In many ways, let’s find the phone soon

I would like to make more friends in Berlin and relatedly, to actually text back the friends I do have here and who probably have no idea that I want to see them.

a little too fast but fun

tough role for a method actor, how many times do you really want to get sick and go to the hospital for an objectively dogshit movie that no one will see?

I think it's just a marketing overlap. there are only so many kinds of anti-intellectual dead-enders obsessed with their own intellectual independence. there's this nexus, the rogan nexus, the health nuts

currently this institution is helping the shallowest of the antiwoke obsessive left people, cat liu, do a little lap in support of her verso book. I do feel like norm

similarly, it's hard to feel bad about people potentially damaging their brains with various drugs when this is the sober standard bsky.app/profile/essj...

seeing people fall for iai slop again at least makes me feel better about a world overrun by ai. chatgpt might be an improvement over the handmade horseshit so many of you are inhaling

Say what you will about Frank Zappa I didn’t know what sex was until I listened to his records. And even then sometimes I listened for years before knowing what he was talking about. In some ways I’m still not sure

Have been missing home lately but not everything about it

Looking forward to both, genuinely

cliff pine

if you don't mind, I wouldn't like to say.

If I Had a Talking Picture of You (1929) YouTube video by atqui

youtu.be/a5A03c7_CVs

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

Bluesky

some people never know their life's true purpose, but I think that must be enjoyable in a "journey is the destination" sort of way, even if it's confusing. more difficult to know it perfectly, yet you never know, because no one would help. perfectly clear what you needed all along and oh well

it's sad that no one gets this. it's not a conquest to hit the hard eight, but something beautiful, two fours, which we both get to see. rare and nice that it happened. I am rooting for you!

I actually don't mind losing the dice game. never felt like I needed a special league to protect me from that. I don't attach my self-worth to it. and if someone is competitive, likes to win, then I'm happy they're happy, and that I could help make them happy by playing, create the space for that

inadvisably played "the dice game" with a group of trans the other day. I thought it would be a gambling thing, but you just roll the dice and see who gets the biggest number. I try not to make too much of the difference but obviously some of them still have a bit of an advantage.......

was reminded of the card game War. it's sort of maddening in that there are no actual choices, just a random start and the whole game plays itself mechanically. the only way to get an advantage is to have a little or not-so-little something special about you under your clothes. not fair at all

respectfully, I don't see why it's so important to finely gender-police women's tic-tac-toe. it's obviously difficult to compete with chromosomes or cock in any domain in life, not nice to have to think about that, but tic-tac-toe is a solved game. more social than competitive anyway

cliff wrote that

I just hope we can keep politics out of the Spargelkönigin (asparagus queen) elections

that or someone thought that it wouldn't be a fair fight because trans women are too beautiful.

this seems pointlessly cruel, what possibly could be the rationale beyond the chance to insult trans people with this statement? but I have to say I probably wasn't going to compete anyway. I see these things as kind of superficial and objectifying

Senrickism

finally reading Ben Lerner and of course I love him

Win after win!

let's all do our best not to promote uninformed doomerism