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Matthew Stillman

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Creativity, play, relationality, culture and beauty making, teacher of “Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory” poetry course. Boo to conspiracy thinking and collapsed epistemologies. Stillmansays.substack.com

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He’s not invisible though, but he does have secrets to conceal.

03.03.2026 01:31 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No Means No
The ends don’t justify this Means
This mighty Casey must strike out

25.02.2026 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m here for her and she’s far and away my first choice!

12.02.2026 15:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m all in for AOC for president.

07.02.2026 03:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s built into the bill and the theory more broadly. More to say about this than could be tapped out here!

29.01.2026 00:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Those lots are basically not taxed at all. A minimal holding tax on building value. Rich LLCs who don’t care about our city of communities drain possibilities from NYC by taking loans on valuable land.

28.01.2026 21:44 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

State Senator Cordell Cleare has a bill that would allow NYC to create fifth class (Class 5) for property tax that would tax vacant and abandoned property near to the full value of land. There is a lot of it in our city. That capital can never leave.

28.01.2026 20:21 — 👍 23    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

Piece is back up with great explanatory note now

19.01.2026 03:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sent to threads of y email

18.01.2026 01:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@matthewremski.bsky.social the original post was taken down by the author due to harassment but someone dear to me still had the tab open and she saved the text and references if you want them.

18.01.2026 01:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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How I Saw the Grift Behind The Telepathy Tapes A Story On Media Literacy and High-Control Systems

Critical read on the superstructure of the political/epistemic/wellness/spiritual con of The Telepathy Tapes open.substack.com/pub/esoteric... cc @matthewremski.bsky.social

16.01.2026 21:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Was coming to see if this was about the latest terrible poem by Amanda Gorman. But it wasn’t and yet I’m still in the camp of these posts.

11.01.2026 11:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I heard he’s going to fight hairline fractures of the ulna with carp filets.

31.12.2025 13:14 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So let’s get together, I mean it’s time.

27.12.2025 15:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh lord! I’m so thrilled to know this for you. Meet you at the Think Book to exchange feelings about this.

27.12.2025 15:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Where are you standing on impeachment for not just Trump but for all the criminals? Cleaning house is a must.

27.12.2025 13:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I think you mean one ballroom

18.12.2025 17:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Prop 13 in CA is a problem for this. But more broadly shifting property taxes away from buildings and onto taxes on land values would do so much to this end

17.12.2025 19:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Cast it out of lead
It’s not Passover season
So have a little bread

01.12.2025 18:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

In a digital environment the eyes may be the defenestration of the soul

25.11.2025 18:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Next rounds of Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory ... January 2026 Its hard to know if the blessings are woven in with the hard things or the persistence of the present but unwished for matters are stitched into the lining of the sweetnesses...

I’m too lucky to be able to teach another set of rounds of my online course “Committed To Heart, Committed To Memory” in January. If this dusty but joyous & life affirming skill sounds interesting…come through. stillmansays.substack.com/p/next-round...

@whatashrinkthinks.com still intrigued?

25.11.2025 18:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

No better way to start than to tax the land values of vacant and abandoned plots in the city with a 5th class then start up taxing land values as well

25.11.2025 16:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s such a brilliant cover though shoutouts to Ella Fitzgeralds 1956 version, Julie Londons slinky cover from 61 and Bobby Blands 1962 pre-funk funk

22.11.2025 23:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Any wondering about how to proceed with post-literacy, I think, should seriously engage with McLuhan

20.11.2025 00:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Marshall McLuhan was talking about the effects of “post-literate society” as happening in the early 60s. Reading what he wrote then feels like now.

19.11.2025 23:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Barry Lord in his great book “The Art of Energy” makes a compelling case that each civilization/society has a primary energy source & that source fundamentally shapes the culture’s ethical/moral/relational understanding. He tracks wind &yolked animals, human slaves, coal, gas. Worth contending with!

19.11.2025 13:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just bought the book based on this write up alone!

14.11.2025 22:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just sit right back and you’ll hear a tale
A tale of a fateful king
Whose wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command is ‘bout what I’m here to sing
Now Ozy was a kinda big works guy
The mighty looked round and despaired
If not for shattered visage we couldn’t stop and stare

Here on Ozys Isle!

31.10.2025 02:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It’s almost as if… how would you say it? hmmm… it’s like they WANT them infected, amiright?

19.09.2025 17:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also in jiu jitsu, activating the third wrist spot (this is not a joke, truly) is called “oil checking”. So if I need to oil check Joe Rogan for bro-science I’m here for it

19.09.2025 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0