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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 2h

This Ian Penman @lrb.co.uk essay on Brian Eno is beautiful, good old, curious, culture writing. The way it opens will stay with me for so, so long. Powerful, moving writing! An essay for the ages.

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 24d

Eve Babitz knows how to end male loneliness.

"Not taking dance lessons is a common mistake
among men. They fail to realize that dancing is one of the few things
a man can learn when he’s young that will come in handy later. Men
who know how to dance—even a few basic steps—will never end up
sad and alone, with nobody to play with, because women will always
be looking for that rare man who can dance. They’ll take him to night
clubs and parties and on cruises, and they’ll go all mushy after a
simple waltz." from "Gotta Dance," Collected in I Used to Be Charming

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 6h

Team Yoko Ogawa 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 13h

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 3d

László Krasznahorkai

“Only the people played a role in the existence of God…not God.”
L.K. at the London Review of Books bookshop, 2020.

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 14h

Lots to ponder upon here. I’d add my two bits: once upon a time there were design-centric movies like Jacques Tatti’s and I’m sure also similarly obsessed literature. Now in books and movies what we have is a parody of all forms of design and architecture in life.

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 15h

laszlo krazsnahorkai with george szirtes in the white review

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 12d

My terrible advice to people in their 20s is: drink a lot. A LOT. Not to a problem level, but oh my god once you hit the back half of your thirties and beyond you will NOT be able to drink (or to recover from drinking) nearly so easily.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded
open.substack.com/pub/grouphug...

Social capital isn’t meant to be hoarded

Models for your groups to take action, spread the love, and pop the bubble

open.substack.com

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9d

Alexander Skarsgård, five minutes after the Pillion trailer was released:

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 16h

“Reds is also like winter in that it is incredibly long, stretching past three hours, so stuffed to the brim with details that by the time it reaches intermission an hour and 45 minutes in, you’re left wondering how it could possibly wrap everything up.” 💌

www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/12/20/i...

It's Always Winter in 'Reds' (1981)

It’s always winter in Reds, and someone is always fighting, someone is always hoping, someone is always gritting their teeth and doing the work.

www.brightwalldarkroom.com

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 1d

Gotto get a sub!

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 3d

This went up last Friday around The Appointed Time, albeit not at Defector. I really liked the movie, and appreciated the opportunity to write some descriptive language about 1970s Gene Hackman movies.

Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 3d

Here's a super thoughtful take on "One Battle After Another" from @davidjroth.bsky.social ... he puts it in the context of 1970s thrillers whose style informed the film. Then he identifies what makes it different. And maybe more hopeful. Only on @flaminghydra.com! flaminghydra.com/winning-isnt...

Winning Isn’t Everything

It will be clear that I am not offering a self-care tip by the time you finish reading this sentence, but when things started getting dark for me around the beginning of this year I started watching m...

flaminghydra.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 2d

I’m rewatching “True Blood” and I forgot that HBO used to be so slutty. What a time.

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Psyche Magazine @psyche.co · 3d

‘Care, I began to conclude, did not mean comfort, warmth or recognition. It meant obedience. Here, the self was something to be corrected, not understood’

What do Japan’s hikikomori reveal about our lonely world? | Psyche Ideas

Unemployed and isolated, the residents of a hikikomori rehab centre hold up a mirror to a society that’s failing them

buff.ly

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 2d

‘Praising idleness sounds last century; instead, they like to invoke Marx: while capitalists would rather throw away their goods than give them to workers, we workers would rather be idle than give our labour to capitalists.’

Yun Sheng on China’s Gen Z: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Yun Sheng · Short Cuts: China’s Gen Z

A passive-aggressive ‘lying flat’ attitude is easily dismissed as laziness, but Gen Z-ers have developed a...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Nitish Pahwa @nitishpahwa.com · 3d

with how much Bollywood has been struggling lately, both domestically and internationally ... is this really gonna help things? (cc @anandimish.bsky.social very curious for your thoughts here)

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Keir Starmer says ‘Bollywood blockbusters’ will be made in the UK under new trade deal with India – UK politics live

Three Bollywood movies will be made in the UK, says British PM, and two more British universities will be setting up a campus in India Compensation schemes for victims of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal will be improved, with a new appeals process and funded legal advice for post office operators, the government has announced. Responding to the first part of the findings from a two-year public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal, regarded as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in UK legal history, the business secretary, Peter Kyle, said there would be a new appeals process for people who have accepted fixed-sum offers under the Horizon Shortfall Scheme, one of several compensation schemes. Funded legal advice will also be offered. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 1d

laszlo krazsnahorkai with george szirtes in the white review

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 1d

“Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.”

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 1d

Call me a skeptic but I feel what the Hindi film industry needs is better stories, acting and artistic vision. If the UK collab means a sharing of that artistic vision and spirit, then there’s some hope.

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 3d

László!!

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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 14d

Ridiculous Gothenburg sunset ...

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Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 5d

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A separate report by IEA found that global renewables could more than double by the end of the decade, with 80% of new clean energy capacity expected to come from solar power.

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time

Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

www.theguardian.com

Anandi Mishra @anandimish.bsky.social · 5d

www.derekthompson.org/p/the-death-...
great read this one.
everyone needs to party more!! it's necessary for not only for our cardiovascular health but also for our long term overall physical, mental health. plus, where's the fun without some friends in life?

The Death of Partying in the U.S.A.—and Why It Matters

Young Americans today spend 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did at the beginning of the 21st century. Why?

www.derekthompson.org

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