Saturday, October 03, 2026

( me / via )

"Over the course of the summer, ICE detained more than one person per minute."

"Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to prosecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing." —Vaclav Havel, in The Power of the Powerless (1978) via @markchristian135924

In 1925 fashion designer Sonia Delaunay customised her Citroen B12 to match her clothing.

tiltdecantative hent
heinous drudgery adjunct
       shadows i
   mistake for bugs
coolth lethargy · though eyes mended

margin short mammals
emerge with cruel alertness
       these grays sing
   gruesome of storm
broken tower · testament in the cards

"What they did with the music was extraordinary – take the roughness and DIY element, and use that to create heavy music that was for the first time beautiful as well as dark – but what they did with the symbolism was horrific..."

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