ian maxton

can’t believe the stuff that is still taking up space in mine somewhere; need to run one of those programs called like Dr. CleanDisk on my brain

it’s crazy how they recreated 2014 on here . . . like stepping into a time machine

i thought one of the lessons we were supposed to have learned in the last ten years is that beloved friends colleagues and institutions can sometimes turn out to have done bad things but i guess it’s still going to stay 2014 forever

insane wagon-circling on here for larb

the best time for everyone to get way more cynical about para-academic publications was 15 years ago the second best time is today

huh!

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one of our worst writers and thinkers – makes me hope i’m around to salt the earth when u.s. magazine publishing is fully dead

spelled his name wrong so i will add that mckellen really is even better than you think he is

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with that mckellan clip going around i would be remiss not to recommend john barton’s series on acting in shakespeare; revelatory for me:

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drives me insane

this sounds like a “friend who’s too woke” opinion but yoko ono approximately infinite universe is as good as the best beatles solo stuff (feeling the space right up there, too)

keep forgetting to post this but: last fm january

avg. ntt posting with a 4/4 load

imo the strong version is not analogical; Historical Fascism emerges “late” in the process of the thing it names: the frontal assault of necessity on freedom (which we can call communism if we want) – now maybe giving these things names at all is a mistake but idk if anyone has made that case

yeah i’m sure it varies and obviously the twitter algorithm is not promoting that kind of thing (i only ever look at people i follow tho)

Social media accounts of Palestinians desperate for funds are being flagged as spam People in Gaza use Bluesky to crowdfund for milk and diapers – repeated deletion of their profiles has spawned a guerrilla verification squad

tbf i mostly follow people here that left twitter so there’s a selection bias certainly, but also: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

getting morally righteous about where you Post is ludicrous because posting is evil and we’re all going to (purgative) hell for doing it

it is crazy the degree to which palestine is totally absent from here v. the other site

John Boorman is 93.
This anecdote about him & Lee Marvin has quite the punchline.

this is good but long and winding road slander is absurd

tim walz a pathetic and worthless rat – a remaining lifetime of ignominy is too good for him but at least it’s something

last last fm friday

Remembering Samuel Beckett

i was very annoyed about having to write up a summary of some research i’m doing in order to get some conference travel funds yesterday but unfortunately it was in the process of doing this that i developed the most clearly articulated version of what i’m trying to do right now

absolutely insane that we tolerate the way this is done

last fm friday

last fm friday

what a wonderful tribute to a great hoosier — i am so sorry for your loss