Brent Vallefuoco
brentvallefuoco.bsky.social
Brent Vallefuoco
@brentvallefuoco.bsky.social
In search of an escape route from the Pre-Recorded Universe.
5/5 "'Surely even those who have not been in the Castle know that one doesn’t behave like that …'"
August 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
4/5 "It took me years to realise that job interviews were a ritualized exchange where the point was to determine whether you knew what the right communicative etiqutte was, and that telling the truth made you some weirdo."
August 15, 2025 at 6:24 PM
3/5 "So my job applications and interviews had an air of total hopelessness about them. I know there’s no way you would give the job to an insect like me, and we both know I couldn’t do it even if by some miracle you offered it to me, but …"
August 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
2/5 "You couldn’t become a Real Person by getting a job. It was the other way round: only Real People could get work. Being unemployed wasn’t a cause of shame; rather the sense of shame which I carried around as if it was the core of my being was what prevented me getting a job."
August 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
1/5 "When I was unemployed, I was convinced that an absolute ontological gulf separated me from Work. Work – which, like “being in a relationship” – would automatically confer on me the status of being a Real Person. But the horrific irony was that one couldn’t achieve this status.
August 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I only discovered their music this year but it always warps my mind.
July 31, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I know I should be more upset about right wingers, but honestly I am more disgusted by the inane complacency and fake-concern of Liberals who are completely fucking deluded about what is happening and their role in enabling it.
January 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
So far, I have seen this EXACT text posted by five different accounts.
January 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM