Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea

I've been thinking a lot about how, now, thanks to our phones and screens, every waking hour of the day is subject to capital extraction through data, which is collected and bundled, and sold without you or I even knowing we labored. Reading a physical book breaks from that, and I sometimes feel physical relief in my head when I detach from the monitor; putting eyes on text that doesn't move, read a line, close the book, take a breath, stare out into the sky, open the book back up, notice something, then notice something about the room I'm in, or the park bench. Sometimes the relief of this feels like someone cracked open my skull and poured cool water on the hot machine; other times I'm too scattered and frightened about the future to do anything but sit beside the book while I scroll.

Enjoyed this piece on Pynchon by @devintoshea.bsky.social which phrases a point @mattseybold.bsky.social makes - “Print is a Rent Strike” - in another way

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Great article right here

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Absolutely amazing documentary I was lucky to see a showing of tonight at the Hi Pointe. Joining Walter Johnson, Gwen Moore (neither of whom are on bluesky) in the film to provide great historical context to Percy's one of a kind social justice action, is @devintoshea.bsky.social

mark’s substack is essential stuff - sub and support this work!

More people should be talking about it!

Mmmmmm love me some Thomas Pynchon thinkpiece. This has me yearning to go do a little reading that scrambles my brain. Just a smidge. As a treat.

Ah so it runs in the family

Don’t get me wrong - we should do BRT all over here - it does work and it’s a great cheap improvement, but the diminished expectations is total bullshit - they had 4 years of Brandon to get this done

the trolley is possible, the chess hall of fame is possible, the stlpd needs state of the art training facilities and armament, but the Metrolink can only go east and west — it's too expensive to make it go north and south

MetroLink Gates Put Ordinary St. Louisans In Their Place On January 1, Belgrade made mass transit free while St. Louis is spending $52 million on security gates for its MetroLink, neglecting user needs. Is civic imagination suffering amid crime-focused n…

Roach's job is to spend the least amount of money on public transit in St. Louis as is possible, unless it's on gates and security — he's the guy who comes in to bargain things down while Joe Edwards does the absolute dumbest shit possible with a trolley line

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Taulby Roach has wanted BRT from the start because he doesn't really give a shit about public transit in st. louis — he doesn't ride it, his biggest accomplishment has been spending 52 million dollars on prison-gates at the entrances to the MetroLink, and people are pissed

hell yeah, thank you Bill - i'll look up what patronymic means but for now i'll take it as a compliment

thank you brother 🫡

i usually say Inherent Vice as the best way in - plus you can watch the movie after!

Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

In @literaryhub.bsky.social, @devintoshea.bsky.social describes how movies are popularizing the classic #Pynchon theme: "The war between the powerful and the powerless."
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it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out

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big thank you to @joshualawrence.bsky.social for the gifts ‼️

wizard frog is insane

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

guess we'll have to have a platinum age, or some sort of new moniker for when everything is going good all at the same time

let’s gooooo

enjoying the multiple golden ages

"They Still Carry On! Native Fascists: How to Spot Them and Stop Them" published by the U.S. War Department in 1945

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