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@branchspell.bsky.social
Weird-book reader in New Jersey
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Purveyor of Althussierian postcolonial horror with discard studies characteristics https://quarcoxa.itch.io
he/him
🇺🇸🇨🇼🕎
Purveyor of Althussierian postcolonial horror with discard studies characteristics https://quarcoxa.itch.io
he/him
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"One might imagine (but why imagine it, when it occured in ancient Greece) that gods and mortals, instead of being separated by the moral abyss of religion, sought to seduce each other and, indeed, maintained no other relations but those of seduction."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
"One might imagine (but why imagine it, when it occured in ancient Greece) that gods and mortals, instead of being separated by the moral abyss of religion, sought to seduce each other and, indeed, maintained no other relations but those of seduction."
- Seduction
- Seduction
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my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
my take on Food Discourse is that it's always ridiculous but it's also nice to be fighting about dumb internet shit again instead of dealing with Oppressive Despair all the time so please keep posting your bad takes
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"Where did it all go wrong?"
BL Add 10294; Morte Artu; c.1316 CE; France, N. (Saint-Omer or Tournai); ; f.94r
BL Add 10294; Morte Artu; c.1316 CE; France, N. (Saint-Omer or Tournai); ; f.94r
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"Where did it all go wrong?"
BL Add 10294; Morte Artu; c.1316 CE; France, N. (Saint-Omer or Tournai); ; f.94r
BL Add 10294; Morte Artu; c.1316 CE; France, N. (Saint-Omer or Tournai); ; f.94r
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my family raised me to believe that Yoda is Slovak. and that the Empire represents the Czech Republic
November 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
my family raised me to believe that Yoda is Slovak. and that the Empire represents the Czech Republic
You’re allowed to show up with hot sauce if you think you’ll need it
November 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
You’re allowed to show up with hot sauce if you think you’ll need it
Been into this guy who reviews extremely grim london greasy spoons www.instagram.com/reel/DQ8rb4H...
James Dimitri 🍕 on Instagram: "🍳🥓☕️ Riverside Transport Cafe, Colnbrook, Slough."
5,665 likes, 127 comments - jamesdimitri on November 11, 2025: "🍳🥓☕️ Riverside Transport Cafe, Colnbrook, Slough.".
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November 25, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Been into this guy who reviews extremely grim london greasy spoons www.instagram.com/reel/DQ8rb4H...
Bring back elitism
November 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Bring back elitism
Honey where did you put the sizzlean
November 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Honey where did you put the sizzlean
Just muttered “fuck off. stupid.” to myself recalling an embarrassing event that happened literally 20 years ago
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Just muttered “fuck off. stupid.” to myself recalling an embarrassing event that happened literally 20 years ago
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Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
November 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Literally zooming into a dark age somehow hastened by technology and innovation is weird to think about
What’s the most selfish state of the union? ME. Thanks
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What’s the most selfish state of the union? ME. Thanks
Being part of a bourgeois jewish family with roots in venezuela means this thanksgiving has the potential to be extra special
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Being part of a bourgeois jewish family with roots in venezuela means this thanksgiving has the potential to be extra special
TRIPLE FRONTIER is such a great title for a film I will never see
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
TRIPLE FRONTIER is such a great title for a film I will never see
Pipe tobacco why does it smell
So great
So great
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Pipe tobacco why does it smell
So great
So great
This was great!
A wonderful essay by McNeil Taylor on Hellenism, Zionism, and the legacies of c19 Western European colonialism. www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/71/ta...
November 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This was great!
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"But this rage, this fury, only bears witness to the eternity of seduction and to the impossibility of mastering it."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 PM
"But this rage, this fury, only bears witness to the eternity of seduction and to the impossibility of mastering it."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
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You know how there are some historical reenactment museum areas where you can go and see people dressed old timey churning butter and making horseshoes? There should be one that's a bar and kids can go listen to reenactors complain about their city's sports teams from different decades
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
You know how there are some historical reenactment museum areas where you can go and see people dressed old timey churning butter and making horseshoes? There should be one that's a bar and kids can go listen to reenactors complain about their city's sports teams from different decades
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Today I passed a billboard w/ an ai-ass nativity scene beneath a giant cosmic Jesus and big text asking "Do You Love The Man As Much As The Baby?" and I choked on the coke zero I was drinking while driving and I stifled a cough and the bubbles foamed up through my nasal passages. I felt so present.
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Today I passed a billboard w/ an ai-ass nativity scene beneath a giant cosmic Jesus and big text asking "Do You Love The Man As Much As The Baby?" and I choked on the coke zero I was drinking while driving and I stifled a cough and the bubbles foamed up through my nasal passages. I felt so present.
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"I don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore" is a real tim Robinson turn of phrase
Campbell's soup VP caught on tape trashing his own brand. Oof. www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2...
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"I don't buy Campbell's products barely anymore" is a real tim Robinson turn of phrase
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First attested in the 1840s, “pixilated” means crazed, deranged, afflicted by mischievous spirits (eg pixies). Which is why I just overheard Porky Pig tell Daffy Duck “You’re pixilated!” in a cartoon from 1948 that my kids were watching.
November 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
First attested in the 1840s, “pixilated” means crazed, deranged, afflicted by mischievous spirits (eg pixies). Which is why I just overheard Porky Pig tell Daffy Duck “You’re pixilated!” in a cartoon from 1948 that my kids were watching.
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Anyway, strongly preferring tricky/resistant fiction doesn't make me any more sophisticated, this is just the only brain I have. The vet said our dog is a "power chewer" and I was like…oh, yes. Me too.
[I am using the text box to exorcise the sense that I should like to read things I do not.]
[I am using the text box to exorcise the sense that I should like to read things I do not.]
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Anyway, strongly preferring tricky/resistant fiction doesn't make me any more sophisticated, this is just the only brain I have. The vet said our dog is a "power chewer" and I was like…oh, yes. Me too.
[I am using the text box to exorcise the sense that I should like to read things I do not.]
[I am using the text box to exorcise the sense that I should like to read things I do not.]
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Being tricky or complex is not enough to make a book good. I just don't really enjoy books that require no figuring out, and I am only getting more this way. If I am reading for fun it should be fun for me and Watching Things Happen is not really fun for me, I need some room to think.
November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Being tricky or complex is not enough to make a book good. I just don't really enjoy books that require no figuring out, and I am only getting more this way. If I am reading for fun it should be fun for me and Watching Things Happen is not really fun for me, I need some room to think.
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Look, I just don't like books in which it is easy to tell what is happening.
November 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Look, I just don't like books in which it is easy to tell what is happening.
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Artist: Bichitr. Mughal Emperor Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, ca. 1615-1618. From the St. Petersburg Album. Freer Gallery. Smithsonian Institution @natasianart http://dlvr.it/TPRd3Z
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Artist: Bichitr. Mughal Emperor Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, ca. 1615-1618. From the St. Petersburg Album. Freer Gallery. Smithsonian Institution @natasianart http://dlvr.it/TPRd3Z
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‘Aren’t learning new skills and trying new things sort of the whole point of life? … Perhaps one thing AI is revealing is that a certain percentage of the population has no real interest in doing, learning, or enjoying anything at all.’
By @thelincoln.bsky.social
By @thelincoln.bsky.social
Short Little Difficult Books
Novels that challenge with style, story, or form that you can read in a day.
countercraft.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
‘Aren’t learning new skills and trying new things sort of the whole point of life? … Perhaps one thing AI is revealing is that a certain percentage of the population has no real interest in doing, learning, or enjoying anything at all.’
By @thelincoln.bsky.social
By @thelincoln.bsky.social