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
Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(Photo via Reuters)
(Photo via Reuters)
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.
(Photo via Reuters)
(Photo via Reuters)
A girl lifted my wallet in the locker room. Scrolling through her travel and transaction history and honestly? Taste this clean deserves a line of credit…
January 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
A girl lifted my wallet in the locker room. Scrolling through her travel and transaction history and honestly? Taste this clean deserves a line of credit…
platform capitalism 2026
January 15, 2026 at 10:52 PM
platform capitalism 2026
Reposted by Mari Bastashevski
An extract from my latest in PSYCHE magazine.
psyche.co/ideas/why-be...
psyche.co/ideas/why-be...
Why being ghosted is inevitable and being a ghoster is too | Psyche Ideas
Being ghosted can feel shocking. But we need to get used to it because there’s no other way to cope with our world
psyche.co
January 12, 2026 at 1:19 PM
An extract from my latest in PSYCHE magazine.
psyche.co/ideas/why-be...
psyche.co/ideas/why-be...
a country that siphoned billions from culture and education for defence against russian invasion goes into a full panic mode shutdown on snow day…
January 7, 2026 at 2:15 PM
a country that siphoned billions from culture and education for defence against russian invasion goes into a full panic mode shutdown on snow day…
Reposted by Mari Bastashevski
Four years before John Constable painted this in 1821, John Keats was writing about 'Negative Capability: 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.' This is what negative capability looks like in paint.
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Four years before John Constable painted this in 1821, John Keats was writing about 'Negative Capability: 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.' This is what negative capability looks like in paint.
training chat into debate mode.
December 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
training chat into debate mode.
a piece of shit, lite… ? everyone needs one and no one knew.
November 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
a piece of shit, lite… ? everyone needs one and no one knew.
an insider account of a carastrophic fuck up by Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/ins...
Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR
How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart
www.equator.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
an insider account of a carastrophic fuck up by Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/ins...
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