Pip Kazan
@pipkazan.bsky.social
ME/CFS-afflicted novelist Philip Kazan. It’s better to burn out than it is to rust, and I wish somebody had told me that when I chose the rust option.
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In my teens I briefly flirted with bowler hat wearing, a flirtation that abruptly came to an end the day I also tried to eat an apple and got called a 'Magritte Dickhead' by a particularly cultured bully.
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 PM
In my teens I briefly flirted with bowler hat wearing, a flirtation that abruptly came to an end the day I also tried to eat an apple and got called a 'Magritte Dickhead' by a particularly cultured bully.
This is what happens to the ‘how do you do, fellow kids?’ meme if you grow it under powerful hydroponic lights.
I just found this old picture of a poster that was on the wall at the school my friend taught at and there’s some incredible stuff in there
November 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This is what happens to the ‘how do you do, fellow kids?’ meme if you grow it under powerful hydroponic lights.
‘Dust Bowl’ AKA ‘’The Inside of My Head, Always'
November 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
‘Dust Bowl’ AKA ‘’The Inside of My Head, Always'
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In future, if a company asks me for feedback, I will simply send them this:
November 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
In future, if a company asks me for feedback, I will simply send them this:
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
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the "cancelling on your friends is self-care" to "inaccurately left-coded hyper-individualism" pipeline
November 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
the "cancelling on your friends is self-care" to "inaccurately left-coded hyper-individualism" pipeline
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Lunar reflection
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20040
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20040
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Lunar reflection
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20040
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/20040
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While I’m glad lots of people are reacting to the ‘news’ lots of major MAGA accounts on X are based overseas:
1. The X location tool is unreliable
2. There’s been *loads* of reporting that major MAGA accounts were overseas already. Like, nice you noticed now, but people worked *hard* to warn you.
1. The X location tool is unreliable
2. There’s been *loads* of reporting that major MAGA accounts were overseas already. Like, nice you noticed now, but people worked *hard* to warn you.
November 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
While I’m glad lots of people are reacting to the ‘news’ lots of major MAGA accounts on X are based overseas:
1. The X location tool is unreliable
2. There’s been *loads* of reporting that major MAGA accounts were overseas already. Like, nice you noticed now, but people worked *hard* to warn you.
1. The X location tool is unreliable
2. There’s been *loads* of reporting that major MAGA accounts were overseas already. Like, nice you noticed now, but people worked *hard* to warn you.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
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Why is everyone so fucking mad these days? Mad and stupid? Why are we in the hands of idiots, insane people, screeching mediocrities?
There are some truly unhinged bits in the piece about Glasman, as to be expected when dealing with Glasman, but seriously what the actual? That's...one hell of a conflation of terminology.
November 23, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Why is everyone so fucking mad these days? Mad and stupid? Why are we in the hands of idiots, insane people, screeching mediocrities?
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@pipkazan.bsky.social more anti signs
November 23, 2025 at 4:11 PM
@pipkazan.bsky.social more anti signs
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It's that time of year
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It's that time of year
It might be worth the expense to send some of these berks back to Plymouth in the 1980s, and invite them to mouth off to any random casual in a pink Lacoste polo shirt.
Maga is in meltdown over a preppy pink sweater for men. So, what exactly is the problem? | Ellie Violet Bramley
Maga is in meltdown over a preppy pink sweater for men. So, what exactly is the problem? | Ellie Violet Bramley
The outrage a J Crew jumper has provoked shows that the US right’s sense of masculinity is far more fragile than it would care to admit, says freelance writer Ellie Violet Bramley
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:52 AM
It might be worth the expense to send some of these berks back to Plymouth in the 1980s, and invite them to mouth off to any random casual in a pink Lacoste polo shirt.
Eezer Goode
Eezer Goode
‘E’s Ebeneezer Goode
Eezer Goode
‘E’s Ebeneezer Goode
“Could the owner of a blue Vauxhall Opel, registration number PPW 304R, please move your vehicle, which is blocking in a number of other cars?”
November 23, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Eezer Goode
Eezer Goode
‘E’s Ebeneezer Goode
Eezer Goode
‘E’s Ebeneezer Goode
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Roses are red,
And so are my dearests.
They’re
And so are my dearests.
They’re
November 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Roses are red,
And so are my dearests.
They’re
And so are my dearests.
They’re
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"So, knowing that sometimes when cats have a shit it triggers their vagus nerve, which makes them do zoomies, does this mean in Thundercats the only reason Cheetara ran so quickly was because she'd just had a dump?"
"No, Simon. I meant any questions about the job."
"No, Simon. I meant any questions about the job."
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
"So, knowing that sometimes when cats have a shit it triggers their vagus nerve, which makes them do zoomies, does this mean in Thundercats the only reason Cheetara ran so quickly was because she'd just had a dump?"
"No, Simon. I meant any questions about the job."
"No, Simon. I meant any questions about the job."
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Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Remembering that time the late Queen set off from the Shire to take a ring to Mordor.
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Still life Reslicitando
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19562
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19562
November 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Still life Reslicitando
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19562
https://botfrens.com/collections/69/contents/19562
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average bluesky poster after pulling out the calipers like measurehead:
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
average bluesky poster after pulling out the calipers like measurehead:
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Writing an essay on murals and public art; so many pieces of work commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951 were destroyed when it closed. Edward Bawden's colossal 'Country Life' (47 feet by 36 feet) depicting scenes from national life is officially 'lost.'
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Writing an essay on murals and public art; so many pieces of work commissioned for the Festival of Britain in 1951 were destroyed when it closed. Edward Bawden's colossal 'Country Life' (47 feet by 36 feet) depicting scenes from national life is officially 'lost.'
Adjacent to this, I highly recommend Ray Nayler’s novel ‘The Mountain In The Sea’.
November 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Adjacent to this, I highly recommend Ray Nayler’s novel ‘The Mountain In The Sea’.
We are in a cold war with the United States of America
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Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.
Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.
Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.
He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.
That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund
and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.
Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic
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November 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
We are in a cold war with the United States of America