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A young Elijah Wood wearing a very cozy black long sleeved shirt, he's holding his hands closed next to his chin, very cute. He thinks he's Rory Gilmore or something

December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM

hegel's big dialectical naturals

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I think it's time to change my header

December 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM

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Designer Hasan

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The weather is getting colder here, and my boys don’t have enough warm clothes to stay safe this winter. 💔
We’re doing everything we can, but it’s really beyond our ability right now.

We’re hoping to raise £200 to buy essential winter items.
Even £25 from you means warmth for a child. ❤️🧥

December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM

hegel's big dialectical naturals

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watching Queen of the Damned, peculiar movie

Scene in Queen of the Damned where Lestat is holding Jesse to fly. The caption says "you better hold on tight, spider monkey" which is something Edward says to Bella in Twilight

December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM

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Indrapramit Das

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Please help Omar's family survive Israel's ongoing genocide. Palestinians have been left to die homeless & starving in brutal winter. 2 donations in 14 days:

December 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM

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Joe Koch

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Weird fiction

Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 14h

“Frog,” asked Toad, “did this really happen?”

“Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.

Toad questions Frog about the veracity of his ghost story, an animated look on his face.

From "Shivers"
In *Days with Frog and Toad*

December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM

hegel's big dialectical naturals

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I was cultivating spite and hatred on my break, yes

December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM

hegel's big dialectical naturals

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A lot of US culture is baffling to me but some shit I just can't understand

December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM

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Indrapramit Das

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Please share & give if you can to help Ahmad's family survive Israel's continuing genocide, which has left Palestinians homeless & starving with no income in harsh winter. Support has collapsed since the 'ceasefire:

November 30, 2025 at 6:29 PM

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the last one arrived and guess what happened

(it's alright, I'll be back Soon)

A picture of the book The History of the Arab Peoples by Houdini

December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM

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Gabo

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Eso quiere decir que... he estado citando Zizek sin saberlo? Me están dando náuseas... I need to lie down...

Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 1d

I was trying to track down the source of Gramsci's "time of monsters" quote and found that it's a "mistranslation" (ie he just made it up) by Slavoj Zizek. Gramsci's line clearly translates as "morbid symptoms" instead. Mad that you can just rewrite a famous quote and get it widely accepted.

December 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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I've been working on the Haunted House part of the book and I'm having an excellent time

The coach from Glee captioned "I'm going to create a weird fiction book that is so unknowable

December 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM

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After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest,

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(Bursting through the wall like the Kool-Aid Man, frantically waving a copy of “Reading Weird Fiction in an Age of Fascism”)

To put a finer point on this difference between the horrific and the weird, we might look at two translations of Antonio Gramsci, the Italian communist. While imprisoned by the fascists in 1930, he wrote: "La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú svariati." This has been glossed, most famously by Zizek, as "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters." But it's more accurately translated as "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born: in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." Monsters are visible, knowable, specific; they are specific dangers that call out to be defeated by an individual hero— they suggest, in other words, a narrative stitched up in a neat little package. "Morbid symptoms" are a bit more mysterious, undefined, discomforting;
something inchoate haunting the world at large, or at least haunting the way we view and understand the world. The dreadful, non-cathartic affect of the weird lives exactly in the liminal space where the old is dying and the new cannot be born.

November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM

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BK. Titanji

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6 years today the first COVID case was identified in a man in Wuhan marking the beginning of a global pandemic that changed the world. We are way less prepared today to face another pandemic than we were back then. This fact makes me sad.

November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM