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"Even now, part of what happens when a neighbourhood is gentrified is that it begins to grow silent.
But life feels the most real in the noisiest places. In the marketplace, while people haggle. On the streets, where impatient drivers slam at their horns."
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But life feels the most real in the noisiest places. In the marketplace, while people haggle. On the streets, where impatient drivers slam at their horns."
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what i should have sent my neighbours when they complained about "the noise"
40ish reminders of all the ways that life makes noise
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August 14, 2025 at 6:23 AM
"Even now, part of what happens when a neighbourhood is gentrified is that it begins to grow silent.
But life feels the most real in the noisiest places. In the marketplace, while people haggle. On the streets, where impatient drivers slam at their horns."
substack.com/home/post/p-...
But life feels the most real in the noisiest places. In the marketplace, while people haggle. On the streets, where impatient drivers slam at their horns."
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sorry for getting ✨️political✨️ on the good vibes and video games app again, but the human brain is not designed to withstand another 207 weeks of this shit so pace yourself and try to channel that anger, despair, and hopelessness into something productive. make some kick ass art, we will need it
January 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
sorry for getting ✨️political✨️ on the good vibes and video games app again, but the human brain is not designed to withstand another 207 weeks of this shit so pace yourself and try to channel that anger, despair, and hopelessness into something productive. make some kick ass art, we will need it
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just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.
January 28, 2025 at 10:39 PM
just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.
“Who sings to the plants that are grown for our plates?”
January 28, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“Who sings to the plants that are grown for our plates?”
My favourite TikTok moment was when someone asked me why I moved to the US
January 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My favourite TikTok moment was when someone asked me why I moved to the US
People calling Doechii an industry plant is wild for many reasons, but *especially* because the very same people making these allegations were probably on TikTok doing dances to What It Is aaaaall throughout 2023 😭💀. The jokes truly write themselves.
December 19, 2024 at 4:51 AM
People calling Doechii an industry plant is wild for many reasons, but *especially* because the very same people making these allegations were probably on TikTok doing dances to What It Is aaaaall throughout 2023 😭💀. The jokes truly write themselves.
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Review: The Shadow Scholars gives us a peek into the world of Kenyan college grads who are commissioned and paid by students in the most prestigious institutions in the western hemisphere to produce essays, papers, scholarly articles and graduate theses on their behalf.
Review: Outsourcing academia
Meet the Kenyan intellectuals quietly ghostwriting academic works for lazy students in the Global North.
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December 13, 2024 at 8:22 AM
Review: The Shadow Scholars gives us a peek into the world of Kenyan college grads who are commissioned and paid by students in the most prestigious institutions in the western hemisphere to produce essays, papers, scholarly articles and graduate theses on their behalf.
