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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"No future left to lose." — Ray Brassier, philosopher, living under threat of Israeli drones in Beirut as I write these words. #OCTOBER7 #GENOCIDE #ISRAEL #RAYBRASSIER

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Mind Cleanse for Summer's End. Edward Gorey, Cape Cod, July 1961. In my Gorey bio Born to Be Posthumous, I note that he began summering on the Cape in the 50's, "having great fun observing Old New England in the person of my fantastically typical relatives." Photo (c) Ken Morton. #EDWARDGOREY #GOREY

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see." - John Lennon, "Working Class Hero" (1970) Happy Labor Day, comrades. Class War Now! #LABORDAY #WORKERSOFTHEWORLD #WORKINGCLASS

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

New post on my Insta channel, markderywritingcoach: www.instagram.com/p/Dc6GlwiEfC... #PAULWILLIAMS #PHANTOMOFTHEPARADISE #WRITING #WRITERS #WRITINGCOACH

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Exploring Sir John Soane's Museum, London, is like walking around in his head. Full up to the rafters with Greek, Roman, and Egyptian antiquities; works by Hogarth, Turner, Fuseli, and Piranesi; and Soane's collection of some 30,000 architectural drawings, it's a cabinet of wonders. #SOANEMUSEUM

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Angela Su, "Wicked Wiccan Wicker Wish" (2019), ink on drafting film. "New Humans" show at the New Museum, NYC, 2026. Fascinating work, irritating wall text. The curatorial class really does need to jackhammer the baroque bric-a-brac of artspeak off its prose. #ANGELASU #NEWMUSEUM

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

When will we get the movie version of Amos Tutuola's _My Life in the Bush of Ghosts_, written and directed by Jordan Peele, with visual aesthetics and mise-en-scène by Pol Taburet? #POLTABURET #BLACKGOTHIC

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Écorché man and horse, Royal Academy of Arts, London. #RoyalAcademyofArts #London #Anatomy

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Seen in NYC: Speed-dating for socially isolated Heideggerians (who eschew online matchmaking because technology reduces our social worlds to a "standing reserve").

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Irrefutable proof, at long last, that we're all descended from Charles Bukowski. (aeon.co/videos/the-s...)

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I *knew* the nightmare-carnivalesque mundus inversus ("world turned upside down") of the Trumpocene seemed weirdly familiar! #BizzaroWorld #Trumpocene #Trumpworld

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

American Hero. This 4th, resist MAGA's fascist Idiocracy and its assault on democracy, decency, and humanity however you can, wherever you can. #fourthofjuly #July4 #JasonWatson #MajorJasonWatson

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

JAPANESE DEATH POEMS, Yoel Hoffman’s collection of _jisei_, or death poems, “written by Zen monks and haiku poets on the verge of death,” is strangely consoling, even amusing. “Bury me when I die/ beneath a wine barrel/ in a tavern. With luck/ the cask will leak.” Mindfulness for the morbid.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

"To resist Zionism is to resist racism, colonialism, imperialism; to resist the wars endlessly fought in its name. This book is my attempt to help rescue the moral and intellectual legacy of the Jewish people from those who, acting in our name, have inflicted so much suffering on the world."

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Ray Brassier, in an interview with Marcin Rychter (cengizerdem.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/r...).

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Hipster Trucker Hat reborn as a lid for Millennial mandarins in Manhattan's Lilliput of Letters.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I've launched an Insta channel for my writing coach/developmental editor business. (www.instagram.com/markderywrit...) Once a week, maybe more, I'll post about the Spooky Art of writing, drawing on my deep knowledge of craft. Here's hoping you'll follow, comment, spread the word. #writingcommunity

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

One-percenters: The Wretched of the Earth. Bezos's WaPo feels your pain.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

This Memorial Day, mourn the millions who died in senseless wars, serving the agenda of American empire and its chickenhawk elite. Celebrate the righteous, too: anti-fascists who reduced Hitler's Reich to rubble. May they rest in power--and inspire us to hand today's Nazis their heads. #MEMORIALDAY

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

All You Need to Know About Class Struggle. (Pyramid of Capitalist System, issued by Nedeljkovich, Brashich, and Kuharich, and published by The International Pub. Co., 1911. H/T @publicdomainrev.bsky.social) #capitalism #latestagecapitalism #ClassStruggle #ClassWar

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Seriously hating on Google's redesign of its "Advanced Search" page. Why eliminate "any of these words" field? Why flush left instead of centered, so I have to go fullscreen (oh, right, b/c everything must be optimized for postage stamp-sized phone screens). IF IT ISN'T BROKEN, LET'S BREAK IT!

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This Fucking Guy. He's shocked--shocked!--that "Trump has undermined the country’s institutions to a greater extent than he had ever anticipated." He's been "selective in his political activity" even as American democracy smolders in a burn pit and concentration camps are a growth industry. #OBAMA

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Peter Neumeyer, Edward Gorey’s collaborator on 3 unbeatably weird children’s books—died on April 2 at the age of 96. Getting to know Peter to the point where I felt entitled to call him friend was, to this Gorey biographer, a thrill that never grew old. He was luminous. Foto: EG and Peter, Cape Cod.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The Internet Asks Me Things.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

He is Risen. (Be afraid. Be very afraid.)

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Wag the Dog: The U.S. is a client state of Israel.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Meta bares its Manus for all the world to see; locker-room vulgarians of the Beevis and Butt-Head persuasion rejoice.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

WWKD? (What Would Kant Do?)

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

“Death lurks in our every living motion. Dead we’re born, dead we live, and already dead we enter death. Composed of cells living off their disintegration, we’re made of death.” (Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet) #Mementomori #Vanitas #Death

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Opinion: Why the Middlebrow Corporate Media Commentariat Is The Kudzu Of The Mind And Should Be Eradicated And Replaced By Young, Radical Voices Unwilling to Drop And Blow Oligarchs.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

The Decline of Western Civilization. What's next? A tuxedo sweatsuit that pairs well with Uggs? A mankini suitable for open-casket viewing? A Depend Undergarment for the Mind?

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Hey, whatever happened to Venezuela? How's that hope-y, regime-change-y thing working out?

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Courtesy "Women Hold Up Half the Sky" (FB), by way of @feralclass on Insta.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Another burnt offering to the Blind Idiot God of Irony. Feb 16: Epstein bombshell alleging DoJ is covering up victim's allegation that Trump sexually abused and hit her as a teen. Feb 28: 148 schoolchildren bombed to death in Iran and the Middle East a firestorm of horror (with help from MBS, Bibi)

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The trouble with clerics is their altar egos. ("Our colleague Benjamin Péret in the act of insulting a priest." From La Révolution surréaliste, No. 8, December 1926.)

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

A suitably lugubrious Happy Birthday to Edward Gorey (1922-2000)--unchallenged master of Disquieting Nonsense, the Ironic Gothic, Existentialist Dada--on what would have been his 101st. Never forget the Importance of Being Edwardian; *he* never did. #edwardgorey #gorey #borntobeposthumous #markdery

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

What fresh Zionist Hell is this?! As a devotee of horror *as* philosophy & philosophy *as* horror (©Eugene Thacker), I tell myself horror stories in order to live. Which is why I avoid brain-dead franchises like _WWZ_. So maybe context is a corrective but this looks like straight-up IDF propaganda.

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

ICE Out! Maybe they'll get the message in German. #AbolishICE #minnesota #fascism #antifascist

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Mark Dery @markdery.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

A paper gutted, Book World shuttered, my marvelous editor out of a job, my assignments in the pipeline vaporized--to maximize a billionaire's profit margin. How I loathe this tech-bro parasite and the capitalist pestilence he embodies. #Bezos #WashingtonPost

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