My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE is the moderate position.https://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mlnpydg3kk2jThis was the year I saw them, in a smaller but less atmospheric venue - a gymnasium in Edinburgh. Audience mostly jazz beards (socks, sandals, real ale) and a few 20 year old hipsters like me. He played white noise on monophonic synth and we all ended up doing a conga to Destination Unknown. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 11:51 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnpydg3kk2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mlnpjnr2ts2jIn other news, Israel just increased its propaganda budget from $150 to $730m. Döpfner will profit, no doubt, and we’ll all be deluged by ‘organic’ influencer content. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 11:43 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnpjnr2ts2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mlm4rzda4s26Notice he doesn’t say ‘men’ because that would imply that his own manhood (and that of the sleeping gerontocrat in the chair) has diminished [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlm4rzda4s26https://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mlm4bbdbt226Look out for monochrome shrimp chips in the local Japanese market soon [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 May 2026 20:26 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlm4bbdbt226https://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mlg4soagfc22“Sick of his racism being called out, racist man votes for racism” [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 May 2026 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlg4soagfc22https://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mlek3vustk2rIf Labour think Wes Streeting is the one who will revive their fortunes, then they haven’t reached rock bottom yet. He’s like the Fent/tranq dirty shot of reactionary centrism. [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 20:12 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlek3vustk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mlehri26qk2rI’m a 432Hz man myself [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 19:30 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlehri26qk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mlehcvmmlc2r“in their rebellion [they] appointed a leader in order to return to their slavery. But you are a forgiving God … Therefore you did not desert them, even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, 'This is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt'” [Nehemiah 9:16-21] [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 19:22 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlehcvmmlc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mle6b7afic2kThese mf’s are just desperate to bring back Jim Crow. Yet another moment of unsolving solved problems [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 May 2026 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mle6b7afic2khttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mlds3avi722kThe enormous confidence of reactionary centrists is probably resistant to the disaster that their politics has visited on the UK Labour Party. From the vantage point of Mamdani’s New York, it’s clear what a winning strategy would look like, and it’s not Starmer or Mandelson or Morgan McSweeney08 May 2026 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlds3avi722khttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mlbbepyda22vFascinating perspective on Trump’s strategic incompetence in the Gulf and how he’s managed to alienate the GCC. [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 May 2026 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlbbepyda22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3ml7vsgwnvk2fMedia people really need to get their heads round the changes in government comms since the US fully shifted into competitive authoritarianism - anything out of the WH is primarily intended to game markets and generate wealth for insiders, not to inform or serve the people [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 23:58 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7vsgwnvk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3ml4ctkwkyk2sThis opposition between ‘the world’ and ‘us’ is insane [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 May 2026 13:41 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4ctkwkyk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mkyeubheas25Reports of a crowd gathering outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping04 May 2026 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkyeubheas25https://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mkvca3vias22What if the whole Soros conspiracy turned out to be projection, because the far right was being propped up by its own secret Hungarian finance [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 May 2026 18:41 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkvca3vias22https://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mkt55t5lwc23At a sound check at Giorno poetry systems (Burroughs’ old loft on the Bowery) for Mark Leckey’s Physics of Mystics show and the engineer is playing Soul II Soul which for me is the soundtrack of being 18 in London and it’s weird the way time and space and reality and fantasy sometimes collapses01 May 2026 22:05 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkt55t5lwc23https://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mkncmcsdfk2yI wrote about Stefan Zweig and the surprising afterlife of the Habsburg Empire. Nostalgia for a multilingual, multicultural space in which trade flowed freely, drove everything from the foundation of the UN to the free market theories of Neoliberalism https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/the-habsburg-international29 Apr 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkncmcsdfk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mkqpzbscks2jTry to be somewhere in Asia with reasonable amenities [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Apr 2026 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqpzbscks2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mko7v7k5ms2cSure, be nostalgic for phone free parties where you could be outrageous without ending up on the internet, but if you’re too young to remember unrestricted smoking, you just don’t understand how bad it was.29 Apr 2026 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mko7v7k5ms2chttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mkncmcsdfk2yI wrote about Stefan Zweig and the surprising afterlife of the Habsburg Empire. Nostalgia for a multilingual, multicultural space in which trade flowed freely, drove everything from the foundation of the UN to the free market theories of Neoliberalism https://donotresearch.substack.com/p/the-habsburg-international29 Apr 2026 14:27 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkncmcsdfk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mkl65fgo5c2bIt’s just humiliation after humiliation. Imagine having to carry one of those around [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkl65fgo5c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/harikunzru.bsky.social/post/3mkkhiwmwqc2qThe Burryman [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Apr 2026 11:16 +0000at://did:plc:ys6c4wtbkw3levcxbdkrhtyu/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkkhiwmwqc2q