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@jpb.bsky.social
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Novelist (RELENTLESS MELT out now from Melville House) // likes books, colors, shapes, noise // takes notes, makes zines // aging gracefully // to be found in the Greater Boston/Chicago metro region

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 2h
4K restoration of BEGOTTEN
bloody-disgusting.com
Disturbing Experimental Horror 'Begotten' Gets 4K Restoration Theatrical Release
It's one hell of a year for experimental, shocking religious horror. It's not just Ken Russell's The Devils receiving a theatrical 4K restoration release
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 10h
My yearly October horror run is starting early, with Zach Cregger's take on RESIDENT EVIL. Review:
letterboxd.com
A ★★★★ review of Resident Evil (2026)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Within cells interlinked
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
new MV Carbon alert! track for cello, gong, and handmade instruments soundcloud.com/mvcarbon-1/t...
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Storm Takes a Toll
Along with amplified cello and gong, this track features three handmade instruments. The image to the right shows one of the instruments used in this composition. Named “The Toll,” it is made of cast
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PRIMETIME is in theaters now, and it looks like lurid fun, but one might ask for a more serious reckoning with the moral dilemmas at the core of the story. So this leads us to the documentary PREDATORS (2025), which wades bravely into this exact quagmire, but then can't quite find its way back out
boxd.it
A ★★★ review of Predators (2025)
This review may contain spoilers. Visit the page to bypass this warning and read the review.
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Poochyena Mother Elpis @elpisthefur.pmd.social · 28/07/2026
I love when meaning transcends language like this
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
really nice rainy Sunday listening benvida.bandcamp.com/album/oblivi...
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Oblivion Seekers, by Ben Vida
4 track album
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Huge anti-ICE pasteup memorial in Minneapolis for those killed by ICE in the past year. The pasteup is in the Whittier neighborhood, on the same block as Alex Pretti's memorial.
Huge anti-ICE pasteup memorial for those killed by ICE in the past year.
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
small one has her weekly ukulele lesson: you heard there are new poetry titles by Brenda Hillman and Rae Armantrout, yes? // @weslpress.bsky.social
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
1500 miles running app total
screenshot from running app--1500 miles, 927 runs
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alternatively, you could use WordArt

I'm not even joking!
This is literally cooler, aesthetics be like that

AI art is so rancid it caused a cultural inversion
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Burning Ambulance @burningambulance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
NEW MUSIC! The latest releases from Burning Ambulance Music - Wadada Leo Smith's CONSTELLATIONS AND HEMISPHERES and Michael Sarian's IN THIS DESERT - are out today!
Wadada Leo Smith - Constellations And HemispheresMichael Sarian - In This DesertWadada Leo SmithMichael Sarian (green jacket) & Esquina
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
📚 35. WORLD OF INTERIORS by Aurelia Gao. "I try to locate my family in twentieth-century history." Human movement, slavery and tourism, segregation and class structures, fantasy life and retail, the "racial dynamics of flatshares," slivers of other people's books, glimpses and fragments~
WORLD OF INTERIORS by Aurelia Gao
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
recent collage
an ornament, a burst of energy, a tuxedo'd fat cat // "are very difficult / you're dealing with"
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kel 🩸 @viewtoakel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
us(e)
collage of shapes and flowers using magazines, tissue paper, fabric paper and graphite... in shades of black, white, rust, green and brown. a scrap with the word "use" with most of the e missing.
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 16/01/2019
Televisions in empty settings, MONEYBALL (2011, Bennett Miller, dir.)
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
recent collage
an ornament, a burst of energy, a tuxedo'd fat cat // "are very difficult / you're dealing with"
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I read every Jim O'Rourke interview I see and it's always worth my time
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will jobst @willjobst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
if you make a good creature design it is my opinion that you should be rewarded and anointed and want for nothing. our celebrities should be the creature designers. you understand something fundamental and reveal it. through creatures
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 15/10/2025
WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you
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Tyler @electriceden92.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As there is a new cat, so is there a new mouse. The cycle is unbroken
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Terrific label, great body of releases, and the thread is worth browsing for the album art alone (respectful nod to label co-founder @iza3800.bsky.social)
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
recent collage
tower of bright colors // "the red-purple is the showiest" reads one clip, another just says NEED
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Iñárittu's new one, DIGGER, looks viscerally unpleasant and is probably gonna get a hard pass from me, but it does remind me fondly of my flatlined attempts to get BARDO discourse happening. Below post has no likes, no replies:
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Jimmy Two Hands (summerjimbo era) @jimmytwohands.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Someone made this event 10 years ago and it’s fast approaching and while I said I was going as a joke way back when, I think this is very important and I will be there with any priestly amulets that are needed to make this come true
Facebook event

Friday, January 1, 2027 at 12 AM - 3PM
Open the Cloud Gate and Summon Anubis to Smite the Unworthy
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Gwen Marshall @drgwenmarshall.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Onion ran this amazing article and thought, I wanna play this! So I made it! 38 pps, PbtA, plus every mechanic mentioned in the article, and a bunch of Rodrigo song references. And it's free! Enjoy! #OliviaRodrigo @theonion.com #theonion #ttrpg #itch.io drgwenmarshall.itch.io/high-winter-...
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High Winter Elves of Girlville by Gwen Marshall
A satirical game based on an Onion article about Olivia Rodrigo making a TTRPG!
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
a new Martin McDonagh film is about to drop, so I caught up with THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
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A ★★★½ review of The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
If you knew that Colin Farrell's great superpower is that he can make the best "sad puppy" face any actor has ever made, I can see why you might choose to make a film that gives him an extensive set o...
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Saturday morning listening (while reviewing student research proposals)
lobbyartrecs.bandcamp.com
Thinking Music (For Just Intonation Rhodes Piano), by Ka Baird
4 track album
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Poets trying to avoid metaphors
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 18/09/2026
A version of the "Aella's birthday gangbang" Sankey diagram but it's about Bluesky posters thinking about posting Sankey diagram jokes, leading from "thought about Sankey diagram joke" through various iterations of workshopping and writing the joke (with various dead ends due to forgetting about it, losing interest, etc). Eventually at the end the joke is finally posted; some posters do numbers with it, some don't, some came in a fluffer
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well now I kinda want to write this screenplay
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
LINDA LINDA LINDA (2005) shows what it's like to be part of a scrappy little band going through a period where you kinda suck. pair it with METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER (2004), which shows what it's like to be part of the biggest heavy band of all time, going through a period where you kinda suck
letterboxd.com
A ★★★★ review of Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
These are the woes: your band sucks (see also: Linda Linda Linda), your old friends are gone, your other old friends are assholes, you're drinking too much, your projects are half-finished, your comfo...
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
just remembered this one too
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
the vibe I give off as a teacher
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 18/09/2026
Ok Massachusetts friends, we need to organize heavy pressure on Boston Dynamics to drop their contract to sell robot dogs to ICE. This is fucking unacceptable www.wbur.org/news/2026/08...
wbur.org
ICE plans to buy robot dogs made in Mass.
The Trump administration plans to purchase robot dogs made by a Massachusetts company for its immigration enforcement operations. ICE wants to spend up to $2 million on the robots known as "Spot" — a ...
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
📚 34. COCAINE NIGHTS by J. G. Ballard. Answers the question of "what if Ballard borrowed from mystery novels instead of sci-fi pulp." Begins traditionally—five people are dead in a fire! anyone in this resort town could be a suspect!—before it wanders off on some typically Ballardian perambulations
COCAINE NIGHTS by J. G. Ballard
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the long game
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evil baby ✨🔵 @dumb.baby · 12/09/2026
anyone who is concerned about fairness in sports should start with a free lunch program, then breakfast and dinner + summer meals for every kid in the country (healthy, tasty, accessible) after tackling that, you'll need to provide transportation to and from practice and events
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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Since Harris is trying to regain prominence again.
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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I feel it’s crazy that nobody outside of trans people and REALLY invested allies seems to know that the internal trans refugee crisis is one of the biggest internal refugee migrations the United States has ever experienced.
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kel 🩸 @viewtoakel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
chaos collector
handcut paper collage using magazine pages, pencil, graphite, mounted on natural cardstock printed with acrylic pants
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"a point about the devil we fear, vs the one we face" --from Tim Maly, written well over a decade ago and people still haven't gotten their minds around this
quietbabylon.com
The Singularity Already Happened; We Got Corporations — Quiet Babylon
One of my favourite recurring tropes of AI speculation/singulatarian deep time thinking is mediations on how an evil AI or similar might destroy us. Here's a recent example, Ross Anderson on human e...
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
BAD LIEUTENANT has been playing the long game: gradually shifting into an anthology franchise for gleefully disreputable auteurs
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'd go
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"did Amnesty International call me out as anti-rights" is a notable one here too
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
HOPE is a lot of Movie: by turns thrilling, funny, gross, and weird. It packs its 157-minute run-time with everything from ponderous alien melodrama to scatological human digression, but whether everything truly fits is a matter of debate
letterboxd.com
A ★★★½ review of Hope (2026)
If you've seen the trailers, you know at least kinda what to expect here: two big human-vs-monster setpieces, one fought in a semi-depopulated urban area, and one fought out in the woods. These are sa...
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
recent collage
tower of bright colors // "the red-purple is the showiest" reads one clip, another just says NEED
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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
HOPE is a lot of Movie: by turns thrilling, funny, gross, and weird. It packs its 157-minute run-time with everything from ponderous alien melodrama to scatological human digression, but whether everything truly fits is a matter of debate
letterboxd.com
A ★★★½ review of Hope (2026)
If you've seen the trailers, you know at least kinda what to expect here: two big human-vs-monster setpieces, one fought in a semi-depopulated urban area, and one fought out in the woods. These are sa...
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