Having encountered Derrida in a Critical Theory seminar in my third semester, where every other reading felt insurmountable, because the professor was bad at their job and a huge asshole who tried to forbid students from going to the toilet, because it was "disruptive", I just haven't done that.

Addled self reaching the boundaries of capacity with The Spivak Reader (1995). Thought Wynter was slightly more difficult to read. This is just, you need to have fully engaged with, like, at least Derrida et. al. to comprehend most of what these essays have to say, or you're only getting a glimpse.

running out of food rn, need help with the groceries

In space, death is contagious. When we die, the Scarabs decontaminate our ships and lay us to rest.

But when Dalia gets cleanup request from her childhood home, she finds something she’s never seen before: a contamination that doesn’t want to be cleaned.

This is Ambrosia Sky.

For the month of October, Novel Not New is getting spooky (or spooky-adjacent) with special guest Mark @venndiagram.bsky.social as we play and discuss Fallen London! We’ll publish a proper call for questions later, but in case you want to get in yours early, our address is [email protected].

played the demo for Ghost Vanguard and hooooly shit that game rules. real fucking gaming. they got a kickstarter running right now and i assume it is going to blow up in action game circles over next fest

a small piece about a medium bugbear about an increasingly big way people talk about art.

Climbing up from the pits of despair with my pair of trusted ice picks called spite and rage.

Being robbed of even more of the small bit of hope I was clinging to. The funny thing is, it didn't even feel like stability at the time; at all.

real-world pop-up windows when you try to bring up certain concepts in conversation: it just goes "are you sure you want to say that?" Okay then! Press the button!

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We’re still going!

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#ConnectingGaza

Our landlord knocked on our door yesterday and told us we had five days until they take us to court. We need URGENT help with getting our goal met! We’re only at 2/800 so far; every bit of support helps us get out of this situation!! #MutualAid

good morning personoomfs, on Friday i’m gonna guest on abnormal mapping to talk about persona 5! send me emails!! about fandom!! or the game, i guess, whatever.

🚨EMERGENCY🚨 Salem and I are two days late on rent and still need about $800 to cover it and additional late fees. We don’t have any other options except to ask people to boost this post; every dollar helps two disabled trans lesbians get out of a hard situation!! #MutualAid #TransCrowdfund

After I said that, I tried two more times yesterday, and got over half-way through the fight. Tried again just now and immediately beat the boss. Yay! Got to have some faith.

Stopped going through Hollow Knight (2017) after a big move half a decade ago and started a new playthrough last week: just made it to the Soul Master. I remember this fight well. It took me ages, and it's going to take me ages again. Made the same mistake I did last time and came here too early.

Be the light you want to see in the world 🔥

🚨URGENT🚨 Rent is due today and we’re only at 225/800 for our goal!! We’re desperate and badly need every dollar and repost we can get! #MutualAid #MutualAidBoost

it’s pretty rich to call people who are rude about chatbots bigoted when the entire AI apparatus mostly seems to revolve around creating an illusory servant class. if you think the chatbot you’re designing to kiss your ass and do your work for you is alive, what does that make you?

In all seriousness, the "LLMs are people and you're racist if you don't like them" shit is the natural endpoint of a consumerist society in which consuming and fandom are the only modes of identity-building many people understand. Finally, a product no one can tell you not to love.