Pedro Sena-Lino
@psenalino.bsky.social
Writer. Portuguese Lecturer @UGent, Maître de Langues @UCLouvain. Proud Brusselaar. Happily living in the 18th century
www.pedrosenalino.eu
www.pedrosenalino.eu
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‘As Adorno saw it, Surrealist art had been compromised by postwar conditions: made of “world-rubble”, the montages of Surrealism created only “nature morte”; “After the European catastrophe the Surrealist shocks lost their force.”’
Hal Foster on Surrealism v. fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on Surrealism v. fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster · Tightrope of Hope: Surrealism v. Fascism
The Surrealists saw colonialism and imperialism as intrinsic to fascism, and from start to finish they campaigned...
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December 14, 2025 at 2:13 PM
‘As Adorno saw it, Surrealist art had been compromised by postwar conditions: made of “world-rubble”, the montages of Surrealism created only “nature morte”; “After the European catastrophe the Surrealist shocks lost their force.”’
Hal Foster on Surrealism v. fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Hal Foster on Surrealism v. fascism.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Not going to lie, this week’s SNL cold open might piss you off, but watch this clip till the end. 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Not going to lie, this week’s SNL cold open might piss you off, but watch this clip till the end. 🤣
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“I don’t believe our species can survive unless we fix this… We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.”
Watch: The TED Talk that people at TED were talking about
“I can’t call these things social networks anymore — I call them behavior modification empires.”
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December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“I don’t believe our species can survive unless we fix this… We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.”
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While unionized Starbucks workers are on strike for a fair contract, don’t cross the picket line!
Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Listen to what they had to say.
Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Listen to what they had to say.
December 4, 2025 at 1:02 AM
While unionized Starbucks workers are on strike for a fair contract, don’t cross the picket line!
Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Listen to what they had to say.
Show solidarity — like Zohran Mamdani and Bernie Sanders.
Listen to what they had to say.
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*former ICE officer interviewing for a job a decade from now*
Interviewer: yeah is says here on your resume that you’re a piece of shit?
Interviewer: yeah is says here on your resume that you’re a piece of shit?
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
*former ICE officer interviewing for a job a decade from now*
Interviewer: yeah is says here on your resume that you’re a piece of shit?
Interviewer: yeah is says here on your resume that you’re a piece of shit?
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
Caricatura minha por Acid Inka
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Caricatura minha por Acid Inka
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A voragem do comentário televisivo é alucinante e estupidificante.
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
A voragem do comentário televisivo é alucinante e estupidificante.
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Round Art Nouveau windows from the Brussels
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Round Art Nouveau windows from the Brussels
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Enjoying the weekend? Thank a union — and Frances Perkins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8y3Y6w-b4w
Why Do We Work 40 Hours?| Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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November 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Enjoying the weekend? Thank a union — and Frances Perkins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8y3Y6w-b4w
Tradução em neerlandês do meu poema “podes levar os dias que trouxeste”
zuca-magazine.nl/2025/05/21/p...
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Pedro Sena-Lino – neem je dagen maar weer mee
Pedro Sena-Lino (Lissabon 1977) is schrijver van romans en korte verhalen, dichter, vertaler en docent Portugees en creatief schrijven. In 2020 verscheen zijn biografie van de Marquês de Pombal, vi…
zuca-magazine.nl
November 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Tradução em neerlandês do meu poema “podes levar os dias que trouxeste”
zuca-magazine.nl/2025/05/21/p...
zuca-magazine.nl/2025/05/21/p...
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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O futuro do Substack é incerto. Mas a última ronda de investimento mostra-nos qual a dimensão do plano — 100 milhões com uma avaliação de mil milhões de dólares. E as palavras de um dos seus fundadores espelham o novo paradigma.
🔗 shifter.pt/2025/11/subs...
🔗 shifter.pt/2025/11/subs...
November 28, 2025 at 8:50 PM
O futuro do Substack é incerto. Mas a última ronda de investimento mostra-nos qual a dimensão do plano — 100 milhões com uma avaliação de mil milhões de dólares. E as palavras de um dos seus fundadores espelham o novo paradigma.
🔗 shifter.pt/2025/11/subs...
🔗 shifter.pt/2025/11/subs...
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Your Black Friday reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Your Black Friday reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
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‘Centuries of printing preceded Gutenberg. As White is careful to describe, Gutenberg was born nine hundred years after printed texts were first produced in China by rubbing paper onto inked, carved woodblocks.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth · Slice It Up: Gutenberg’s Great Invention
Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
‘Centuries of printing preceded Gutenberg. As White is careful to describe, Gutenberg was born nine hundred years after printed texts were first produced in China by rubbing paper onto inked, carved woodblocks.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...