Malkintrash
@malkintrash.bsky.social
Eclectic personal brand, a poor fit for your TL guaranteed. He/him. Autonomist.
Reads Français / 中文 but posts on main in English
Reads Français / 中文 but posts on main in English
Finished reading Songs of Mihyar the Damascene yesterday, so have returned to this. I really like how it mixes cultural, intellectual & political history with close reading of poems. Am learning a lot about Lebanon in the postwar period too. Curious resonances with Taiwan here & there.
Have only read the introduction so far, but this is really good - on Arab modernism as it developed in the heyday of mid 20th c Beirut. Am reading it because I've been making my way through Songs of Mihyar the Damascene by Adonis, one of the focal points of this study.
February 8, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Finished reading Songs of Mihyar the Damascene yesterday, so have returned to this. I really like how it mixes cultural, intellectual & political history with close reading of poems. Am learning a lot about Lebanon in the postwar period too. Curious resonances with Taiwan here & there.
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Grete Stern, Sueño No. 1: Artículos eléctricos para el hogar (Dream No. 1: Electrical Appliances for the Home). 1949. Gelatin silver print, 10 1⁄2 x 9" (26.6 x 22.9 cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York
February 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Grete Stern, Sueño No. 1: Artículos eléctricos para el hogar (Dream No. 1: Electrical Appliances for the Home). 1949. Gelatin silver print, 10 1⁄2 x 9" (26.6 x 22.9 cm). Museum of Modern Art, New York
The spur for this is the Terminally Ill Adults (Assisted Dying) bill, by means of which a government too cowardly to own the policy has offered tacit support to a peer & an MP to do something that deserved care, resources & proper public consultation on the cheap, causing fear among disabled people.
"Wholesale reform" you say? Maybe it's time for something a little more radical, like abolition, but that would raise questions about the wider political system, so perhaps more tinkering would be for the best.
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Lords reform to be tackled by new group of MPs
After The Observer raised the alarm, a new group aims to address filibustering and how to strip disgraced peers of their titles more quickly
observer.co.uk
February 8, 2026 at 4:52 PM
The spur for this is the Terminally Ill Adults (Assisted Dying) bill, by means of which a government too cowardly to own the policy has offered tacit support to a peer & an MP to do something that deserved care, resources & proper public consultation on the cheap, causing fear among disabled people.
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There’s a lot in this part of the release to shake you up, but the trafficking victim who apparently authored it crossing out ‘woman’ in Sylvia Plath’s poem and substituting ‘girl’… I won’t soon forget that.
February 8, 2026 at 1:05 PM
There’s a lot in this part of the release to shake you up, but the trafficking victim who apparently authored it crossing out ‘woman’ in Sylvia Plath’s poem and substituting ‘girl’… I won’t soon forget that.
Private credit sounds fun & not at all worrying
If you’ve been confused by the term “financialization,” this is a pretty good -if incomplete- primer. I am confused by author’s organization calling itself “conservative” because doesn’t match its mission statement. It was conservatives & centrists (“neoliberals”) who helped fuel this after all. 1/2
Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Private credit sounds fun & not at all worrying
Dude's beard had a beard. Several, actually
#OtD 8 Feb 1921 Peter Kropotkin, famous proponent of anarchist-communism, died of pneumonia in Russia. He took part in revolutionary groups in four countries and was a major contributor to anarchist theory. Works by and about him available here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
February 8, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Dude's beard had a beard. Several, actually
Next time someone tells you uprisings abroad are instigated by special interests, show them this pitiful display
Thank you to everyone who marched with us today! Remember, Billionaires Build Prosperity—let's keep them in California!
February 8, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Next time someone tells you uprisings abroad are instigated by special interests, show them this pitiful display
Big fan of Brynley's periodic flights into Street View & accompanying commentary 🤗
Staying briefly with Street View theme: England celebrates Halloween. Assumptions of social peace seem deeply invested, can't think they do this in Croatia
February 8, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Big fan of Brynley's periodic flights into Street View & accompanying commentary 🤗
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This point is legit but your bizarre recommendations are not the result of the algorithm failing to predict your tastes, they're the result of it attempting to shape and direct your tastes. Which makes it even less appealing to hand over more important decisions to the same tech companies.
Tech is unable to show you what TV and films you might like to watch on the front menu of a streaming service (even though you give away your tastes with every digital interaction) while they’re also insisting that the same tech will be able to make vital everyday decisions for you and your country.
February 6, 2026 at 11:52 AM
This point is legit but your bizarre recommendations are not the result of the algorithm failing to predict your tastes, they're the result of it attempting to shape and direct your tastes. Which makes it even less appealing to hand over more important decisions to the same tech companies.
The Don'troe doctrine
They redacted every use of the word “Don”…and left the false positives, like this misspelling, in place.
From the WhitePeopleTwitter community on Reddit: I Don believe it
Explore this post and more from the WhitePeopleTwitter community
www.reddit.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:54 AM
The Don'troe doctrine
So Labour Together, which ran a long campaign to smear left wingers as antisemites, hired a PR firm to find out who leaked info on its secret funding to a Sunday Times investigation, & the PR firm decided to discredit a *possibly* linked investigative journalist by saying he was funded by Soros.
February 6, 2026 at 8:43 AM
So Labour Together, which ran a long campaign to smear left wingers as antisemites, hired a PR firm to find out who leaked info on its secret funding to a Sunday Times investigation, & the PR firm decided to discredit a *possibly* linked investigative journalist by saying he was funded by Soros.
How much cock could a stopcock stop if a stopcock could stop cock
February 5, 2026 at 9:31 PM
How much cock could a stopcock stop if a stopcock could stop cock
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This is the face of a cat who would eat any intruder. And maybe has.
Have a kitty. This big handsome guy is Goldie. He’s available for adoption in Minnesota through Kitty Revolution. You can learn more about him here: new.shelterluv.com/embed/animal...
February 5, 2026 at 4:50 PM
This is the face of a cat who would eat any intruder. And maybe has.
Every time I arrive home from a 5 mile bike ride back from the office, a traumatised mess, my fiancée asks why I put myself through it, & I am not convinced by my own answers
February 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Every time I arrive home from a 5 mile bike ride back from the office, a traumatised mess, my fiancée asks why I put myself through it, & I am not convinced by my own answers
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BRENDAN! YOUR HOUR HAS ARRIVED!
February 5, 2026 at 4:54 PM
BRENDAN! YOUR HOUR HAS ARRIVED!
Curious how, as Peter "left wing voters have nowhere else to go" Mandelson finally falls for what looks like the last time (...), left wing voters have found somewhere else to go, & the leader of the Labour party finds himself so woefully ill-equipped to deal with it.
Keir Starmer attacks the racism of Reform and Matt Goodwin but then adds that "Britain has also been let down by a mindset on the left of politics that is too slow to defend core British values"
February 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Curious how, as Peter "left wing voters have nowhere else to go" Mandelson finally falls for what looks like the last time (...), left wing voters have found somewhere else to go, & the leader of the Labour party finds himself so woefully ill-equipped to deal with it.
February 4, 2026 at 3:08 PM
You know what? I actually love AI. I just asked Google for the home address of the guy who designed the spellcheck function in MS Office & it *gave it to me*. Any mutuals who live in the PNW & fancy hanging out/ potentially providing me with an alibi, hmu
February 3, 2026 at 2:15 PM
You know what? I actually love AI. I just asked Google for the home address of the guy who designed the spellcheck function in MS Office & it *gave it to me*. Any mutuals who live in the PNW & fancy hanging out/ potentially providing me with an alibi, hmu
This is really interesting 👇
Worse, a big part of the anti-green development constituency they want to recruit - the anti-wind farms brigade - aren't actually anti-net zero but part of an inchoate new conservation movement
tinyurl.com/mt8dvbce
tinyurl.com/mt8dvbce
OPINION: New environmental movement is shaping UK politics
After years of neglect, rural voters are abandoning the Tories and Labour to back a radical green conservation movement
tinyurl.com
February 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM
This is really interesting 👇
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We detected incredibly high levels of cancer causing PFOA near this plant's discharge pipe in the 'protected' River Wyre. Our findings prompted a multi-agency investigation which has recommended people not to eat locally grown fruit & veg - now, they've found elevated PFAS in eggs near the site.
Residents within 1km of a Lancashire chemical plant have been told not to eat home‑produced eggs after high #PFAS levels were found.
With the UK’s PFAS plan due, the government must act urgently & fully phase out PFAS.
👉 www.wyre.gov.uk/news/article...
👉 www.endsreport.com/article/1946...
With the UK’s PFAS plan due, the government must act urgently & fully phase out PFAS.
👉 www.wyre.gov.uk/news/article...
👉 www.endsreport.com/article/1946...
Residents advised not to eat eggs from birds reared near Lancashire PFAS factory
<b>EXCLUSIVE:</b> A woman living near a Lancashire PFAS factory has said she is “terrified of going in the garden” after testing of her duck’s eggs by the local council has revealed that eating just o...
www.endsreport.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:28 PM
We detected incredibly high levels of cancer causing PFOA near this plant's discharge pipe in the 'protected' River Wyre. Our findings prompted a multi-agency investigation which has recommended people not to eat locally grown fruit & veg - now, they've found elevated PFAS in eggs near the site.
These are priorities I can get behind
I actually don't know the Thai but my favourite genuine Thai proverb is "death is a small matter, food is a big matter"!
February 2, 2026 at 3:51 PM
These are priorities I can get behind
Cracks needing wiped all over the place, apparently
President Trump is threatening to sue Trevor Noah over a joke at last night's Grammy Awards, saying that Noah's crack claiming he visited Jeffrey Epstein's island was "false and defamatory."
Trump threatens to sue Trevor Noah over joke about Epstein's island
President Donald Trump called the joke, which Noah made at last night's Grammy Awards, "false and defamatory," again insisting he has never visited Jeffrey Epstein's island.
www.nbcnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Cracks needing wiped all over the place, apparently
English place names are filth. God help us if Gödelminge & Pegging-a-burnan are ever twinned
![Toponymy
Pangbourne's name is recorded from 844 as Old English Pegingaburnan (dative case), which means "the stream of the people of [a man called] Pǣga".[citation needed]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rtpzeqayqlljktdug5msk3op/bafkreigqnlnkvhtkhx7h6xkiftghjmnxbt5xtsoeuyifsk6so63uglwg4m@jpeg)
February 2, 2026 at 12:15 PM
English place names are filth. God help us if Gödelminge & Pegging-a-burnan are ever twinned
Coming next: a succession of the most sycophantic world leaders take the podium to shit themselves live on air in fecal obsequy
February 2, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Coming next: a succession of the most sycophantic world leaders take the podium to shit themselves live on air in fecal obsequy
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lmao
You need to be pretty repellent to push both Green AND Reform votes up when your baseline is Keir Starmer - but Wes Streeting manages it.
February 1, 2026 at 11:42 PM
lmao