i think plain soylent is delicious
alexander. sometimes you try to start a gang and it turns into a book club, but sometimes you try to start a book club and it turns into a gang, you know?
• a man whom god tried to avoid making
• ask
• submit IF NOT NOW THEN WHEN
• a man whom god tried to avoid making
• ask
• submit IF NOT NOW THEN WHEN
fun fact: you can just go to any hotel lobby and hang out there. they don’t know you aren’t staying there and they have great chairs
the best conversation ever had about me was when adam described libgen as his sketchy russian boyfriend and ozy was like “wait, isnt that–”
| me, in aramaic: | did it hurt when you fell from heaven |
| sarah: | ........ |
#'angels can't speak aramaic' is my favorite cryptid meme #if you're stalking me read this
i don’t have high hopes for dragon army because frankly i just don’t think duncan has the skills to pull it off + i love intentional communities as much as anyone but im a little concerned that his first attempt is “duncan is in charge of everything”, like im pretty arrogant but i would never try to do that first even if i decided that structure was a good idea because id want to get a bunch of information in a way where i didn’t have to learn basics while people depended on me + army is the wrong fucking metaphor for a small group which wants to be personally effective, armies are about breaking people in a way that makes them really legible and predictable so that you can have a precise estimate for when you’ll be able to deliver equipment x to point b
that said, i really respect duncan’s attempts to let people informedly consent to something that’s pretty difficult to get consent for
this kind of seems (and this part is low confidence, don’t take me too seriously) like he has a shitty disposition/intuitions, but is doing an admirable job of memorizing what ethics looks like so he can do ethical things anyway even when he’s like starting a weird autocratic cult (i still wouldn’t trust anyone who wants one at all with a weird autocratic cult, but it’s a good effort)
i considered signing up just out of curiosity but ultimately the curiosity would last me a week and then id either deliberately subvert duncan’s authority or be traumatized and have cfs symptoms and take half a year to recover, neither of which are in line with what he’s going for (i am also for that matter vaguely bitter about the fact that i think i could run it better than him, even though i just do not have enough of the right kind of spoons to do the job and would kind of hate it, just because i pay a lot of attention and don’t do things like writing fiction where normal twelve year olds sound like the kids from enders game (this is a thing duncan does).)
#the guy who told duncan to kill himself actually made some good points #it would have been a great comment if it was like 1% as angry #if you're stalking me read this
Let it be known that @nihilsupernum just used the phrase “wlm/mlw” because he forgot the word “straight”.
shut UP
at the mountain goats concert before it started i was describing something i ate as “it had a lot of capsaicin. it was capsaiciny.” and adam like, paused incredulously for a good half minute, and then was like “….spicy.”
im in the whitney and tala madani makes some really pretty glowy art except it is ALL about buttholes
singer at this “queer dance party”: you know when a song is just, bottled up in you,
song lyrics: “oh please don’t leave” over and over
#i guess this is what i get for going to an event labeled a queer dance party #sorry masha if you read this #if you're stalking me read this
how do people feel about a drink that’s like a screwdriver but with coffee instead of vodka
#i don't like coffee #somewhere in the world #at this very moment #john darnielle is Calling Me Out #unless he's asleep #but tbh if he's asleep he's calling me out in his dreams #if you're stalking me read this
idk if you can see but the little ledge on the engine says “no step”
#this is the only picture i took on the whole flight #me comma sitting on the floor at a standing concert: DONT TREAD ON ME #if you're stalking me read this
i took out my earplugs about forty five seconds into rain in soho, which, as it happens, was the first song
#making bad decisions twenty yards away from john darnielle: the aesthetic #then i sobbed thru the rest of the song. good shit #if you're stalking me read this
guilty pleasures: writing slow code that prints things every time it finds a thing satisfying the condtion im looking for so i can watch it print something every few seconds
#if my computer runs out of memory and crashes it will be my own damn fault #if you're stalking me read this
im having a pretty good time with caffeine addiction; current model is like “caffeine is a moderately effective adhd med”