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kellypendergrast.bsky.social
technology // aesthetics // labor // shapes writing: kellypendergrast.com working: antistaticpartners.com
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The a16z website is such a fuckin stylistic dog's breakfast since they shifted to their new Amerikkkan Dynamism gilded age deco accelerationist look on Jan 20. Half of the old style elements are still there (see sidebar) - colorway chaos.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Trump regime tweets this wordless video—nothing but the hum of an engine & the clanking of chains—comprised of closeup shots of a human being shackled for deportation. This is, no hyperbole, fascist fetish porn.

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

Remembering the juiced up buzzcutted Homeland Security agent with a SPQR big gulp and a giant Punisher watch who checked my passport/greencard when i reëntered the US a few weeks back ... bet he's having a great time rn

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 4 days ago • 248 comments

PARTY 🔜 Come celebrate the release of Issue One on Friday, February 28, at Et al., 2831A Mission Street, San Francisco. Doors open at 6:00 p.m., and the program starts at 7:00 p.m. 🌝 Conversation is the greatest pleasure! ⚫️

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

One time I overheard someone at a bar ATM exclaim “my babies are being born!!” as their pile of 20s was dispensed. I think about them often lol

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Slightly sad they finally got rid of the unused train tracks in my neighborhood, bc I loved the special wiggly bike lane (so you wouldn’t get your wheel stuck in the tracks) which is now unnecessary

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

My friends @gewittrderrosen.bsky.social and @elisabethnicula.bsky.social both have spectacular pieces in the new issue of Angel Food … a love poem (!!!) from Elisabeth and a meditation on Che and Aleida’s revolutionary and ordinary love from Katy. It’s enough to make you believe 💞💞💞 angelfoodmag.com

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

So thrilled to have my story about bad shapes and (as Elisabeth put it!) “healthy geometries” and my frenemy Donald Judd in the inaugural ish of the SF Review of Whatever. Get your copy now 💞💞💞

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

“Once or twice”??? Lindy man you obviously don’t know any para academic little mag writers bc m-dash abuse is RAMPANT and UNSTOPPABLE yes self included

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

This is literally the only item right now on the Yeezy website that the Super Bowl ad sent millions of people to last night. The entire site is just a swastika shirt for sale.

submitted 13 days ago • 172 comments

If you missed out on getting Antistatic Print Object in 2024, @annapendergrast.bsky.social and I have reformatted the zine and made it available as the first object in our new SHOP (lol) - buy one to read 6 interviews with some of the best 2 ever do it antistaticobjects.bigcartel.com/product/anti...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

Do you live in the Bay Area? Are you worried? Me too. I'm going to be facilitating a reading (and action) group about DISASTER at Bathers Library starting on Feb 25 ... maybe you want to join? Goal is to learn how to survive, together... bathers-library.square.site/product/disa...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Literally every major breakthrough that has been commercialized by the tech sector came from NSF-funded research. I feel like they know that though, and are looking to privatize basic research so they get first bite of the apple.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

New essay by me is live in the world but only in PRINT!! In issue #1 of @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social which I now have in hand (!!!) so here’s the first paragraph. Essay is about People’s Park, who gets to move freely and who is obstructed, rectangles, Judd, and Running Fence. sfreview.org

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

We Will Outlive Them, but it will be easiest if we attack now. I wrote up my thoughts on the coup, the end of the American Republic, and what the future might hold

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

What really ground my gears about the enjoyably stupid movie Companion is that it expects viewers to believe that the doofy dickhead dude protagonist would be listening to Goo Goo Dolls followed by Beverly Glenn Copeland … in what world

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Bitchin lineup at @sfreviewofwhatever.bsky.social!!! I’m the one that wrote about rectangles

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite email of the morning

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Pre-order this beautiful magazine made by @elisabethnicula.bsky.social and friends, and featuring me and friends!!! You’re gonna need something to read while you wait on hold/take a bus to the riot/touch grass, and this is it!! Plus: a print mag can’t surveil you 🤠

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