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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Today after abandoning a KLM shopping cart with a flight for Madrid inside, I was served an ad on Instagram for that same trip. Then, after talking with a friend about David Duchovny’s Fail Better podcast I got served this ad. Seriously sick of this shit.

Gillian Anderson in an ad for the an X-Files lego set. She is holding up pieces of legos with a forced smile that suggests she’s being held hostage.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Lydia Davis translation is superb.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Once again artist Shayna Schapp and I will be giving a workshop at Supermercator in Amsterdam—this time about using failure to your advantage as a creator. Join us! www.tickettailor.com/events/honin...

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Currently reading Techno Feudalism by @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social and really enjoying the structure: a beginner’s guide to capitalism in the front, a deep dive into everything wrong with today’s finance driven economy (led by tech industry bullying) at the back. Accessible, but full of insight.

A photo of the book cover of Techno Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Yaroufakis

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

May I find the joy this Christmas that the Temptations have on their Christmas album cover.

The Temptations celebrating Christmas joy in various forms, including giving a sick child, an aging white woman and children gifts.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Can’t sleep, so here I am again, reading this

A picture taken at four in the morning of Joy Williams’ debut novel, State of Grace, which features a painting of a woman with black hair lounging on a couch.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Cleaning out a leaking barn, so giving the bike a quick service before putting it into storage.

A grey Canyon Grizl bike on a stand, ready for cleaning and maintenance. Mainly, a bike flex.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Going to Cleveland tomorrow for the bucket hats alone. Might shave my beard into a mustache too. Fucking love trends.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Got my lux Japanese tent set up on lock. No flight summer 2026.

A beautiful Snow Peak Amenity Dome tent made for the camper who likes to drop too much money on aesthetics, like moi.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I just visited a pro basketball player’s house and this is how I look in his bathroom mirror.

Self portrait in a bathroom mirror at a pro basketball player’s houw. The mirror is hung so high you can only see my hat. I’m a Short King and no one can tell me otherwise.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

My boy Dilla, eating anything not tied down … including my sandals, my bike pump, highlighters, records, etc.

A beautiful, speckled street dog called Dilla, named after the artist known for Donuts.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I'm currently re-reading Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism and was struck by how this quote about Kurt Cobain so beautifully encapsulates art made with AI. Taking a wild swing (I didn't know the man) but I think Mark would have really hated Grok.

A text from Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher in which he says, quote: "Cobain found himself in 'a world in which stylistic innovation is no longer possible, [where] all that is left is to imitate dead styles, to speak through the masks and with the voices of the styles in the imaginary museum'. Here, even success means failure, since to succeed would only mean that you were the new meat on which the system could feed."

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 11/02/2024

The modern fact is that we no longer believe in this world. We do not even believe in the events which happen to us, love, death, as if they only half concerned us ... The link between man and the world is broken. —Gilles Deleuze

A picture of a young woman wearing the Apple Pro augmented reality glasses, which look themselves like a ski mask.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

Found a WWII fort in the forest near our rental in Terschelling. Can’t help but imagine being posted in a forest in winter, waiting out a long war.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 09/02/2024

In the car, on my way to Terschelling for a mini-holiday. It's a good day to uitwaaien (the Dutch tradition of walking in the wind).

James Franco is shirtless saying “Blow me away, my god!”

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

One thing I particularly like about my long commute back from #Limburg is the luxury of sitting on a train and working on hard copy #writing drafts with absolutely zero distractions.

A picture of a pen held before a manuscript entitled Sleeping on the Wing.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Pulling out Things Seen by #AnnieErnaux for my #Emerson students. Classes are just a week away and it's time to finalize the syllabus! Has anyone else read this book?

The gray cover of Things Seem by Annie Ernaux.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Read Good Old Neon last night for the first time in forever (since I'd given it to a student as an example of first-person obsessive rambling) and for all of DFWs faults, that meta-ending really devastates, especially when one is experiencing existential insomnia.

A photo of the gold green cover of David Foster Wallace’s Oblivion collection.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I see my bones in these buildings.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

The fantastic mushrooms of the Dutch Veluwe. I’m especially curious about the one that’s broken open and hollow inside. #mushrooms #veluwe

A cluster of white capped mushrooms with drooping caps.

A mushroom with a broken open cap and something mysterious inside.

A red capped mushroom with white, tactile dots.

Dirty grey mushrooms that could very well be mistaken sickly penises.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Learning some thelemic magick. Might be research for something.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Recently saw the Hilma af Klint exhibit in Den Haag and was really inspired by her work, as well as Mondriaan’s. Everyone in the Netherland’s should go see this exhibit of a brilliant pairing. www.kunstmuseum.nl/nl/tentoonst...

A circle with a bunch of esoteric writing on it.

Mondriaan painting of a red tree on a blue background.

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Daniel J. Cecil @danieljcecil.bsky.social · 13/10/2023

Reading this banger right now. Love the rambling tone.

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