压力山大
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What a marvelous essay. Really evokes the feeling of two celestial bodies orbiting, as in constantly falling in the direction of one another, but always missing.
Looking back at Bowie's Outside and Walker's Tilt, both released 30 years ago, Ned Raggett says the pair might not have met but the energy of respect and influence travelled between them in strange ways
Many Happy Returns to #DavidBowie's Outside, which turns 30 today!
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Many Happy Returns to #DavidBowie's Outside, which turns 30 today!
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September 26, 2025 at 8:20 AM
What a marvelous essay. Really evokes the feeling of two celestial bodies orbiting, as in constantly falling in the direction of one another, but always missing.
LSD, by Cardiacs
17 track album
alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Suffocatingly tense, full of dread and despair, but most of all truthful and compassionate. A novel about standing up to mounting losses and being crushed under the wheels of history. A relentless masterpiece.
#booksky
#booksky
August 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Suffocatingly tense, full of dread and despair, but most of all truthful and compassionate. A novel about standing up to mounting losses and being crushed under the wheels of history. A relentless masterpiece.
#booksky
#booksky
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Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: @keithkahnharris.bsky.social on Ozzy Osbourne's final gig:
"Gone was the clown prince of darkness, throwing buckets of water over the audience; in place of such slapstick was an intensity never seen before."
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
"Gone was the clown prince of darkness, throwing buckets of water over the audience; in place of such slapstick was an intensity never seen before."
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park | The Quietus
Black Sabbath began with a broken body – Tony Iommi's industrial accident – it is both fitting and inspirational they end in the same way.
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July 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: @keithkahnharris.bsky.social on Ozzy Osbourne's final gig:
"Gone was the clown prince of darkness, throwing buckets of water over the audience; in place of such slapstick was an intensity never seen before."
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
"Gone was the clown prince of darkness, throwing buckets of water over the audience; in place of such slapstick was an intensity never seen before."
thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
This one is probably never getting translated into English, but whatever. A collection of short horror stories about living in a repressive state, whose violence is so familiar and normalised that it feels like a part of nature. Laser-focused and poignant. Book of the year so far.
#booksky
#booksky
July 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
This one is probably never getting translated into English, but whatever. A collection of short horror stories about living in a repressive state, whose violence is so familiar and normalised that it feels like a part of nature. Laser-focused and poignant. Book of the year so far.
#booksky
#booksky
The latest Kazuki Tomokawa is great. I still don't understand a word of Japanese, but faced with a voice like this one doesn't have to.
July 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The latest Kazuki Tomokawa is great. I still don't understand a word of Japanese, but faced with a voice like this one doesn't have to.
A celebration of forgotten and spent lives, told from the uniquely immigrant perspective of trying to reconstruct the sense of belonging from haphasard symbols and interactions. Troves of poetic and absurd descriptions of the mundane, as expected from Vuong. A melancholic delight.
#booksky
#booksky
July 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A celebration of forgotten and spent lives, told from the uniquely immigrant perspective of trying to reconstruct the sense of belonging from haphasard symbols and interactions. Troves of poetic and absurd descriptions of the mundane, as expected from Vuong. A melancholic delight.
#booksky
#booksky
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I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I spent months on this investigation and gathered docs from the UK courts, Land Registry and a French local authority, to show that Raynor and Moth Winn's story is not as they claim. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social @observeruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
A religious book, but in a sense very Anglican at that. Blazing through the ages, it puts forth that the source of holiness is not God, but the sum total of continuous and interlinked and transient human existence. Highly recommended.
#booksky
#booksky
May 2, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A religious book, but in a sense very Anglican at that. Blazing through the ages, it puts forth that the source of holiness is not God, but the sum total of continuous and interlinked and transient human existence. Highly recommended.
#booksky
#booksky
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I once received an electric shock during torture only for writing for Radio Liberty: I was told that it was "a CIA structure and an enemy of Russia", and for that reason alone I was already guilty.
Now, the "enemy of Russia" is being destroyed by America itself, and my torture seems doubly in vain.
Now, the "enemy of Russia" is being destroyed by America itself, and my torture seems doubly in vain.
March 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I once received an electric shock during torture only for writing for Radio Liberty: I was told that it was "a CIA structure and an enemy of Russia", and for that reason alone I was already guilty.
Now, the "enemy of Russia" is being destroyed by America itself, and my torture seems doubly in vain.
Now, the "enemy of Russia" is being destroyed by America itself, and my torture seems doubly in vain.
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I have just this moment discovered that PJ Harvey did a cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart. It's beautiful of course. How could it not be?
youtu.be/YLnY0TXOl8w?...
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PJ Harvey, Tim Phillips - Love Will Tear Us Apart
YouTube video by T K
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March 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I have just this moment discovered that PJ Harvey did a cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart. It's beautiful of course. How could it not be?
youtu.be/YLnY0TXOl8w?...
youtu.be/YLnY0TXOl8w?...
I had very high expectations after This Is How You Lose the Time War, and was not disappointed. Delicious, ecstatic, masterful prose from the first to the last page. Page adornments surprisingly add to it all. Can't wait for the short story collection!
#booksky
#booksky
March 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
I had very high expectations after This Is How You Lose the Time War, and was not disappointed. Delicious, ecstatic, masterful prose from the first to the last page. Page adornments surprisingly add to it all. Can't wait for the short story collection!
#booksky
#booksky
An excellent memoir about growing up in 80-90s Albania. Fundamentally humanising, full of hope and disillusionment, a still life of a society in flux.
#booksky
#booksky
February 28, 2025 at 11:33 PM
An excellent memoir about growing up in 80-90s Albania. Fundamentally humanising, full of hope and disillusionment, a still life of a society in flux.
#booksky
#booksky
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Oklou - choke enough
so glad I gave this a shot thanks to a few friends posting about it. lush, future-tilt dreamy pop that's right up my alley. funny enough my college gf had that cd player shown on the cover art oklou.bandcamp.com/album/choke-...
so glad I gave this a shot thanks to a few friends posting about it. lush, future-tilt dreamy pop that's right up my alley. funny enough my college gf had that cd player shown on the cover art oklou.bandcamp.com/album/choke-...
February 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Oklou - choke enough
so glad I gave this a shot thanks to a few friends posting about it. lush, future-tilt dreamy pop that's right up my alley. funny enough my college gf had that cd player shown on the cover art oklou.bandcamp.com/album/choke-...
so glad I gave this a shot thanks to a few friends posting about it. lush, future-tilt dreamy pop that's right up my alley. funny enough my college gf had that cd player shown on the cover art oklou.bandcamp.com/album/choke-...
Green Morning | Eli Keszler | live @Le Guess Who? 2024 | Vrije Geluiden
YouTube video by vrije geluiden
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January 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Adding this to my lexicon
December 16, 2024 at 6:32 PM
Adding this to my lexicon
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US friends, I'm very excited to announce that @tordotcom.bsky.social is sending me on tour for THE RIVER HAS ROOTS next year!
Confirmed so far are stops in NYC, Portland ME, Chapel Hill, Cincinatti, & St. Louis, & you can book your tickets now!
us.macmillan.com/tours/amal-e...
Confirmed so far are stops in NYC, Portland ME, Chapel Hill, Cincinatti, & St. Louis, & you can book your tickets now!
us.macmillan.com/tours/amal-e...
December 3, 2024 at 6:35 PM
US friends, I'm very excited to announce that @tordotcom.bsky.social is sending me on tour for THE RIVER HAS ROOTS next year!
Confirmed so far are stops in NYC, Portland ME, Chapel Hill, Cincinatti, & St. Louis, & you can book your tickets now!
us.macmillan.com/tours/amal-e...
Confirmed so far are stops in NYC, Portland ME, Chapel Hill, Cincinatti, & St. Louis, & you can book your tickets now!
us.macmillan.com/tours/amal-e...
goat.bandcamp.com/track/ourobo... - doesn't reach the heights of early albums, but Goat continues to be consistently excellent #music
Ouroboros, by Goat
from the album Goat
goat.bandcamp.com
December 13, 2024 at 10:13 PM
goat.bandcamp.com/track/ourobo... - doesn't reach the heights of early albums, but Goat continues to be consistently excellent #music
Context aside, I wouldn't be surprised to see this in some queer photography exhibition
December 13, 2024 at 12:53 AM
Context aside, I wouldn't be surprised to see this in some queer photography exhibition
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This has always been my worst fear about climate change: the worse it gets, the more geopolitical chaos it causes; the more geopolitical chaos there is, the harder it is to cooperate to fight climate change.
theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
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A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning
Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.
theconversation.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:01 PM
This has always been my worst fear about climate change: the worse it gets, the more geopolitical chaos it causes; the more geopolitical chaos there is, the harder it is to cooperate to fight climate change.
theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...
theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...