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Checking out Bentley Little's bibliography thanks to the new Just King Things bonusode, and it looks like a fun-house mirror version of Frederick Wiseman's filmography.
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Checking out Bentley Little's bibliography thanks to the new Just King Things bonusode, and it looks like a fun-house mirror version of Frederick Wiseman's filmography.
Powered by baths and full of ass - the Clayton Cubitt promise.
I don't use generative ai in my images. When you see an image by me you know it's based in reality, and centered on organic human relationships and enthusiastic consent.
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Powered by baths and full of ass - the Clayton Cubitt promise.
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Read for filth by Nietzsche yet again
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Read for filth by Nietzsche yet again
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shelved by genre is a good podcast
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
shelved by genre is a good podcast
It should also be noted that this piggybacks on a well-known human trait - folks will ask a human, however unreliable, before they look themselves for a more authoritative source.
i've said before that the appeal of ask jeeves way, way back was not in its actual strength as a search engine, but that it clicked in the brain of a lot of users better to *ask* the computer things instead of searching for relevant terms and clicking into a website covering their interest.
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It should also be noted that this piggybacks on a well-known human trait - folks will ask a human, however unreliable, before they look themselves for a more authoritative source.
Particularly devastated by Todd Snider's death - all the headlines are (somewhat understandably) playing up the "satirical" aspects of his songwriting, but for me, it was the always the quieter songs of questioning that landed. Dude wrote "That Was Me," "I Spoke as a Child," and "Horseshoe Lake."
November 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Particularly devastated by Todd Snider's death - all the headlines are (somewhat understandably) playing up the "satirical" aspects of his songwriting, but for me, it was the always the quieter songs of questioning that landed. Dude wrote "That Was Me," "I Spoke as a Child," and "Horseshoe Lake."
Probably cause I'm in the middle of a TWIN PEAKS re-watch, but I can't stop the David Lynch voice in my head: "Coop! Coop! They're trying to bring back James Bond! But they blew him up in the last one, Coop!"
November 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Probably cause I'm in the middle of a TWIN PEAKS re-watch, but I can't stop the David Lynch voice in my head: "Coop! Coop! They're trying to bring back James Bond! But they blew him up in the last one, Coop!"
Reminds me that the last time I read LotR was in spring of 2003 for a Tolkien class - the professor would bring in a newspaper each class and fulminate for 20 minutes against the invasion of Iraq before connecting it to the day's work.
Let's make it official:
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
SHELVED BY GENRE's next unit, spanning ALL of 2026, will be a delve into the depths of modern genre with J.R.R. Tolkien's THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION.
If you don't have those, you can grab them through our Bookshop:
bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
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November 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Reminds me that the last time I read LotR was in spring of 2003 for a Tolkien class - the professor would bring in a newspaper each class and fulminate for 20 minutes against the invasion of Iraq before connecting it to the day's work.
Apropos of nothing, when I worked at Target, the backroom team was almost entirely composed of Arabic-speaking immigrants. Unsurprisingly, they spoke a lot of Arabic to each other, and one of my non-backroom colleagues complained one day that they didn't speak English over the walkies.
October 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Apropos of nothing, when I worked at Target, the backroom team was almost entirely composed of Arabic-speaking immigrants. Unsurprisingly, they spoke a lot of Arabic to each other, and one of my non-backroom colleagues complained one day that they didn't speak English over the walkies.
Serendipitously just started WAR & WAR yesterday.
October 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Serendipitously just started WAR & WAR yesterday.
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“Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is fully convinced that *even the dead* will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.”
Walter Benjamin
“Theses on the Philosophy of History”
Walter Benjamin
“Theses on the Philosophy of History”
September 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
“Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is fully convinced that *even the dead* will not be safe from the enemy if he wins.”
Walter Benjamin
“Theses on the Philosophy of History”
Walter Benjamin
“Theses on the Philosophy of History”
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My first week of fundraising to stay in the US went better than I ever expected. I’m humbled and grateful and I wish I could stop there but…
Shares/reposts/signal boosts are greatly appreciate 🙏
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September 8, 2025 at 2:27 PM
My first week of fundraising to stay in the US went better than I ever expected. I’m humbled and grateful and I wish I could stop there but…
Shares/reposts/signal boosts are greatly appreciate 🙏
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Seems like a good day to remind people what Brian Yuzna had planned for HOUSE OF REANIMATOR
“…a Bush-like president would die in office, prompting the U.S. government to call Herbert West in to do what West does best: bring the dead back from the dead”
bloody-disgusting.com/news/3413822...
“…a Bush-like president would die in office, prompting the U.S. government to call Herbert West in to do what West does best: bring the dead back from the dead”
bloody-disgusting.com/news/3413822...
August 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Seems like a good day to remind people what Brian Yuzna had planned for HOUSE OF REANIMATOR
“…a Bush-like president would die in office, prompting the U.S. government to call Herbert West in to do what West does best: bring the dead back from the dead”
bloody-disgusting.com/news/3413822...
“…a Bush-like president would die in office, prompting the U.S. government to call Herbert West in to do what West does best: bring the dead back from the dead”
bloody-disgusting.com/news/3413822...
The one time we did encounter a mentally-unwell person who started ranting at my partner's 4yo, a calm business-suited gentleman silently interposed himself, back to the ranter and just read his newspaper, didn't even look at us.
I have no idea what to expect but imagine I'm finally going to see one of those scary "subway crazies" I've heard so much about.
Instead, he looks me dead in the eyes and says "I thought you was a girl, yo."
Huh?
"I thought you was a girl, until you stood up."
Instead, he looks me dead in the eyes and says "I thought you was a girl, yo."
Huh?
"I thought you was a girl, until you stood up."
August 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The one time we did encounter a mentally-unwell person who started ranting at my partner's 4yo, a calm business-suited gentleman silently interposed himself, back to the ranter and just read his newspaper, didn't even look at us.
I refuse to put the 80s nostalgia AI video on the feed, but know it is (unintentionally) the best horror film of 2025.
August 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I refuse to put the 80s nostalgia AI video on the feed, but know it is (unintentionally) the best horror film of 2025.
Second time in NYC after growing up in rural Florida, I'm 21 and with my partner taking her 4yo to the Bronx zoo on the subway. It's winter and I'm wearing cargo pants and big leather jacket, beanie over my hair (which was, admittedly, pretty long). But I'm roughly 5'10 and ~200lbs.
everyone tell me your favorite subway interactions. one time this older dude sat down next to me, called me a snow bunny, and opened his bag to show me that it contained piles of banded cash
August 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Second time in NYC after growing up in rural Florida, I'm 21 and with my partner taking her 4yo to the Bronx zoo on the subway. It's winter and I'm wearing cargo pants and big leather jacket, beanie over my hair (which was, admittedly, pretty long). But I'm roughly 5'10 and ~200lbs.
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The way academics have shown their entire ass in response to fascism…your institutions deserve to die. You’re weak and ineffectual and cowardly. You have no solidarity with each other or with anyone else. You have no analysis of power.
You’re obsolete and the world needs new intellectuals.
You’re obsolete and the world needs new intellectuals.
August 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The way academics have shown their entire ass in response to fascism…your institutions deserve to die. You’re weak and ineffectual and cowardly. You have no solidarity with each other or with anyone else. You have no analysis of power.
You’re obsolete and the world needs new intellectuals.
You’re obsolete and the world needs new intellectuals.
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People who think of themselves as intelligent are more likely to be uncomfortable around smarter people than those who don’t.
This is why many people who think of themselves as smart and rational end up choosing mid intellectuals to engage with.
This in turn explains the circle jerk of academia.
This is why many people who think of themselves as smart and rational end up choosing mid intellectuals to engage with.
This in turn explains the circle jerk of academia.
July 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM
People who think of themselves as intelligent are more likely to be uncomfortable around smarter people than those who don’t.
This is why many people who think of themselves as smart and rational end up choosing mid intellectuals to engage with.
This in turn explains the circle jerk of academia.
This is why many people who think of themselves as smart and rational end up choosing mid intellectuals to engage with.
This in turn explains the circle jerk of academia.
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Increasingly, when we look inward to seek the source of our distress, what we find isn’t Mommy and Daddy. It’s fascism. It’s inflation. It’s climate change.
The mechanism that converts global social problems into personal familial problems is being overwhelmed by the brute force of reality itself.
The mechanism that converts global social problems into personal familial problems is being overwhelmed by the brute force of reality itself.
July 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Increasingly, when we look inward to seek the source of our distress, what we find isn’t Mommy and Daddy. It’s fascism. It’s inflation. It’s climate change.
The mechanism that converts global social problems into personal familial problems is being overwhelmed by the brute force of reality itself.
The mechanism that converts global social problems into personal familial problems is being overwhelmed by the brute force of reality itself.
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I’m an immigrant writer who doesn’t have an Atlantic Monthly staff salary or Atlantic Monthly health insurance.
I’m about to put my phone away and do several hours of heavy manual labor so I can eat this week. Maybe you wanna subscribe to my Patreon while I’m busy?
I’m about to put my phone away and do several hours of heavy manual labor so I can eat this week. Maybe you wanna subscribe to my Patreon while I’m busy?
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July 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I’m an immigrant writer who doesn’t have an Atlantic Monthly staff salary or Atlantic Monthly health insurance.
I’m about to put my phone away and do several hours of heavy manual labor so I can eat this week. Maybe you wanna subscribe to my Patreon while I’m busy?
I’m about to put my phone away and do several hours of heavy manual labor so I can eat this week. Maybe you wanna subscribe to my Patreon while I’m busy?
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One thing I loathed about academia from the first second was the the tacit agreement that you’re supposed to flatter other scholars’ egos and avoid making them feel bad no matter how terrible their ideas or how bad their work.
This mutual ego-shielding pact is a relentless driver of mediocrity.
This mutual ego-shielding pact is a relentless driver of mediocrity.
July 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
One thing I loathed about academia from the first second was the the tacit agreement that you’re supposed to flatter other scholars’ egos and avoid making them feel bad no matter how terrible their ideas or how bad their work.
This mutual ego-shielding pact is a relentless driver of mediocrity.
This mutual ego-shielding pact is a relentless driver of mediocrity.
Saw the most recent Rothko exhibit in DC and almost offered to buy a catalog for the woman who was going up to every single painting and taking a shitty, off-kilter photo each time, just to get her out of the gallery.
July 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Saw the most recent Rothko exhibit in DC and almost offered to buy a catalog for the woman who was going up to every single painting and taking a shitty, off-kilter photo each time, just to get her out of the gallery.
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we all joke about this stuff (“why spend hours reading a book when I can spend two min reading an AI summary” etc), but, sincerely, I don’t really see how this line of thinking is different from suicidal ideation. what argument is there for life at all, if the only goal is to eliminate wasted time
Really a sad way to go through life www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/b...
June 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
we all joke about this stuff (“why spend hours reading a book when I can spend two min reading an AI summary” etc), but, sincerely, I don’t really see how this line of thinking is different from suicidal ideation. what argument is there for life at all, if the only goal is to eliminate wasted time