Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 17/09/2026God. 822335
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialkate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 12/08/2026I wrote about the Obama Presidential Center for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...thenation.comThe Nostalgic Architecture of the Obama Presidential CenterWhere hope even has a gift shop. 4440492
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialHugh Morris @hwfmorris.bsky.social · 15/08/2026marvellous work from @katewagner.wehwalt.net with a proper and detailed critical appraisal here. Good stuff too on “slop” as a means of avoiding critiquing / historicising AI 0133
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Man, end of an era. 419635
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialAlexander Glass @alexanderglass.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I have one answer. 2841063118
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 07/08/2026A smart article that gets at two often-neglected progressive necessities: one, the left must be serious and materialist in pursuing social change, and two, as King says in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail, any revolutionary struggle must interrogate and purify itself. 110817
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/08/2026"The condition is structural. The structure is the rentier capture of the assets that constitute a viable life. The cure is to break the capture." 826464
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Count Orlok in NOSFERATU (2024) voice: ALLLLLVINNN, SIIIIMONNNNN, THEEEEODORRRRRE. 430746
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialAsher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I think this is an interesting point, though I would offer a slight defense of focusing on what you don't like: if you put some real thought into figuring out *why* you don't like it, you're also thinking about what you would do differently, which can itself be a fruitful creative avenue 214120
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialSara Century @saracentury.bsky.social · 19/07/2026I understand that it sucks to have to read a book you didn't choose as a kid but when people are like 40 and still going, "well assigned reading turned me off from reading" it's like, ok but you're 40. No one has assigned you a book in like 20 years. 11113251794
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"triggering" jesus christ. 1023719
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 08/07/2026we're now at the "just let 'er rip" stage of covid that we reached in the fall of 2020, where trump is no longer afraid of the markets (the only thing he cares about) punishing him for uncontained failure and so just gives up 020334
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGeorge Outhwaite @georgeouthwaite.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Midday paintings Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter 161387414
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 01/07/2026There Will Be Blood The Master To Live and Die in L.A. Ravenous Goodfellas JFK Killing Them Softly Blonde A History of Violence No Country for Old Men Jaws Unforgiven Starship Troopers Robocop 1416217
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 25/06/2026My mom left herself a post-it on her purse so she wouldn't forget her ham and I cannot stop thinking about it 2252832
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialchelsea g. summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I read this essay about The Omen, Roe v. Wade, and what constitutes true horror, and I can't stop thinking about it.defector.comDiabolical Motherhood | DefectorOn June 25, 1976, three and a half years after Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in the U.S., The Omen hit theaters. Most viewers remember the high-drama deaths—by impalement, decapitation, hanging—or t... 04816
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialkate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 11/06/2026this is so obviously true and the people who think otherwise are bad people 915410
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialRep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 01/05/2026Not enough people are talking about this. The Trump Administration is moving to cut benefits for up to 400,000 disabled Americans — people with Down syndrome, severe autism, dementia — for no other reason than that they live at home with their families instead of in an institution. 8431391536
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialPlaces Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:placesjournal.orgThe Disappearance of the Public BenchBenches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest. 401875688
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12/04/2026"Fandom deserves to be taken seriously" I actually can't think of anything more desperately in need of being taken LESS seriously. 5238031034
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.social🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 17/04/2026"This is mine. The god that sent me back. The god I serve in this world and yours. The god of flesh, hunger, and desire. My god, Leviathan, Lord of the Labyrinth." 310028
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialIndrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026This is an amazing comic, and it's all up here for free, get to it: 1269
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialutopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 19/04/2026once you ignore minor and pesky things like distributional effects on who gets access to the highest productivity regions in the country, it's obvious that this is clearly an optimal price clearing policy and no interventions are required. 428134
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.social🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 14/04/2026The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach. 152202507209
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 14/04/2026This is such a disturbing example of how technology can distort and amplify abusive behavior. It reminds me of how victims are often labeled hysterical and have their body language analyzed by pseudo-experts. Now these tactics are being replicated by a biased chatbot people pretend is an authority 11708190
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialThe Baffler @thebaffler.com · 02/04/2026One summer, poet Timmy Straw got a temp job working at a sprawling pear archive, which houses thousands of species from dozens of countries. There, he shaped plants for growth, following strangely beautiful instructions. thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...thebaffler.comThe Profession That Does Not Exist | Baffler SymposiumA partial history of the hidden labor that makes possible the poems, stories, essays, and books you read. 2233
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 29/03/2026rules to see mainstream publications picking this very obviously true line up and running with it 41401363
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialCaelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026I do not take booktok seriously and I never will. What the fuck you mean the epilogue and prologue “aren’t part of the book/story”??????? 4085615927
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Everything that needs saying about this profoundly cruel and stupid state of affairs, said well. 129797
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 05/04/2026i blew some dust away, to reveal a hidden part of this graphic 15810
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialFrankie de la Cretaz @thefrankiedlc.news · 19/03/2026Kate Upton and Justin Verlander have one of the most stunning homes I’ve ever seen. I’m obsessed with it. I have no words for the design on this place, other than it’s one of the first celeb homes that I’ve seen & thought I’d want to live there. 1925128
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialJustin McElroy @thoughtographic.bsky.social · 17/03/2026PTA is a Zionist 316547
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialCressa Maeve Áine @beeragon.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Hi! I don't think Toho has a bsky so I'll post it - my first commissioned work for all the official Godzilla channels and I handmade everything that isn't a toy. Enjoy xo 15338911557
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialMichael DeForge @michaeldeforge.bsky.social · 20/03/2026feel like i think about this Stuart Hall sentence once a day 010819
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 20/03/2026the proliferation of bad-faith literary and film criticism designed not to analyze or seriously engage work but to find the first available handhold for moral outrage has had disastrous consequences for all involved 834251
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialkate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 11/02/2026as far as purely psychological analyses of the situation go this one seems pretty convincing to me 120949
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialGretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Jesus Christ this is amazing strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fi...strangehorizons.comBullet Time at the Kink PartyLeah is queer community. Leah is expanding and expansive. Leah wants to fall in love with everyone still alive in this room and beyond and be their bottom for a night, just one night, though she wo… 49225
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialJudah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2026This is a phenomenal explainer by @rajakorman.bsky.social of the obstacles for China to globalize the yuan, and what would need to change for it to do so. Highly recommend.ft.comWhat must happen for the world to stack RMBFor dollar wannabe renminbi, liability currency status > reserve currency status 11410
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialSean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 13/02/2026If a person says something like "The Enlightenment was a mistake" or "Freedom is incompatible with democracy" or some other reactionary magic spell, that person has established they should not be listened to by anyone. Such opinions should exclude them from polite society and the body politic. 68012
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Calling transphobia a 'gateway drug' to the far right undersells it. It's pure accelerant. Grimly fascinating to guess what crankery becomes any famous transphobe's secondary obsession, cos they all have one: 15 minute cities are fascism! Grok noncing is cool! ICE are good! We should kill all dogs! 8339751134
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialLuke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/01/2026"We are out there in every place they are, showing them that every person in this city is one of our own, that there is no such thing as other people’s children, that collectively we are not afraid of staring them in the eye," @erikhane.bsky.social writes from Minneapolis.welcometohellworld.comThere is no such thing as other people’s childrenIt is intolerable 61443424
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialHenry Snow @henrys.now · 28/01/2026For Commonweal, I wrote about the changing relationship between neoliberalism and Christianity-- from Mises's early 20th-century declaration that capitalism could not coexist with "a living Christianity" to the uneasy relationship MAGA has with both www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-ap...commonwealmagazine.orgChampions of ApathyCatholic teaching prioritizes people over markets. Neoliberals would rather change the Church than change the economy. 153
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 28/01/2026The fact that men can be so evil to other human beings will never not astound me. 113821
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialVictor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite. 9480362248
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialYell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 25/01/2026we are going to win and you can tell we are going to win from the simple fact that they are not even trying to besiege (at this level) more than one major American city at the same time and in every city they pull out of the population is more organized against them than it was when they arrived 222141
Reposted by @blindanchor.bsky.socialVicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Fun fact this photo that always goes around is from the absolutely baller film about the assassination called Operacion Ogro (79) and thats a miniature of the car being blasted over a scale model! This is an official Basque Space Program fan account 1506107
