Things I'm Reading
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Here are excerpts of things I'm reading in 🫖 English 🍉#عربي 🧿🔥 #Español 🌺. #writing 📚🏳️🌈 #bdsm 🦯🔞
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To convey what my life was like in those days, the only reliable method I have is to explore the laws, rites, beliefs and references that defined the circles in which I was caught up—school, family, small-town life—and which governed my existence without my even noticing its contradictions; to
January 22, 2026 at 11:59 AM
To convey what my life was like in those days, the only reliable method I have is to explore the laws, rites, beliefs and references that defined the circles in which I was caught up—school, family, small-town life—and which governed my existence without my even noticing its contradictions; to
My overriding concern is to find the words I would use to describe myself and the world around me; to name what I considered to be normal, intolerable or inconceivable But the woman of 1995 can never go back to being the little girl of 1952, who knew nothing beyond her small town, her family
January 22, 2026 at 11:23 AM
My overriding concern is to find the words I would use to describe myself and the world around me; to name what I considered to be normal, intolerable or inconceivable But the woman of 1995 can never go back to being the little girl of 1952, who knew nothing beyond her small town, her family
For me the word “private” will always suggest deprivation, fear and lack of openness. Including in the expression “private life.” Writing is something public. — From Shame by Annie Ernaux
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January 21, 2026 at 11:55 AM
For me the word “private” will always suggest deprivation, fear and lack of openness. Including in the expression “private life.” Writing is something public. — From Shame by Annie Ernaux
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#writing #novels #booksky #literature #litsky #books #writer #reader #bookreaders #readerscommunity
Zionism is nazism for the 21st century. Great essay by Yoni Gelernter The Drift
The Masada Option
Zionism’s Death Drive
www.thedriftmag.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Zionism is nazism for the 21st century. Great essay by Yoni Gelernter The Drift
Trying to read John dos Passos now — a member of the “lost generation” who fell into obscurity because he aged into rightwinghood at a time when you couldn’t be rewarded for it in quite the same way (i.e. Christopher Hitchens, Fouad Ajami, etc).
So far: I kinda think his writing is just bad.
So far: I kinda think his writing is just bad.
January 20, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Trying to read John dos Passos now — a member of the “lost generation” who fell into obscurity because he aged into rightwinghood at a time when you couldn’t be rewarded for it in quite the same way (i.e. Christopher Hitchens, Fouad Ajami, etc).
So far: I kinda think his writing is just bad.
So far: I kinda think his writing is just bad.
“My body had become ageless.
January 20, 2026 at 11:12 AM
“My body had become ageless.
From Annie Ernaux’s The Young Man:
Our relationship could have been considered from the perpective of mutual gain. He gave me pleasure and made me relive things I would never have imagined experiencing again.
Our relationship could have been considered from the perpective of mutual gain. He gave me pleasure and made me relive things I would never have imagined experiencing again.
January 19, 2026 at 11:45 AM
From Annie Ernaux’s The Young Man:
Our relationship could have been considered from the perpective of mutual gain. He gave me pleasure and made me relive things I would never have imagined experiencing again.
Our relationship could have been considered from the perpective of mutual gain. He gave me pleasure and made me relive things I would never have imagined experiencing again.
You can be a war criminal and zionist and still win the Nobel. There is hope yet for Mr. Trump.
January 16, 2026 at 1:26 PM
You can be a war criminal and zionist and still win the Nobel. There is hope yet for Mr. Trump.
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
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Hiii I'm back to work tomorrow, for any editors looking for writers and/or journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Hiii I'm back to work tomorrow, for any editors looking for writers and/or journalists.
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I was hoping when large media covered Mobile Fortify, the ICE facial app we revealed in June, it would add substantial information. Instead this front page WSJ piece rehashes our reporting, presents it as new attributed to officials, and forgets to capitalize M in 404 Media bsky.app/profile/cori...
One of the WSJ's A1 stories today was reported *6 months ago* by @404media.co, a team of just four journalists.
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
I was hoping when large media covered Mobile Fortify, the ICE facial app we revealed in June, it would add substantial information. Instead this front page WSJ piece rehashes our reporting, presents it as new attributed to officials, and forgets to capitalize M in 404 Media bsky.app/profile/cori...
The evolution of documentary in the US is a good example. //
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December 30, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The evolution of documentary in the US is a good example. //
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60 Minutes aired a propaganda piece celebrating the pager the attacks which blinded thousands of children. They lost credibility ages ago.
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
60 Minutes aired a propaganda piece celebrating the pager the attacks which blinded thousands of children. They lost credibility ages ago.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
feeling this hard today 🌈
December 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
feeling this hard today 🌈
In the era of rollbacks on science, rampant transphobia, sex negativity, tradwife horseshit, and a rapid social regression to old forms of white patriarchy, talking frankly about sexuality, “alternative” sexual practices & queerness with physicians feels like a radical act.
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
In the era of rollbacks on science, rampant transphobia, sex negativity, tradwife horseshit, and a rapid social regression to old forms of white patriarchy, talking frankly about sexuality, “alternative” sexual practices & queerness with physicians feels like a radical act.
The theme of the year.
Roberta Flack / Donny Hathaway - Where is the Love (1972)
Studio version, lyrics, pics. http://www.robertaflack.com/
Copyright © 1972 Atlantic
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Where is the love
You said you'd give to me
soon as you were free
will it ever be
Where is the love?
You told me that you didn't love him,
and you were gonna say goodbye
but if you really didn't mean it,
why did
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December 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The theme of the year.
I have been thinking a lot about how violence is reported in this country - what is deserving of horror and what is deserving of a shrug. The entire media system in the US is going a massive restructuring because Americans started expressing horror at the deaths of people
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December 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
I have been thinking a lot about how violence is reported in this country - what is deserving of horror and what is deserving of a shrug. The entire media system in the US is going a massive restructuring because Americans started expressing horror at the deaths of people
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There are so many songs I would have wanted him to sing with his voice.
Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Moonshadow (Live, 1971)
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December 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
There are so many songs I would have wanted him to sing with his voice.
Sobre los carteles y el libro Fort Bragg Cartel por Seth Harp. #mexico ##fortbragg
El cártel militar que no existe
Seth Harp revela en The Fort Bragg Cartel que el narco también opera en cuarteles de élite dentro de EE. UU., no solo en México.
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December 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Sobre los carteles y el libro Fort Bragg Cartel por Seth Harp. #mexico ##fortbragg
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Kamisaka Sekka
From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910
From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910
December 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Kamisaka Sekka
From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910
From Momoyogusa (A World of Things) 1909-1910
The Power of the Line
Recent Power Lines Drawings by me
Two from Pearl Beach, Michigan, and two from Ypsilanti
#136 (Ypsilanti, MI)
#138 (Pearl Beach, MI)
#139 (Pearl Beach, MI)
#140 (Ypsilanti, MI)
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Two from Pearl Beach, Michigan, and two from Ypsilanti
#136 (Ypsilanti, MI)
#138 (Pearl Beach, MI)
#139 (Pearl Beach, MI)
#140 (Ypsilanti, MI)
marcusjmerritt.com/power-lines-...
December 14, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The Power of the Line
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Quote from Is The Future Female? by Lynne Segal (1987). Photo from Deadlier Than the Male magazine from the LA&M collections.
![A white woman or woman of color with light skin, brown hair, holding a chain attached to man’s collar. He is lying on a platform above her and she is wearing a shiny long sleeved body suit and studded collar. Text: [If our critique of pornography is to be more than the projection and denial of our own anxiety and confusion about sex, feminists will need (as many now have) to take a broader and much deeper look at all forms of representation of women. We must, in fact, abandon any radical or revolutionary feminist position which asserts what we need to reject and rejects what we need to assert. We need to reject the idea of there being some inner sexual essence, healthy in women and unhealthy in men. We need to assert that women, too, are full of contradictions and conflict over sexuality. We need to understand the ways in which the prevalence of men's sexual violence is neither simply the product of inner sex drives, nor inner power drives - realisable through the possession of the penis - but rather a product of men's social power in general.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:iyfco36opjofallgh4axztsd/bafkreiaqufifgjkqfsduukzmc4ejkoia6pj5kyrain2m4zzcl6nzqgwfny@jpeg)
December 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Quote from Is The Future Female? by Lynne Segal (1987). Photo from Deadlier Than the Male magazine from the LA&M collections.
Tried reading Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City last night. It was published in 1984. The novel is written in second person and the protagonist is a 24 yr-old straight guy with a coke problem — self-pitying, condescending towards everyone around him, esp women, and normie.
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December 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Tried reading Jay McInerney’s Bright Lights, Big City last night. It was published in 1984. The novel is written in second person and the protagonist is a 24 yr-old straight guy with a coke problem — self-pitying, condescending towards everyone around him, esp women, and normie.
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When I was 15 I renewed this from the library at my high school repeatedly for about a year. At the end of the year, the librarian told me to just keep it.
Like Someone In Love
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Like Someone In Love · John Coltrane
Lush Life
℗ 1958 Fantasy, Inc.
Released on: 1987-01-01
Composer Lyricist: Jimmy Van Heusen
Composer Lyricist: Johnny Burke
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December 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
When I was 15 I renewed this from the library at my high school repeatedly for about a year. At the end of the year, the librarian told me to just keep it.