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Joey Walnuts
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Writing a book, After Capitalism: The End of the End of the World | https://linktr.ee/jolwalton
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King Midas was not just the guy who turned everything to gold open.substack.com/pub/jonlyfan...
Trippy forest, maybe there's a party or something in the distance? Text: [Money Abolition]: Why I Am The Goat. The King's new ears were cool. What could go wrong?
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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This bit in Ghost Fictions:
Of course, some of these charlatans are simply nervous. To gild the lily is to feel you control the lily’s loveliness! Others can’t resist the allure of the ephemeral. When a new technology nudges the line between the believable and the unbelievable, for a brief time more lies become tellable, so why not tell them? Others just mean to be polite. The machines are pretending to be human, so they pretend to be the machines in return! But in the early 21st century, there were also more troubling reasons. We must remember that, in those days, many people were so accustomed to assuming everything around them was automatically produced—human labour would have made them feel guilty!—that it plunged them into a state of permanent confusion. When they saw something a machine really had done, sometimes they instinctively pretended a human had done it, just so they could go back to pretending a machine had done it. If that sounds very mixed up, that’s because everyone was very mixed up. Just as strangely, many people still felt that automation was always, at its core, a sort of theatrical illusion. Machines could never be more than actors playing parts, they told themselves. So they considered themselves to be good sports, playing along with the illusion, rather than illusionists themselves.
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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The famous planetary boundaries OH NO!UGHNUT, updated for 2025 + disaggregated into MINI DOUGHNUTS
Diagram showing three "doughnuts" (planetary boundaries and social boundaries) showing huge amounts of climate change being caused by the richer countries, and huge amounts of social protection shortfall in poorest 40% of countries
October 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Wow I wonder if Labour will win loads of votes with its cunning anti-immigration stance!
Reform email, subject line "Our plan for mass deportations"
August 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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This is stupid and great arras.net
August 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Soon Lucille
Bananas 3 euros each
August 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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"As writing, translation, paraphrasing and poetry become increasingly automated, professional writers and editors may become “bosses to bots,” instructing them on what to write, how to tailor material, and what to re-write when results do not meet professional or personal standards."
August 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Nairobi: Applied African Science Fiction. Tomorrow! Part of Sigana Storytelling Festival. At Cheche Bookshop from 10
June 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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'Di Great Insohreckshan' by Linton Kwesi Johnson poetryarchive.org/poem/di-grea...
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June 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Jeff Nagy on Skibidi Toilet www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/fil...
Excerpt from article, beginning intermixed with sudden, grotesque stasis
May 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Today in Do Not Make The Torment Nexus
Screenshot from Muckey 17 advert. A cast member is being interviewed and saying "Maybe I will print myself." A moment earlier another cast member said she'd bring back her grandma and everyone went awwww that's sweet!
March 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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funny and haunting pairing of Diane Di Prima's Revolutionary Letter #3 with 'When The Enemy Attacks Have These Things Ready [to protect your wife and children]' in The Whole Earth Catalogue (1970)
Be Prepared / Revolutionary Letter #3 / store water; make a point of filling your bathtub at the first news of trouble: they turned off the water in the 4th ward for a whole day during the Newark riots; or better yet make a habit of keeping the tub clean and full when not in use change this once a day, it should be good enough for washing, flushing toilets when necessary and cooking, in a pinch, but it’s a good idea to keep some bottled water handy too get a couple of five gallon jugs and keep them full for cooking // store food—dry stuff like rice and beans stores best goes farthest. SALT VERY IMPORTANT: it’s health and energy healing too, keep a couple pounds sea salt around, and, because we’re spoiled, some tins tuna, etc. to keep up morale—keep up the sense of ‘balanced diet’ ‘protein intake’ remember the stores may be closed for quite some time, the trucks may not enter your section of the city for weeks, you can cool it indefinitely // with 20 lb brown rice 20 lb whole wheat flour 10 lb cornmeal 10 lb good beans—kidney or soy 5 lb sea salt 2 qts good oil dried fruit and nuts add nutrients and a sense of luxury to this diet, a squash or coconut in a cool place in your pad will keep six months. // remember we are all used to eating less than the ‘average American’ and take it easy before we ever notice we’re hungry the rest of the folk will be starving used as they are to meat and fresh milk daily and help will arrive, until the day no help arrives and then you’re on your own. // hoard matches, we aren’t good at rubbing sticks together any more a tinder box is useful, if you can work it don’t count on gas stove, gas heater electric light keep hibachi and charcoal, CHARCOAL STARTER a help kerosene lamp and candles, learn to keep warm with breathing remember the blessed American habit of bundling When the Enemy Attacks Have These Things Ready Everyone should now realize that the cold war sometime is bound to turn into a nuclear war. The Chinese with their terrific hatred of us would welcome nuclear war that would destroy all of North America. They must have land for their people and the obvious thing for them to do is to destroy North America completely then to colonize it after several years. A group of Russian bombers which the Chinese have could be sent to bomb us any day and before we bothered to find out who the pilots were we would bomb Russia and Russia would bomb us. The starting of a nuclear war would mean absolutely nothing to the Chinese to achieve our destruction and they, of course, now have nuclear bombs. Hae these minimum items ready for your wife and children. You may be able to tough it through or do not care whether you live or not but you should give your wife and children a chance to survive. These things will mean more to them than all of the wealth in the world that you could give them. When a bomb strikes all electricity, coal, food, gasoline. medical and clothing supplies are cut off. Gas lines, railroads. high-ways, gasoline refineries, supplies and all transportation will be knocked out. Your money will be absolutely valueless. Food in your electric freezer will spoil. Canned food will spoil if frozen. You must live on what have stored in your home. I. A sleeping bag for every one in your family. — 2. One or more wood burning stoves. —3. A 5 plastic water bottle for each member in your family. — 4. Minimum of 500 wood matches. — 5. Year's supply of mosquito and insect repellents. 10 yards of mosquito netting. — 6. Year's supply of aspirin, iodine, laxatives, bandages. — 7. 1 gallon of canned honey — 8. Year's supply of dried foods such as beans, peas. flour, corn meal. sugar. cocoa. tea. rice. powdered milk, coffee etc., per person. —9. Two gallons of apple cider vinegar per person. --10. Year's supply of canned cooking grease — 11.…
March 4, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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makes you think
February 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I love it when you search for a keyword expecting a few hits and it turns out the text is teeming with it. Fredric Jameson uses the word 'experience' a lot
The scroll bar for Fredric Jameson's Archaeologies of the Future, with lots of lines to indicate where the word "experience" appears in the text
January 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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I assume this is about them removing my video about the door handle
Screen grab of news, "Supreme Court considering a possible TikTok ban"
January 12, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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no I haven't seen anything since then
Screenshot: Your most recent watch was Tuesday 24 December, 2024. "Red One" (2024) Directed by Jake Kasdan. Seen anything since then? LOG A FILM
January 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Fresh session, 4o, I got a creepy date-stamped output of all the context it's retained about me over the last couple months or so
[2024-09-26]. User's work is generally collaborative and focuses on climate justice in their research and teaching, which exemplifies courage, inclusion, integrity, and kindness. [2024-09-26]. User holds the perspective that courage and integrity in a professional context often involve challenging the organization’s values, norms, processes, or impacts. [2024-09-26]. User is considering the awkwardness of reflecting on institutional values in professional appraisals and questioning how best to embed these values in an organization.
December 20, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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I wrote about measurement and climate action for Branch magazine. 'Pause': branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue...
Some things probably should be measured directly. Like in the classic Christmas comedy Home Alone (1990). Why not measure precisely how many kids are in the car before you go on vacation? This is not a job for a Gamma prior and a conjugate Poisson likelihood for the number of McCallister kids observed in the car. Nor is it a job for a mission statement saying how passionate and committed your car is to ensuring the containment of the greatest number of McCallister children, today and always. Just count and re-count. Other things in life, of course, are better left unmeasured. Free of metrics and models entirely.
December 3, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Reminder that image gen AI peaked with Dall-E Mini and has been in gradual decline ever since sadpress.itch.io/shrike-glimp...
A grid of wobbly sketchy rainbows, foxes, mushrooms, clouds, and odd elfin landscapes, very charming and from the good old days
November 28, 2024 at 1:16 PM
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This meeting could have been an email
Cat on my laptop. Small rubber chicken glimpsable in the corner
November 27, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Literary studies:
Cup is from the Old English cuppe, from popular Latin cuppa. A cup is always at least potentially a trap. To bear a cup to one’s guest, and to accept it from one’s host, are acts curiously suspended between pessimism and optimism. Within the framework of xenia and iura hospitalitatis, the activity of hospitality—plentiful feasts, ritual gift-giving, compliments, songs, stories and revelry—may all be grounded in genuine goodwill and open-hearted faith, whilst also offering opportunities to conduct mutual assessments, strengthen interpersonal bonds, and mitigate mistrust. The origin of the English word cop is not known for certain. It is hypothesized to come from French caper, “seize, to take,” from Latin capere “to take.” Plausibly it might come from cob, meaning spider. A cop could also be a ball of thread wound upon a spindle or bobbin, or sometimes the bare spindle or bobbin itself. Cob in an earlier phase was usually coppe, and perhaps was preserved in that form orally and in some regional dialects for longer than hitherto recognised. Perhaps there is a thread, invisible from our angle, hung from the late eighteenth century to the early nineteenth, between the coppe of coppeweb and the cop of coppers. If this etymological lace is there, then cops were once seen as spiders, patiently spinning traps and waiting inside them, pouncing on hapless passers-by and deftly imprisoning them in tight silk. This would also mean a relationship with the Old English attorcoppa, another mysterious word, possibly from attor, poison, and back to coppa, vessel or cup. A cup of poison, with its association of false hospitality, of trust and treachery.
November 23, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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For George Herbert an echo chamber could be utterly heavenly
O Who will show me those delights on high? Echo:I. Thou Echo, thou art mortall, all men know. Echo:No. Wert thou not born among the trees and leaves? Echo:Leaves. And are there any leaves, that still abide? Echo:Bide. What leaves are they? impart the matter wholly. Echo:Holy. Are holy leaves the Echo then of blisse? Echo:Yes. Then tell me, what is that supreme delight? Echo:Light. Light to the minde: what shall the will enjoy? Echo:Joy. But are there cares and businesse with the pleasure? Echo:Leisure. Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever? Echo:Ever.
November 22, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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There are a lot of good ones in space stuff
Three astronauts from the movie Apollo 13
November 19, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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Utopia on the Tabletop (Ping Press, 2024)! ping-press.com/2024/02/23/u...
There is a renaissance going on in tabletop roleplaying, and it is richly resonant with utopian themes: from solarpunk settings inspiring empathy, cooperation, and visions of ecological harmony, to blasted dystopian wastelands which tear up civilisation as we know it, while provoking questions of how we might rebuild if we could start from scratch. Utopia on the Tabletop is for anyone inspired by the power of storytelling, captivated by how serious play might tackle real-world issues, or intrigued by the impact the little systems of games might make on the big systems that define our world today. Immerse yourself in this visionary collection of scholarship, conversations and games, and invite utopia to sprout from your tabletop. Get Utopia on the Tabletop: Print edition from all good booksellers. Open access PDF available for download.
November 17, 2024 at 10:13 PM
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This time I shall have him
Mouse trap labelled "Human Mouse trap" instead of "Humane Mouse trap." It's not a good joke but I'm having an incredibly hard time. Tbh I just want to crawl into a Human Mouse trap and eat whatever cheese is there and await my fate
November 4, 2024 at 10:31 AM