I don't use this word lightly, but this is evil.

Teach it - Promote it - Create it - you are responsible for the continuation of the culture you love. Keep it alive through your actions.

“Some species are on their own adventure, and evolve unique traits shared with no others.” www.scientificamerican.com/article/crab...

Than a knot of water and of gleams Life gradually turned into images, reduced to images that are filtered inside us. The poet transmits the purest of them. Our body of images,of memory. Philippe Jaccottet Seedtime, July 1966 2/2

Philippe Jaccottet Seedtime, July 1966 If today I listen to the sound of the days what shall I hear only the falling of days into the unknown deep? One is made of gleams, one has no more existence 1/2

The ideology in question is opposing fascism. This horrific action is a shot across the bow at all of us—everyone who cares about their neighbors, who dares to dream of a better world, who opposes ICE terror and authoritarian repression. We cannot allow the state to disappear them.

TIL: John Berry Meachum was born enslaved in 1789, bought his freedom at 21 with his carpentry work. At age 32, he set up schools in St. Louis to educate enslaved children. When Missouri passed a law to make that illegal, he bought a steamboat, anchored it in the middle of the Mississippi...

“You could hardly ask for a better example of investing in vibes over value than shutting down real cancer research to free up money for teaching more words to the word-guessing machine because it's about to become God and cure cancer.”

Never pass up a chance to share this story. There's always someone who hasn't heard it, always someone waiting to experience the joy of reading about it for the first time.

Anyone who's been following Horror Press knows we've been fans of @monstermakeup.bsky.social since the start. But reading @mikejahern.bsky.social write about their experiences making queer horror ART takes our appreciation for what they do to the next level. #horrorsky

a blue moon in may

www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-old... The US has coasted on the fact that it’s economy is so big that it could afford all the finance and billionaire parasites sucking its blood. At least for a while.

🚨 White House unveils pre-crime strategy to target the left, including pro-Palestinian protesters, "anti-Fascists," and "anti-American, radically pro-transgender ideologies." Full document: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/insane-pre...

Tuesday morning

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG-y... Hoping this will be screened locally soon.

a recent cyanotype assemblage

On this Walpurgis night a coven of coyotes howling at the becoming full flower moon.

“To those who refuse the separation of science and poetry. To those alchemists, mystics, and occultists whose heresies extend rather than diminish knowledge.”

Sword & Sorcery is when the soft animal of your body has to slay a fucking necromancer.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people. The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work. Subscribe to support our journalism.

some small pieces from this past winter made for Advocacy is Love benefit for Womxn Project work on reproductive rights, queer and trans advocacy, & human rights here in Rhode Island.

When death is everywhere and nowhere all at once, grief has no object. When grief has no object, we risk going beyond melancholia towards a manic stage…Keun is the great chronicler of the mania that transpires when grief is in want of an object…in other words, the great chronicler of fascism.

This oped by DePaul student Jessica Saunders says it all. If you wish to sign to oppose the closure of the DePaul Art Museum, you can sign a letter here (please note it requires a email verification, which often goes to spam): openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

Loveliest of what I leave behind is the sunlight. After that the bright stars, and the moon’s face. But also ripe cucumbers, and apples, and pears. -after Praxílla of Sícyon

Perhaps this exhibition will inspire more of Caillois’ work to be reprinted and available in English. youtu.be/c_Y6T_lNiRI

'Art is not simply a hallucination of otherworldly escape. Art reminds us of the possibility of freedom in this world, and the reality of our connection to each other as the basis and grounding condition of that freedom’s expression' Drew Daniel on Creating Art under Fascism buff.ly/Wad6QAt

Kasaba, Nuri Bilge Ceylan (1997)

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

Once again, here’s our anti-fascist manifesto ✊ BLAST FASCISM minorliteratures.com/2017/09/15/b...

Abolish ICE, abolish DHS, redistribute the other agencies, prosecute actual criminals, such as people who commit execution-style murders of Americans in broad daylight.

This video on Reddit shows ICE agents in Minneapolis in the process of detaining a man who is struggling with them. Suddenly, one agent fires their gun, and then other agents repeatedly unload bullets into the body which becomes motionless. This is horrific to watch. www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...

Radical thought has lost one of its most corrosive voices. Gianfranco Sanguinetti, legendary member of the Situationist International (SI) and implacable critic of the society of the spectacle, died in Prague on October 3, at the age of seventy-seve brooklynrail.org/2025/11/fiel...

Martin Puryear Changes the World Through Wood

At least some of today’s news seems affirming… "for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art"… ” a great epic writer …characterized by absurdism and grotesque excess," www.reuters.com/lifestyle/kr...

What the fuck did I just read? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Trump just signed an illegal executive order designed to target his political opposition by designating them terrorists and using the DOJ, IRS, FBI, and the JTTF to investigate and charge liberal organizations, funders, members, and protesters. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I have seen a light woven through the landscape, as if I were within the inmost depths of a crystal. A colour-weary infinite gentleness. – Jürgen von der Wense Tr. Kirston Lightowler and Herbert Pfostl

There is something important in people, something that's dying-the senses, a universal thing. We can't agree on poli-tics, but maybe we can agree on senses. We are dying of sadness. The whole world is dying of sadness. We are the enemy. -JOHN CASSAVETES

In this war between mankind and the beauty of the world I am a traitor, my loyalty does not lie with mankind -Paul Goodman

We've got to set ideas against interests to set culture against consumerism. Culture's got rough edges, consumerism follows the algorithm. - Bert Papenfuß (1956-2023)

The skin exudes a light like phosphorus or fluorine, as people have seen and painters attested, for the halo and the mandorla of light are not a symbolic invention of sacred iconography. From “Supernatural Senses”, by Cristina Campo