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Author of RAVING, REVERSE COWGIRL and various other things.
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McKenzie Wark is an Australian-born writer and scholar. Wark is known for her writings on media theory, critical theory, new media, and the Situationist International. Her best known works are A Hacker Manifesto and Gamer Theory. She is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The New School. .. more

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NujabWes @bloghawk.bsky.social · 7h

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

photo of the First President of Tanzania - Julius Nyerere - with the quote, "The United States is also a one-party state, but with typical American extravagance, they have two of them."

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 8h

I first read it in that Tavistock edition!

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 11h

Rosalía collaborating with Björk and Patti Smith,,,,,,Charli xcx dropping a duet with John Cale,,,,,, what’s next — Sabrina Carpenter singing with Diamanda Galas?

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 12h

I’m sorry for your loss. Sending love and support from afar. 🖤

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grimm 🍂 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 14h

Pretty much all affordability discourse could benefit from just posting this chart.

If you're in the better off America, all the luxury goods you want in excess are for the most part much cheaper. If you're in the poorer America, most of the shit you need to live/grow is more expensive.

A chart showing a 20 year price change between sectors.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 16h

Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 19h

The fact that rich people are buying up the media and politicians, and using up the remaining carbon budget is very bad for everyone.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 1d

Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable.

We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina.

A vote for this bill is a mistake.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 1d

Hate is too mild a word.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1d

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir

yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir

no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

Agreeing to throw millions of people off healthcare because you’re worried about disrupting Thanksgiving travel is the most Schumer-coded Dem move ever

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 1d

A promise of a vote on healthcare

Lucy holds the football for Charlie Brown, again

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 1d

if the dems cave now with nothing to show for it then all of the misery the shutdown has caused instantly becomes all their fault as it achieved nothing

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago
Politics Chicago
2025-11-08

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID

Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

I just have zero interest in the camp that holds capital to be an eternal unchanging essence.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a conversation about how to critique the information economy of the 2020s in concepts adequate to it and I’m here for that, altho I disagree with Varufakis, Dean and Durand on language for it.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

My work is out there for you to read if you want. I’m just tired of answering the same question for 25 years.

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

#goals

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The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 2d

sorry for the instagram text wall but rarely do i see this point being made so clearly and so strongly

Instagram post by eli1ah with black text on a yellow background:

“I'm pro documenting tings. I'm against the idea that if I step into a venue (or now just go outside) I'm opted into being someone's content in perpetuity. I'm against randoms filming people they don't know and posting them to humiliate. I hate having to accommodate someone wanting to 'get their shot' while I perform. I hate watching artists and seeing 6 camera people on stage moving around them. I hate being on slide 17 of a festivals carousel on Instagram enjoying a moment of peace photographed without my consent. Written and oral story telling can do so many things images can't, especially now we are swamped with them. Please use these devices more.”

Chica Marx @mckenziewark.bsky.social · 2d

I'll leave you to your world of ever-sameness. Read my book, or don't. I just can't waste my time on arguing why history happens and concepts don't last forever.