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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

oh hey look! Many thanks to @hexliterary.bsky.social for giving these late-summer creatures a home

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

#SmallPoemSunday, Horse Eye Edition h/t @pounk.bsky.social, who brought this poem, from Aracelis Girmay’s GREEN OF ALL HEADS, to our reading group (cc: @dianalog.bsky.social, @kasylongauthor.bsky.social, @anitaholmes.bsky.social) this month @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

AWAKEN YOUR WILL
Many years from now, the birds screamed
To each other in the lessening night
And something shook me from the dream
Of horses. Before I could close,
One had run out into the dry, hushed bed
Of the river whose bank
We laid our sleeping bags beside
Following the teacher's printed map.
The horse made a sound,
His left eye shone purple
Against the flashlight light.
How close, its hooves.
Years from now, but it is
Calling to me
Like a so cket
Of sight:
Awaken your will
As when everyone was here.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

( it’s here. Yes, I have my whole Friday off for some proper #NMF listening. )

Black-and-white tuxedo cat reclines on a pink couch wearing oversized headphones, wired to a small audio player; split meme shows “00:01” beside Courtney Barnett’s Creature of Habit cover and “00:39” beside Snail Mail’s “Ricochet” cover.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

“Après le sable, Mermoz affronta la montagne, ces pics qui, dans le vent, lâchent leur écharpe de neige, ce pâlissement des choses avant l’orage, ces remous si durs qui, subis entre deux murailles de rocs, obligent le pilote à une sorte de lutte au couteau.” (1/2) 🏔️

Photo of the book Terre des Hommes by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (illustrated by Riad Sattouf). The cover shows a stylized stormy sea with rain, dark mountains, and a small red biplane. The book is photographed under a warm ceiling lamp, and a bookmark featuring a photo of François Truffaut peeks out from the top.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"Artax, please ! You're letting the sadness of the evil grey house get to you ! Artaaaaax !" (I'm sorry.)

Large white mansion with columns and a detached triple garage; in the foreground, Artax from The NeverEnding Story emerges from the pavement while Atreyu, partially submerged in the ground, pulls on a rope attached to him.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Went to pick up some records and there was a mixup. So I reckon there's probs a metalhead out there that got a boygenius EP instead of the Ltd Color Edition LP of this 80s Trash Metal band they expected.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Joy is not a distraction from the art. It’s part of it.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

My mental health until March 27 is being held together by the fact that the new Snail Mail album drops the same day as the Courtney Barnett album. hanging by a thread but it’s a very indie thread. Lil LJ is back, let’s go. youtu.be/AgCTkQdArwk?...

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Snail Mail - "Dead End"

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

<-This user is (very predictably) very hyped for the new CB album & revisiting the classics. The city takes pity on your injured soul And heavenly prose ain't enough good to fill that hole Everyone's soaked in animosity It's vicious in winter, you never say what you mean.🎶 youtu.be/jIVD6sF9qVM?...

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Courtney Barnett - City Looks Pretty (Live from Piedmont Park)

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Every Monday is like 5 people saying: “Here’s a new problem I caused by not listening to you or forgot to mention until the last minute. You're so nice & competent: fix it for free, rn, please. I’m also still not helping w/ last week’s problem, won’t give inputs, or take responsibility. Thks, bye.”

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

New Ratboys single has been this week’s companion track, for obvious reasons. February’s release slate is shaping up nicely. Live in the world, so madly. #NowPlaying The World, So Madly from Singin’ to an Empty Chair (2026) by Ratboys ratboys.bandcamp.com/track/the-wo...

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The World, So Madly, by Ratboys

from the album Singin’ to an Empty Chair

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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

This photo was taken in 1911 using glass plate technology by Herbert Ponting who was part of Scott's Antarctic expedition, The composition and detail are exquisite with the band of white snow/ice creating a perfect frame around the two people and the ship in the distance Iconic imo

Photograph from 1911 taken by Herbert Ponting whilst with Scott's Antarctic Expedition

The monochrome photo is taken from within a cave. The walls of the cave are made of ice. The cave entrance is in the mid distance with two figures standing looking out towards a distant ship. Between them and the ship there is first a 'beach' of ice before the sea itself. The ship could be up to 800 metres away

What makes the photo so special is that where the figures are at the cave entrance there is a band of very white snow and ice (contrasting with the comparatively dark inside of the cave) that creates a stark framework in which the men and the ship are captured. It is made even more dramatic by the fact that the cave entrance is at least 30 metres high and is in the shape of a distorted elipse with the tail sloping off to the right at the top of the elipse

The photo being in monochrome in a largely white environment makes the photographers skill all the more laudable

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Lowkey adding this to my pull list.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Reading Borges : 2 years ago. Appreciating Bagels (and Beigels) : Always.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Sure love starting the year with a new Youth Avoiders album. youthavoiders.bandcamp.com/album/defiance

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Defiance, by Youth Avoiders

10 track album

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Such a delicious streak of satisfying movies so far in 2026, kinda scared to make a next pick and break it in the most tragic way. Animation : ✔️ Documentary : ✔️ Shorts : ✔️ Anti-colonialist : ✔️ Anti-imperialist : ✔️ Anti-war : ✔️ Anti-fascist : ✔️ Anti-capitalist : ✔️ Kaiju : ✔️ Cat : 🐱

Calendar-style film list for January 2026 showing titles and years: Walker (1987); Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet (1921); Porco Rosso (1992); Welfare (1975); Cat Listening to Music (1988); Bye Bye Tiberias (2023); Valparaiso (1963).

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Mornin’ and Merry (belated) Xmas (to me).📚

Red graffiti on a weathered concrete wall reading ‘Sous le sapin la rage’ (‘Under the Christmas tree, the rage’)

Overhead view of 4 French language books : Lieux by Georges Perec, La Paris de Perec, Terre des Hommes by Antoine De Saint-Exupéry (illustrated by Riad Sattouf) and À mes Frères by Louise Michel.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Well, duh. “The lure of honey water draws you from my arms so needy You follow in colonies to sip it from the bank In rapturous sweet temptation, you wade in past the edge and sink in Insatiable for a nectar, drinking 'til your heart expires” 😚🎶

Last.fm Playback graphic showing a person with long black hair and bangs wearing a coral shirt and black tie; text reads ‘Your favourite artist this year was Japanese Breakfast. 836 scrobbles, top 0.14% of fans worldwide.’

Last.fm Playback screen featuring the album art for For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) by Japanese Breakfast, dark green background with handwritten title above a banquet table and a person slumped forward; text notes it was the favourite album with 532 scrobbles, top 0.19% of fans worldwide.

Cozy, warmly lit listening setup with a turntable playing a Japanese Breakfast record, two bookshelf speakers, vinyl sleeves and books, and a wall of posters including ‘Never Trust a Tory’ and Lemuria album art.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Oh, to work between Xmas and NYE : no meetings, finally getting things done that have been on the To Do for weeks, uninterrupted soundtrack flowing through the headphones and the peaceful sipping of coffee.

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

“And then, they missed the abstract submission deadline”, said Frog in a scary voice. “Gasp!” gasped Toad.

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Sebastián Píriz @sebastianpiriz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

My covers for Dynamite's Terminator: Metal, kind of tell a story

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Now, I’ve never read The Hunger Games, only seen the movies, I get it. However Georges Perec’s ‘W or The Memory of Childhood’ is one of my favorite books and that’s also a little bit on the nose.

The multiplicity of these Laws, their detail, and the great number and variety of the opportunities thus created, could lead one to believe that it really takes very little for an Athlete to become an Official, as if the Laws of W, by asserting the wish to reward high sporting achievement as well as steady service and just good luck, wanted to give the impression that Athletes and Officials belonged to the same Race, to the same world; as if they were all one family united by a single goal, the greater glory of Sport alone; as if there were nothing that really separated them: the contestants compete and redouble their efforts on the cinders; thronging the stands, on their feet, the crowd of their comrades cheers them on or boos them down; the Officials sit in the Stalls, and the same spirit moves them, the same combat thrills them, the same flame burns in them!

But we know the world of W well enough to grasp that its most lenient Laws are but the expression of a greater and more savage irony. The apparent leniency of the rules governing promotion to official positions always comes up against the whimsicality of the Hierarchy: what a Timekeeper proposes, a Referee may refuse; what a Referee promises, a Judge may forbid; what a Judge proposes, a Manager disposes; what one Manager grants, another may disallow. High Officials have all the power; they can sanction, just as they can veto; they can uphold the choice of fate, or choose a different fatality, at random; they make the decisions, and they can change them at any time.

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Antifa International @antifaintl.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

What happened, in the end, to the 44 people arrested for the "crime" of preventing their friends & neighbours from being kidnapped and held against their will in a prison barge, for the "crime" of being refugees: intlantifadefence.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/t... #refugeeswelcome, #nooneisillegal

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The Peckham Defenders Vs. the British State Scorecard

May 2024: The good people of Peckham surround a bus intended to use to kidnap their friends and neighbours, who were to be hauled off to a prison barge. Before we get into this story, we wanted to …

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 17/12/2025

while i am not an academic i did see this coming and post about it on bluesky, which is why i am quoted in this article

Moser tells Rolling Stone that to even claim LLMs "hallucinate" fictional publications misunderstands the threat they pose to our comprehension of the world, because the term "implies that it's different from the normal, correct perception of reality" But the chatbots are "always hallucinating," he says. "It's not a malfunction.
A predictive model predicts some text, and maybe it's accurate, maybe it isn't, but the process is the same either way. To put it another way: LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth."

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jeeyon shim 심지연 @jeeyon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

If the last 15 years of the tightening chokeholds on society and culture from the tech sector and the American conservative animus have taught us anything, it’s that it’s healthy to be extremely skeptical of anyone calling the humanities “low utility” or similar

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Smthing that's been grating on me *big time* lately: "I listened to these 10 albums so you don’t have to" is less a hook than ever and is starting to feel very literal, almost reading as an instruction: "Consume someone else’s pre-chewed takeaway, not the work. Your time is better spent elsewhere."

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Getting double-vaxxed in a single pharmacy morning visit: Pro: two needles, one feat, no birds harmed. Con: I’m longing for a third side to sleep on.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It's out and it's a full album. Oh boy... 😭🙏💛

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

The Crutchfield sisters are premiering a track for a new(?) project/band on Friday and, yes, the forecast shows a 100% chance of happy tears being shed.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

So fun. Need to give the original audio (in German) a try. Could talk about Perec like a nerd for hours. What’s new, really ?

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I’ve gathered my data— You’re my favorite subject of study too. 🌹🤓

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

It’s unsurprising but a little funny to open the comment section under a vid of the NYC Mayoral Debate & see « Mamdani is a socialist » as an insult for supposedly being a radical leftist, when rn, in France, we use « socialist » as an insult for someone who’s (somewhat) « unusually » leaning right.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Afterwork treats : fancy olive oil and some new (old) Perec. La Machine (1968, new FR translation 2025) : previously unpublished play about a machine that decrypts poetry by using a Goethe poem. Not pictured: the olive oil.

Cover of La Machine by Georges Perec, showing a pink-tinted portrait of the author and bold blue and pink typography. The book notes it’s an unpublished play co-written with Eugen Helmle about a machine that decrypts poetry.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I focused this, far too long, thread primarily on policy and tried, as much as possible, to keep personal views limited. Here's what really pisses me off though, at least Conservatives and Reform are honest about who they target with anti-immigration bs, Labour still pretends to be "progressive" 1/5

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 04/10/2025

The Battle of Cable Street. A thread 🧵 with pictures and ALT text. 1/ On this day in 1936, the East End of London rose up against fascism. The Battle of Cable Street. #TheyShallNotPass #NoPasaran

A packed East End street in 1936: thousands of anti-fascist residents filling the road and pavements, shopfronts behind them.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Happy #BandcampFriday! ✨ Songs of Hope for Gaza is a compilation uniting artists in solidarity with Palestine. 100% of proceeds go to ANERA, supporting humanitarian aid + emergency relief in Gaza & beyond. 👉 prettypurgatory.bandcamp.com/album/songs-...

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Songs of Hope for Gaza, by Pretty Purgatory

33 track album

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Did someone say « dog ear » ?

Comic strip of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. Panel 1: Charlie Brown holds a book, shouting, “A bookmark! A bookmark! I NEED A BOOKMARK!!” Panel 2: He walks, asking, “Has anyone got a bookmark?” Panel 3: Snoopy looks at Charlie with a question mark over his head. Panel 4: Snoopy sits by a table with the book on it, with an exclamation mark above his head : his ear is stuck between the pages.

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I’m probably one of the least likely people to ever get radicalized on YouTube*, this is literally what my algorithm looks like every day. (*unless the cats are secretly recruiting and I’m already too far gone.)

YouTube video thumbnail of an orange-and-white cat squinting in the sunlight, with the title “I hope you find what you’re looking for” by GAKHED. 74 views, posted 6 days ago.

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dr. hazel 🕯️ @hazelmonforton.com · 22/09/2025

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

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Kate Beall @katebbeall.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Here are the books my beloved RIS reading group (@dianalog.bsky.social @kasylongauthor.bsky.social @pounk.bsky.social @anitaholmes.bsky.social & E.F.) has read in the past year, with Dickinson always in our ears.

Emily Dickinson presides over a grid of book covers, “Read It Slant” YEAR ONE:

Modern Poetry, Diane Seuss
Good Monster, Diannely Antigua
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, Ross Gay
Urban History Month, Scott Woods
Ghost::Seeds, Sebastian Merrill
Scattered Snows, to the North, Carl Phillips
One with Others, CD Wright
The Tradition, Jericho Brown
So to Speak, Terrance Hayes

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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

One of a few new favorites that surfaced for me at this year’s Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon during the Tell It Slant Poetry Festival. 👁️🌌✨ (F.839/J.972)

Unfulfilled to Observation—
Incomplete—to Eye—
But to Faith—a Revolution
In Locality—

Unto Us—the Suns extinguish—
To our Opposite—
New Horizons—they embellish—
Fronting Us—with Night.

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Cian Dikker (he/him) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @ciandikker.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Love the idea of arts news but presented with the tone, cadence, and inflection of sports coverage.

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

he's got more of a comment than a question, really

an orange and white cat looks up comically

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

In just under 9 months, Trump’s 2nd term has racked up 230 nationalist actions - 75% occurring in the past 3 months. From executive orders to mass detentions & political violence, the darkness is spreading. Can we hold the line? My latest Substack ⬇️ christinapagel.substack.com/p/nationalis...

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Nationalism on the March

A campaign of coercion and violence in the US is escalating. Plus British leader reactions to the far right rally held this weekend in London.

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