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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 49m

Ahhhh. The Type 181, sold as the “Thing” in the States and as a “Safari” in Mexico. Very nearly a Wehrmacht Kübelwagen in conzept und execution, thus presumably the tasteless emblem. But infinitely desirable for all that.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 4h

Not…inaccurate, though? (I have always wanted one. Seeing that abandoned and desecrated one on Londres a few blocks from where we met up the other day just about broke my heart.)

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 9h

but made differently – and it’s thrilling. [2/2]

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 9h

You know that famous Graeber line about “the ultimate hidden truth of the world”? That it’s “something that we make, and could just as easily make differently”? That’s just precisely the work Francis Spufford does in “Cahokia Jazz” – the work of imagining a world that’s recognizably our own, [1/2]

A page spread from Francis Spufford’s “Cahokia Jazz,” dappled by palm shadow.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 10h

ooh! no, ‘twernt me. looks great!

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 13h

I concur!

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 13h

Bad readings of “Watchmen” are somehow even worse than thinking Patrick Bateman’s the hero of “American Psycho.” “Fatuity” doesn’t even begin to cover it – I feel like pulling Alan Moore from behind a fern to sic him on idiot Thiel.

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 14h

Peter Thiel, even more than Elon Musk, personifies the modern billionaire class

He is totally fatuous, no more insightful than a 17-year-old who is too into Nietzsche, but gets carried aloft entirely due to his vast wealth

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

I genuinely pity those who have never known the true jjimjilbang experience.

ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 1d

i just wish there was any sort of american equivalent (outside of like la,nyc,chicago) of the spa culture in china or korea. just like a crazy place you can go to all day and eat and hang out and soak in a hot tub and get massages or take a nap

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Cheers. 👊

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know what this system/model stuff means, but it sounds deep and, who knows, analytically useful. Can you expand?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Americans discover the concept of necropolitics in real time – followed more or less immediately by the realization that they are not immune to its application – just wasn’t on my bingo card. Long overdue, but also not the kind of thing you wish on anyone.

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

"If you live in the US, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago.…Virtually all of the most important parts of the US government that were created to protect the US from the greatest risks we face are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized" #theywantyoudead
@thunen.bsky.social

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

"If you live in the US, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago.…Virtually all of the most important parts of the US government that were created to protect the US from the greatest risks we face are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized" #theywantyoudead
@thunen.bsky.social

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

In our North London neighborhood, it’s generally Galatasaray victories or coup attempts in Ankara.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 1d

This is one place I will yield to the otherwise grotesque tendency to fetishize things Japanese.

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

You would worry about a relative or other loved one you heard speaking this way. [2/2]

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

The thing about the Thiel transcript isn’t that it’s insane, though it is that, and it isn’t even that it’s detached from any actual real concern on a planet with plenty of ‘em. It’s that it doesn’t make sense from one sentence to the next. In places it’s very nearly whipped word salad. [1/2]

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

The long problematic history of Americans (i.e. individuals) in Mexico. The construction in popular culture of the border crossing as the release from obligation, accountability, history, from Burroughs and Welles and “Hey Joe” to Linda Hamilton in the jeep and frat boys in Cabo.

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

on Earth?

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

It’s taken me half a lifetime to reconcile myself to this, even where my own embodied being is concerned. [3/3]

Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

Lord knows I have my problems with Trots, but there’s something uncanny about being in the space where Stalin’s chekist goons finally caught up with the man himself. [2/2]

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Adam Greenfield @lifehouse.bsky.social · 2d

For obscure reasons – early exposure to “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” followed by the discovery that Emmanuel Goldstein was based on a real historical figure – the Trotsky assassination has loomed large in my consciousness since late childhood. [1/2]

The desk in Leon Trotsky’s study in Mexico City, ostensibly left just as it was on the day NKVD assassin Ramón Mercader assaulted him there, with briefly fatal consequences, in August 1940. October 9th, 2025.

A selection of books ostensibly found on the desk of Leon Trotsky on the day he was attacked by NKVD assassin Ramón Mercader in August 1940, Mexico City, October 9th, 2025.

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Ali Trotta @alwayscoffee.bsky.social · 3d

Sometimes, the brave person has to be you.

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