s.j. bagley
@heksenhaus.bsky.social
.sjb. is an artist, philosopher, and critic what edits the journal THINKING HORROR, the zine SOFT TEETH, and listens to things.
they/them.
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they/them.
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Absolutely hilarious.... enjoy your spotify wrapped, kids!! thehardtimes.net/music/new-sp...
New Spotify Wrapped Feature Shows How Much of Your Money Went to Funding AI Warfare Technology
Spotify released its popular annual year-end “Wrapped” feature which gives users a snapshot of their music and podcast listening trends along with a new feature that shows how much of their money went...
thehardtimes.net
December 3, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Absolutely hilarious.... enjoy your spotify wrapped, kids!! thehardtimes.net/music/new-sp...
pity the bonebreaker
his mouth swollen
with yellow abscess,
dwindling.
his mouth swollen
with yellow abscess,
dwindling.
December 3, 2025 at 4:41 AM
pity the bonebreaker
his mouth swollen
with yellow abscess,
dwindling.
his mouth swollen
with yellow abscess,
dwindling.
hearing this for the first time as an adolescent is what really led me toward interest in and understanding of surrealism:
Hot With Fleas 1987 Severed Heads
YouTube video by Tom Ellard
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
hearing this for the first time as an adolescent is what really led me toward interest in and understanding of surrealism:
one of the most beautiful and poetic works of weird fiction of the past few years.
harrowing, angry, sad and, ultimately, filled with a sense of stark bio-optimism.
harrowing, angry, sad and, ultimately, filled with a sense of stark bio-optimism.
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 AM
one of the most beautiful and poetic works of weird fiction of the past few years.
harrowing, angry, sad and, ultimately, filled with a sense of stark bio-optimism.
harrowing, angry, sad and, ultimately, filled with a sense of stark bio-optimism.
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(so! in the next few weeks, i'll be demonetising my bandcamp. everything will stay there [and new work will go up, at some point] but all for free.)
December 2, 2025 at 5:53 PM
(so! in the next few weeks, i'll be demonetising my bandcamp. everything will stay there [and new work will go up, at some point] but all for free.)
capitalism is an engine of death.
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
capitalism is an engine of death.
hey, remember the whole krishancore thing?
the 90s were fucking wild (and largely bad.)
the 90s were fucking wild (and largely bad.)
December 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
hey, remember the whole krishancore thing?
the 90s were fucking wild (and largely bad.)
the 90s were fucking wild (and largely bad.)
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Weird fiction
“Frog,” asked Toad, “did this really happen?”
“Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.
“Maybe it did, and maybe it didn’t,” said Frog.
December 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Weird fiction
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In 2016, I had the honor of curating a show for Visual AIDS with Jean Carlomusto & Alex Juhasz. Since it was open on World AIDS Day, they also asked us to create an accompanying video. For COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, we focused on people documenting their own experiences with HIV vimeo.com/192798505?fl...
COMPULSIVE PRACTICE
For the 2016 Day With(out) Art, Visual AIDS presents COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, a video compilation of compulsive, daily, and habitual practices by nine artists and activists…
vimeo.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
In 2016, I had the honor of curating a show for Visual AIDS with Jean Carlomusto & Alex Juhasz. Since it was open on World AIDS Day, they also asked us to create an accompanying video. For COMPULSIVE PRACTICE, we focused on people documenting their own experiences with HIV vimeo.com/192798505?fl...
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On World AIDS Day, revisit FRONTLINE’s 2012 documentary “ENDGAME: AIDS in Black America,” which was a groundbreaking exploration of one of the country’s most urgent, preventable health crises. Watch now:
ENDGAME: AIDS in Black America | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
A groundbreaking two-hour exploration of one of the country's most urgent, preventable health crises.
www.pbs.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:42 PM
On World AIDS Day, revisit FRONTLINE’s 2012 documentary “ENDGAME: AIDS in Black America,” which was a groundbreaking exploration of one of the country’s most urgent, preventable health crises. Watch now:
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A few too many people say that Israel is synonymous with all Jews and that Jews control the United States because they don't want to acknowledge the reality of American imperialism and that the US has sponsored genocides all over the world for generations, but we're not ready for that conversation.
December 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
A few too many people say that Israel is synonymous with all Jews and that Jews control the United States because they don't want to acknowledge the reality of American imperialism and that the US has sponsored genocides all over the world for generations, but we're not ready for that conversation.
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This situation Emma is in really gets to the core of why even AI generation of little jokes is toxic. Prompting a machine to generate an image of Clipper Doug offloads the little choices that are the heart of creativity. The expression isn't the larger concept, it's the pose and number of pokeballs.
Have been thinking a ton about this since I posted it because it's just a silly joke but I wanted it to look a certain way, so I did it "by hand" in Photoshop. Something people used to be suspicious of, I guess. Everything used to be accused of being 'shopped.
I created this important vibes-based response to this Dark Web episode with the productivity tools called adobe photoshop and wasted time
December 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
This situation Emma is in really gets to the core of why even AI generation of little jokes is toxic. Prompting a machine to generate an image of Clipper Doug offloads the little choices that are the heart of creativity. The expression isn't the larger concept, it's the pose and number of pokeballs.
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FIRST OF ALL!!!
November 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
FIRST OF ALL!!!
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“I have a wife and a child,” Mitya said. “I don’t need this. The farmer who had no troubles just had to buy a pig, as they say.”
#ghostadvent Night 3 - Punks Don't Die by my personal long-time fave @esedia.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
#ghostadvent Night 3 - Punks Don't Die by my personal long-time fave @esedia.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
November 30, 2025 at 11:51 PM
“I have a wife and a child,” Mitya said. “I don’t need this. The farmer who had no troubles just had to buy a pig, as they say.”
#ghostadvent Night 3 - Punks Don't Die by my personal long-time fave @esedia.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
#ghostadvent Night 3 - Punks Don't Die by my personal long-time fave @esedia.bsky.social
psychopomp.com/deadlands/is...
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I write to be loved: by a few, but *from a distance*.
— Roland Barthes
from The Preparation of the Novel
(lecture of December 15, 1979)
— Roland Barthes
from The Preparation of the Novel
(lecture of December 15, 1979)
November 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I write to be loved: by a few, but *from a distance*.
— Roland Barthes
from The Preparation of the Novel
(lecture of December 15, 1979)
— Roland Barthes
from The Preparation of the Novel
(lecture of December 15, 1979)
john carpenter's 'starman' isn't just his best film (and it is) it's also one of the most beautiful and truly optimistic sf films ever made.
November 30, 2025 at 12:11 AM
john carpenter's 'starman' isn't just his best film (and it is) it's also one of the most beautiful and truly optimistic sf films ever made.
i would spend my days not feeling like i was going to fucking die, all the time.
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
November 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
i would spend my days not feeling like i was going to fucking die, all the time.
halfway through mai der vang's 'yellow rain' and it's so utterly heartbreaking and enraging in equal measure (and the reason i'm coming to this, so late in the game, is that i wasn't sure i'd be able to fully process it without being in therapy until now.)
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
halfway through mai der vang's 'yellow rain' and it's so utterly heartbreaking and enraging in equal measure (and the reason i'm coming to this, so late in the game, is that i wasn't sure i'd be able to fully process it without being in therapy until now.)
stephen is a good dog, buy things from stephen.
In case you needed skulls or other horrific ephemera to decorate your home during these trying times, you can find some art of mine over at INPRNT - www.inprnt.com/gallery/unkn...
#skullart #zombieskulltober #art #darkart #illustration #metalsky #artsky #inprnt
#skullart #zombieskulltober #art #darkart #illustration #metalsky #artsky #inprnt
November 29, 2025 at 3:34 PM
stephen is a good dog, buy things from stephen.
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I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
November 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text
nothing, knowthing,
bileblack canvas
stained with the guts
of last summer's
cicadas.
bileblack canvas
stained with the guts
of last summer's
cicadas.
November 29, 2025 at 5:11 AM
nothing, knowthing,
bileblack canvas
stained with the guts
of last summer's
cicadas.
bileblack canvas
stained with the guts
of last summer's
cicadas.
(also! working on a short essay about my interest in southeast asian poetry and how that arose from my own family history and rejection of american imperialism and how that's changed how i view the literary avant garde, as a whole made of various [often seemingly incompatible] constituents.)
November 28, 2025 at 10:27 PM
(also! working on a short essay about my interest in southeast asian poetry and how that arose from my own family history and rejection of american imperialism and how that's changed how i view the literary avant garde, as a whole made of various [often seemingly incompatible] constituents.)
let's be clear on something: while we should ABSOLUTELY ostracise those who are bigots, we need to accept that furries and juggalos are generally marginalised (the former through homophobia and the latter through classism) and need to accept them as comrades.
and fuck yr notions of aesthetic purity.
and fuck yr notions of aesthetic purity.
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
let's be clear on something: while we should ABSOLUTELY ostracise those who are bigots, we need to accept that furries and juggalos are generally marginalised (the former through homophobia and the latter through classism) and need to accept them as comrades.
and fuck yr notions of aesthetic purity.
and fuck yr notions of aesthetic purity.
and it ended up being one of the greatest works of american literature.
November 28, 2025 at 3:20 AM
and it ended up being one of the greatest works of american literature.