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jamila

@jnicole.bsky.social

take stock of the fact that it took a woman they couldn't possibly deny whiteness to getting murdered to reach this mobilization, it is relevant to future struggle against ICE gestapo

January 9, 2026 at 5:46 PM

jamila

@jnicole.bsky.social

remind yourself that it's going to be okay today.

March 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM

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Juni! 🥰

@literallyjustadog.online

going nonverbal when they ask if pepsi is okay

miss fugazi @undisturbed.space · Mar 17

you got any ice cold cokey cola? no pepsi is not ok

March 17, 2025 at 12:04 AM

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Barry Butler Photography

@barrybutler9.bsky.social

The Lunar Eclipse over Chicago at 1:27am on Friday.

March 14, 2025 at 6:43 AM

jamila

@jnicole.bsky.social

for irls

March 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM

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SarahJSloat

@sjane.bsky.social

Seducer by Vasko Popa
translated by Charles Simic

One strokes the leg of a chair
Until the chair moves...

March 7, 2025 at 8:08 PM

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Juni! 🥰

@literallyjustadog.online

jsyk my friendship meter doesn't diminish over time. Haven't seen you in years? Excited to see you!
Haven't texted in months? So happy to hear from you!
I reach out and you apologize for not responding? Babes, don't worry. I just missed you, I know life can be hectic and busy.

March 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM

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TrickyC (he/him)

@trickyc66.bsky.social

a poet is just a hater who fell in love

December 1, 2024 at 3:49 PM

jamila

@jnicole.bsky.social

medium.com/@jamilanicol...

02.22.2025–2:15 am central time

Sleep has skipped me over tonight. I am awake, certainly in some manner of a fit that I will lose over the next several hours.

medium.com

February 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM

jamila

@jnicole.bsky.social

o wow it's been a month

jamila @jnicole.bsky.social · Jan 6

like the web you've caught me in

February 8, 2025 at 4:33 AM

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maevesbury rules

@maeveynot.bsky.social

everyone says “that’s a minute of my life i’ll never get back” or whatever but what they really mean is that they can’t exchange it for something else. eventually what you love or what loves you will change and some of those minutes will come back. your bed will be full of them, pure use-value. hard

February 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM

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Spacey Kacey

@kaceyisspacey.bsky.social

First Base: Trauma Dumping

Second Base: Sex

Third Base: A moment of shared comfort, like cooking together or just a day watching YouTube videos

Fourth Base: Becoming detached from your body and distrustful of intimacy. Going no contact for at least a week

February 7, 2025 at 11:41 PM

jamila

@jnicole.bsky.social

February 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM

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maevesbury rules

@maeveynot.bsky.social

martha p nochimson, _the passion of david lynch_

Lynch intuitively seizes upon logocentrism as the paradigm of cultural imbalances, but he deeply believes that they are not fatal cultural malfunctions. The Lynchian seeker, as either artist or detective-or filmmaker-can always get us out of the labyrinth. We only have to let it happen. Coming in his own way to conclusions that have been formulated by a number of phenomenologists-Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the early Jean-François Lyotard, for example-Lynch acts upon a faith that the illusion of control that language and other cultural structures give us is not as rewarding as losing that illusion and gaining larger, less contingent truths. These truths are always present for us, unless we insist on the fantasy of control and thereby doom ourselves to the sense of disconnectedness we feel if we fool ourselves into believing only in the control that we exert over our own creations.

Lynch's art is the art of removing the blockage to larger truths by deglamorizing and denaturalizing our priorities of remaining in control. Different moments from my interviews with Lynch merge in retrospect as maps routing me past logical impediments to perception. I now see how bound up Lynch's vision of making meaning is with the freedom to respond through the subconscious, by playfully losing control instead of stridently taking charge. One moment of our 1993 conversation

made this especially clear, one during which we both looked at the textured surface of Blue Poles: Number 11, 1952, a painting by Jackson Pollock full of patches, slashes, lines, drippings, and blobs, with barely a hint of blue (see figure 1). "I don't understand this," I said. "Yes you do," Lynch said. "Your eyes are moving." They must have been, but I had not paid any attention.
I had automatically experienced a lack of meaning because I could not stand at the prescribed, controlling viewing distance and read the painting as a rationally controlled system of shapes. Lynch had spontaneously identified the painting as a meaningful representation for me because it had released my moving eye from conventional viewer expectations. I saw that I could not contain the painting in some theoretical framework; he saw me performing with the painting. He saw as crucial that part of me that my education had taught me is inconsequential to my grasp of meaning.

January 17, 2025 at 6:04 AM

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Sheryl Weikal, still saying Free Palestine

@leftistlawyer.com

This is evil, and the fact almost fifty Democrats voted for this is simply unconscionable. "Minor crimes" here means NONVIOLENT crimes. No one should be deported for drug possession.

No human is illegal on stolen land. Abolish deportations.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/u...