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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

I think the killer argument against relying upon AI to write is the massive amount of thinking and concept-welding that goes on for me (and I assume most everyone else) during the *process* of writing something - it’s a cognitive process and I know I’d actively get stupider if I skipped it

Decorative Gourdian Knot @buckrawheat.bsky.social · 1d

I also just wonder if any of these people have ever really appreciated the value added in going through the experience of something like this. The fact that it changes you to engage with and puzzle over your own work, that you're not a content printer that just needs juicing to go faster.

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 18h

I still have to get to that one!

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 19h

Same. DRIFTS is good and I love Samatar's fantasy

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 19h

some notes I took from Sofia Samatar & Kate Zambreno's TONE

Sofia Samatar & Kate Zambreno's TONE

Notes [oldest to newest] 1. Melancholy collage 2. Tone as "an organizing quality of feeling" 3. Trash in "The Rings of Saturn" 4. Fred Moten on "voice" and "sound" 5. Fred Moten on "university wo...

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

"director's cut"

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all ain't ready to hear this but

crimesididntcommit🏳️‍⚧️ @crimesididntcommit.bsky.social · 1d

acab includes jesse faden and all members of the federal bureau of control. if an inter-dimensional rubber duck wants to mess with our reality, we should let it do so!!!

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

I like how one of the cover lines extends out to connect to the doorknob.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“We have the money. Damn near ALL of it.”

@laurajedeed.bsky.social saying what many have been thinking — as Trump threatens to pull funding from blue cities, blue cities should be looking at withholding federal taxes in retaliation: www.bannedinyourstate.com/p/the-point-...

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

It does not give off "top shelf Carpenter" vibes

JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

Let me know your take! How's STARMAN holding up?

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

Is THEY LIVE horror? Close enough for my October horror run but I have hit upon a different way of thinking about it boxd.it/bjyPeb

A ★★★★ review of They Live (1988)

It's a science fiction film, it's horror, it's an action comedy, it's a conspiracy thriller—actually, I'm calling it, it's a "Dudes Rock" movie. Roddy Piper and Keith David are one of the great Dudes ...

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 1d

nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

/9 And you think ANTIFA is a progressive employer? Please. The health insurance sucks. There's no dental. And when I asked for compassionate leave for a relative's funeral HR said "the family serves as a pillar for bourgeois ideology, half-day only"

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

I got a few others but honestly just scrolling here will give you more weird ugly mutants than you will know what to do with: www.lederniercri.org/boutique/

Boutique – Le dernier cri

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

A lot of the Le Dernier Cri output falls here, but this is a notable volume (if you accept it as "comics" and not just plain "illustration") beuysonsale.com/products/mut...

Mutee | The Pit (Dernier Cri)

Booklet printed on transparent paper with a Screenprinted cover17 x 20 cm 80 pages 350 copies

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

This is the way

Hagai Palevsky (he/him) @dialhforhagai.bsky.social · 2d

ordered a bunch of Tawaraya Tetsunori comics… between that and Mat Brinkman I think I might get really really into Mutant Creature Freak Comics

JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

I refer to it not just as "X" but specifically as "Elon Musk's X" just to keep giving a little mental jog about this

Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 2d

One of the reasons I insistently call it X and not Twitter is because X is quite literally a propaganda platform run by Elon Musk and heavily utilized by the Trump administration and that is notably distinct from Twitter

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

I've read SCOTT PILGRIM a few times now, and every time the ending makes me glaze over, to the point where I can't tell you what even happens

JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

O'Malley's great gift is taking small human drama (dealing with your partner's exes, making out with a co-worker) & making it Big Drama by infusing it with the vivid iconography, language, & sensibility of 💥COMICS💥. But when his climax is Big at the outset, making it bigger only drowns out the human

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

This is actually the exact same thing I think about SCOTT PILGRIM

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2d

📚 33. SECONDS by Bryan Lee O'Malley. A young restauranteur wreaks havoc on her backstory. A re-read—and I thought the same thing I thought the first time: I love the first 7/8th of it, then in the final 1/8th its reach exceeds its grasp and the whole thing falls apart