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this is the only mondrian that makes sense to me. maybe if i saw the others in person they'd speak to me, but this one i understand even through the screen.

there's an incredible amount of tension in it
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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a poem
lightsnake Defocusing my eyes, light refracting through tears, the vertical lines of the keyboard backlight become snake scales. The staggered rows—sinuous-snake— sidewind across my attention’s limbus. Looking through the window, not at it, light through salty water trickles down to lips that taste the lightsnake.
October 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Screenshot of a poem. The Ypres Salient, 1917 Droplets of experience in the waves of events. Each drop flung from sea foam crashing against stone A pearl in Indra’s net: every instant a mirror of the whole.
October 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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October 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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October 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Excerpt from Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar: “He prayed for an end to the tyranny of all symbols, beginning with language. He understood, with a clarity that had until that moment in his life eluded him, that he was not at all made for the world in which he lived, that art and writing had gotten him only trivially closer to compensating for that fundamental defectiveness, the way standing on a roof gets one only trivially closer to grabbing the moon than standing in the dirt.”
September 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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this was considered jacked in 2002
September 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Ray Peat on an alcoholic writer who regained his fluency in speech after an intravenous injection of vitamin B2
A 37 year old slightly alcoholic man with a bright red nose and cheeks was an amateur fiction writer, but he was having trouble with his memory for words, and for everyday events. Even conversationally, he had to struggle for relatively familiar words. On the suggestion that riboflavin might help his memory, by allowing his brain cells to use oxygen more efficiently, he had his doctor give him an intravenous injection of B vitamins. When I saw him the next day, his conversation was perfectly fluent, and he obviously had easy access to a good vocabulary
September 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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condensed matter physics learning fundamental physics can mislead you into thinking that the universe is somehow constrained-the laws of physics are deceptively simple, at least if you look at the 4 forces, and gravity, separately. but go just one level higher-condensed matter physics-and you realise that in this universe, anything that can happen, does. liquid helium that continues flowing even after you set the beaker upright, superconductivity, nematic liquid crystals behind your screen. just as matter obeys only what is physically permitted, human experience unfolds according to what is possible, not what is earned or deserved. the existence of superfluid helium proves that there is no such thing as being 'deserving' of love, no such thing as the moral are of the universe, only that which is permitted to happen-everything.
September 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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September 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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An excerpt from the novel Platform by Michel Houellebecq, which reads: “Racism." Robert went on, giving me a quick glance, "seems to be characterized first by an accumulation of hostility, a more aggressive sense of competition between males of different races; but the corollary is an increased desire for the females of the other race. What is really at stake in racial struggles," Robert said simply, "is neither economic nor cultural, it is brutal and biological. It is competition for the cunts of young women.”
July 17, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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new profile pic. point in red is the furthest point from any ocean on earth
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June 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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there is no need to control, because you were never even in control. let that shi go
May 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Conference of the Birds
April 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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March 28, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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March 3, 2025 at 7:05 AM
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i need to stop scrolling
March 2, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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February 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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February 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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i love my vertical monitor so much
January 18, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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this is going to take your job
January 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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January 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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this but with software engineering in stead of homesteading
December 31, 2024 at 12:12 PM
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i should be higher perplexity
December 26, 2024 at 9:16 AM