my cousin is a poster. i asked her what it would take to post like this today. she looked at me and said "we can't, we don't know how to"

wish 'speaker for the dead' was a real job

Passing as a dumbass

Hate it when people find out I'm competent

the lonely weightiness of a grown life, the expectations of all people, the longing to regress. I guess it is in all eras

young matilde found this all a bit gaudy, and now I can look back and confirm yeah I was just seeing it clearly, backward in time

got hit with a flashbang grenade today, a nostalgia account ai generating videos of 2007 ... getting guitar hero for Christmas and using a razr at Hollister ... it was very unsettling. like "yea it was sorta like that, but also it wasn't that great"

I wonder if our relationship to characters borders on the casual relationship to spirits sometimes. I mean. If an anthropologist had to describe the immense number of depictions, physical and virtual, of a Pokemon and what role they serve in our society. how would they compare it

I understand

and then I log off and get negged into reading Proust. again

on the internet today I took a detour and came across some Nintendo forums where a man named Eliwood wrote very long and eloquent reviews of recent releases. a long thread would follow and many people would respond politely and in quick succession. it was the best part of the day

Is GoToSocial fun to run ? Like teeny tiny ?

There's no way to become the Walter White of coffee without getting into remineralising distilled water

that said I'm not exactly online enough for this to affect me that much. it's all cached beliefs now

this has always been why I've looked for earshot, why I've been very skeptical of opening the Pandora's box of "discovery" — I don't believe the world is so big where you need a flat field to find someone; I believe groups self-select and intermingle in relatively harmonious ways by default and […]

every community in motion is the source of some other community's two minutes hate. we produce hatred and love for each other in some ugly fractal

unfortunately it is prefaced with him being very tilted by topical substack banter, which is itself a little metacommentary? you cannot escape being tilted by people on any platform

I could use an autumnal hike. We all can