Troy Nahumko
@troynahumko.bsky.social
Essayist, traveler and musician. Author of 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐟𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐚́𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬, 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐢𝐧 published by the University of Alberta Press. Also been known to play the Blues.
I wrote a bedtime story about a Bolivian coronel who gets lost and enroute loses his mind.
rabble.ca/politics/can...
#AbPoli #CdPoli #AlbertaExit #SovereigntyAct #Petrostate
rabble.ca/politics/can...
#AbPoli #CdPoli #AlbertaExit #SovereigntyAct #Petrostate
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I wrote a bedtime story about a Bolivian coronel who gets lost and enroute loses his mind.
rabble.ca/politics/can...
#AbPoli #CdPoli #AlbertaExit #SovereigntyAct #Petrostate
rabble.ca/politics/can...
#AbPoli #CdPoli #AlbertaExit #SovereigntyAct #Petrostate
You're sitting on the throne and realize you're out of TP.
Which do you reach for?
Which do you reach for?
November 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
You're sitting on the throne and realize you're out of TP.
Which do you reach for?
Which do you reach for?
Remember when this was the paragon of evil?? How naive..
November 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Remember when this was the paragon of evil?? How naive..
Una bienal con 650.000 € de dinero público, un teatro vacío y Vargas Llosa proyectado como santo patrón del “liberalismo”.
Poca cultura, mucho decorado.
La verdad huele a polvo y a poder viejo.
📖 En @ctxt_es
👉 ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
#CulturaSubvencionada #VargasLlosa #Extremadura #BienalVargasLlosa
Poca cultura, mucho decorado.
La verdad huele a polvo y a poder viejo.
📖 En @ctxt_es
👉 ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
#CulturaSubvencionada #VargasLlosa #Extremadura #BienalVargasLlosa
October 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Una bienal con 650.000 € de dinero público, un teatro vacío y Vargas Llosa proyectado como santo patrón del “liberalismo”.
Poca cultura, mucho decorado.
La verdad huele a polvo y a poder viejo.
📖 En @ctxt_es
👉 ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
#CulturaSubvencionada #VargasLlosa #Extremadura #BienalVargasLlosa
Poca cultura, mucho decorado.
La verdad huele a polvo y a poder viejo.
📖 En @ctxt_es
👉 ctxt.es/es/20251001/...
#CulturaSubvencionada #VargasLlosa #Extremadura #BienalVargasLlosa
This photograph by Pablo Monge in El Pais is a Spanish update of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting.
October 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This photograph by Pablo Monge in El Pais is a Spanish update of Grant Wood's American Gothic painting.
October 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Los “violentos” se disfrazan de unicornios y ranas.
Los que sueñan con Hitler van en traje.
El mundo es un chiste malo, pero al menos aún sabemos reírnos.
🦄 ¡Soltad los unicornios! 👉 www.hoy.es/opinion/troy... #NoKings #SoltadLosUnicornios #AbsurdResistance #PunkNotPower
Los que sueñan con Hitler van en traje.
El mundo es un chiste malo, pero al menos aún sabemos reírnos.
🦄 ¡Soltad los unicornios! 👉 www.hoy.es/opinion/troy... #NoKings #SoltadLosUnicornios #AbsurdResistance #PunkNotPower
October 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Los “violentos” se disfrazan de unicornios y ranas.
Los que sueñan con Hitler van en traje.
El mundo es un chiste malo, pero al menos aún sabemos reírnos.
🦄 ¡Soltad los unicornios! 👉 www.hoy.es/opinion/troy... #NoKings #SoltadLosUnicornios #AbsurdResistance #PunkNotPower
Los que sueñan con Hitler van en traje.
El mundo es un chiste malo, pero al menos aún sabemos reírnos.
🦄 ¡Soltad los unicornios! 👉 www.hoy.es/opinion/troy... #NoKings #SoltadLosUnicornios #AbsurdResistance #PunkNotPower
You can scrub the wall, but not the memory. My new piece for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social looks at what happens when states try to erase dissent — and why the scars always remain.
👉 counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/censorship-is-chaos-disguised-as-order
#Censorship #ArtAsResistance #Banksy #FreeSpeech
👉 counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/censorship-is-chaos-disguised-as-order
#Censorship #ArtAsResistance #Banksy #FreeSpeech
October 17, 2025 at 12:05 PM
You can scrub the wall, but not the memory. My new piece for @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social looks at what happens when states try to erase dissent — and why the scars always remain.
👉 counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/censorship-is-chaos-disguised-as-order
#Censorship #ArtAsResistance #Banksy #FreeSpeech
👉 counterpunch.org/2025/10/16/censorship-is-chaos-disguised-as-order
#Censorship #ArtAsResistance #Banksy #FreeSpeech
Halfway through this and couldn't recommend it more. Especially in today's climate.
October 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Halfway through this and couldn't recommend it more. Especially in today's climate.
Alberta’s “pause” on certain books isn’t caution — it’s control.
Censorship rarely announces itself. It creeps in, dressed as care.
My latest for @rabbleca:
The lists we keep, and the ones that keep us
rabble.ca/politics/can...
#BookBans #Censorship #FreedomToRead #Alberta #CdnPoli #CriticalThinking
Censorship rarely announces itself. It creeps in, dressed as care.
My latest for @rabbleca:
The lists we keep, and the ones that keep us
rabble.ca/politics/can...
#BookBans #Censorship #FreedomToRead #Alberta #CdnPoli #CriticalThinking
October 6, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Alberta’s “pause” on certain books isn’t caution — it’s control.
Censorship rarely announces itself. It creeps in, dressed as care.
My latest for @rabbleca:
The lists we keep, and the ones that keep us
rabble.ca/politics/can...
#BookBans #Censorship #FreedomToRead #Alberta #CdnPoli #CriticalThinking
Censorship rarely announces itself. It creeps in, dressed as care.
My latest for @rabbleca:
The lists we keep, and the ones that keep us
rabble.ca/politics/can...
#BookBans #Censorship #FreedomToRead #Alberta #CdnPoli #CriticalThinking
En Cáceres(y España)borran símbolos con agua a presión, pero la Cruz de los Caídos sigue en pie.
España lava la piedra, no la conciencia.
El fascismo no se borra: se actualiza.
🩸 #IlBraghettone #MemoriaHistórica #Cáceres #Fascismo2_0 #CicatricesNoBlanqueo #banksy
drive.google.com/file/d/13KKm...
España lava la piedra, no la conciencia.
El fascismo no se borra: se actualiza.
🩸 #IlBraghettone #MemoriaHistórica #Cáceres #Fascismo2_0 #CicatricesNoBlanqueo #banksy
drive.google.com/file/d/13KKm...
October 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
En Cáceres(y España)borran símbolos con agua a presión, pero la Cruz de los Caídos sigue en pie.
España lava la piedra, no la conciencia.
El fascismo no se borra: se actualiza.
🩸 #IlBraghettone #MemoriaHistórica #Cáceres #Fascismo2_0 #CicatricesNoBlanqueo #banksy
drive.google.com/file/d/13KKm...
España lava la piedra, no la conciencia.
El fascismo no se borra: se actualiza.
🩸 #IlBraghettone #MemoriaHistórica #Cáceres #Fascismo2_0 #CicatricesNoBlanqueo #banksy
drive.google.com/file/d/13KKm...
🍔💀 Ayuso no gobierna: fríe la política en grasa rancia, la envuelve en papel brillante y la vende como “libertad”.
🔥 En Nueva Tribuna la pongo a la parrilla:
👉 www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/act...
#FastFoodFascista #AyusoALaParrilla #PPMadrid #PolíticaBasura #NuevaTribuna
🔥 En Nueva Tribuna la pongo a la parrilla:
👉 www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/act...
#FastFoodFascista #AyusoALaParrilla #PPMadrid #PolíticaBasura #NuevaTribuna
October 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
🍔💀 Ayuso no gobierna: fríe la política en grasa rancia, la envuelve en papel brillante y la vende como “libertad”.
🔥 En Nueva Tribuna la pongo a la parrilla:
👉 www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/act...
#FastFoodFascista #AyusoALaParrilla #PPMadrid #PolíticaBasura #NuevaTribuna
🔥 En Nueva Tribuna la pongo a la parrilla:
👉 www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/act...
#FastFoodFascista #AyusoALaParrilla #PPMadrid #PolíticaBasura #NuevaTribuna
💥 Nuevo artículo: “España, Sarajevo de postureo”.
Mucho discurso, poco compromiso real.
¿Seguimos mirando hacia otro lado?
👉 www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/soc...
#España #Política #Opinión #DerechosHumanos #Postureo
Mucho discurso, poco compromiso real.
¿Seguimos mirando hacia otro lado?
👉 www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/soc...
#España #Política #Opinión #DerechosHumanos #Postureo
September 21, 2025 at 12:20 PM
💥 Nuevo artículo: “España, Sarajevo de postureo”.
Mucho discurso, poco compromiso real.
¿Seguimos mirando hacia otro lado?
👉 www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/soc...
#España #Política #Opinión #DerechosHumanos #Postureo
Mucho discurso, poco compromiso real.
¿Seguimos mirando hacia otro lado?
👉 www.nuevatribuna.es/articulo/soc...
#España #Política #Opinión #DerechosHumanos #Postureo
Pico Iyer in Falling Off The Map, writing in the early 90s.
30 years later it feels like prophesy.
#overtourism
#touristed2death
#masstourism
30 years later it feels like prophesy.
#overtourism
#touristed2death
#masstourism
September 13, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Pico Iyer in Falling Off The Map, writing in the early 90s.
30 years later it feels like prophesy.
#overtourism
#touristed2death
#masstourism
30 years later it feels like prophesy.
#overtourism
#touristed2death
#masstourism
Alberta's move to change the name of the province to Gilead in the New York Times.
archive.ph/TObsl
#AlbertabecomesGilead
#Nobookbans
#Its2025
archive.ph/TObsl
#AlbertabecomesGilead
#Nobookbans
#Its2025
September 3, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Alberta's move to change the name of the province to Gilead in the New York Times.
archive.ph/TObsl
#AlbertabecomesGilead
#Nobookbans
#Its2025
archive.ph/TObsl
#AlbertabecomesGilead
#Nobookbans
#Its2025
𝐀 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞
While the atavistic troglodytes pine for imaginary racial purity and the times before tomatoes, potatoes and Blues...
A groovier look is possible.
www.surinenglish.com/opinion/troy...
#Blues
While the atavistic troglodytes pine for imaginary racial purity and the times before tomatoes, potatoes and Blues...
A groovier look is possible.
www.surinenglish.com/opinion/troy...
#Blues
July 26, 2025 at 8:37 AM
𝐀 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞
While the atavistic troglodytes pine for imaginary racial purity and the times before tomatoes, potatoes and Blues...
A groovier look is possible.
www.surinenglish.com/opinion/troy...
#Blues
While the atavistic troglodytes pine for imaginary racial purity and the times before tomatoes, potatoes and Blues...
A groovier look is possible.
www.surinenglish.com/opinion/troy...
#Blues
Jan Morris from "A Writer's World".
July 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Jan Morris from "A Writer's World".
Call me atavistic but it's always nice to see it in print.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/kil...
Thanks @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/kil...
Thanks @bostonreview.bsky.social
June 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Call me atavistic but it's always nice to see it in print.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/kil...
Thanks @bostonreview.bsky.social
www.bostonreview.net/articles/kil...
Thanks @bostonreview.bsky.social
Is it just me or isn't it a bit ironic that Canadians are getting so excited about a 'No Kings' day, somewhere else?
#abolishthemonarchy
#Canadianmonarchy
#kingcharles
#nokings
#abolishthemonarchy
#Canadianmonarchy
#kingcharles
#nokings
June 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Is it just me or isn't it a bit ironic that Canadians are getting so excited about a 'No Kings' day, somewhere else?
#abolishthemonarchy
#Canadianmonarchy
#kingcharles
#nokings
#abolishthemonarchy
#Canadianmonarchy
#kingcharles
#nokings
In fact there is...
Shame he might sully it.
Shame he might sully it.
June 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In fact there is...
Shame he might sully it.
Shame he might sully it.
Bless...
Fascists protesting in Madrid demanding elections while flying flags of a time when elections were prohibited.
Fascists protesting in Madrid demanding elections while flying flags of a time when elections were prohibited.
May 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Bless...
Fascists protesting in Madrid demanding elections while flying flags of a time when elections were prohibited.
Fascists protesting in Madrid demanding elections while flying flags of a time when elections were prohibited.
After nearly 20yrs I have finally discovered peak Spain.
May 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
After nearly 20yrs I have finally discovered peak Spain.