Nemanja Protic
@nemanjabb.bsky.social
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Likes words + pictures. Still here (in academia, thinking about contemporary lit, visual culture, & politics of aesthetics). Coined the phrase "It's Adam & Eve, not Adam & Jeeves" as a [bad] argument against labour exploitation. Salting the vibes.
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nemanjabb.bsky.social
“34 people found this helpful.”
luxalptraum.com
TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it
One Star Review of Waiting for Godot on Broadway
I recently attended Waiting for Godot on Broadway and spent over $1,400 for two Row C seats (103 and 104). I'm a longtime admirer of Broadway productions and even hold a season pass for Shea's Performing Arts Theatre, so I came in with genuine enthusiasm and high expectations. Unfortunately, this show was unlike anything ! have ever experienced —and not in a good way.
What I encountered was not the artistry, music, or emotional storytelling I usually associate with Broadway, but instead what felt like an endless cycle of nonsensical conversation between characters who seemed trapped in their own madness. I tried-truly tried-to find meaning, symbolism, or even a thread of emotional resonance. I stayed through the first half hoping the second would offer clarity. But by intermission, it was clear: this was a waste of both time and money.
Keanu Reeves is an actor I respect greatly, but I cannot fathom why he would agree to participate in such a disjointed, inaccessible production. His talent was lost in a performance that defied reason rather than provoked insight.
To anyone considering attending: unless you are drawn to highly abstract, nearly incomprehensible theater, I strongly caution you against this show. For the average, educated, thoughtful theatergoer, it is far more frustrating than fulfilling. In my opinion, this was the single most disappointing Broadway experience I've ever had - an unfortunate waste of money and, more importantly, of time.
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kenwhite.bsky.social
The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.
nemanjabb.bsky.social
Is she from Canada?
rtodkelly.bsky.social
"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
nemanjabb.bsky.social
Jesus fuckin’ Christ. This is harrowing.
pookleblinky.bsky.social
www.mprnews.org/story/2024/0...

Don't have to wait very long, the US has *never* stopped relying on slave labor in agriculture
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shawnmicallef.bsky.social
Here's another for "the media is not covering the Ford gov't's scandals"

Ontario voters continue to eat up this gravy train of shit with a shrug.
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bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social
I once heard German Green politician and peace activist Petra Kelly talk about this, shortly before her death. She described a first nations protest in Canada, where hundreds of police and activists had a standoff that seemed destined for violence until scores of children with pillows “attacked” …
dansolomon.com
i’ve wondered whether the traditional tactic of peaceful resistance to shock the conscience of observers who see nonviolence met with force is still possible in a media environment where only novelty can get the attention of the people you need to be shocked, and portland seems to have an answer
courtneyvaughn.bsky.social
Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.
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smsaideman.bsky.social
The right expects the left to act accoridng to right wing stereotypes of the left. "The left only cares about identity, not merit." And when the left actually cares about merit (that Weiss is an awful person), the right claims the left is being untrue to themselves.
So, tis the right focused on id
nemanjabb.bsky.social
Yup.
wordnerdy.bsky.social
Listen, I cannot move to yet another social media thing. If this one dies I will just no longer be extremely online. It will be a weird change but maybe I’m gettin too old for this shit
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ianmosby.bsky.social
Me, watching the Jays play at Yankee stadium.
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dly.bsky.social
I think it's very cool that we're able to make each other laugh
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jamellebouie.net
i’d day this nails the South as well
williamhazen.bsky.social
This is the most accurate depiction of the Midwest to date. Wichita has always felt like the last Midwest city while also being the first plains city.
Cultural Regions of the US
nemanjabb.bsky.social
Is that the stuff that sometimes plays in the background of moving pictures?
nemanjabb.bsky.social
COVID degrades your body’s immune defences. (It also damages the brain and the heart, among other things.)
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faineg.bsky.social
I don’t feel bad about eating lamb because it’s basically only slightly more ethically fraught than eating a potato, sentience-wise.
bganderson.bsky.social
My farm-working friend is sure that if a sheep can find a way to kill itself, it will. He places them at the low end of the agricultural intelligence scale, just below barley.
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nemanjabb.bsky.social
Recently read the first Dark is Rising book (by Cooper) and am now reading Impossible Creatures (Rundell). Both are wonderfully written and neither is overstuffed with plot, which I personally enjoy. Our kid enjoyed/is enjoying them.
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dianacmcnally.bsky.social
A reminder that Ford has repeatedly used or threatened to use the Notwithstanding Clause to undermine democracy by:

- Limiting third party election advertising
- Slashing Toronto City Council mid-election
- Undermining education workers' labour rights
- Evicting encampments
- Removing bike lanes
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seantcollins.com
CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true
nemanjabb.bsky.social
Yeah that seems right to me.
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Just so, and - having said for a decade that something much like this was coming, if we didn’t move decisively to avoid it - I cannot tell you how *incredibly * hostile more or less everyone who considers themselves Sensible and Moderate was, to being told this. And yet, here we now are.
George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country.
For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable. I October 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM • Everybody can reply
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.b... • 3h
We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.
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lisaguerrero.bsky.social
In Portland they call this ICE fishing! 😂
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
OH BABY!!!! she’s here!!! 💅
Image of my copy of “contemporary far-right culture: the art, music and everyday practices of violent extremism” by Marc Andre Argentino and Amarnath Amarasingam
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arzeena.bsky.social
This is so brilliant

F$ck ICE
danvie.bsky.social
Bread and Puppet Theater on what to do when stopped by police.
ziibiing.com
i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary
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danvie.bsky.social
Bread and Puppet Theater on what to do when stopped by police.
ziibiing.com
i don’t really understand why this made me start bawling i just really love seeing people try to help each other in creative ways and that this shit is necessary