Sam Menefee-Libey

@sml47.bsky.social

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Antifascist. Abolitionist. Anthropology, Critical Theory, American Studies, dogs, film, music, democratic pedagogy, degrowth and bioregionalism in greater Los Angeles. This world (system) we must leave. https://boxd.it/6oFrP

Crime and No Punishment: Wealth, Power, and Violence in America by Marie Gottschalk (Princeton University Press, 2025) https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691275253/crime-and-no-punishment
Screnshot of FotMob match info for France v Spain semifinal listing Iván Barton as main referee
“Deporters” in the style of The Dodgers logo www.buriedundertheblue.com
Jon Bois @jon_bois why watch overtime playoff hockey when you can simply snort cocaine and ride a motorcycle out of a helicopter 10:15 PM • Apr 16, 2014
One day this kid will get larger. One day this kid will come to know something that causes a sensation equivalent to the separation of the earth from its axis. One day this kid will reach a point where he senses a division that isn't mathematical. One day this kid will feel something stir in his heart and throat and mouth. One day this kid will find something in his mind and body and soul that makes him hungry. One day this kid will do something that causes men who wear the uniforms of priests and rabbie, men who inhabit certain stone buildings, to call for his death. One day politicians will enact legislation against this kid. One day families will give false information to their children and each child will pass that information down generationally to their families and that information will be designed to make existence intolerable for this kid. One day this kid will begin to experience all this activity in his environment and that activity and information will compell him to commit suicide or submit to danger in hopes of being murdered or submit to silence and invisibility. Or one day this kid will talk. When he begins to talk, men who develop a fear of this kid will attempt to silence him with strangling, fists, prison, suffocation, rape, intimidation, drugging, ropes, guns, laws, meance, roving gangs, bottles, knives, religion, decapitation. and immolation by fire. Doctors will pronounce this kid curable as if his brain were a virus. This kid will lose his constitutional rights against the government's invasion of his privacy. This kid will be faced with electro-shock, drugs, and conditioning therapies in laboratories tended by psychologists and research scientists. He will be subject to loss of home, civil rights, jobs, and all conceivable freedoms. All this will begin to happen in one or two years when he discovers he desires to place his naked body on the naked body of another boy. (David Wojnarowicz)
Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age by Bernard Harcourt (Harvard University Press, 2015)
The Lives of Others (dir. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006)
Colonial Crucible: Empire in the Making of the Modern American State edited by Alfred W. McCoy & Francisco A. Scarano (University of Wisconsin Press, 2009)
Blaze That Ass by Big Freedia and SOPHIE (2026)
CONSTITUTION For The New Socialist Republic In North America (Draft Proposal) Authored by Bob Avakian Adopted by the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA
Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.
Inside you are two bricks: Brick 1: “Throw me at a FASCIST” Brick 2: “Use me to build COMMUNITY”
W.A.I.T. (Why Am I Talking) flowchart
Control Science: How Management Made the Modern World by Henry Snow (Verso, 2026)
Mountain goat 1: I hope you die. Mountain goat 2: I hope we both die.
A sticker in the style of “I Voted” that replaces the national flag with a black flag and reads “I Rioted”
A Guerrilla Guide to Refusal by Andrew Culp (University of Minnesota Press, 2022)
21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson
Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton I...worked on this story for a year...and...he just...he tweeted it out. 9:37 AM • Jul 11, 2017 • TweetDeck
That Which Once Was (2011) 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Seeds (2024) The Deadman (1989)
7 of 9 performers have cancelled for Trump concert series
Trump concert cancellations
Music From Hell by LA post punk band Nervous Gender
Chernobyl 1986
Jerry, no! (@jcsalterego.bsky.social "bluesky is an upscale mall" *nods knowingly* Forever 38 5:08 PM • May 19, 2026)
Take the word 'overseer' like a sample Repeat it very quickly in a crew, for example "Overseer," "overseer," "overseer," "overseer" "Officer," "officer," "officer," "officer" Yeah, 'officer' from 'overseer' You need a little clarity? Check the similarity! The overseer rode around the plantation The officer is off, patrollin' all the nation The overseer could stop you, "What you're doin'?" The officer will pull you over, just when he's pursuin' The overseer had the right to get ill And if you fought back, the overseer had the right to kill The officer has the right to arrest And if you fight back, they put a hole in your chest (Woop!) They both ride horses After four hundred years, l've got no choices!
"that ‘animals are divided into: (a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) sucking pigs, (e) sirens, (f) fabulous, (g) stray dogs, (h) included in the present classification, (i) frenzied, (j) innumerable, (k) drawn with a very fine camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies’. In the wonderment of this taxonomy, the thing we apprehend in one great leap, the thing that, by means of the fable, is demonstrated as the exotic charm of another system of thought, is the limitation of our own, the stark impossibility of thinking that." from the preface to Foucault's "The Order of Things" (1966)
Still from Leave The World Behind (2023)
Burning Waymos at a Fuck ICE protest in Los Angeles, June 8, 2025
Kelela @kelelam • Apr 8 born in a garage and written while I was reading octavia butler's parable of the sower, "idea 1" is about what it feels like to exist in this climate - the weight of being expected to witness, absorb, and speak truth at a time when the world feels like it's unraveling. that's a particular kind of burden Black women know intimately. this song doesn't offer answers, it just refuses to look away.
Warning about puppies becoming velociraptors between 4 and 24 months
Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point (The Onion)
Screenshot of subheader, byline and dateline from techrepublic article https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-canvas-instructure-breach-275m-users/ Instructure confirms a Canvas breach involving user information and messages as hackers claim 275M users and nearly 9,000 schools were affected. WRITTEN BY LIZ TICONG MAY 4, 2026
The archive of Canvas course environments goes back over a decade and encompasses, conservatively, hundreds of thousands of courses worldwide. In Al-development terms, this is an incredible multimedia corpus, consisting not only of syllabi and assignment prompts, but recorded lectures, slideshows, readings, rubrics, gradesheets, quizzes, discussion boards, and many forms of (ostensibly private) interaction between students and instructors. When you create "content" on Canvas, according to the standard terms of use, "Instructure does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, you grant Instructure a fully paid, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right (including any moral rights) and license to use, license, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform, and publicly display, Your Content (in whole or in part) for the purposes of operating and providing the Instructure Properties."
5 burning Waymos in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025
Onion headline: Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman's Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Birthday Marx
A recently sober Barney Gumble wins a lifetime supply of Duff beer and plaintively cries, “JUST HOOK IT TO MY VEINS!!” from S6E18
Cover of “The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self” by Alice Miller
A black pit mix with a red scarf that reads “ACAB”
“The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study” by Stefano Harney & Fred Moten (minor compositions, 2013)
The Decline of Western Civilization: Part II (dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1989)
Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (dir. Stephen Herek, 1989)
Mário (dir. Billy Woodberry, 2024)
Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (1967)
Map of the (no longer extant) Pacific Electric Railway lines around Southern California
A limo, vandalized and in flames, parked on K st on Jan 20, 2017
One Battle After Another (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2025)
Biosocial Worlds: Anthropology of Health Environments Beyond Determinism, edited by Jens Seeberg, Andreas Roepstorff and Lotte Meinert (UCL Press, 2020) Open Access PDF: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/biosocial-worlds/
Gas prices over $8.71/gal at Chevron near LA Union Station at Alameda and Cesar Chavez blvd
Current google maps listing for Chevron station at Alameda and Cesar Chavez blvd
The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice (Tenth Edition) by Jeffrey Reiman and Paul Leighton (Pearson, 2013)
River’s Edge (dir. Tim Hunter, 1986)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This By Omar El Akkad
Two omissions particularly stuck out for me for The Horror Studies Reader: Julia Kristeva and Carol Clover. Kristeva does appear in The Monster Studies Reader, so it’s clear Weinstock knows the importance of her concept of the abject, and I’m sure he did not want to repeat more than one essay between the two books. However, it’s telling that Kristeva’s name never appears anywhere in The Horror Studies Reader. The author of Powers of Horror and Black Sun, the person who gave us one of the most powerful ideas for any sort of horror theory of the last 50+ years (the abject) … has no entry in the index. Imagine if Weinstock had included an essay building from Kristeva’s ideas — something like, to choose one almost at random, “Horror in Kristeva and Bataille: Sex and Violence” by Judith Still from 1997. (Something by Bataille would also be useful. He wrote a whole book called Literature and Evil, after all!)
“In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West” by Wendy Brown (Columbia University Press, 2019)
“I told you they could deep fry my shirt.” “I didn’t say they couldn’t. I said you shouldn’t.”
PHILANTHROPY Exists To Launder The Reputations he Rich! AND serves to replace PUBLIC institutions with PRIVATE ones! SO you've "made" billions exploiting workers, nature, and public resources AND you've bought off the entire government to make sure you won't be taxed BUT for some strange reason people seem to think you're evil? TRY giving a tiny portion of your stolen wealth to a cause that's hot right now OR start your own non-profit to hoard your wealth The Right Way™ NOW your reputation is clean AND you've saved even more on taxes
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (dir. James Cameron, 1991)