using the Black Sea as a mirror when everyone knows the Black Sea is a terrible mirror, like God is a terrible simile for me but like God with his mirror, I use it

Whether deliberately orchestrated or by deliberate negligence blooger, the program and product, is sinking into suck at the same accelerating pace as every effing thing else. Besides the preview-post not updating after I edit the post before publishing (happening now) the most notable farts are the increasing number of sites on the blogrolls whose feeds won't update (though blooger insists the feed is live and active) - I know the Blog Days of Summer have started (commences every year after Spring college and university commencements) and the number of people posting and reading will slow dramatically, but there are people on the blogrolls posting (Naked Capitalism, for instance) whose new posts are not reflected in real time on the blogrolls' timelines. I cleared caches on my work and personal machines and tested other PCs in the Library, it's bloogle, not me. I mention this not as a hint of my future as a blegacider but as a simple but excellent example of abundant fine fucking metaphors' abounding. The enshittification epidemic be real. Be sure to spiral





New, that, go buy this at bandcamp. I'm gonna sue myself for ten million dollars then give myself almost two million dollars to drop the suit, I said yesterday to the unsmiling visage of my friend and former polisci professor (and Christopher Lasch apostle) who has playfully teased me for three decades for being a crazy canary, crazy weathervane, crazy Cassandra, and lunatic doomsaying fool. You win, he said, the times are as crazy as you. I did *not* recommend that split OOIOO/Lightning Bolt album to him (who shares Elric's given first name and adores Mahler), but you? YES! go buy that album at bandcamp for the new OOIOO but especially buy it for the new Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt comes highly recommended, I can't play them in the car when L is with me! a Swans-level vouch from her!

The Empire Is Not Being Saved. It Is Being Liquidated
Mediocrity as a Technological Imperative
The regime is quietly working to create a permanent underclass
"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"
Militarised Accumulation and the Irrational Rationality of the Iran War
The Rise of ‘Castle-ness’ as Monuments to Oligarchy?
The Billionaire Plot to Put Women Back in Chains
unscheduled sudden midair disassembly of the American empire
We are ruled by motherfucking sociopaths
Delegitimizing the Juristocracy					Rights require money
⮩	"very good and it zeroes in on a really important dynamic: the way the professionalization of the court and the industry around it serves to insulate the justices from democratic feedback as well as contribute to the idea that the justices are law wizards to whom we *ought* to defer"
Today in I hate motherfucking Democrats, hate
Today in I hate motherfucking Democrats, hate
"the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women"
Today in I hate motherfucking Democrats, hate
Today in I hate motherfucking Democrats, hate
"written by the health "reporter" at the NYT who is constantly questioning every minute detail of youth gender care, seen here writing with praise about conservatives abusing testosterone"
Avedon Carol's occasional links					All this used to be underwater
"Alt Headline: “State that stripped 2 congressional seats from its cities and took away representation from majority-Black Memphis potentially rewarded with Super Bowl. (After spending half a billion state taxpayer dollars on a new stadium)” @NFL"
sinister herpetological divinities is the name of my next band			Everywhere I Look, I See Myself
Econometrics, The Musical					Hunted, banned
Pricing, Problems and the 2026 FIFA World Cup
Maggie		Invasion of the universe				Neurosis
He is absolutely right! and other sporeds tails
Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them!
Carl Jung on the Power of Tarot Cards
Why Did Humans Evolve to Favor One Hand Over the Other?
My parents took me and Elric to both chicken pox and mumps parties
The Fastball Has Never Been Faster
2028 Is When Traditional Publishing Plans to Quietly Kill Literary Fiction
Embrace Your Marginality					{ feuilleton }
On Deep Space Nine's voyages to the "crazy alternate universe!"
Olga Tokarczuk zapowiada ostatnią powieść w karierze: „Pisanie długich opowieści jest dziś ekonomicznie nieopłacalne”
☟ Beneath the Paving Stones, the River ☟					Pelican Child
“[P]oetry is, at an occult or clandestine level, infinitely capacious”: An Interview with Lisa Robertson
Thomas Pynchon, Brian Wilson, Neil Young & Los Angeles
☟	Go buy this at bandcamps too!						☟

SONG IN MY HEART

Diane Seuss

If there’s pee on the seat it’s my pee,

battery’s dead I killed it, canary at the bottom

of the cage I bury it, like God tromping the sky

in his undershirt carrying his brass spittoon,

raging and sobbing in his Hush Puppy house

slippers with the backs broke down, no Mrs.

God to make him reasonable as he gets out

the straight razor to slice the hair off his face,

using the Black Sea as a mirror when everyone

knows the Black Sea is a terrible mirror,

like God is a terrible simile for me but like

God with his mirror, I use it.