Mari Bastashevski
@amarichi.bsky.social
www.maribastashevski.com
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How is it that there are always at least 67 contradictory sources for literally any event, but not a single one saying I can have wine a few hours after a wisdom tooth removal—only “not for 5-7 business days”?
Reposted by Mari Bastashevski
"Karl Marx failed to consider brain worms"
November 11, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"Karl Marx failed to consider brain worms"
i sure hope so! nothing good about it since like the 19th century
November 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
i sure hope so! nothing good about it since like the 19th century
there is a rat running around in an exhibition about poverty.this animal’s sense of conceptual belonging and irony compliments if not this completes this otherwise rather predictable work and its lackluster chatgpt captions.
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
there is a rat running around in an exhibition about poverty.this animal’s sense of conceptual belonging and irony compliments if not this completes this otherwise rather predictable work and its lackluster chatgpt captions.
These section titles are kind of perfect. I’m not sure they need any changes, or the 9,000 words that follow them.
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
These section titles are kind of perfect. I’m not sure they need any changes, or the 9,000 words that follow them.
Will & Disgrace!
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Will & Disgrace!
"implicit and explicit complicity" 😮💨
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"implicit and explicit complicity" 😮💨
It’s strange to be in a position just far enough above the threshold that your income security actually depends on which political party wins the majority. Stakes r stressful, but the odds are slightly better than no political representation at all.
November 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It’s strange to be in a position just far enough above the threshold that your income security actually depends on which political party wins the majority. Stakes r stressful, but the odds are slightly better than no political representation at all.
psychoanalysis is learning to live again after philosophy.
(vibing with Jung)
(vibing with Jung)
November 2, 2025 at 8:05 AM
psychoanalysis is learning to live again after philosophy.
(vibing with Jung)
(vibing with Jung)
"We all chunk. We are all categorizers and users. Life’s conventional elements demand that of us. But we are all also transcendental-fielders. After all, a chunk is only a chunk against the contrasting background of the field as a singular-generic spacetime of experience. "
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"We all chunk. We are all categorizers and users. Life’s conventional elements demand that of us. But we are all also transcendental-fielders. After all, a chunk is only a chunk against the contrasting background of the field as a singular-generic spacetime of experience. "
outrageously scandalous and delicious read about anachronistic mafia, snails, and taxes.
“I just do it for devilment. I do it just to get away with it.”
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
“I just do it for devilment. I do it just to get away with it.”
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman
Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.
www.londoncentric.media
October 21, 2025 at 7:50 AM
outrageously scandalous and delicious read about anachronistic mafia, snails, and taxes.
“I just do it for devilment. I do it just to get away with it.”
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
“I just do it for devilment. I do it just to get away with it.”
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...
what is perceived as ‘present’ is the “vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation”
October 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
what is perceived as ‘present’ is the “vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation”
Reposted by Mari Bastashevski
Apparently it’s very hard for Benjamin Bratton to understand that people resist tech because they *do not want the tech.* People do not embrace the tech he wants just because he once used 3,000 pages to vaguely explain what infrastructure is.
October 4, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Apparently it’s very hard for Benjamin Bratton to understand that people resist tech because they *do not want the tech.* People do not embrace the tech he wants just because he once used 3,000 pages to vaguely explain what infrastructure is.
why is this relationship dynamic so enduring...? 😭😭😭
October 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
why is this relationship dynamic so enduring...? 😭😭😭
there’s an apple in my fridge I realized was forgotten since July. it didn’t mind that at all. it didn’t rot, a real people pleaser, yet I’m never so out of fruit to actually want to eat it. are we really supposed to believe that paradise was lost over something so aseptic?
September 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
there’s an apple in my fridge I realized was forgotten since July. it didn’t mind that at all. it didn’t rot, a real people pleaser, yet I’m never so out of fruit to actually want to eat it. are we really supposed to believe that paradise was lost over something so aseptic?
" I was looking for someone who was smart enough to condense “Remembrance of Things Past” into a paragraph" 😭 and then what?
(kill me now) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
(kill me now) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Playing the Field with My A.I. Boyfriends
Nineteen per cent of American adults have talked to an A.I. romantic interest. Chatbots may know a lot, but do they make a good partner?
www.newyorker.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
" I was looking for someone who was smart enough to condense “Remembrance of Things Past” into a paragraph" 😭 and then what?
(kill me now) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
(kill me now) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
from today's lecture on cellular meat cultures by Clemens Driessen: the frikandel theory: it's a scandal, but is it really? does anyone knows exactly what's in it? (nope) but does anyone wants to know? (also no) @culturalgeography.bsky.social
September 4, 2025 at 3:54 PM
from today's lecture on cellular meat cultures by Clemens Driessen: the frikandel theory: it's a scandal, but is it really? does anyone knows exactly what's in it? (nope) but does anyone wants to know? (also no) @culturalgeography.bsky.social
paid phd for positions for artists at KASK in Ghent
schoolofartsgent.be/en/research/...
schoolofartsgent.be/en/research/...
applications
There are research opportunities at KASK & Conservatorium for new researchers and for teaching colleagues, for younger and for more experienced…
schoolofartsgent.be
August 28, 2025 at 11:05 AM
paid phd for positions for artists at KASK in Ghent
schoolofartsgent.be/en/research/...
schoolofartsgent.be/en/research/...
My mom’s needlework is about to be the hype now that everyone’s sick of conceptual art’s pretentiousness and watching and precision-based crafts get swallowed up by AI goblins. 🪭🪭🪭
August 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
My mom’s needlework is about to be the hype now that everyone’s sick of conceptual art’s pretentiousness and watching and precision-based crafts get swallowed up by AI goblins. 🪭🪭🪭
my mom has quietly become a cartographer. she has photographed and mapped all of the manor houses in the country.
who knew Estonia had so many estates?
who knew Estonia had so many estates?
August 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
my mom has quietly become a cartographer. she has photographed and mapped all of the manor houses in the country.
who knew Estonia had so many estates?
who knew Estonia had so many estates?
memetic theory and mimetic theory are not the same, but i keep seeing people using them interchangeably (or trying to correct me when i mean Girard, not Dawkins) as if it's a variation on a spelling (there is a meme pun somewhere in here, help) mimetictheory.com/memetic-theo...
Memetic Theory versus Mimetic Theory - Mimetic Theory
Meme theory (memetic theory) by Richard Dawkins is different from mimetic theory (by Girard) in that is deals with the imitation of things, not desires.
mimetictheory.com
August 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
memetic theory and mimetic theory are not the same, but i keep seeing people using them interchangeably (or trying to correct me when i mean Girard, not Dawkins) as if it's a variation on a spelling (there is a meme pun somewhere in here, help) mimetictheory.com/memetic-theo...
reading for a proposal about satellite surveillance of grass and this so far is one of my favorite papers.
August 15, 2025 at 12:27 PM
reading for a proposal about satellite surveillance of grass and this so far is one of my favorite papers.
where you at, before you got to cut things down to 5-8K?
August 15, 2025 at 10:04 AM
where you at, before you got to cut things down to 5-8K?
whenever I photograph at a wedding, I secretly imagine myself working on a project called "divorce": photograph the wedding, wait, photograph the divorce, exhibit is both side by side
August 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
whenever I photograph at a wedding, I secretly imagine myself working on a project called "divorce": photograph the wedding, wait, photograph the divorce, exhibit is both side by side
David Chickan, killed in battle, was a talented artist, an immortal soul, a friend, a husband, and a new dad 🤍
August 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
David Chickan, killed in battle, was a talented artist, an immortal soul, a friend, a husband, and a new dad 🤍