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saw this days after her debut, glad it's reached back around to you
December 3, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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cooking up something magnificent
A Glossary of Burial This work is inspired by Eve Tuck and C. Ree’s “A Glossary of Haunting” “Only man buries. No, ants too. First thing strikes anybody. Bury the dead.” James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922 p. 105 “It’s also a humble attempt to give the dead a proper burial via an act of remembering. From there, an altar can be assembled piece by piece, the stitching together of collective memories to confront the root causes of historical trauma.” Diana Carolina Sierra Becerra, The Making of Revolutionary Feminism in El Salvador, 2025, p. 237 “Every nine years nine men enter the house so that I may deliver them from evil.” Jorge Luis Borges, “The House of Asterion,” 1964. In Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, ed. Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby, London: Penguin. pp. 170-172 B Beneath Below the partition of the living and the dead. Why am I writing this? The work this is a glossary to is beneath it, buried in its words.
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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last fm friday, rip d'angelo
October 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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I kept thinking about a story that another activist had told me years earlier. She had been attending a demonstration when two soldiers pulled her away from the crowd and beat her. After they’d finished, she couldn’t help but fantasize about strangling and shooting them. While their backs were to her, she stared at the rifles they had left unattended and at their necks, exposed above their bulletproof vests. She wondered if she could move fast enough, but quickly banished the thought. She understood, suddenly, that she did not have to be as cruel as they were. She felt a sense of triumph in this realization that she could be stronger than her oppressors. Nonviolence, in her description, was not just one tactic among others. It had shown her the dimensions of her own humanity, and had helped her to preserve it. I saw the same activist again not long before I visited Nabi Saleh. For weeks, the Israeli military had been hitting the northern West Bank cities of Jenin, Nablus, and Tulkarem, killing dozens. Settler pogroms had become commonplace. Hundreds had been killed in Gaza in the preceding days. She sat tense at the end of the sofa, her gaze fixed. She was not talking about nonviolence anymore. Every single Palestinian, men and women, young and old, she said, should learn to fight, to use a gun. Everyone should take up arms. She didn’t say this in anger. This was not about revenge. She was thinking only about survival.
April 18, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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someone's honeypotting raccoons
a full bag of grapes on the grass next to a sidewalk, my pants and shoes are visible at the bottom of the frame
April 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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kanye west tweet from 4/10/25 reading: "You start dating a trans women and wondering why y'all got so many things in common" ddlovato: GET A JOB STAY AWAY FROM HER
April 11, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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i think about "competitive baby dropping" all the time
tweet reading: One of my favorite things about the DCEU wonder woman performance is that they give all the other amazons a bad accent to make up for the fact that Gal gadot sounds like she was entered into competitve baby dropping
March 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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happy friday!
a 3x3 grid of album covers (my most listened albums for the past week) 1. le symphonie des eclairs by zaho de sagazan 2. sugarcane score by mali obomsawim 3. dtmf by bad bunny 4. alter ego by lisa 5. nonante cinq by angéle 6. snyder cut score by junkie xl 7. demon days by gorillaz 8. salvation by rebecca black 9. greatest hits by deerlady
March 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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seems likely that gal is unpleasant for a lot of reasons but glad to know her zionism is probably a factor here
March 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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that's queen
a rachel zegler (@rachelzegler) tweet from 8/12/2024 reading "and always remember, free palestine."
March 3, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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last fm friday!!
February 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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February 25, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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gruenwald cap... john walker...
January 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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kind of a great week
a 3x3 grid of album covers (my most listened albums for the past week) 1. 30 by adele 2. better man original motion picture soundtrack 3. 25 by adele 4. 21 by adele 5. perverts by ethel cain 6. after the disco by broken bells 7. aladdin sane by david bowie 8. lost highway ost 9. life thru a lens by robbie williams
January 24, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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21 today
the final page of batgirl: year one
January 20, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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beautiful haul today #NCBD 🥰 super glad my lcs had back issues of white boat! havent read them yet but the other three are so so sick, you won't feel a thing and new gods being superb standouts
comics laid out on a carpeted floor. You Won't Feel a Thing #1 by Scott Snyder and Jock cover by Tula Lotay, White Boat #1 & 2 by Scott Snyder and Francesco Francavilla, Ultimate Wolverine #1 by Chris Condon and Alessandro Cappuccio, New Gods #2 by Ram V and Evan Cagle
January 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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lcs didn't have either... got other bangers but
January 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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absolute batman and dark patterns tomorrow
January 8, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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a page from all star superman detailing superman's creation of earth-q, a cube universe
January 5, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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happy holidays!
a liked review of juror #2. watched on christmas that says "Small wonder then that the post-Kantian era of the universal subject should produce as the figure of politics, because also as the figure of futurity collapsing undecidably into the past, the image of the child as we know it. Historically constructed, as numerous scholars, including Phillipe Ariès, Lawrence Stone, and James Kincaid, have made clear, to serve as the figural repository for sentimentalized cultural identifications, the child has come to embody for us the telos of the social order and been enshrined as the figure for whom that order must be held in perpetual trust. The image itself, however, in its coercive universalization, works to discipline political discourse by consigning it always to accede in advance to the reality of a collective futurity whose figurative status we are never permitted to acknowledge or address. From Delacroix's iconic image of Liberty urging us into a brave new world of revolutionary hope, her bare breast making each spectator the unweaned child to whom it belongs, to the equally universalized waif in the logo that performs in miniature the "politics" of the mega-musical Les Miz, we are no more able to conceive of a politics without a fantasy of the future than we are able to conceive of a future without the figure of the child." - Lee Edelman, The Future Is Kid Stuff: Queer Theory, Disidentification, and the Death Drive
December 27, 2024 at 12:16 AM
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December 14, 2024 at 8:16 AM
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this is all i post now
a 3x3 grid of my most listened albums this week: 1 raiders of the lost ark score by john williams 2 ghost in the machine by the police 3 dreamstate by kelly lee owens 4 a day at the races by queen 5 quadrophenia by the who 6 keeper of the shepherd by hannah frances 7 sgt peppers lonely hearts club band by the beatles 8 the works by queen 9 abbey road by the beatles
December 13, 2024 at 4:04 PM
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😻😻🗣 friday❗️
a 3x3 grid of album covers (my 9 most listened to albums this week): 1. here in the pitch by jessica pratt 2. 18 by moby 3. your guide to revolution by mary ocher 4. west side story 2021 cast recording 5. take care by bigxthaplug 6. dunya by mustafa 7. into the woods 1988 cast recording 8. greatest hits by deerlady 9. play by moby
December 6, 2024 at 5:24 PM
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last fm friday 🙂‍↕️
a 3x3 grid of my most-listened albums this week: 1. gnx by kendrick lamar 2. access all areas by flo 3. 18 by moby 4. greatest hits by deerlady 5. demon days by gorillaz 6. hozier by hozier 7. hell hath no fury by clipse 8. elden ring ost 9. out of time by r.e.m.
November 29, 2024 at 4:04 PM