Agri Ismaïl
@agri.bsky.social
I am complicit in this festival of horrors // wrote a book called Hyper
Jfc can you CHILL OUT
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Jfc can you CHILL OUT
you mean i don't have to pay *and* I don't get bombarded with "new AI features and content"? What more could I want?
January 14, 2026 at 8:35 AM
you mean i don't have to pay *and* I don't get bombarded with "new AI features and content"? What more could I want?
BREAKING: everything. Everything is breaking.
January 14, 2026 at 6:45 AM
BREAKING: everything. Everything is breaking.
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🎉HYPER by Agri Ismaïl is out today!🎉 👉👉A hypermodern family saga: Dubai luxury malls, algorithms, corded radios, and desperate efforts to locate meaning and identify within the numb isolation of modern immigrant life. A stunning debut by @agri.bsky.social 👈👈
January 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
🎉HYPER by Agri Ismaïl is out today!🎉 👉👉A hypermodern family saga: Dubai luxury malls, algorithms, corded radios, and desperate efforts to locate meaning and identify within the numb isolation of modern immigrant life. A stunning debut by @agri.bsky.social 👈👈
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Läs.
LAVAN MOHAMMADI: Sverige utvisar mig till en säker död i Iran
Vad hände med det Sverige som stod upp för mänskliga rättigheter, för press- och yttrandefrihet? Utvisningshotade journalisten Lavan Mohammadi vädjar till Migrationsverket att få slippa dö för sina ås...
www.expressen.se
January 13, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Läs.
Yup! It’s confirmed. www.thesun.ie/tv/15471135/... (sorry for link to wretched rag)
Future of groundbreaking documentary series 70 Up confirmed after creator dies
GROUNDBREAKING documentary series Up will be back for its next chapter – 70 Up – after its creator Michael Apted died in 2021. The films followed the lives of a group of average British…
www.thesun.ie
January 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Yup! It’s confirmed. www.thesun.ie/tv/15471135/... (sorry for link to wretched rag)
The Minneapolis videos reminded me of how Blackwater used to operate in Iraq, the same brazen disregard for human life, a similar sense of judicial impunity. And yup sure enough, Foucault’s boomerang is in full swing: theintercept.com/2026/01/03/b...
Blackwater Successor Hunts Immigrants for ICE
Constellis Holdings, which traces its roots to Erik Prince’s mercenary firm Blackwater, landed an ICE contract as a bounty hunter.
theintercept.com
January 10, 2026 at 10:17 PM
The Minneapolis videos reminded me of how Blackwater used to operate in Iraq, the same brazen disregard for human life, a similar sense of judicial impunity. And yup sure enough, Foucault’s boomerang is in full swing: theintercept.com/2026/01/03/b...
I just realised that we’re due another movie in the Up series this year, thank the lord finally something to look forward to
January 10, 2026 at 10:08 PM
I just realised that we’re due another movie in the Up series this year, thank the lord finally something to look forward to
He’s four and still cannot read, he’s well into numbers though
January 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
He’s four and still cannot read, he’s well into numbers though
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An excerpt from HYPER in today's LitHub Daily Fiction. Out next week! 💶💶💶
lithub.com/hyper/ @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
lithub.com/hyper/ @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
Hyper
A salesman’s hand stretched out towards the prospective buyer, cupped into a universal signifier. His fingers flexed slightly towards the palm, in case Rafiq Hardi Kermanj, the potential future owner …
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
An excerpt from HYPER in today's LitHub Daily Fiction. Out next week! 💶💶💶
lithub.com/hyper/ @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
lithub.com/hyper/ @lithub.com.web.brid.gy
My kid just asked ”what does everything mean”
Kid I don’t fucking know we’re just trying to get through the day here
Kid I don’t fucking know we’re just trying to get through the day here
January 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
My kid just asked ”what does everything mean”
Kid I don’t fucking know we’re just trying to get through the day here
Kid I don’t fucking know we’re just trying to get through the day here
Slaughtered Lynx is a pretty good name for a Finnish death metal band tbh
January 1, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Slaughtered Lynx is a pretty good name for a Finnish death metal band tbh
if he knew how to use generative AI he would be putting prompts in like boom boom world is ending to prove his point
December 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
if he knew how to use generative AI he would be putting prompts in like boom boom world is ending to prove his point
it's that time of year again when my dog, already a neurotic bundle of nerves, is stressed out of his mind because he thinks we are now in a war zone when, in fact, the neighbor's kids are just setting off firecrackers a bit early
December 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
it's that time of year again when my dog, already a neurotic bundle of nerves, is stressed out of his mind because he thinks we are now in a war zone when, in fact, the neighbor's kids are just setting off firecrackers a bit early
Everyone with their best songs of the year and I haven’t seen a single one of you single out a French song about polyamory the chorus of which goes, I swear to god, “vroum-vroum j’suis une polly pocket”
December 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Everyone with their best songs of the year and I haven’t seen a single one of you single out a French song about polyamory the chorus of which goes, I swear to god, “vroum-vroum j’suis une polly pocket”
Aw dang Bardot is dead – every year that batty bint would post some virulently Islamophobic shit just before Eid, I’ve basically lost my most accurate Eid calendar 😢
December 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Aw dang Bardot is dead – every year that batty bint would post some virulently Islamophobic shit just before Eid, I’ve basically lost my most accurate Eid calendar 😢
overheard in whatever act of Huis-Clos this household finds itself in: MEPHI STOP LICKING THE INTERNET
December 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
overheard in whatever act of Huis-Clos this household finds itself in: MEPHI STOP LICKING THE INTERNET
I år bestod rådet av:
Beatrice Reiman, youtuber
Gustav Winsth, formgivare
Olivia Sundberg, författare
Memetix, tiktok-profil
Får man bra betalt för att vara med i konstrådet? Blir det gräl eller råder det god stämning? Jag vill veta ALLT
Beatrice Reiman, youtuber
Gustav Winsth, formgivare
Olivia Sundberg, författare
Memetix, tiktok-profil
Får man bra betalt för att vara med i konstrådet? Blir det gräl eller råder det god stämning? Jag vill veta ALLT
December 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I år bestod rådet av:
Beatrice Reiman, youtuber
Gustav Winsth, formgivare
Olivia Sundberg, författare
Memetix, tiktok-profil
Får man bra betalt för att vara med i konstrådet? Blir det gräl eller råder det god stämning? Jag vill veta ALLT
Beatrice Reiman, youtuber
Gustav Winsth, formgivare
Olivia Sundberg, författare
Memetix, tiktok-profil
Får man bra betalt för att vara med i konstrådet? Blir det gräl eller råder det god stämning? Jag vill veta ALLT
Nån måste skriva en novell om Swish konstråd som bestämmer vilka Swish-kort vi får varje år
December 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Nån måste skriva en novell om Swish konstråd som bestämmer vilka Swish-kort vi får varje år
because white men can't
police their imagination
ai images of violent black men are generated
police their imagination
ai images of violent black men are generated
December 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
because white men can't
police their imagination
ai images of violent black men are generated
police their imagination
ai images of violent black men are generated
Det e någon högt rankad förlagsgubbe som hävdar det re: ”serious literary fiction”, i samband med Penguin Random House / Simon & Schuster-rättegången, kan hitta källan i morgon (och ja låter ju galet lågt)
December 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Det e någon högt rankad förlagsgubbe som hävdar det re: ”serious literary fiction”, i samband med Penguin Random House / Simon & Schuster-rättegången, kan hitta källan i morgon (och ja låter ju galet lågt)
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True story:
When I got my first copies of the UK hardcover of DE, I couldn't figure out what was going on on the jacket, so I asked two of my production colleagues.
me: Is that debossing?
colleague 1 (peering through a loupe): No, it's clear foil.
colleague 2: Oh, I love her on The Crown.
When I got my first copies of the UK hardcover of DE, I couldn't figure out what was going on on the jacket, so I asked two of my production colleagues.
me: Is that debossing?
colleague 1 (peering through a loupe): No, it's clear foil.
colleague 2: Oh, I love her on The Crown.
And of course please cite the lyric.
One is neither clairvoyant nor Foy.
One is neither clairvoyant nor Foy.
December 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
True story:
When I got my first copies of the UK hardcover of DE, I couldn't figure out what was going on on the jacket, so I asked two of my production colleagues.
me: Is that debossing?
colleague 1 (peering through a loupe): No, it's clear foil.
colleague 2: Oh, I love her on The Crown.
When I got my first copies of the UK hardcover of DE, I couldn't figure out what was going on on the jacket, so I asked two of my production colleagues.
me: Is that debossing?
colleague 1 (peering through a loupe): No, it's clear foil.
colleague 2: Oh, I love her on The Crown.
I wonder if the first time indigenous people in the Americas saw a conquistador they were like ”I wish he’d get off his high horse”
December 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I wonder if the first time indigenous people in the Americas saw a conquistador they were like ”I wish he’d get off his high horse”