the worsttttttt

text messages are for jokes, complaints, and memes

also possibly rare chip flavor finds and thrift scores

otherwise, do not text

if someone ever texts me and asks how i’m doing—i know immediately that we will never be close

damn

From El Akkad Omar’s WHAT STRANGE PARADISE.

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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last thing you read that stopped you in your tracks?

The left always thinks it's a chess match but the right just lights the board on fire and dares you to start over while they rewrite the rules.

I think this is where I'm headed

amazon and anthropic announce an ouroboros dick sucking session

You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto A Manifesto

after i read jaron lanier's 'you are not a gadget,' i became determined to use technology for my uses, rather being used for technology's uses

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anyone else turn off almost all the notifications on their phone?

only notifications i have on are phone, text messages, and slack (which is on probation right now)

Having students use paper to complete tasks is in this sense to help them understand how to disentangle a single focused thought task from the machine ensemble of our ubiquitous modern information systems.

it's a darlingside day

need to do a welfare check on that young woman asap

not maggotmogged at the cemetery, bro

It's all held together by threads, but threads nonetheless.

And the rest of us--we continue in our daily lives, made surreal by a state of hyper-normalization.

Meanwhile the ruling class is trying to extract as much as possible before being killed, exiled, or taxed (god forbid).

Republicans are mad that there are white people in the U.S. who would rather live in a pluralist democracy than a white supremacist empire. Democrats are surprised that voters have realized that to make a pluralist democracy, they have to abandon capitalism.

ughhhh

allergic to raw apples??? I had this reaction to raw persimmon once and then found out they're poisonous unless they're ripe

you still read multiple books per year? also audiobooks exist and the brain processes them the same as reading so they count too

Photo of a slim book on a table, book cover has text Terrestrial A Novella by Suzy Eynon on it. Ceramic blue cactus next to book on table.

Back cover of book Terrestrial by Suzy Eynon with blurbs, on table next to small cactus

Screen shot from The Lost Boys movie of scene between two characters in a comic book store with dialogue text "Phoenix, actually."

Terrestrial will be out next month from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social! Grateful to Joey Hedger, Emily Costa, and Drew Buxton for the generous blurbs, and to early reviewers and readers 🛸🌵

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I eat it mostly because it tastes good, and cattle are a way for non-arable land to nonetheless produce food. Cattle eat the inedible shrubs -> we eat the cattle. I'm not a big fan of grazing cattle on arable land though. Seems like a bad idea all around.

Jeff, by Joey

So many books have never been, and may never be digitized. I don't know how we convince the next generation that all the information available is, in fact, not on the internet, but we gotta try.

evergreen

the leaves in the parlor

it's indelible

Teenage me would be proud to learn that I grew up and got a room of my own.