Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Ultimately, war transforms all subjectivities, not just those associated with ethnicity." (from an excellent book about performing sovereignty by Bart Klem) 100
Reposted by Mari BastashevskiRachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 29/01/2024All reports in this thread are from the collections of Northwestern University's Transportation Library. Materials we've digitized can generally be found in HathiTrust. Learn more and search our catalog here: www.library.northwestern.edu/libraries-co... 411688401
Reposted by Mari Bastashevskiw = a : r ~ t / h , o – g @warthogsocial.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Hello World! We have a new website. It is a teaser about our many special characters! Also, tertiary colors, the “off-off” set, I am in love! www.warthog.nl 021
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026NYT covering the eclipse like it should have covered the genocide! 000
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026It is not even 9 am yet, show me a better text, you got all day. It is the same guy that killed Trotsky 110
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 06/08/2026feelings, after being inundated by pop-psychology and pseudo psychoanalysis at every turn... 000
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026women be like “yeah im going to show him how it’s done” and get a casual phd in deep chest trauma through self - stabbing w dagger 000
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026« protein psychosis » look unexpectedly wholesome as roommates in a sentence www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/pushing-pr...vittlesmagazine.comPushing ProteinNiloufar Haidari on protein psychosis 010
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 20/07/2026isaiprofitable.comisaiprofitable.comIs AI Profitable Yet? 000
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026how it feels to process Horizon calls for proposals, in art and science: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hltb...youtube.comTuttle's DemiseYouTube video by Montag Beeblebrox 010
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 17/07/202622: 16 Theory: people do think of AI as a kind of duplicate wife, but incorrect guess is what he should have been writing down instead, that is the path to surprise discovery. www.youtube.com/watch?t=1335...youtube.comReinventing Entropy | Compression is Intelligence Part 1YouTube video by 3Blue1Brown 000
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 17/07/2026networkcultures.org/longform/202... stunning research into what AI has got to do with plantations from a colleague in the Netherlands! 😍networkcultures.orgLines of Code: Your AI is on Cocaine « INC Longform 000
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026knows nothing about football: 0:0 is ok for now! we can handle a bit of mirroring 010
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026they call the mouse at our sports club Messi. bet he is here w all of his referee uncles! 000
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Can't care less for any of the eleven men running after one ball, still mad as hell about the World Cup. Sport is so political, there's no sport left in it! 010
Reposted by Mari BastashevskiShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 28/06/2026As public awareness and resistance ramp up, I'm regularly reminded that researchers have been addressing the environmental, geopolitical, and political-economic impacts of data centers for *a very long time*; legislators, journalists, et al just haven't noticed! 517487
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 01/06/2026A lot of this workshop is sitting with something I keep coming back to: we're intelligent enough to know our agency is very limited, but are we intelligent enough to recognize it and work as if we have it anyway? nias.knaw.nl/events/proce... 020
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 24/05/2026new selecta course on time. open to everyone with university affiliation. long reading list, but since overwhelm is era, we're allowed to impose no more than 3 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...docs.google.comCapita Selecta Course: A Great Circle With No RimThank you for signing up for the Capita Selecta course designed and facilitated by WUR post-doc researcher Mari Bastashevski. Below you can find all information about this series of evening seminars! ... 010
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I once introduced a man I was dating to philosophy. At first he didn't think he was smart enough for it, but I told him he was Ok. He's now a multi-millioner defense tech investor in the US and Israel. Don't use dating apps 110
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Things that just happen in my brain on a random Thursday: Does Lola from Run Lola Run and the Red Queen from Alice in Wonderland share the same prehension of time? 010
Reposted by Mari Bastashevskithey/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Wow, it’s like Christmas came early, in that I’m confused and disoriented because something fundamental has been violated and I’m wondering where all the time went. 1131
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 12/05/2026absolutely losing my mind over the new found state paper's damning review of my parents' Central Asia tour. apparently they trolled the censorship committee -those lowlife criminals -by promising a professionally trained fly act but performing banned sad songs instead...unhinged 🪰💩🪰 010
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I don't know where exactly the Centre for Luminescence Dating is in our building or what it does, but as someone with considerable experience in the queer dating scene, I know luminescence is a red flag. I spent a lot of time alone in the dark before this glow up 010
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Human: uses AI to avoid limits and knowledge. Snails: merging cells to transcend phylogenetic limits and live exclusively off light. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDw...youtube.comVidéo Elysia chloroticaYouTube video by Sciences BICHAT54 010
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Sunday thought for this legend www.npr.org/2023/08/06/1...npr.orgThe mysterious story of Connie Converse, the singer-songwriter who vanishedThe artist quit music in the early '60s, then later disappeared so completely even her family didn't know where she'd gone. Now, an album of her songs — as she wanted them heard — is coming out. 010
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Things that I noticed to be much more commonplace in society than people who exoticise them seems to realize: 1. Queer men that date men and women. 2. Older women with younger men in an ordinary (non-fetishistic) relationships. 3. Zizeks. There's a Balkan pub full of them 200m away from my house 141
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026the most obv. move for algorithms, managing society: as soon as humans draw near solving the riddle of immortality, make their lives unbearable 020
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Friendly Federal Assassin sounds like an album reviewed by Pitchfork and an adult fantasy novel with a strong female lead, rated 4.5 stars on Goodreads 010
Reposted by Mari Bastashevskielia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 18/04/2026All they will find is sand Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukEyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow LineMost of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture... 5405202
Reposted by Mari BastashevskiMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15/04/2026Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich. 795362627596
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026"Against the insistent poisoned passion of dismembering and demystifying, it affirms that which they all require in order not to enslave us: that we are not alone in the world." Isabelle Stengers (I love her) www.e-flux.com/journal/36/6... 000
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Robert Smithson, the only artist "seriously interested" in the landscapes of Netherlands in the last century www.mariangoodman.com/news/529-ope...mariangoodman.comOpen Weekends for Robert Smithson’s Broken Circle/Spiral HillHolt/Smithson Foundation and Land Art Contemporary in close cooperation with the landowners and Centrum Beeldende Kunst Emmen are delighted to... 110
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026thefunambulist.net/magazine/car...thefunambulist.netPlacing Time, Timing Space: Dismantling the Master’s Map and ClockPlaywright Tennessee Williams referred to time as “the longest distance between two places.” To think about or refer to time (in the English language) often involves its spatialization… 010
Reposted by Mari BastashevskiClayton “Death” @itsclaybaby.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Me and the fellas getting the oil around the Hormuz blockade 3578129
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 16/03/2026imagine you lived for a thousand years and Karp was your best work 000
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Big news out of our building today that has nothing to do with the late wars. Sea levels are already much higher than most people realize. The models were wrong. www.wur.nl/en/longread/...wur.nlSea levels are much higher than often assumed. How is that possible?Philip Minderhoud and Katharina Seeger discovered that sea levels at the coast are much higher than most scientific studies assumed 020
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026walking dead analogy doesn't really work here. these are not zombie worms, they were never really dead, and they are certainty not dead now, wiggling their ancient, 40.000 year old worm bodies www.popularmechanics.com/science/anim...popularmechanics.comRussian Scientists Brought 24,000-Year-Old Zombie Worms Back to LifeSurely this ends well. 000
Reposted by Mari BastashevskiNanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 03/02/2026Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse) 381271486
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026turns out no amount of soft and hard genocide denial will count as loyalty when the time comes... what a shock to see this approach fail, I'm shocked. 010
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026A girl lifted my wallet in the locker room. Scrolling through her travel and transaction history and honestly? Taste this clean deserves a line of credit… 010
Reposted by Mari BastashevskiDominic Pettman @dominicpettman.bsky.social · 12/01/2026An extract from my latest in PSYCHE magazine. psyche.co/ideas/why-be...psyche.coWhy being ghosted is inevitable and being a ghoster is too | Psyche IdeasBeing ghosted can feel shocking. But we need to get used to it because there’s no other way to cope with our world 001
Mari Bastashevski @amarichi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026a country that siphoned billions from culture and education for defence against russian invasion goes into a full panic mode shutdown on snow day… 010
Reposted by Mari BastashevskiRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 30/11/2025Four years before John Constable painted this in 1821, John Keats was writing about 'Negative Capability: 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.' This is what negative capability looks like in paint. 417040
