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PSA // baby
“an inestimable human life in the shape of several potatoes stuck together in the shape of a baby boy”
Apr 21 • mark iosifescu
PSA // saint-just for FOOL TIDE #5
“a real brake failure on the escalator of history”
Mar 4 • mark iosifescu
PSA // “esotérik satie”
“that heady fin-de-siècle admixture of pageantry and abjection”
Jan 27 • mark iosifescu
PSA // demsyl
“you can’t kill kill cuz it doesn’t happen twice”
Oct 21, 2025 • mark iosifescu
PSA // saga de xam pt. 1
« c'est ça, soyez in le pop-op. »
Jul 29, 2025 • mark iosifescu
PSA // rose books hotline
“it’s still dark out, but the contours of neon signs, streetlamp irises, spotlit canopies of gas station LEDs hue the winter fog a bit red, bit yellow…
Jun 3, 2025 • mark iosifescu
PSA // readings stuff
“of all the indignities, all the cascading vulgarities which Kitty had forced on Brinkmann, this lizard was the worst.”
May 13, 2025 • mark iosifescu
PSA // the aesthetics of resistance
“Oh Heracles... how are we supposed to stand our ground without you by our side”
Mar 18, 2025 • mark iosifescu
PSA // other networks: a radical technology sourcebook
“The internet as we know it is not a foregone conclusion.”
Feb 18, 2025 • mark iosifescu
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