Mari Bastashevski

Elderly man wearing only shorts with a blanket over his shoulders is flanked by ICE officers on either side as he descends the front stairs of him home in the snow. “A man, whose family requested a Hmong interpreter, is detained after ICE agents and other law enforcement officers conducted an immigration raid at his home, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., January 18, 2026.REUTERS/Leah Millis” via @idreesali114.bsky.social on X

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.

(Photo via Reuters)

A girl lifted my wallet in the locker room. Scrolling through her travel and transaction history and honestly? Taste this clean deserves a line of credit…

platform capitalism 2026

An extract from my latest in PSYCHE magazine.
psyche.co/ideas/why-be...

a country that siphoned billions from culture and education for defence against russian invasion goes into a full panic mode shutdown on snow day…

Four years before John Constable painted this in 1821, John Keats was writing about 'Negative Capability: 'when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason.' This is what negative capability looks like in paint.

really not sure the hoarding principle is what gives time value

training chat into debate mode.

a piece of shit, lite… ? everyone needs one and no one knew.

Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart

an insider account of a carastrophic fuck up by Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/ins...

"Karl Marx failed to consider brain worms"

i sure hope so! nothing good about it since like the 19th century

there is a rat running around in an exhibition about poverty.this animal’s sense of conceptual belonging and irony compliments if not this completes this otherwise rather predictable work and its lackluster chatgpt captions.

These section titles are kind of perfect. I’m not sure they need any changes, or the 9,000 words that follow them.

Will & Disgrace!

"implicit and explicit complicity" 😮‍💨

It’s strange to be in a position just far enough above the threshold that your income security actually depends on which political party wins the majority. Stakes r stressful, but the odds are slightly better than no political representation at all.

psychoanalysis is learning to live again after philosophy.
(vibing with Jung)

"We all chunk. We are all categorizers and users. Life’s conventional elements demand that of us. But we are all also transcendental-fielders. After all, a chunk is only a chunk against the contrasting background of the field as a singular-generic spacetime of experience. "

The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman Terry Ball runs elaborate mollusc-based tax avoidance schemes that are costing London councils millions of pounds. Yet when London Centric tracks him down, an even stranger story emerges.

outrageously scandalous and delicious read about anachronistic mafia, snails, and taxes.
“I just do it for devilment. I do it just to get away with it.”
www.londoncentric.media/p/terry-ball...

very true, paranoia even

what is perceived as ‘present’ is the “vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation”

Apparently it’s very hard for Benjamin Bratton to understand that people resist tech because they *do not want the tech.* People do not embrace the tech he wants just because he once used 3,000 pages to vaguely explain what infrastructure is.

why is this relationship dynamic so enduring...? 😭😭😭

there’s an apple in my fridge I realized was forgotten since July. it didn’t mind that at all. it didn’t rot, a real people pleaser, yet I’m never so out of fruit to actually want to eat it. are we really supposed to believe that paradise was lost over something so aseptic?

Playing the Field with My A.I. Boyfriends Nineteen per cent of American adults have talked to an A.I. romantic interest. Chatbots may know a lot, but do they make a good partner?

" I was looking for someone who was smart enough to condense “Remembrance of Things Past” into a paragraph" 😭 and then what?
(kill me now) www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

i still hate boris more.

from today's lecture on cellular meat cultures by Clemens Driessen: the frikandel theory: it's a scandal, but is it really? does anyone knows exactly what's in it? (nope) but does anyone wants to know? (also no) @culturalgeography.bsky.social

paid phd for positions for artists at KASK in Ghent
schoolofartsgent.be/en/research/...