucking tiny print because you shaving off, like, three pages ain't worth the eye strain for most folks.)

“I am a Gramscian in that I believe that to become hegemonic an ideology must offer a vision of a future in which the interests of those who rule coincide with the interests of everyone else. MAGA fails to offer one...Yet the opposition to MAGA also fails to offer an alternative.”

one time, back in the livejournal days, someone thought i was from australia and i still haven't forgiven it (and never will.)

there is a quiet grace i get from the pleasure of remembering that i simply don't need to finish every book i start reading.

Absolutely brutal footage coming out of Chicago now where federal soldiers are beating and aggressively arresting civilian protesters out of nowhere. bsky.app/profile/djby...

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

Progressive/liberal white people who are still silent, who are still 'supporters' of a genocidal rogue state, who are still handing the nazis the very definition of antisemitism to weaponise as they scrabble to protect the comforts of empire, should look at Thunberg's courage and shrivel in shame.

the particular sadness of reading a mediocre novel that could have been an excellent short story.

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

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No one’s like @horrorsong.blog. No one.

"ontology" is the study of placing one thing on top of, or onto, another thing

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Michelle Alexander explained this in her book The New Jim Crow. Dems always think they appeal to conservatives & maintain perpetual power if they can just PROVE they're even tougher on criminals, drug addicts, immigrants, & poor people than the GOP. Oppression is most bipartisan area of governance.

fascism is the collapse of capitalism inward, where abjection is used for subjugation, and the imagining of a better world becomes criminalised and violently suppressed. yes, capitalism must end for the world to prosper but this is simply no way forward, it's a road that takes us only into hell.

plans for the day: -clean my bedroom. -listen to some chain reaction and basic channel records. -snug this fuckin' cat. -scour the woods for interesting bugs to say hello to. -roast some celery and shallots for some ramen. -keep breathing, i guess?

After he loses the gun and gets it back in a panic, who does he scramble to aim it at? Bystanders. That tells you they know who the real threat to their pathetic jackboot keystone routine is: witnesses.

the original is a banger:

still thinking about the katydid i saw in the grocery store parking lot, this morning.

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damn the cult of youth, bind their legbones into fasces and wrap them in cold iron before casting them into the sea to be forgotten, forever, beneath the corpses of whales.

Still working on the precise wording for the post that will get you all to listen to this soundworld. porouscollective1.bandcamp.com

while dan simmons wrote some decent short work, he has never written a genuinely good novel and i doubt he's capable of it. (also, just, like, fuck that shithead, in general.)

Bothers me when people discuss Left movements in the U.S. w/out underscoring the GENERATIONS of repression, surveillance, violence directed at movements. The "Left" is so disorganized is used as a joke but I hardly ever see those same people saying 'THE LEFT WAS TARGETED & DISORGANIZED by the STATE'

you know what book should be turned into a media franchise? none. not a fucking one. ever.

abolish ICE and banish the lot of them.

there was a squirrel on the deck, gathering acorns, for the first time in years. and, while i so dearly miss the feral cat colony, it's a strange relief that life continues.

*taps sign*

as far as i know, there is no sonoran liberation front but there should be.

her wings, delicate, spun glass, tucked under chitin, the last sigh of a long summer.

they drink up the rain in verdigrised bells, never to be struck.

still not dead (but so very very tired.)

OH i get it, liberals think trans rights are a question of freedom of expression and not one of bodily autonomy

A constant leftist fuck up on social media is not getting mad about art bans on websites when the art getting banned grosses us the fuck out and we don't want people to think we're bad. I'm guilty of this too. We fucked up for bsky artists back in 2023 or whenever

CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.