Ivan Kreilkamp

The Surprising Adventures of Bigenio, an Hermaphrodite, Or Human Being, Endowed with the Propensities of Both Sexes. @ Lilly Library

🙏 to @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social for pulling this & other treasures for my class to see

We Didn’t Ask for This Internet Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 02/06/2026 · 1h 27m

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Amazing how Cory Doctorow can produce this stuff on the fly, at Eminem-like speed

From convo with Tim Wu on
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social show

Ah someone wrote about this one:

On Thumbs - The Essays of Michel de Montaigne On Thumbs. Chapter 26 of Book 2 of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne translated by Charles Cotton

People talk about "On Solitude," "On Cannibals," "On the Power of the Imagination," et al.., but to really grasp Montaigne you need to go to the deep cuts. Like "On Thumbs," which is kind of like a Notes files about references to thumbs in history and art

Idk, I am enjoying reports on its stock’s price collapse. Those are good reading imo

Important fact I learned today from @arkhamlibrarian.bsky.social… The author of the first publication in English about birth control by a physician (The Fruits of Philosophy, or the Private Companion of Young Married People, 1832), Charles Knowlton, was SMOLDERINGLY good looking

always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post

Chartbook 432 "Writing column. Talking w peril" - polycrisis or stroke? Why do people, more specifically, rich, famous and powerful men, do the things they do?

“What we are actually glimpsing through the released emails and txts are the slightly more cogent participants at a messy, dark, orgy watching from within their own derangement the worst of all take power”

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad.

Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

When I saw pictures of Liam Ramos with his Spidey backpack and bunny hat, I felt an overwhelming responsibility as someone who works in superhero comics. Please do check out the art in #Comics4Liam and visit comics4liam.com to support Liam and groups helping other immigrants like him. ❤️💪🐇

The Brazilian Director Who’s Up for Multiple Oscars Kleber Mendonça Filho wants his films to reclaim lost history.

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“I never compartmentalized criticism, filmmaking, going to the cinema. In my mind, it was all the same thing: watching films and writing about them and trying to understand what culture is trying to say… And for me, that’s doing cinema. There was never a boundary for me.”

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

“.. Democrat and machinist union leader Taylor Rehmet won the special election Saturday .. a stunning upset that injected a fresh and urgent sense of a panic into the GOP from the Texas Capitol to the White House ..”

@texastribune.org #SSD9
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“With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike”

What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses

It’s a trivial element here, but I enjoyed the role Blind Melon’s “No Rain” plays at the end- a reminder that even bad pop songs can gather unexpected meanings in the world

Opinion | Is ‘Literary Fiction’ Just Another Genre Now? There is no real middlebrow any more.

Another turn on the Genre Turn (and a review of Jeremy Rosen’s excellent Genre Bending). www.chronicle.com/article/is-l...

A crimson apparition floats against a field of night: a heavy, clouded mass from which several hooked tendrils extend, curling forward like grasping fingers. The substance appears dense and clotted at its core, as though desire itself had thickened into matter, while the outstretched filaments betray an urgent reaching, a thirst that cannot be stilled. Neither flame nor flesh, it hovers with the uneasy vitality of a moral weather—an emotion made visible, insistently red, straining toward its object with blind persistence. Fig 29, "GREED FOR DRINK," from THOUGHT-FORMS by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbetter (1905).

I've got to be "greed for drink"

h/t I came to this book via Shannon Taggart’s 'Seance'

“In these pictures that which is obtained is not the thought-image, but the effect caused in etheric matter by its vibrations, and it is necessary to clairvoyantly see the thought in order to understand the results produced”

#science!

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THOUGHT-FORMS by Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbetter (1905). Vague Selfish Affection, Vague Intellectual Pleasure, Angry Jealousy, the Intention to Know, etc. Tag yourself!

I've been on an Art Tatum kick, I find his music kind of anti-depressive. Love this: a student in the field of computational musicology coined the term "tatum", defined as "the smallest time interval between successive notes in a rhythmic phrase", and "the fastest pulse present in a piece of music"

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

Possibly too on the nose, Woke God?

Loves Jesus ✅
& America too ✅
crazy 'bout Elvis ✅
Loves horses ❓

@andrewhickey.500songs.com

This March 1965 Herblock cartoon about police violence against civil rights activists has added relevance today.

Target Center crowd erupts with “FUCK ICE” following the moment of silence for Alex Pretti

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"