I don't want to be this kind of animal anymore.
“The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and lucid not only of the unreality of the world but of our own unreality: not only do we traverse a realm of shadows; but ourselves are shadows.” —Adolfo Bioy Casares
"The One is said with a single meaning of all the multiple. Being expresses in a single meaning all that differs. What we are talking about is not the unity of substance but the infinity of the modifications that are part of one another on this unique plane of life.” ―Deleuze
"Free time – which is both idle time and time for higher activity – has naturally transformed its possessor into a different subject, and he then enters into the direct production process as this different subject." —Marx
“Photographs state the innocence, the vulnerability of lives heading toward their own destruction, and this link between photography and death haunts all photographs of people” —Sontag
Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · 3w agoOf course. All photos are "older" photos, capturing a moment in time that's passed by the time the shutter clicks.
happy 25th birthday to the greatest software ever coded
The Verge@theverge.com · last mo.BitTorrent’s disastrous, legendary, and controversial story
not sure how I, from the north east, have ended up with a girlfriend from fucking Dover of all places the accent is fucking sickening but my war on the south is postponed.
But he will not attempt to prostitute the science to the purposes of the purposeless.
groups whose opposition to liberalism is central are antithetical to anarchy. anarchists share no common ground here with authoritarians, & if your critique of liberalism sounds the same as the critiques of eg theocrats & fascists, you're making an obvious mistake
asked my new gf why she was leaving this morning and her reply was "capitalist society" she's been learning
best summer fiction reads? Give me your recommendations! I am on holiday in 2 weeks!
"O Laziness, mother of the arts and noble virtues, be thou the balm of human anguish.” —Lafargue
So me and the ex have finally blocked each other 6 months after splitting. Fairly amicably but it's so done. It's strange spending 16 years with someone almost everyday and then just knowing you'll never speak to them again.
It really grinds my gears how a certain kind of woke common-sense will totally unwittingly paint the ”other” as a two dimensional idiot.
shrink putting me on new meds, he said, to help me “start feeling hopeful again” 🤨
Happy Birthday to the world's most dialectical pintman.
