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PAUL K | WAKE ISLAND
@wakeisland.bsky.social
The rage bait has been taken, swallowed, digested. Rage is the sacrament of a church that’s lost its tether to the divine, a cleansing ritual that no longer cleanses but leads only to more rage, the ceaseless desire for the next hit.
October 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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The newest Episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talked to @raviddice.bsky.social about his new book The Squimbop Condition ( @1111press.bsky.social ), and all that wild ride of a book entails. Take a listen.
Rejoinder: The Squimbop Condition with David Leo Rice
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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September 16, 2025 at 7:33 PM
a lot of demonic energy is surging out there today
September 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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If July was Post-Paranoia, August is the breakdown of appetite. The Ozempic Era. What do you do when the bloodlust you think you’re resisting, but secretly crave, spills over because you can’t stomach any more?

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
August Edition
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September 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If July was Post-Paranoia, August is the breakdown of appetite. The Ozempic Era. What do you do when the bloodlust you think you’re resisting, but secretly crave, spills over because you can’t stomach any more?

open.substack.com/pub/wakeisla...
Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
August Edition
open.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Introducing THE SQUIMBOP CONDITION by the homie @raviddice.bsky.social 🔥

This collection includes stories previously published in SwR so we're collabing with @1111press.bsky.social

Pre-order the book and get our fall issue FREE 💥

1111press.com/the-squimbop...
August 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
In the end,you can’t turn your head from the flood and be spared its damage. And even in doing so, you sense something is being withheld. Like an Escher drawing of a man staring at the back of his own head, looking away fuses with looking in, until you can’t separate walking away from walking toward
August 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
August 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
If May was a month to regroup, then June is when shit hits the fan. The possible beginning of a world war lands on Friday the 13th, the same weekend as Father’s Day, my first as a daddy to my baby daughter.

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Wake Island: Exploring the Imagery, Sickness, and Energy of 2025
June Edition
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July 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ocean Vuong is transgressive
June 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
June 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
6/13/25
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
THE INVERTED TOWER
June 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
May 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"By far the most interesting and beautiful art book I've seen this year." -Paul Kwiatkowski aka Ghost Guessed aka @wakeisland.bsky.social
throwback to a project that i made these unique transfer drawings for in 2015

ScarJo
written by Christine Smallwood and Mark Sussman

It's an essay. A chapbook. An art project. A zine. A state of mind. A way of being. An untimely meditation on science fiction, stardom, and surface reading.
May 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I think we’re winning
May 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
how to strategically and intellectually make a connection to the American pope with the new Ye song ?
May 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Love these, thanks @wakeisland.bsky.social @raviddice.bsky.social for making them.
May 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
May 1, 2025 at 3:34 PM