DB 📉
@konvolutj.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced 1980s Studies
watched like 5 seconds of the Nuzzi/Adam Friedland interview & she's most juiceless person alive. she should be a provincial Spar manager rather than a political journalist
December 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM
watched like 5 seconds of the Nuzzi/Adam Friedland interview & she's most juiceless person alive. she should be a provincial Spar manager rather than a political journalist
4 years to the day utopiadeferred.substack.com/p/shadows-on...
Shadows on the sun
I was going to write a friend a letter.
utopiadeferred.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
4 years to the day utopiadeferred.substack.com/p/shadows-on...
will never get over this idiot continuing to somehow get paid work
haven't gotten over the Wire review of Ian Penman's last book that slagged him off for talking about owning shoe-trees ("unnecessary and potentially alienating")
December 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
will never get over this idiot continuing to somehow get paid work
didn't get much further w/ the book this year but on the positive side---
if Repeater goes bust before I finish the book I'll probably [redacted]
December 21, 2025 at 5:13 PM
didn't get much further w/ the book this year but on the positive side---
evening bird chorus starting before 3.30 lol
December 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
evening bird chorus starting before 3.30 lol
v funny as well that he complains that Hayek's Bastards just draws connections of ideas between various individuals rather than causal connections or whatever. that's just "intellectual history" lol
both typical & amusing that Runciman spends a paragraph here going after the "alt-left", wh/ is apparently a mirror version of the alt-right (wow!) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Runciman · Hokey Cowboy: Is Hayek to blame?
Hayek suspected that nothing about the vindication of neoliberalism was likely to be straightforward. Some magical...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
v funny as well that he complains that Hayek's Bastards just draws connections of ideas between various individuals rather than causal connections or whatever. that's just "intellectual history" lol
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Mz 163 with Woman, Spraying by Kurt Schwitters, 1920
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137243
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137243
December 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Mz 163 with Woman, Spraying by Kurt Schwitters, 1920
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137243
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137243
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1904年（明治37年）の今日12月20日、三井呉服店が三越呉服店と改称し、デパートを創業（営業開始は翌21日）。店員をアメリカへ派遣して研究させ、飾り付けを全部アメリカ風にする本格派で、すべての衣料品が1棟で揃うようにした。
3年後には休憩室や食堂を設け、BGMを流し、テナント制を導入。今日のデパートのスタイルを確立させる。
写真は冨山房『國民百科大辞典』1937年より。時代は下るが戦前のデパートの様子がわかる。
3年後には休憩室や食堂を設け、BGMを流し、テナント制を導入。今日のデパートのスタイルを確立させる。
写真は冨山房『國民百科大辞典』1937年より。時代は下るが戦前のデパートの様子がわかる。
December 20, 2024 at 8:44 AM
1904年（明治37年）の今日12月20日、三井呉服店が三越呉服店と改称し、デパートを創業（営業開始は翌21日）。店員をアメリカへ派遣して研究させ、飾り付けを全部アメリカ風にする本格派で、すべての衣料品が1棟で揃うようにした。
3年後には休憩室や食堂を設け、BGMを流し、テナント制を導入。今日のデパートのスタイルを確立させる。
写真は冨山房『國民百科大辞典』1937年より。時代は下るが戦前のデパートの様子がわかる。
3年後には休憩室や食堂を設け、BGMを流し、テナント制を導入。今日のデパートのスタイルを確立させる。
写真は冨山房『國民百科大辞典』1937年より。時代は下るが戦前のデパートの様子がわかる。
this is our 5th Christmas living together & think we've had only 1 that wasn't dogged by some kind of illness (2023)
December 20, 2025 at 11:45 AM
this is our 5th Christmas living together & think we've had only 1 that wasn't dogged by some kind of illness (2023)
v funny that they include both Imagining The Future & Minima Moralia here www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6YY...
The Verso Archive | Protean Magazine
YouTube video by Verso Books
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
v funny that they include both Imagining The Future & Minima Moralia here www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6YY...
now w/ rack & properly adjusted mudguards
December 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM
now w/ rack & properly adjusted mudguards
books I liked this year
December 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
books I liked this year
I'm a late-life Daim bar convert
December 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I'm a late-life Daim bar convert
last commute until January. naturally realised when I got home I'd left my milk in the office fridge
December 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
last commute until January. naturally realised when I got home I'd left my milk in the office fridge
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Came my wife’s brother and his wife, and Mrs. Lodum his landlady, Balty’s wife is a most little and yet, I believe, pretty old girl, not handsome, nor has anything in the world pleasing, but, they say, she plays mighty well on the Base Violl.
December 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Came my wife’s brother and his wife, and Mrs. Lodum his landlady, Balty’s wife is a most little and yet, I believe, pretty old girl, not handsome, nor has anything in the world pleasing, but, they say, she plays mighty well on the Base Violl.
there's several books in the V*rso sale I feel like I should read but a) I'm reluctant to give them my hard-earned money b) 50% of the time they're completely different from what their blurbs promise
December 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
there's several books in the V*rso sale I feel like I should read but a) I'm reluctant to give them my hard-earned money b) 50% of the time they're completely different from what their blurbs promise
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985)
Yuki Mishima. A Green Light For S&M. Hardcore S&M Breaking In To Awaken Her Total Masochism.
December 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (Paul Schrader, 1985)
putting a lot of James Schuyler opening lines in a blender
Cracking up since a robotext earlier couldn't make up it's mind on what to text, so it just sent EVERYTHING AT ONCE
December 18, 2025 at 10:16 AM
putting a lot of James Schuyler opening lines in a blender
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"Qesser Zuhrah has been refusing food for almost 2 months now"
#C4News last night. The first time I've seen the mainstream news cover the Palestine hunger strikers.
#C4News last night. The first time I've seen the mainstream news cover the Palestine hunger strikers.
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"Qesser Zuhrah has been refusing food for almost 2 months now"
#C4News last night. The first time I've seen the mainstream news cover the Palestine hunger strikers.
#C4News last night. The first time I've seen the mainstream news cover the Palestine hunger strikers.
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I'm not a vegetarian (& wasn't very good at it when I was one) but the current KFC adverts ("here's huge amounts of cheap chicken for you") are so gross
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I'm not a vegetarian (& wasn't very good at it when I was one) but the current KFC adverts ("here's huge amounts of cheap chicken for you") are so gross
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Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
September 12, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point