Mr Fengi
@mrfengi.bsky.social
Lefty who sometimes engages in typo ridden sincerity.
Note: Do not follow back accounts with less than 5 posts and/or PR accounts.
Note: Do not follow back accounts with less than 5 posts and/or PR accounts.
Pinned
Mr Fengi
@mrfengi.bsky.social
· Jun 30
Quote from Our Mutual Friend. In 1865, two years before Das Kapital, Dickens, in his own way, grasped that the point of finance was to uncouple the accumulation of wealth, land and power by the ruling class from anything of substance in the material world.
Reposted by Mr Fengi
no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
no I'm not "posting through it." it's posting through me
Stromae
Kid Sister
Slint
Charlie XCX
Mose Allison
Kid Sister
Slint
Charlie XCX
Mose Allison
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Bruce Springsteen (x50+)
The Who (x7)
Steve Earle (x2)
Sleater-Kinney
Bleachers
Bruce Springsteen (x50+)
The Who (x7)
Steve Earle (x2)
Sleater-Kinney
Bleachers
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen:
Bruce Springsteen (x46)
The Rolling Stones (x3)
The Who (x2)
James Taylor (x2)
Tom Petty (x2)
Bruce Springsteen (x46)
The Rolling Stones (x3)
The Who (x2)
James Taylor (x2)
Tom Petty (x2)
November 28, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Stromae
Kid Sister
Slint
Charlie XCX
Mose Allison
Kid Sister
Slint
Charlie XCX
Mose Allison
Reposted by Mr Fengi
Someone would have to be in extremely limited circumstances to have read everything available. If you can get online to pirate a book, you can also get online to download the latest scans from Project Gutenberg. Are you looking for something to read or just something to steal?
November 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Someone would have to be in extremely limited circumstances to have read everything available. If you can get online to pirate a book, you can also get online to download the latest scans from Project Gutenberg. Are you looking for something to read or just something to steal?
Reposted by Mr Fengi
And I mean look, if you're going to pirate a book, there's not really anything I or anyone else can do to stop you from doing that. Whatever. You just can't expect everyone to pat you on the back and tell you what a good leftist you are for doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I mean look, if you're going to pirate a book, there's not really anything I or anyone else can do to stop you from doing that. Whatever. You just can't expect everyone to pat you on the back and tell you what a good leftist you are for doing it.
Reposted by Mr Fengi
OH was that one post going around asking authors where they make their money trying to prove the point that we're petite bourgeoisie and thus it's morally correct to steal our labour??? is that why it got deleted and why people keep being weird insisting it's great to pirate books?
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
OH was that one post going around asking authors where they make their money trying to prove the point that we're petite bourgeoisie and thus it's morally correct to steal our labour??? is that why it got deleted and why people keep being weird insisting it's great to pirate books?
Reposted by Mr Fengi
Actually "after 2003" means this fuckwit is saying at least 154,000 people were all CIA. In another post the author makes clear they mean all refugees, not some, but all. Ending up echoing MAGA talking points out of shallow self-righteousness.
"All 76,000 refugees from America's war now targeted for camps & deportation were deep state assets anyway." is one hell of a generalization.
November 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Actually "after 2003" means this fuckwit is saying at least 154,000 people were all CIA. In another post the author makes clear they mean all refugees, not some, but all. Ending up echoing MAGA talking points out of shallow self-righteousness.
"All 76,000 refugees from America's war now targeted for camps & deportation were deep state assets anyway." is one hell of a generalization.
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"All 76,000 refugees from America's war now targeted for camps & deportation were deep state assets anyway." is one hell of a generalization.
This Thanksgiving almost envy people who have a distant relationship with their parents as having to face the big old hole where Mom used to be.
And family didn't even celebrate the holiday, meeting in October or early November when travel & meals were cheaper. But this year it's a reminder.
And family didn't even celebrate the holiday, meeting in October or early November when travel & meals were cheaper. But this year it's a reminder.
November 27, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This Thanksgiving almost envy people who have a distant relationship with their parents as having to face the big old hole where Mom used to be.
And family didn't even celebrate the holiday, meeting in October or early November when travel & meals were cheaper. But this year it's a reminder.
And family didn't even celebrate the holiday, meeting in October or early November when travel & meals were cheaper. But this year it's a reminder.
Yes, deeply frustrating that Bouie plays into the racist "cities as warzones" narrative when "person with grievance shoots people" is all of America and, if reports about the alleged shooter are true, the events that led to this person being in DC at all are the 20 year US occupation of Afghanistan
This was a bad thing that happened and probably could have happened anywhere in America. Guns are everywhere and anyone can get them and anyone can shoot anyone anytime anywhere.
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Yes, deeply frustrating that Bouie plays into the racist "cities as warzones" narrative when "person with grievance shoots people" is all of America and, if reports about the alleged shooter are true, the events that led to this person being in DC at all are the 20 year US occupation of Afghanistan
Reposted by Mr Fengi
The emerging liberal narrative that the National Guard were put in harms way by being deployed in DC is not great. This is pretty much buying into the republican narrative that American cities are warzones. I get that people want a politically charged hot take that blames Trump but this ain't it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The emerging liberal narrative that the National Guard were put in harms way by being deployed in DC is not great. This is pretty much buying into the republican narrative that American cities are warzones. I get that people want a politically charged hot take that blames Trump but this ain't it.
Reposted by Mr Fengi
witness! the holiday majesty that is the s. d. ireland holiday cement truck
November 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
witness! the holiday majesty that is the s. d. ireland holiday cement truck
Reposted by Mr Fengi
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!
Because the complaint here is not about, say, used bookstores or libraries but sites for mass piracy of books upon release - sites which request donations & hand money to Amazon Web Services so people can experience immediate gratification without a trace of compensation to those gratifying them.
If one expects to be paid for ones labor & spent money on the equipment & services needed to get that digital unpaid labor, dumping on writers complaing about very specific types of book piracy is just using lefty jargon to be a piggy consumer serving the rentier class while stepping on workers.
November 27, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Because the complaint here is not about, say, used bookstores or libraries but sites for mass piracy of books upon release - sites which request donations & hand money to Amazon Web Services so people can experience immediate gratification without a trace of compensation to those gratifying them.
If one expects to be paid for ones labor & spent money on the equipment & services needed to get that digital unpaid labor, dumping on writers complaing about very specific types of book piracy is just using lefty jargon to be a piggy consumer serving the rentier class while stepping on workers.
November 27, 2025 at 3:50 AM
If one expects to be paid for ones labor & spent money on the equipment & services needed to get that digital unpaid labor, dumping on writers complaing about very specific types of book piracy is just using lefty jargon to be a piggy consumer serving the rentier class while stepping on workers.
So weary of tech oligarchs pretending things are a done deal until there's enough momentum of investment by the exploiter class to overwhelm or destroy rules on the BS premise it's too far along & too much money is at stake to stop just because it's wrong on every level & off switches exist.
need a weekly roundup of all the dogshit music industry news a la A.S. Hamrah’s Last Week in End Times Cinema
Warner Joins Forces With AI Song Generator, Suno, That It Was Suing
After accusing Suno of illegally training artificial intelligence on its artists, Warner Music Group has made a licensing deal with the company that includes handing it control of Songkick
pitchfork.com
November 27, 2025 at 12:31 AM
So weary of tech oligarchs pretending things are a done deal until there's enough momentum of investment by the exploiter class to overwhelm or destroy rules on the BS premise it's too far along & too much money is at stake to stop just because it's wrong on every level & off switches exist.
Reposted by Mr Fengi
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
November 26, 2025 at 11:59 PM
you know, what if they aren't actually a commentary on journalism or the state of media. what if these people are just extremely weird
Reposted by Mr Fengi
A reminder
November 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A reminder
See? Once you think about it, you'll see it regularly.
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
See? Once you think about it, you'll see it regularly.
My amusement at this era of covers led to a project in which I noticed that most of my pictures of Chicago in winter resembled those covers and then I began to do mockups of "The Chicagoan". I should do that again.
To explain one of the references: In the 70s & 80s The New Yorker was known for a high number of very placid, still illustrations. There were still funny, dynamic & highly artful ones but in between it was the Perry Como of magazine covers (sometimes internally as well).
November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
My amusement at this era of covers led to a project in which I noticed that most of my pictures of Chicago in winter resembled those covers and then I began to do mockups of "The Chicagoan". I should do that again.
Reposted by Mr Fengi
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
This is my new favorite automated account as it regularly posts images that remind me of a Turner painting or a 70s / 80s New Yorker Cover or an ominous wide shot from a Lynch or horror movie.
November 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
This is my new favorite automated account as it regularly posts images that remind me of a Turner painting or a 70s / 80s New Yorker Cover or an ominous wide shot from a Lynch or horror movie.
Reposted by Mr Fengi
Once again, the ideal endgame AI-enabled lifestyle is functionally the same as being brain dead in a vegetative state
Google will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI
Google will let users call stores, browse products, and check out using AI
There have never been more options for things to buy. Google is betting AI is how shoppers will make decisions.
buff.ly
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Once again, the ideal endgame AI-enabled lifestyle is functionally the same as being brain dead in a vegetative state
The old machine may be gone but boodling continues apace, except the money goez national or multinational investment firms rather than local robber barons, so we don't even get a 1st Ward Ball full of decadance out of it. At most the city officials who facilitated this may shop local.
The Divvy contract is structured so that once the City made $20MM from it, their profit share was reduced to 5% of revenue. That date was approximately September 23rd, 2022 (duration: ~9 years) and since then (through 2023) they have made $410k (79k in 2022, 321k in 2023.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The old machine may be gone but boodling continues apace, except the money goez national or multinational investment firms rather than local robber barons, so we don't even get a 1st Ward Ball full of decadance out of it. At most the city officials who facilitated this may shop local.
Reposted by Mr Fengi
Shades of the Great Parking Meter Fiasco right here.
The Divvy contract is structured so that once the City made $20MM from it, their profit share was reduced to 5% of revenue. That date was approximately September 23rd, 2022 (duration: ~9 years) and since then (through 2023) they have made $410k (79k in 2022, 321k in 2023.
November 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Shades of the Great Parking Meter Fiasco right here.