After barely staying awake through my 8am zoom class, I would trudge out to my living room where my roommate would normally be playing animal crossing. I would just and listen to the sounds/music. It was very comforting.
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
After barely staying awake through my 8am zoom class, I would trudge out to my living room where my roommate would normally be playing animal crossing. I would just and listen to the sounds/music. It was very comforting.
It’s really impossible to overstate how much society warped around the American Baby Boom, and then acted like those effects were inherent qualities of our world. The invention of The Teenager, the current aesthetics of Christmas, the suffocating dominance of Rock and Roll, the idea that people…
Increasingly conscious of a pattern where for my whole life, and a fair chunk before. Everything that has been called an inevitable, inexorable and infinite arc of the future may well have just been a temporary effect of the boomers moving through phases of life and distorting everything around them
youth culture, like named generations, is a transient effect of the baby boom and we'll be well rid of it
October 18, 2025 at 8:42 AM
It’s really impossible to overstate how much society warped around the American Baby Boom, and then acted like those effects were inherent qualities of our world. The invention of The Teenager, the current aesthetics of Christmas, the suffocating dominance of Rock and Roll, the idea that people…