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yoko ogawa, the memory police

text from novel the memory police 1/2: "The dark green trucks with canvas covers appeared more often on the streets. Sometimes they would race by, covers rolled up, sirens blaring, and at other times they would trundle heavily along, covers down. In the gap between the canvas and the bed of the truck, you could catch a glimpse of someone's shoe or a suitcase or the hem of a coat.

The methods used by the Memory Police were becoming more and more brutal. No longer were there advance warnings of their visits, like the one my mother had received. Everything happened by surprise, and they now carried heavy battering rams capable of breaking down any door. They invaded houses in search of any space where someone could be hidden-storage rooms, under beds, in the back of closets. If there was enough space for one human body, it was unlikely to escape their atten-tion. They dragged out anyone they found, along with those who had hidden them, and loaded them all in the covered trucks.

There had been no further widespread disappearances since the roses, but it became increasingly common to hear that some-one had suddenly vanished a friend from the next town, an..."

text from the memory police continued 2/2: "...acquaintance from school, a distant relative of the fishmonger. You never knew whether they had been taken away or had been fortunate enough to find a place to hide-or if the place they'd been hiding had been discovered and they'd been arrested.

Nor did anyone try very hard to find out. Regardless of what had happened, it was almost certainly an unfortunate event, and, moreover, simply talking about it could put you in danger. If on occasion a whole household suddenly went missing with no warning at all, the neighbors would simply pass their house with a furtive glance at the windows, hoping that the former inhabi-tants were safe somewhere. The citizens of the island were by now quite accustomed to these losses."

May 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM

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#jamesbaldwin #merrychristmas #freepalestine

"BEFORE I SAY ANYTHING ELSE, I have an announcement to make. I want all of you, and your wives and your children and your brothers-in-law and everyone you know, to resolve as of this moment that you will buy no presents for Christmas. And when I say no presents, I mean not a nail file, not a toothbrush, and I want you to tell your children, as of this moment and on Christmas Day, that the reason there is no Santa Claus this year is because we have lost the right-by the murder of our brothers and sisters to be called a Christian nation. And until we regain that right, we cannot celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace. And I am very serious about this for two reasons: (a) morally, I think this nation should be, for the foreseeable future, in mourning, (b) one must face the fact that this Christian nation may never have read any of the Gospels, but they do understand money."

December 25, 2024 at 2:27 PM

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"when i die i hope no one who ever hurt me cries
and if they cry i hope their eyes fall out
and a million maggots that had made up their brains
crawl from the empty holes and devour the flesh
that covered the evil that passed itself off as a person
that i probably tried
to love"

nikki giovanni

screenshot of npr article headlined "renowned poets and black arts movement icon nikki giovanni dies at 81"

December 10, 2024 at 10:03 AM

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do you ever just stop and think how lucky you were to briefly share the earth with ursula k le guin and octavia butler?

December 6, 2024 at 8:13 PM

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book club hardback(s)

November 29, 2024 at 4:23 PM

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"The fact that AI can't do your job, but that your boss can be convinced to fire you and replace you with the AI that can't do your job, is the central fact of the 21st century labor market..."
"The techbro's overwhelming conceit is that nothing is a crime, so long as you do it with an app..."

Pluralistic: Bossware is unfair (in the legal sense, too) (26 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

November 29, 2024 at 1:29 PM

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Mondoweiss

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This Black Friday, boycott Amazon to end Big Tech’s complicity in the mass murder of Palestinians.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/do-not-support-the-first-genocide-carried-out-by-big-tech/

#Palestine #Israel

Do not support the first genocide carried out by Big Tech

This Black Friday, boycott Amazon to end Big Tech’s complicity in the mass murder of Palestinians.

mondoweiss.net

November 29, 2024 at 12:00 AM

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Hundreds of authors have signed an open letter in support of Lisa Ko.

Maxine Hong Kingston, Alexander Chee, Alissa Nutting, David Henry Hwang, Eugene Lim, Rachel Khong, Susan Abulhawa, Susan Bernofsky, Laura van den Berg, R. O. Kwon, Bryan Washington, Danzy Senna, an…

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November 29, 2024 at 12:18 AM

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got bored on a rainy day, made a book tree. siren helped.

November 21, 2024 at 5:50 PM

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don't forget to turn your book ahead one chapter before going to bed.

March 9, 2024 at 11:42 PM

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the evening's reading...

#minordetail #adaniashibli #amreading

front cover, minor detail by adania shibli

March 9, 2024 at 12:59 AM

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matt leblanc with fremen blue eyes, captioned "how you dune?"

March 3, 2024 at 10:27 PM

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andre norton, breed to come, ace, 1985
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cover artist unknown
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#books #bookstore #bookstagram #macon #maconga #downtownmacon #bookcover #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverart #scifi #sciencefiction #scifiart #sciencefictionart #andrenorton

front cover, breed to come by andre norton

March 3, 2024 at 9:55 PM

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found flipping thru _john steinbeck: a life in letters_

"To Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. Sirs: I have just seen the film Lifeboat, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and billed as written by me. While in many ways the film is excellent there are one or two complaints I would like to make. While it is certainly true that I wrote a script for Lifeboat, it is not true that in that script as in the film there were any slurs against organized labor nor was there a stock comedy Negro. On the contrary there was an intelligent and thoughtful seaman who knew realistically what he was about. And instead of the usual colored travesty of the half comic and half pathetic Negro there was a Negro of dignity, purpose and personality. Since this film occurs over my name, it is painful to me that these strange, sly obliquities should be ascribed to me. John Steinbeck"

March 3, 2024 at 3:18 AM

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siren blep for your #caturday

March 2, 2024 at 7:12 PM

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Dan Immergluck

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"Researchers Find Three Companies Own More than 19,000 Rental Houses in Metro Atlanta"

GSU colleague @jtsphd.bsky.social continuing to tear it up in the institutional single-family rental research space.