Archived from Oct 05, 2023: I came across this word while I was reading Doppelganger. ‘A Spanish word for the existential and deep gloom, zozobra also evokes a generalized wobbliness: “a mode of being that incessantly oscillates between two possibilities, between two affects, without knowing which one of those to
Archived from Sep 28, 2023: I think it will come as no surprise when I say I’m not wild about the government. Now, I’m not a libertarian, god no. Conceptually, governments can exert massive good for the communities they serve. Humans are social and have lived in groups
Archived from Sep 21, 2023: I’m currently reading Doppelgänger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein. I’m enjoying it, and she opens it with a chapter discussing the rise of personal branding. Famous for writing No Logo, she documents not only her personal journey with coming
Archived from Sep 14, 2023: One of my favourite podcasts, Trashfuture, frequently opens with a segment where one host announces the name of a start-up, reads the tagline and has the other hosts guess what the start-up does. Frequently, these start-ups are apps, like Züm, school busses with extra steps,
Archived from Sep 07, 2023: There’s this scene in Bojack Horseman (stick with me) when Bojack parks a giant boat, almost a yacht, in someone’s driveway. It pans to 2 neighbours who assert, “It’s just such an eyesore”. Obviously, the boat does not get moved. The joke
Archived from Aug 31, 2023: Remember when the US government tried to soft launch aliens a few weeks ago? Yeah, I hardly do either. It’s hard to take seriously, particularly given the best we got was something about “non-human biologics”, which was just a trigger for conspiracy theorists to
Archived from Aug 17, 2023: I walk home from my second job with a variation of music and podcasts. Loud music, which could aptly be described as abrasive, is my usual go to when my attention span is scattered; thoughts run rampant, never finishing, fraying like rope until the threads
life
Suddenly, there is a whole and tiny life in the palm of my hand. It flutters and skips, breathing quickly. A life so different, so far from my own, yet here, immediate, physical and alive. There is a heartbeat, however faint and my own picks up.
Archived from Aug 03, 2023: I got a booster yesterday and it felt like getting hit by a truck so writing is not feeling particularly inspired right now. Instead I’m doing a quick little round up of things I’ve been reading lately. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
Archived from Jul 27, 2023: First, a content warning: I will briefly be touching on child trafficking and child abuse this week. I mean, when I was with the Divine Chain, some of the smartest people there were also the most committed. Intelligence doesn’t make you less prone to
Archived from Jul 20, 2023: I saw a person walking up the street with a shirt that said just that: “You’re My Favourite Notification.” It was, of course, in a terrible Etsy cursive font, but that’s not the point. Instinctively, I thought of a few people, and was
Archived from Jul 13, 2023: Eternity is a weird concept, hey? We have a word for it, a vague idea of it, but I’m not sure a human brain can actually fully grasp it. It’s too big, too boundless to be meaningfully understood, neither cognitively nor emotionally. Eternity,