Paul Mirek
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#OtD 9 Dec 1987 the First Intifada of Palestinians against Israeli occupation began with a general strike, refusal to pay taxes, a boycott of Israeli institutions and riots which lasted until the early 1990s. Learn more in these books: shop.workingclasshistory.com/...
December 9, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Thinking of levy again this week.

"roses that (for gene)" (1966)

Source: www.thing.net/~grist/ld/da...
December 6, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Got this print in the mail from my Secret Santa yesterday. Feels significant somehow.
December 3, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Finally worked up the courage to share something from my new Substack, but only because it's about people much cooler than me. skeinofnetworks.substack.com/p/november-2...
November 2024: Highlight Reel
Regardless of the upcoming holiday’s colonial taint (which sounds like the name of a seminal noise rock band from the early ‘90s), I think a season that draws our attention to the importance of giving...
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November 23, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Kind of obsessed right now with this poem by Polish poet Adam Zagajewski (from A Book of Luminous Things by Czeslaw Milosz). The world is full of horror and wonder and we must be alive to it all.
November 22, 2024 at 1:05 AM
Daedalus and Icarus, 15th century (artist unknown)
November 21, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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“Cities are covered with ads for contract killing, but people—except for the target audience—have learned not to see them. The target audience, thirty thousand people per month, go to war for those five million, where they survive an average of two weeks before dying or ending up maimed. 4/x
November 20, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Welcome aboard, readers and friends! Glad to see so many of you have found your way here.

It's quieter in this neck of the woods, but hey, maybe that will change.

I'll use this moment to announce that Mutations journal has launched! A long time in the making: revelore.press/product/muta...
November 14, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Taking my dad to see GY!BE this Sunday. Interesting times ahead.
November 15, 2024 at 8:32 PM