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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 3h

What if I typed 'the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa' and uploaded a photograph of Simone de Beauvoir?

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, Corrupted/Noothgrush/Grief are good comparisons.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 5h

Their truth will be exposed to the entire world once the hostages are released. For two years they lied, calling it “self-defense” and “rescuing hostages,” while in reality they carried out a cold-blooded genocide against an unarmed people.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 7h

It wasn't the genocide that freed the hostages.

It was a ceasefire deal.

Because the genocide was never about the hostages, no matter how much Netanyahu and his band of fucking fascists claim victory.

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 4h

Filthy, sluggish sludge metal from South Korea:

sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/kuboa

Kuboa, by GAWTHROP

7 track album

sentientruin.bandcamp.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 6h

It's still Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.

And may the name of Benjamin Netanyahu be erased.

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👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · 1d

HEY IT'S MY BOOK BIRTHDAY

YESSSS

Cancer Eats the Heart is out in the world! Disabled, dying, and chronically ill turn to vampirism as a cure, only to be hunted by twisted vampire hunters for their bones

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Cancer Eats the Heart

For Nix, waging her own private war with multiple sclerosis, a haunted house and a cryptic drifter aren’t the strangest things she’s ever encountered. No, what unnerves Nix is the adole…

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 6h

Wislawa*

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 6h

Wonderful.

I also treasure the pragmatic way Wiszawa Szymborska looks at things, her irony, and her care not to tidy up reality with a poetic flourish.

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Chris McLaren @chrismclaren.com · 12h

Have you tried the Russians? With the right translator Anna Akhmatova is party unto herself.

The Last Toast
I drink to our ruined house, to the dolor of my life, to our loneliness together; and to you I raise my glass, to lying lips that have betrayed us, to dead-cold, pitiless eyes, and to the hard realities: that the world is brutal and coarse, that God in fact has not saved us.
- 1934

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 6h

Akhmatova, always ❤️

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 6h

Poets, the designated Pollyannas of the omnishambles.

(Please assume I am aware this is an excessive generalisation, and I've already read the 1000 most famous poets of all time, and this is not an invitation to talk to me about how wrong I am)

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LC von Hessen 𓆙 💀 @lcvonhessen.bsky.social · 1d

"Thornback Hall" was written after re-reading one of my favorite Shirley Jackson stories, "A Visit," and hopefully reflects her acid humor. "Thornback Hall" contains social awkwardness, anxieties of encroaching middle age, etymology, and a bawdy Restoration-style poem written by yrs truly.

The first page of "Thornback Hall" by LC von Hessen in Cosmic Horror Monthly. A curious kitten stands in the background

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 14h

I hope the Nobel goes to an elderly poet who we all assumed had died years ago.

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 14h

I mean, how many times can I reread Larkin?

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 14h

Or maybe there is but no one is telling me about it.

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 14h

There isn't enough pessimistic poetry. Misanthropic, despairing, nihilistic poetry.

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 14h

Hint: he's already a war criminal.

Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 19h

👉NEW -- Why Tony Blair governing Gaza would result in more war crimes

by Irfan Chowdhury

Soldiers who served under his command in Iraq got away with sexually assaulting prisoners, in scenes similar to Israel’s torture of Palestinians.
www.declassifieduk.org/why-tony-bla...

Why Tony Blair governing Gaza would result in more war crimes

Soldiers who served under his command in Iraq got away with sexually assaulting prisoners, in scenes similar to Israel’s torture of Palestinians.

www.declassifieduk.org

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 20h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Eight thousand iterations of this discourse later, there is no political utility in calling fascists fat. All you're doing is propping up the brutal hierarchy which lets people like them work up from deniable social torture to state violence.

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 21h

October, November and December all play havoc with me.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 22h

Yes. Call it out for what it is. If that makes people uncomfortable, good. They should be.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 22h

So very begrudgingly.

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 22h

Not unlike our own regime, though they've had to begrudgingly stick with the rights that prior management gave women in India.

Karthik @beastoftraal.bsky.social · 1d

A regime that treats women as sub-human, without any rights.

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 22h

Excellent, thoughtful thread, probably more thoughtful than anyone who was involved in creating the show it's about.

Steven Sheil @scsheil.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been watching the new Monster: The Ed Gein Story series on Netflix, mostly because I was intrigued by hearing that it traced Gein’s influence on popular horror culture, and how it deals with fictionalizing events is interesting - and to my mind raises difficult questions. SPOILERS AHEAD

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social · 22h

I've always thought of Ryan Murphy as a basically misanthropic storyteller. Amoral at best. Even though he isn't helming this iteration of Monster, Ian Brennan seems to have that same streak. This is basically exploitation with a budget.

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