Doubting Thomas
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Books; film; sounds; DSA; futbol
Mostly I just drift
Mostly I just drift
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Doubting Thomas
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· Nov 21
Nothing is settled; everything can still be altered. What was done but turned out wrong, can be done again. The Golden Age, which blind superstition had placed behind [or ahead of] us, is in us.
—Claude Levi-Strauss, from Triste Tropiques
—Claude Levi-Strauss, from Triste Tropiques
If this isn’t selling in its first week it’s as good as dead. Books like this have frontloaded sales
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/u...
December 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If this isn’t selling in its first week it’s as good as dead. Books like this have frontloaded sales
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/u...
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I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...
100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025
The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…
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December 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I just added SO many books to my list! Hats off to @miriamgershow.bsky.social and all the reviewers and @literaryhub.bsky.social for putting together this incredibly vital, necessary, and good guide to the indies this year. Please do read! lithub.com/100-notable-...
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This comment on an NYT soup recipe is a banger
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 AM
This comment on an NYT soup recipe is a banger
I am so sad about losing Paul. I spoke to him only a few days before he died. He was a huge presence on the NYC youth soccer world. He truly believed the game was for everyone no matter your level. He had an enormous personality. He screamed at me the first time I met him. I miss him. RIP
RIP, PAUL: CJSL president Kontonis passes away - frontrow.soccer/4n2sz
RIP, PAUL: CJSL president Kontonis passes away - Front Row Soccer
Cosmopolitan Junior Soccer League president Paul Kontonis has passed away.
frontrow.soccer
December 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I am so sad about losing Paul. I spoke to him only a few days before he died. He was a huge presence on the NYC youth soccer world. He truly believed the game was for everyone no matter your level. He had an enormous personality. He screamed at me the first time I met him. I miss him. RIP
The Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
Donald Niedekker
Wonderful and original!
Donald Niedekker
Wonderful and original!
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost
Donald Niedekker
Wonderful and original!
Donald Niedekker
Wonderful and original!
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For those not deep in insane right wing bullshit, 11 is a popular number because the confederacy was founded by 11 states who seceded.
They're making fun of lincoln.
They're making fun of lincoln.
November 29, 2025 at 3:47 AM
For those not deep in insane right wing bullshit, 11 is a popular number because the confederacy was founded by 11 states who seceded.
They're making fun of lincoln.
They're making fun of lincoln.
One of my favorite Thanksgiving(ish) poems
November 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
One of my favorite Thanksgiving(ish) poems
I was lyin' in a burned-out basement
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky
There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
I was thinkin' about what a friend had said
I was hopin' it was a lie
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky
There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
I was thinkin' about what a friend had said
I was hopin' it was a lie
November 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I was lyin' in a burned-out basement
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky
There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
I was thinkin' about what a friend had said
I was hopin' it was a lie
With a full moon in my eyes
I was hopin' for replacement
When the sun burst through the sky
There was a band playin' in my head
And I felt like getting high
I was thinkin' about what a friend had said
I was hopin' it was a lie
Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico
A scathing portrait of two empty lives lived online for likes and comments. The characters, a couple, are stand-ins for contemporary lives. For me it was hard to move past the author’s contempt for his own characters-this is not the great novel about online existence.
Vincenzo Latronico
A scathing portrait of two empty lives lived online for likes and comments. The characters, a couple, are stand-ins for contemporary lives. For me it was hard to move past the author’s contempt for his own characters-this is not the great novel about online existence.
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Perfection
Vincenzo Latronico
A scathing portrait of two empty lives lived online for likes and comments. The characters, a couple, are stand-ins for contemporary lives. For me it was hard to move past the author’s contempt for his own characters-this is not the great novel about online existence.
Vincenzo Latronico
A scathing portrait of two empty lives lived online for likes and comments. The characters, a couple, are stand-ins for contemporary lives. For me it was hard to move past the author’s contempt for his own characters-this is not the great novel about online existence.
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It’s not a “Mamdani inflamed tensions“ story. It’s a “Mamdani refuses to bow to the views of a bunch of international lawbreakers and thieves hiding behind religion” story. 4/
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It’s not a “Mamdani inflamed tensions“ story. It’s a “Mamdani refuses to bow to the views of a bunch of international lawbreakers and thieves hiding behind religion” story. 4/
Liadan Ní Chuinn
Every One Still Here
Outstanding short fiction from a pseudonymous Northern Irish writer that while not set during the Troubles deals with the aftermath of the Troubles. Some powerful stories among these.
Every One Still Here
Outstanding short fiction from a pseudonymous Northern Irish writer that while not set during the Troubles deals with the aftermath of the Troubles. Some powerful stories among these.
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Liadan Ní Chuinn
Every One Still Here
Outstanding short fiction from a pseudonymous Northern Irish writer that while not set during the Troubles deals with the aftermath of the Troubles. Some powerful stories among these.
Every One Still Here
Outstanding short fiction from a pseudonymous Northern Irish writer that while not set during the Troubles deals with the aftermath of the Troubles. Some powerful stories among these.
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i loom over you. i boop your nose. stop hitting yourself. i mean for you to snarfle up my pungent harvest. i intend that you absolutely motorboat it. i mean for you to nuzzle it. here comes the airplane. soups on. im dominating you with my various fluids. my precious
November 24, 2025 at 2:24 AM
i loom over you. i boop your nose. stop hitting yourself. i mean for you to snarfle up my pungent harvest. i intend that you absolutely motorboat it. i mean for you to nuzzle it. here comes the airplane. soups on. im dominating you with my various fluids. my precious
For 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock, Charlie Brown
We all float down here, Charlie Brown
Second prize is a set of steak knives, Charlie Brown
November 24, 2025 at 2:27 AM
For 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock, Charlie Brown
The future Assemblymember for AD36 (Zohran’s current seat), Diana Moreno at her campaign launch
@dianaforqueens.com
@dianaforqueens.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The future Assemblymember for AD36 (Zohran’s current seat), Diana Moreno at her campaign launch
@dianaforqueens.com
@dianaforqueens.com
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guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
November 21, 2025 at 11:30 PM
guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani
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Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
November 22, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Folks, Zohran Mamdani—smart guy, reminds me of a young me—you know what he said, I told him, “Zohran, I’m gonna do it, I’m gonna say the shahada,” and he said to me “Mr. President, you should say a third line confirming your belief in the wilayat of Ali,” should we do it folks? Should we say it?
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I love that in all these pictures Zohran essentially becomes a Zohran Mamdani cardboard cutout, and Trump looks like he's best friends with it.
November 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I love that in all these pictures Zohran essentially becomes a Zohran Mamdani cardboard cutout, and Trump looks like he's best friends with it.
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
“It’s a myth that the writer is a solitary thing. Writers are like house cats – fiercely independent but reliant on a system they don’t understand. I am no libertarian. I do not write my books all by myself. It takes a family.” —
@rabihalameddine.bsky.social
@rabihalameddine.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 3:38 AM
“It’s a myth that the writer is a solitary thing. Writers are like house cats – fiercely independent but reliant on a system they don’t understand. I am no libertarian. I do not write my books all by myself. It takes a family.” —
@rabihalameddine.bsky.social
@rabihalameddine.bsky.social
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“It’s hard to think in celebratory terms when I’ve written a book about a genocide.” We thank you, Omar El Alkad.
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“It’s hard to think in celebratory terms when I’ve written a book about a genocide.” We thank you, Omar El Alkad.
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Transportation veterans say that incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani needs to completely reorganize the parking placard giveaway, and enforce against the scofflaws who abuse it. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/20/a...
AGENDA 2026: Mamdani Must Reduce, Digitize Parking Placards - Streetsblog New York City
Mayor-elect Mamdani must face down the placard class to regain control of New York City streets.
nyc.streetsblog.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Transportation veterans say that incoming Mayor Zohran Mamdani needs to completely reorganize the parking placard giveaway, and enforce against the scofflaws who abuse it. nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/11/20/a...
Truly wouldn’t have guessed some of these Cale picks in a million years which is perfectly in character for the man
We've got #JohnCale’s Baker’s Dozen, an archival interview with #Björk on the intersection of her work with environmentalism, and with #MyBloodyValentine on the road, there’s an essay on the power of their rhythmic invention
#ThePortal; Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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#ThePortal; Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Truly wouldn’t have guessed some of these Cale picks in a million years which is perfectly in character for the man
To my friends who are *still* on X, why are you on X?
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
To my friends who are *still* on X, why are you on X?
People are going to wildly misinterpret this, and already are, and the reporting itself is misleading.
You can want Osse to win. You can donate to his campaign. You can volunteer for his campaign.
And you can, at the same time, be opposed to DSA endorsing the campaign!
You can want Osse to win. You can donate to his campaign. You can volunteer for his campaign.
And you can, at the same time, be opposed to DSA endorsing the campaign!
New: In an extraordinary appearance at a @socialists.nyc meet tonight, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani urged the leftist group to not endorse Chi Osse's run against Hakeem Jeffries, saying the move would make it "more difficult" to enact his agenda in NYC, per sources. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/19/m...
Mamdani pleads directly with NYC-DSA to not back Chi Osse’s run against Hakeem Jeffries
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani appeared at a Democratic Socialists of America meeting Wednesday night to urge the group to not endorse his onetime campaign surrogate Chi Osse’s 2026 challenge aga…
www.nydailynews.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
People are going to wildly misinterpret this, and already are, and the reporting itself is misleading.
You can want Osse to win. You can donate to his campaign. You can volunteer for his campaign.
And you can, at the same time, be opposed to DSA endorsing the campaign!
You can want Osse to win. You can donate to his campaign. You can volunteer for his campaign.
And you can, at the same time, be opposed to DSA endorsing the campaign!