the society of the spectre cult

*standng up on the plane* it's a common misconception that "the spectacle" refers to like, tiktok or ads or reality TV whatever, but that's not what de bord is getting at. the spectacle is the dominant social relationship which is conveyed via image. ok it's easier if i just read. in societies whe

From NY Times article on newly-reopened Goya Museum in Spain: If I already had plenty of reason to dislike "immersive" art experiences, looks like for this projected image they inexplicably tweaked the colors in Goya's famed "Third of May" painting. Why..?? Art museums get ever closer to Disneyland

listen I know Chow is also problematic but not 'privatize your water' type shit. anyway she has one of the wildest media collections of any current mayor

i bet marielle is gonna feel great when she reads this!!

i'm no expert but i assume there is at least one jinn here

Fear and Hunger (2018)

it's the letterboxd day! send me your letterboxd I wanna follow you

does the NDP have juice again

D&D resembles a western more than anything, a genre wherein the protagonists are defined by their lack of responsibilities.

bluenose motel sign, bedford, nova scotia, 1979

the other day i was rolling down queen street and a dude came out of a vape shop, locked eyes with me, and said, "have a good day. if you don't, I will kill myself." I was pretty tired so all I could come with in response was "don't do that"

this advice is stupid and i hate that sentence fragments are suddenly ok in formal writing

traumatized from fighting a war? a glorious troop, give this noble patriot a senate seat. sought therapy after childhood sexual assault by a family member? an inncorrigible lying bitch, constitutionally disqualified from public office.

This is actually just typical Québec French

having a president who is both head of state and head of government ends up leading to a situation where the president is an avatar of the nation and easily becomes a strongman (bad!). in parliamentary systems, the PM is always just some goober and we all know it.

the crazy thing is that as a freelancer I am a small business (,man) but none of those assholes give a damn about me because I am, in fact, too small

"Introduce yourself as what almost killed you" idk man it seems like most of you guys live a lot more dangerously than me

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I have a print of this on my wall to remind me that my forebears were way cooler than me. The title also comes from a Chinese folk tale: ymaa.com/articles/201...

hey man me and the gang have been kinda worried about thy symmetry these days. lookin a little fearful

Because you all deserve something good today: Allan Rohan Crite's luminous & deeply felt "Streetcar Madonna," 1946. Crite was an African-American artist & illustrator based in the Boston area whose work consistently celebrated his religious faith

if men were not cowards they would also wear leggings when they did deadlifts so their shorts wouldn't snag on the bar

probably some kind of vampire hunter I was a weird kid

God I feel like I'm always trying to defend Jacobin against allegations of brocialism and then they publish some shit like this jacobin.com/2026/10/lone...

Checking in on Jacobin

cryptid

in the last interview I did it was a week or so after I got a concussion and it really shows lol. The interviewee was very nice about it but idk it I can publish that shit lol. man havinb cognitive impairment sucks so bad. Apparently I once used my brain for many things

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

what if it happened in the most ironic way possible

menswear guy Canadian Heritage Minute when???

I am delighted to introduce you to this quickly aborted public health campaign from the Yukon

the crazy thing about making time for any creative pursuit is that you literally have to do what you have a gut-deep yearning to do or else you'll see other people doing it, and it WILL make you insane.