Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsAFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 25/09/2026🚕 Rebellious Afghan taxi drivers defy ban on music Taxi drivers in Afghanistan are turning on the tunes in their cars, defying a ban imposed by the Taliban government despite the fear of getting caught by morality police. 0167
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Pampered Pooch Parlor Floresville, TX 71286312
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 09/09/2026He followed a self-imposed code of ethics when choosing targets. “They’re always very rich,” Mr. Godin told The New York Times in 1998. “We never attack inoffensive, harmless celebrities or people who are now in a weak position.”nytimes.comNoël Godin, Prankster Who Threw Pies at the Powerful, Dies at 80Splattering figures like Bill Gates, Jean-Luc Godard and Bernard-Henri Lévy, he perfected the art of using whipped cream as a form of protest. 000
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Printing a new book. This might be the first time I’ve used black for the interior of a book in a decade or more. #Risograph 010
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026I love seeing people of any age on a plane just amazed at looking out the plane window. Flying in 2026 is so demoralizing, but they can’t take the joy out of seeing the world below. #delayedflight #flying 010
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026I’m visiting family in Floyd. Va. My dad is driving me and my toddler around and giving us the local rural tour highlights: “This places has been sold to somebody different” “They put a fence here where they used to have a dumpster.” 010
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsSarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 30/07/2026If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office. 533934902
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/07/2026New: I spoke to Samuel Tunick, the man the U.S. is charging with allegedly wiping his GrapheneOS phone before CBP could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people against protecting their data and their privacy.” www.404media.co/the-governme...404media.co‘The Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His GrapheneOS PhoneThe U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to ... 9627260
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I feel like I should be worried. But maybe I’ll just ignore this. 010
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsLiving well @thebestrevenge.info · 09/07/2026I enjoy this reflector man. It makes me think about ad hoc innovation and simple satisfaction. Didn’t cost much, does its job, but also animates the pole in a small way. 061
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsCarolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 09/07/2026An artist became a private investigator and used her license to make art which launched an investigation, which is now being turned into a play. I write about the absurd and poignant work of Julia Weist — which explores the ways we are saturated in surveillance: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/t...nytimes.comShe Became a Private Eye for Her Art. Investigators Had Questions. 56216
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsJillian Steinhauer @jilnotjill.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Love to apply for one of the only emergency grants available to writers and be rejected, how great to know that my emergency does not qualify as an emergency by institutional standards 5112
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt Editionsamanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person. 19950031085
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Sad to here that @mikeldimmick.bsky.social passed away this week. Meeting him in my early twenties helped define my musical taste. He taught me that no matter the genre, the music just needs to be good. Here is an early album by him when it was still called the Mikel Dimmick Spiral Joy Band.spiraljoyband.bandcamp.comSearing Float, by Spiral Joy Band9 track album 000
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsMarc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Has anyone started a zine called "Material Support" yet?theguardian.com‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prisonAdvocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility 061
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026"He insisted his work wasn’t “far out” but “far in,” his lyrics evoking the natural world and drawing on legends and archetypes to populate the private universe his music inhabited."nytimes.comOverlooked No More: Robbie Basho, Guitar Mystic Who Sought Enlightenment in Sound 020
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 12/06/2026When ever I hear anyone mention David Hockney. 031
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsHildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼 200135503587
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsLuna Park @luna-park.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Please enjoy this writeup about my friend Anthony DelRosario’s passion for documenting hand-painted signs in New Orleans. @nolanacular.bsky.socialcountryroadsmagazine.comNOLA 'NacularAnthony DelRosario’s crusade to preserve New Orleans’s vernacular signage 041
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsMarc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 29/05/2026My first monthly roundup of good experimental music releases is up over at goodexperimentalmusic.com. If you liked my Bandcamp Daily column, you will hopefully like this too! It's free for anyone to read so pass it around if you'd like. Thanks! www.goodexperimentalmusic.com/good-experim...goodexperimentalmusic.comGood Experimental Music: May 2026Welcome to the first-ever monthly roundup of Good Experimental Music! I hope you'll like this one and stick around for more. This time around we have some head-clearing solo sax, improvisations on a p... 316965
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsMarc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Hey, I started a site/newsletter to continue the work of my recently-cancelled column. I features a monthly (free) rundown of good experimental releases, plus a bonus (paid-sub) post on a single release from the month. Check out goodexperimentalmusic.com and thanks to everyone who encouraged this! 12370147
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsAlex Elizabeth Byrne McMillan @undeniablyalex.bsky.social · 23/05/2026YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK 6085400916196
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsHyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 17/05/2026Austrian artist Valie Export, a powerfully provocative yet playful force in feminist art, died on May 14. Her performances and filmed media works reclaimed the female body through guerrilla modes of delivery that bypassed institutional restrictions.hyperallergic.comArtist Valie Export, Who Saw Right Through the Male Gaze, Dies at 85Her performances and filmed media works reclaimed the female body through guerrilla modes of delivery that bypassed institutional restrictions. 0199
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt Editionsworm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Good news: America's over 652974599
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Looking at you Florida: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...nytimes.comTexas Banned Rainbow Crosswalks. San Antonio Found a Workaround. 020
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Doing all the Twin Peaks fandom in the Northwest. 040
Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions @paulshortt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Excited to be in Seattle! If you are in Seattle come by Washington Hall this weekend. I will be tabling as Immature Editions. 000
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt Editionscolumbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 22/02/2026 10441123
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 30/04/2026DC, Maryland, Virginia 1732220310
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsThe puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard @rdaily.medsky.social · 13/04/2026Me: Onion rings and a bottle of wine for the table waiter: white or red? Me, trying to impress my date: whichever onion the chef prefers 934036353
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsMarc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Part 5: A lot of people live their lives as though a few missteps might one day cost them tenure, but the reality of the job market is that they may never get a tenure track job in their field, much less tenure itself. Do the fucking thing and live your life! Other forms of success can happen. 0141
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsMarc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 11/04/2026From an interview I did re. publishing/art organizing: I think a lot of people assume they won’t be taken seriously if they do something that isn’t at the invitation of an institution. But we create our own authority for our projects based on the level of seriousness that goes into them. 15416
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsKrisi 🏳️⚧️ @primaryradical.bsky.social · 09/04/2026David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago. 364289865205
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions404 Media @404media.co · 09/04/2026NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.404media.coFBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification DatabaseThe case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization. 15698363
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 09/04/2026This but Banksy (and I literally wrote the worst who-is-Banksy story) 171
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsKhashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Remember when USPS had a contract to buy a fleet of EVs and Trump made them cancel it and go back to gas? 8350321925
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt Editionsevy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 23/03/2026the judge was like “oh yeah! the first amendment” 536879
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Trump administration is shifting a $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio from Education to Treasury, a step in the direction of dismantling Ed and a (perhaps doomed) push to start collecting on overdue student debt. Big get from @liamknox.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comTrump Shifts Federal Student Loan Management From Education DepartmentThe Trump administration is transferring management of the $1.7 trillion federal student loan portfolio from the Department of Education to the Department of the Treasury, the most significant step ye... 143
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsQagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 15/03/2026We need to stop asking how much street width we can use for cars and start asking how much we can use for playgrounds. 620339
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 07/03/2026Cattle-ac Sidney, MT 419825
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I’m repeatedly struck by the fact that GenAI co’s have stolen zetabytes of copyrighted material, and the federal govt repeatedly defaces ©️ material through its vile memes — yet I had to waste three years, and potentially lose two yrs’ salary, bc a troll was mad I used a photo, w credit, in a class 49615
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsAlexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social · 07/03/2026I searched "architecture" in the linked report and among the "DEI" projects are restoring a Dutch colonial house, expanding the Metal Museum in Memphis, a SF walking tour, a book on Boston's Southwest Corridor ... 0143
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt Editions◥◤Kriston Capps 250 @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 02/03/2026The Indianapolis Museum of Art changed its name to Newfields and turned a whole floor of its building into an immersive room for digital video. A predictable fiasco and an example of a museum forgetting its mission to embarrassing effect. It's finally over www.artnews.com/art-news/new...artnews.comThe Lume, the Controversial Immersive Digital Art Gallery at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Closed at the End of FebruaryThe Lume, the immersive digital art gallery at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, closed at the end of February after five years. 1123
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 01/03/2026secretary hegseth to disclose which of our fallen warfighters were fatties 549557
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsRural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Linda's Whimseys Palouse, WA 226342
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsMattilda B Sycamore @mbsycamore.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Please confirm that you confirmed your appointment. Please confirm that you confirmed that you confirmed your appointment. Please confirm that you confirmed that you confirmed that you confirmed that you confirmed your appointment. 0141
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsMore Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23/02/2026This guy gets it. 447234905658
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt EditionsDorothy Snarker @dorothysnarker.bsky.social · 21/02/2026This is why I’ll never accept AI art. A whole industry just to recreate & reorder reality. Yet the beauty of human emotions don’t need enhancement. We’re doing it every day. Look at Alysa Liu's face. The JOY. Fuck off, AI. Credit to human photographers: Matthew Stockman/Getty & Christophe Ena/AP 4830197
Reposted by Paul Shortt | Shortt Editionscolumbo screenshots @columboscreens.bsky.social · 20/02/2026 019240