holy shit

going under the knife again (tattoo #9)

i listen to the lumineers in 2025

you think think that, given that chinese people historically didnt really drink coffee, cafés are one area where europe might have an edge. then you get here:

cœur s’est brisé coeur se brise cœur se brisera

and if i said kaifeng is the st. louis of china

really exciting things happening in philosophy of mathematics

i’ve been a fan of Carmen for more than 15 years and still act 2 never fails to astound me each time. just the most perfect hour of music ever written. banger after banger

today’s fyp gem:

increasingly in the last 3 years while travelling, i have told people who ask where i'm from that i'm american, and they look at me like i'm a fucking idiot and go "yeah obviously. i meant WHERE in america??"

the problem with moving to amsterdam is that my brain keeps thinking that the “on vacation/visiting europe” amount of smoking applies here, instead of “daily life” one

the other problem is that i actually do not have the facial muscles required to pronounce the name of the street i live on

it appears that the “male manipulator” has surreptitiously rebranded himself as the less polemic “performative male” and i, for one, do NOT like it

neoliberalism is political anorexia

had to go to the portuguese embassy in amsterdam today for passport-related issues. was very embarrassed to find out, an hour before my appointment, that embassies along with the entire dutch government are actually in the hague lol

i said “fork found in kitchen” to my chronically offline friend the other day and she now thinks im the world’s cleverest person x.com/skooookum/stat…