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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 7h

"I've always felt that the real horror is next door to us, that the scariest monsters are our neighbors." ~ George A. Romero

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 4h

Lo adoro!

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 5h

Is cloud fishing a thing?

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 5h

Wednesdays get a pass

ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 5h

haha 😘

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 5h

Getting by with the help of the Frankfurt School.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

It’s pronounced SHANINA, not IANINA. Yes, 🤫 SHHHHHHH-anina.

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

Ugh, it’s so long!

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 1d

"It’s fun not just to have different forms, but also to have different languages [...] The way they sound, the way they whisper in your ear, is like a different language speaking to you every time, customized to that particular world ..."

— Bothayna Al-Essa

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan

Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

minorliteratures.com

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 1d

Tuesdays are as evil as Mondays.

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monalisa vitti @monalisavitti.bsky.social · 1d

really great conversation between @noonanerik.bsky.social and al-essa, a kuwaiti bookseller and novelist

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 1d

“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa — @noonanerik.bsky.social

minorliteratures.com/2025/10/07/l...

“[Literature is] a dance around silence, an attempt to get closer to what we are not saying”: A Conversation with Bothayna Al-Essa—Erik Noonan

Anglophone audiences first encountered the Kuwaiti novelist, publisher, and bookseller Bothanya Al-Essa through excerpts of her 2004 novel A Soundless Collision (trans. Chris Bredin), published in …

minorliteratures.com

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Agri Ismaïl @agri.bsky.social · 2d

*nudges rest of the world, points at Ireland*

RTÉ News @news.rte.ie · 2d

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow

Budget 2026: Basic income for artists to become permanent

The Basic Income for the Arts scheme will be put on a permanent footing in the Budget tomorrow.

www.rte.ie

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

“‘Merica is going down”
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 2d

Monday jam

Melanin Monroe

YouTube video by Meduulla - Topic

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 3d

James Baldwin to Angela Davis in 1970, discussing white Americans:

Or, to put it another way, as long as white Americans take refuge in their whiteness— for so long as they are unable to walk out of this most monstrous of traps-they will allow millions of people to be slaughtered in their name, and will be manipulated into and surrender themselves to what they will think of-and justify—as a racial war. They will never, so long as their whiteness puts so sinister a distance between themselves and their own experience and the experience of others, feel themselves sufficiently human, sufficiently worthwhile, to become responsible for themselves, their leaders, their country, their children, or their fate. They will perish (as we once put it in our black church) in their sins—that is, in their delusions. And this is happening, needless to say, already, all around us.

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g @ontopoetic.earth · 4d

Burnt out, and yet, combustible

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 4d

“the deceived masses are today captivated by the myth of success even more than the successful are. Immovably, they insist on the very ideology that enslaves them. The misplaced love of the common people for the wrong which is done to them is a greater force than the cunning of the authorities.”
H+A

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ya ya yanina @yanina.bsky.social · 4d

The development of the culture industry has led to the predominance of the effect, the obvious touch, and the technical detail over the work itself—which once expressed an idea, but was liquidated together with the idea.

—Horkheimer & Adorno

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 4d

Please amplify this demand. We need y'all. I was there. We were not in the road. ICE simply let loose on us to film themselves brutalizing and arresting protesters—and state police assisted them. They brought charges against scattered people to create a pretext for this inexcusable violence.