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death by baklava
November 20, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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A Defense of Joy – one of the greatest poems ever written, and today an invitation to countercultural courage and resistance www.themarginalian.org/2025/07/04/m...
A Defense of Joy
One of the most important things to have learned in life is that choosing joy in a world rife with reasons for despair is a countercultural act of courage and resistance, choosing it not despite th…
www.themarginalian.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“They would not seem like dwarfs if they were not required to be giants.”

- simone de beauvoir (the second sex)
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
superior arabica kahawa in a shot glass
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The pendulum swings.
August 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
my mother is a fish
May 29, 2025 at 7:43 PM
koyo kouoh. we speak your everlasting name.
May 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
listened to julia fox's memoir & fell down a rabbit hole...
February 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
conundrum: why even bother following pple on social media if the algos won’t show you the people you follow?
February 16, 2025 at 5:08 AM
The “if you can respond in under 5 minutes, do it” rule for emails is so real
February 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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What's writing like? It's like building a chair, taking it to bits, reassembling it as a table, then deciding you liked it better as a chair after all.
February 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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This is exactly where we are
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
wouldn't mind a brand new tome from my queen, vivian gornick
January 27, 2025 at 10:24 PM
lord pls keep me away from the thrift shops
January 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I’m either having mubi marathons or forgetting the thing actually exists…no in btwn
January 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Essays I'm reading:

Yvonne Owuor / In Kenya's Sea of Tongues, Literary Possibilities Flow

moyamagazine.com/content/in-k...
In Kenya's Sea of Tongues, Literary Possibilities Flow
South Africa and the United States have broadly similar histories of racial oppression. Recognising this, Black people in both countries have since the late 1800s forged ties, exchanges, and solidarit...
moyamagazine.com
January 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
the way kutafuta maisha is taking me, I have 'listen to music' & 'look at art' on my to-do list...aki adam smith wewe!
January 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
an accidental buzz cut — a wonderful way to start the year
January 4, 2025 at 4:53 AM
dipping my toes into the dialectic of enlightenment & looks like I might have to dip toes into the odyssey too?
December 27, 2024 at 11:31 PM
uwi I’m at dinner alone(ish) w/a zizek book
December 22, 2024 at 3:09 AM
older I grow, the profound(er) “charity begins at home” becomes
December 22, 2024 at 3:00 AM
My current fave pods are about fashion
December 18, 2024 at 9:47 PM
in bed with a verso title & an oily almond croissant, life (post-grading) is good
December 17, 2024 at 4:25 PM
joel lwaga's oludumare is so tamu!
December 14, 2024 at 11:41 PM
happy mati diop's dahomey day!
December 14, 2024 at 4:26 PM