Mastodon posts

1. The world’s tiniest F for people who leave nice things out (or have workers leave them out) amongst the people, secured on the honor system, who don’t consider these things to be donations

2. O/ Larry

   

3. Lol, lmao

   

4. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-utopia-of-rules sike, finished this over the weekend too. It directly confronted hierarchy and coercion more than Bullshit Jobs and Debt, and uh, those concerns still don’t resonate with me as core issues or that consensus can solve for them 🤷🏻‍♂️

   The Utopia of RulesDavid Graeber The Utopia of Rules On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy 2015The Anarchist Library

5. Cowardly starting with the small stuff

   I really enjoyed my first exposure to Prometheus Bound ( https://www.nyrb.com/products/prometheus_bound?variant=1094930949) and Raymond Queneau’s “We Always Treat Women Too Well” ( https://www.nyrb.com/products/we-always-treat-women-too-well?variant=1094933097) this weekend!

   Prometheus BoundPrometheus Bound is the starkest and strangest of the classic Greek tragedies, a play in which god and man are presented as radically, irreconcilably at odds. It begins with the shock of hammer blows as the Titan Prometheus is shackled to a rock in the Caucasus. This is his punishment for giving the gift of fire to humNew York Review BooksWe Always Treat Women Too WellWe Always Treat Women Too Well was first published as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara, but this novel by Raymond Queneau is a further manifestation of his sly, provocative, wonderfully wayward genius. Set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter rebellion, it tells of a nubile beauty who finds herself trappeNew York Review Books