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"How 'bout we be each other's ride and survive?" || Hoarder & Sharer of Knowledge, Music & Memes • Architect of Jokes • Live In-Bewteen-er •💛🎧 (she/her)
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Pounk (Léna) @pounk.bsky.social · Oct 8
Share (human-made) art. Cook for your companions. Wear a mask. Reject liberal fatalism and hyperindividualism. Deny genocide and eugenics any ground. Nurture care-driven connections amidst the wreckage. There are other ways of living in this world.
pounk.bsky.social
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.
January 31, 2026 at 6:36 PM
pounk.bsky.social
Joy is not a distraction from the art. It’s part of it.
anthelonious.bsky.social Brown Anthony™ @anthelonious.bsky.social · 16d
Chloe Zhao posted this and now I'm imagining Baz Lurhmann's "Hamnet."
January 20, 2026 at 7:37 PM
pounk.bsky.social
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?...
Snail Mail - "Dead End"
YouTube video by Snail Mail
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social
"Abolish ICE" in the gilmore girls font floating above a sepia-toned stars hollow
January 14, 2026 at 3:33 AM
pounk.bsky.social
<-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?...
Courtney Barnett - City Looks Pretty (Live from Piedmont Park)
YouTube video by courtneybarnett
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 8:01 PM
pounk.bsky.social
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.”
January 19, 2026 at 7:40 PM
pounk.bsky.social
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...
The World, So Madly, by Ratboys
from the album Singin’ to an Empty Chair
ratboys.bandcamp.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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alanjstedman.bsky.social
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
January 17, 2026 at 7:12 AM
pounk.bsky.social
Lowkey adding this to my pull list.
nerdist.bsky.social Nerdist @nerdist.bsky.social · 20d
The King of the Monsters will stomp through fair Verona in new Romeo & Juliet and Godzilla one-shot comic nerdist.com/article/romeo-a...
January 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM
pounk.bsky.social
Reading Borges : 2 years ago.

Appreciating Bagels (and Beigels) : Always.
Screenshot of a Twitter/X thread by the user bigstuffedcat. Top tweet text: “My favorite Borges is his gripping thought-experiment about a supermassive bakery with every possible everything bagel. It’s a short story called ‘The Library of Bagel’.” Timestamp reads 8:03 AM, 11/14/22 Below it is a reply by the same account, dated 11/14/22, reading: “The inhabitants of this bakery divide themselves into many groups—syncophantic fanatics, arguing about the perfect everything bagel; tireless pilgrims on a search for a theoretical plain bagel; tyrants who censor flavors they deem intolerable.” The user’s profile picture is a pink cartoon cat-like character.
January 14, 2026 at 9:55 AM
pounk.bsky.social
Sure love starting the year with a new Youth Avoiders album.

youthavoiders.bandcamp.com/album/defiance
Defiance, by Youth Avoiders
10 track album
youthavoiders.bandcamp.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:33 PM
pounk.bsky.social
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).
January 7, 2026 at 9:05 PM
pounk.bsky.social
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.
January 3, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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parkermolloy.com
I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story

www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...
Grok Can't Apologize. Grok Isn't Sentient. So Why Do Headlines Keep Saying It Did?
Elon Musk’s chatbot has been “undressing” women and children in public. Journalists are letting xAI off the hook by pretending the bot is responsible.
www.readtpa.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:58 PM
pounk.bsky.social
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.
January 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
pounk.bsky.social
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.
December 26, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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dkmarxsoc.bsky.social
“And then, they missed the abstract submission deadline”, said Frog in a scary voice.

“Gasp!” gasped Toad.
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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sebastianpiriz.bsky.social
My covers for Dynamite's Terminator: Metal, kind of tell a story
November 17, 2025 at 10:12 PM
pounk.bsky.social
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.
December 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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antifaintl.bsky.social
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
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 …
intlantifadefence.wordpress.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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anthonymoser.com
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."
December 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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jeeyon.bsky.social
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
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
pounk.bsky.social
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."
December 14, 2025 at 9:39 PM
pounk.bsky.social
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.
November 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
pounk.bsky.social
Terrance Hayes
A poem appears in black text on a white background. The poem reads: "The song must be cultural, confessional, clear But not obvious. It must be full of compassion And crows bowing in a vulture’s shadow. The song must have six sides to it & a clamor Of voltas. The song must turn on the compass Of language like a tangle of wire endowed With feeling. The notes must tear & tear, There must be a love for the minute & minute, There must be a record of witness & daydream, Where the heart is torn or feathered & tarred, Where death is undone, time diminished, The song must hold its own storm & drum, And shed a noise so lovely it is sung at sunset Weddings, baptisms & beheadings henceforth. from AMERICAN SONNETS FOR MY PAST AND FUTURE ASSASSIN (Penguin, 2018)"
October 31, 2025 at 10:22 PM