Aaron Bady
@zunguzungu.bsky.social
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Meat blood, bees, things of that nature www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
[email protected]
"Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf."
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This feels like a thing I should already know the answer to, and yet
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about 9 hours ago
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A dumb question: How personalized are google results? If I google something, and you perform the exact same google search at the same time, do we get the same results?
about 9 hours ago
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Real.
about 22 hours ago
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it's times like this I'm glad that Great Britain isn't real
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ktb
1 day ago
One of the main political stories of the last 50 years, but especially the last 20, has been the displacement of planning by prediction.
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k’eguro
1 day ago
Because of reading Gertrude Stein, and because I don't believe in liberalism as a theory of political progress—stuff improves over time—I very much disagree that contemporary political repression is a regression, a "return" to how things used to be. It's something else.
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Man, that would be crazy if Trump died of hantavirus
2 days ago
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sigh.
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2 days ago
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Mid Theory Collective
2 days ago
For MTC, Evan Goldstein pens this absolutely stunning and studied piece of religion in The Pitt. "Being secular is unbearable, but one cannot be otherwise; religion, in the most positive formation the show can give it, is at best something we remember fondly."
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The Prayers and Tears of Dr. Robby
“For the ransom of life is costly and can never suffice, that one should live on forever and never see the Pit.” — Psalm 49:8-9 (New Revised Standard Version) Trying to understand the modern age, …
https://mid-theory.com/2026/05/07/the-prayers-and-tears-of-dr-robby/
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No pain like the babysitter cancelling on your anniversary
3 days ago
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public health guy
3 days ago
guys, do you think the rest of the world will be mad at us for causing this energy crisis
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Rahawa Haile
3 days ago
“…[at] the zine fest, I am perhaps looking for something that I think I may have recently lost track of, a couple decades into a peripatetic but also arguably successful career in publishing: the drive, freedom, and confidence to just make something. No promise of audience or sales… no regrets.”
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I Don't Miss Twitter, I Miss Zines
Manjula goes to the Santa Rosa Zine Fest and finds more future than nostalgia.
https://www.talkscratch.com/i-dont-miss-twitter-i-miss-zines/
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It's weird that we've allowed there to be a category like "laid off" that is distinguished from "fired" in some kind of boss-exculpatory sense
3 days ago
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I paid off one of my four student debts today, which I took out in the previous millennium. Because I went to a state school, in the previous millennium, I didn't have a LOT of debt, but being in grad school for a decade and then having a low repayment rate meant it took a while.
3 days ago
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Rebecca Saltzman
3 days ago
Last night the El Cerrito City Council voted to end our Flock contract! Huge thanks to the hundreds of El Cerritans who organized to make this happen. They met with councilmembers multiple times, shared research, sent emails, circulated petitions and dozens spoke at our meeting that ended at 1 am.
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Cala is OBSESSED with the song "cat bus" from the Totoro soundtrack, which means it's currently around 30% of the music I listen to in a day; I've been thinking a lot about what its Gershwin references mean in relation to animal-hybrid mass transit and the US presence in memories of postwar Japan
3 days ago
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guy whose elevated rhetoric fueled his entire political career says what
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3 days ago
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had never seen Homicide: Life on the Street before, and after watching part of one episode, I'm afraid my impression was "Wow, TV used to be so bad that this seemed Good"
3 days ago
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If I spend ~10 minutes a day doing this exercise, it does me such a consistent amount of good. Most days I don't do it, because I'm a lazy pos. Today I did it. I triumphed.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BOTvaRaDjI
4 days ago
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Oakland Review of Books
4 days ago
When Juliana Spahr reads!
@msatris.bsky.social
on listening to Oakland's Pulitzer Prize–winning poet:
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/juliana-spah...
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When Juliana Spahr reads
On listening to Oakland's Pulitzer Prize–winning poet.
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/juliana-spahr-pulitzer-poetry-oakland/
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Anjali Dayal
4 days ago
“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.”
hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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Centrists spend their time policing the left for what it MIGHT do, were it in power, even as the right actually DOES those things in power, not because they believe the left is actually potentially MORE dangerous, but because the centrist understands their assignment
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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻♀️
4 days ago
Framing a decrease in births as “a sovereign injury to the state itself” is quite a mask off moment
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Totoro, writing in his diary: today, some weird kid gave me an umbrella. nothing else really happened. napped.
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5 days ago
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Totoro rules, because nothing really happens in it, but we briefly open our eyes to the reality of death and the enchantment of the world, while the titular creature didn't even notice he was IN a movie
5 days ago
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C decided to put a bead in her nose, which her mother managed to remove, in case anyone wants to hear a story about Peril and Heroism
5 days ago
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Dan O’Sullivan
5 days ago
Anyone else fucking sick of Brian May planting daffodils in his village
www.ctvnews.ca/entertainmen...
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Queen guitarist Brian May barred from planting daffodils in his village on safety grounds
Legendary rocker Brian May became a local hero in the quiet English village where he lives when he donated thousands of daffodil bulbs to brighten up the green outside the church last year.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/article/queen-guitarist-brian-may-barred-from-planting-daffodils-in-his-village-on-safety-grounds/
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Oakland Review of Books
5 days ago
Let us peer into the soul of the nation, via a staged non-discussion about a contentious tax measure for library funding in El Cerrito. And then let us heal:
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We don’t debate the library tax
At the El Cerrito Democratic Club’s meeting to discuss Measure C, April 28, 2026
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-dont-debate-the-library-tax/
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BeijingPalmer
5 days ago
not having your work cited by the
@nytimes.com
will definitely prepare them for a journalism career tho
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Imagine publishing Seneca Scott, in this, the year of our lord.
5 days ago
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Rob Delaney
7 months ago
Rudy Giuliani asked to leave Cuomo fundraiser because he keeps looking up “Tilly Norwood nude” on the iPad hooked up to the projector
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Is there a consensus best book to read about 20th century Brazilian music?
6 days ago
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William Gerrard
7 days ago
"A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of toxic people and fake friends.”
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Oakland Review of Books
7 days ago
Leonora Zoninsein devises a scent for Oakland, derived from the atmospheric memory of The Town:
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/a-perfume-fo...
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A perfume for Oakland
Making a scent from the atmospheric memory of The Town.
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/a-perfume-for-oakland/
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Why is Saikat Chakrabarti going on reddit just to get owned:
7 days ago
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Gen Z has rediscovered Twin Peaks & is realizing how dystopian the America of today is compared to the 90s "Watching Twin Peaks... has solidified my belief that I would have likely been happier in an age that preceded me."
7 days ago
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David Quantick
8 days ago
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"When did you have your first irresponsible thought about the latest assassination attempt against Donald Trump?"
www.theringer.com/2026/04/30/n...
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News Is Fleeting. Conspiracy Brain Is Forever.
What an assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner revealed about how our internet-poisoned minds make sense of the world
https://www.theringer.com/2026/04/30/national-affairs/donald-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-conspiracy-theories
8 days ago
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Anna Mazzola
9 days ago
Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.
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Adam
8 days ago
редактор: Comrade, you got that drawing of Lenin smashing the city? художник: Sure did comrade, real fuckin naked just like you asked. редактор: what
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Me, to myself, listening to the totoro soundtrack for the 90th time this week, "man, this is incredible retro throwback to the 80s music"
8 days ago
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sexy muscular lenin with the phallic torch and a hammer smashing the city is not real, sexy muscular lenin with the phallic torch and a hammer smashing the city can't hurt you
8 days ago
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Oakland Review of Books
8 days ago
trying out a temporary site redesign for may day
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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Ryan Moulton
8 days ago
Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.
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8 days ago
Almost like the VRA was doing what it was supposed to do! And if anyone wonders why Black representation increased so quickly in the ‘90s, it was because the Supreme Court handed down Thornburg v. Gingles in ‘86, establishing a framework for VRA Section 2 violations. 1/2
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Infowars says NO to working on May Day, thanks comrade Alex Jones
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8 days ago
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Lili Loofbourow
9 days ago
anyway: hello!
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Lili Loofbourow
9 days ago
Being laid off with hundreds of WaPo colleagues sure does make a person think I've thought, for instance, it sure is lucky no one in charge over there puts ideology over free speech
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I wish Xavier Becerra would send me a hundred more texts
9 days ago
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