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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 6h

SOLD

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 7h

Let's just assume nothing but hills.

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 7h

SOLD (not that it matters)

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 7h

jfc

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 7h

Anyways, Ronald Reagan didn't himself ruin society, but the neoliberal move to see every object and every person as data points has completely destroyed this "place worth living in."

Wait— didn't Adorno and Horkheimer warn us about this?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq7F...

Genesis - Land of Confusion (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Genesis

www.youtube.com

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 7h

HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 8h

Is it possible war is peace? Freedom is slavery? Stayed tuned!

More bulletins as events warrant!

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 8h

Meanwhile, strange to think that, perhaps, declaring war on your own citizens MIGHT NOT be the path toward a peace prize. Who knew??

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 8h

Would I be a more successful poet had I learned early on to manage my social media presence? Of course not, you say— it's about the poems.

Lies, I say. Lies.

(I mean yes, I think if I had written poems that fit the neoliberal mold of writing about the self in a way that was marketable, yes)

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 9h

And I'm aware I'm terrible at it!

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 9h

And I'm not exciting enough for you to give a fuck without my social media presence. I'm hyper aware of it.

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 9h

My thing is that I know if I left social media altogether, I'd be a happier person— but then how would I sell you what will no doubt be my next poetry book or my soon to be scholarly book? We suffer for hustle culture because the alternative has yet to present itself.

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 18h

Pumpkin spice habeas corpus

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 20h

That guest?

a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a news desk with a picture of frank stallone on the wall behind him

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a news desk with a picture of frank stallone on the wall behind him

media.tenor.com

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 1d

Peak @markalanmattes.bsky.social content

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 1d

My Dad, whose connection with reality is tenuous at best these days, got a huge laugh when I told him I have been reading a public-facing theoretical physics book (Carlo Rovelli). "As long as you don't have to do the math, you should be fine!"

Sick burn, old man.

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 2d

Ah damn— and they probably already decided on the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Maybe they can J6 whichever Nordic country hands that one out?

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 2d

You don't go down to where Terry Moran works!

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 2d

I'm reading Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist, and maybe secretly a poet!

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 2d

"And do it in a lawful manner."

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 2d

I mostly love the folks that are like "No no, just ignored Trump— he just talks!" Yeah, well, at some point, he seems to stop talking and start doing.

Pay no attention to the giant head on the wall with the smoke and explosions!

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 3d

Been thinking a lot lately about Hofstadter and "living the life of the mind." For
its many faults, academic life remains open this way...for the moment.

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 4d

I don't come down to where you work, @yalereview.bsky.social

yalereview.org/article/cros...

Sloane Crosley: “How Sober Should a Writer Be?”

Sloane Crosley on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze and the state of American drinking culture.

yalereview.org

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 4d

Are modern English students attracted to cw because it scratched the neoliberal itch to learn skills directly translatable to jobs? 🤔

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 4d

The ad came on during something this weekend and I just sighed really loudly. What kind of story do you tell while these people are still alive anyways? Lookin' at you, A Complete Unknown.

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