In the 2020s it's either stimulant lit or antidepressant lit all the way down

Delightful uncategorisable piece (satirical fictocriticism?) of writing from Saidiya Hartman about the Black liberal in the throes of elite capture: "What is to be done? the audiences clamour. She indulges them, knowing they don't want an answer."

Another sign appears: it was 50 years ago this month the day I left

Why are people using AI to hack their hobbies? It's because they never really were that invested in the first place, possibly getting into it due to peer pressure or they think they "should" do it because it "aligns" with their perceived self. You heard it here first

The way people who have little to no connection to that apple city celebrating it like it's fuckin something. U$A go to fuckin hell

Something about downloading expensive theory books into your phone for later reading that's unparallelled

You can tell which men have uneasy relationships with women from their demeanour while in line at the gender neutral toilet :)

I like to tell the younger ones that despair is pride's most subtle and therefore dangerous form. You not only claim that God (or history) can't possibly surprise you, but that your crisis-ridden age is more special than any other crisis-ridden age

An important PDF collection of works exploring “Humanitarian Imperialism,” critically examining the use of humanitarian action as a cover for military intervention or as a means of political and cultural domination in Global South nations. "Humanitarian Violence: The U.S.

Let's talk about China's "non-interventionism." China intervenes when its capital is threatened. Examples: military base in Djibouti, pressure on Pakistan to protect CPEC, backing multiple factions in Myanmar to secure pipelines, militarizing the South China Sea to control trade

Giggling at the thought of people who are secretly still using Spotify DYING to show their Wrapped soon but can't because they're afraid of judgement from their anti Spotify friends :)

Residency structures still tend to favour the neurotypical

"Notice the poverty of the latter’s style, the artless syntax and plywood prose, and the shoddiness of its substance: the threadbare platitudes, pat theses, mechanical arguments." Sure but that shit's has been around pre LLMs lmfao

No jannah for you you sell outs. Why do you think you expanded so rapidly in the last 2 years lmfao

An elderly friend gave me a 6-month sub to the LRB and I've learned so much simply by reading it cover to cover

My hot tip is you can put anything on popcorn. Sichuan pepper powder, garam masala, MSG, sumac........

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/… e.g. this Donald Mackenzie fellow pontificating about the monopolistic nature of google at length but considers himself a "lazy sod" who "tends to stick with the digital world's preloaded default options". Weak establishment wonk

Event posters conforming to the instagram 3:4 horizontal

A few months ago I got the help of five friends to help me do a fake retail resume cos I was broke & despo for this 18hr/week casual bookstore job, but next week is when I first start the first salaried job of my life lmfao

Making spoofs is so enjoyable