The future.

Meet the Losers Who Still Want to Read and Think With Their Own Brains

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon, Mounts Towards Infinity (Odilon Redon, Lithograph, 1882).

Every time I look at him I see Colin Robinson fr!!!

Recently, Liminal’s “A Thousand Thoughts” for being a jaw-droppingly bad song on the credits of the jaw-droppingly bad Sandman adaptation. Sounded like a Disney pop duet.

Those boys would all technically be noted down as Mohammads, but in real life no one would be going around calling them that.

I would assume that a significant part of this has to do with cultural naming practices. I know that in Afghanistan, for example, a normal practice is for boys to have a compound name. 1st part is Mohammad, Abdul, Ali, or another common set name; 2nd part is the actual personal name.

Our flâneur president is exploring the psychogeography of the White House in the context of its urban environment but go off

As a white Texan who moved back with a South Asian spouse and now teaches white Texan kids who are catastrophically underprepared to compete at a global level but shielded from this realization by strict systems of privilege but direct racism towards my husband… I could write an essay.

Imagine picking Frisco, Texas as the homeland whose takeover you want retvrners to resist

I was lucky enough to see them live in NYC in 2006… incredible show. Unforgettable guy; tragic passing.

They’re mostly all dimensions of a single crisis.

The other day my husband referred to our bratty dog as “a right little mister,” a phrase I genuinely thought only British people in American productions of A Christmas Carol used

Islamist is when secular Arab socialism

Until someone has a freakier Friday.

I struggle with the sadness I feel around friends and/or cultural figures who, even as public consensus has shifted, haven’t risen to the moral moment on Palestine.

This is Alevism erasure

See also “the body without organs” or anything having to do with Deleuze.

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

This today from Rashid Khalidi: "These decisions, taken in close collaboration with the Trump administration, have made it impossible for me to teach modern Middle East history, the field of my scholarship & teaching for over 50 years, 23 of them at Columbia."

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Been speaking to an Iranian student of mine for some time about this and it is just a horrible situation, like the most Dreyfuss affair style obvious distraction bigotry from the regime's humiliation in war, and it works now just as it worked then. Shame on those involved!

Some of us do not know who Sydney Sweeney is and only care about trans sharia

When is this from?

wtf is the Great Sort? Also, one of the smartest people I know works at Kroger because he’s a refugee.

In 2022 after the Afghan evacuation I started talking to Afghan Evac ppl about the idea that the U.S. gov was not “making mistakes” w/ immigrant/refugee cases and it didn’t “need its eyes opened”— it was consciously behaving as designed. I see a straight line between the two things.

I fucking hate to be rent in twain

I’ve read through this entire comment section and no one has pointed out that students from Iran are already (I believe) banned from studying here under the most recent travel ban?

Elites and institutions have not “collapsed.” They have not “changed their tunes.” They have not “failed.” They are not “cowards.”

They were and are simply been focused only on their own self-preservation and profit.

Nothing has changed. They simply made a cost benefit analysis, and fascism wins.

I’m unfamiliar with the uncommitted jihadist trans houthi platform but I’m certainly intrigued to hear their pitch.