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10.8 | how does the world work anyway?
Smils' How the World Really Works reminds me of how a lot of smart dudes somehow always end up overestimating their ability to weigh into things they are not so immediately knowledgeable on.
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09.29 | pirates of the climate collapse
Last month, I briefly mentioned a factoid that’d I’d come across about how the “golden age of piracy” largely happened because a drop in sunspot activity lowered the amount of radiation getting to the earth, which then led to a lull in hurricanes.
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09.20 | i guess i don't need to regress anymore
A very popular theme in manhwa storylines is the "regression"-style plot, where you "regress" to a point in time just before the trajectory of your life went wrong. Only, what if your life hasn't gone that wrong?
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08.24 | re-approaching normal?
This summer was the first summer that actually felt back to normal for me, and part of it was that I finally booked a travel itinerary that reflected how I like to travel: a lot.
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03.31 | hey, hey look over here
Last week I finally finished another attempt at a vlog, pushed it out to Youtube, and then immediately felt embarrassed that I'd made it at all and chose not to tell anyone about it.
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12.30 | and then it was december
2022 is now basically over, but that's not quite what got me interested in finally sending out a new newsletter. Actually, funnily enough, it was this...
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08.26 | san ba in august
The gendered insult "san ba (38)" was first recorded 1000 years ago. I turn it in a couple hours.
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05.30 | malaise in may
The month of May felt to me like I both constantly needed to use up those lesser power moves and was constantly defensively blocking. Every kick punch and jump I managed to get in was only just enough to fill up one bar before it got depleted again.
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04.23 | can we actually take back earth day?
Like many other "movements" out there (PRIDE, International Women's Day), this one has been taken over by the very corporations with their boot on the neck of environmental activists.
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04.16 | confronting the need for safety with love instead of fear
Last weekend I watched the new A24 + Michelle Yeoh film "Everything Everywhere All At Once" - one of the first films in years that left me breathless in awe at the end of it.
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04.09 | what is happening in shanghai right now?
Good lord Shanghai. What a fucking mess. In case you don’t have half your friend base still living in that city, here’s what’s been going on...
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04.02 | loneliness, warhol, & nyc
Part memoir of post-breakup wanderings by an expat transplant, part New York City art history reflection, "The Lonely City" by Olivia Laing felt very... I don't know, "exactly this moment" for me.