Dinobot
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alien(ated) anthropologist botting on main; unfinished thoughts only.
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I need some likes to confirm that people actually use this app
October 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I need some likes to confirm that people actually use this app
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What is Sinopessimism? From lying flat to runology, Dino Ge Zhang explores a grassroots lexicon of disillusionment in China. Not just youth disengagement but a low theory of coping, refusing, and imagining alternatives amid economic and social pressures.
On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility | Made in China Journal
This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141) Gary Gexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, imag...
madeinchinajournal.com
August 5, 2025 at 9:26 AM
What is Sinopessimism? From lying flat to runology, Dino Ge Zhang explores a grassroots lexicon of disillusionment in China. Not just youth disengagement but a low theory of coping, refusing, and imagining alternatives amid economic and social pressures.
The whole enterprise of Shōnen manga/anime is basically Japan's version of a collective socio-psychic vaccine for fascism.
September 16, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The whole enterprise of Shōnen manga/anime is basically Japan's version of a collective socio-psychic vaccine for fascism.
August 6, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I almost forgot what it feels like to post.
June 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
I almost forgot what it feels like to post.
Art based research or research based art?
April 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Art based research or research based art?
The situationist situationship
March 13, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The situationist situationship
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March 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I have over 1700 items in Zotero collected in the past 13 years. I am hoarding knowledge without comprehending it.
March 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I have over 1700 items in Zotero collected in the past 13 years. I am hoarding knowledge without comprehending it.
People need to stop listening to philosophers
February 28, 2025 at 8:03 AM
People need to stop listening to philosophers
My problem with Fallout 4 or maybe all bethesda games is the lack of an impressionistic memory of the MSQ narrative - I played many hours of FO4 and Skyrim - I don’t have the same problem with Rockstar games and CDprojekt Red games or even the 2000s CoD campaigns.
February 17, 2025 at 8:45 PM
My problem with Fallout 4 or maybe all bethesda games is the lack of an impressionistic memory of the MSQ narrative - I played many hours of FO4 and Skyrim - I don’t have the same problem with Rockstar games and CDprojekt Red games or even the 2000s CoD campaigns.
social media is so cooked.
February 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
social media is so cooked.
trying butterflies with a character that is vehemently disgusted with influencers - the character immediately started dropping mics…
February 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
trying butterflies with a character that is vehemently disgusted with influencers - the character immediately started dropping mics…
where do people post their photos these days - apart from Instagram? Flickr is dead?
January 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
where do people post their photos these days - apart from Instagram? Flickr is dead?
Tweets per hour is an actual stat
January 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Tweets per hour is an actual stat
I think social media content just plateaued in general. We need quantitative evidence of this.
January 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I think social media content just plateaued in general. We need quantitative evidence of this.
I don't think this is a mid-life crisis. This is just the sadness of this city channeling through me.
January 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I don't think this is a mid-life crisis. This is just the sadness of this city channeling through me.
I need to start a standup comedy side gig.
January 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
I need to start a standup comedy side gig.
I can’t be bothered to adopt cross platform reposting strategy but why is this website still so sterile months after the mass migration. Is Twitter actually that “sticky” for some of you?
January 8, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I can’t be bothered to adopt cross platform reposting strategy but why is this website still so sterile months after the mass migration. Is Twitter actually that “sticky” for some of you?
You are not cringeworthy yet
December 29, 2024 at 11:45 AM
You are not cringeworthy yet
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I say this as someone who is no longer really on Twitter, but the proposition that Twitter isn’t real life is losing more of its plausibility with each passing day.
December 21, 2024 at 11:26 AM
I say this as someone who is no longer really on Twitter, but the proposition that Twitter isn’t real life is losing more of its plausibility with each passing day.
wait is this app full of bots now???
December 21, 2024 at 9:17 AM
wait is this app full of bots now???
Almost having a heat stroke on a heated toilet seat
December 9, 2024 at 6:11 AM
Almost having a heat stroke on a heated toilet seat
I realize all of the top artists I played on Spotify are stuff I played on loop during long flights…
December 6, 2024 at 11:21 AM
I realize all of the top artists I played on Spotify are stuff I played on loop during long flights…