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alice roberts
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Artist, dog-lover, and avid reader.
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like sometimes i just say things because i think they're conceptually/hypothetically funny and then i get worried i give the wrong impressions.
1 repliesand like concretely in this case, i'm bad right, i don't make anything special, i'm not prideful of my work, but i do want to be good, i get frustrated when i find something that works but lacks elegance, i get motivated and passionate about the modest and ugly things i do create, and embarrassed
1 replieswhen i make mistakes or don't understand something as much as i'd like. i admire greatness, and i'm incredibly fortunate that there's an abundance of it to go around in my circles. i don't want to simply be the conduit for some pathetic thing or dispassionately churn out uninspiring mediocrity.
1 repliesi'm nearly certainly hardcore overthinking as usual, and this is clearly more of an issue of personal self-confidence and frustration with inadequacy; but that just makes it all the more awkward to even joke about, when i so clearly haven't earned it.
1 repliesexploitation does not hinge on abuses of power, how much workers are paid, or even distinct personification. in the first place technical usage, exploitation is simply surplus-value.
1 repliesin the broader sense, exploitation hinges on whether one’s abilities are used for the benefit of another to one’s own detriment, where the nature of the subjects in the relation are under-determined.
1 repliesmarx speaks of the exploitation of machinery, for example. the same logic applies for personified capital, where the exploiter cannot be simply identified as a human individual.
i don’t feel gloomy at all rn, i just respect the game
Raoul Vaneigem
The Revolution of Everyday Life
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loser64 someone else
kurtains just not sure
so summer's gone
it's fun to act like it's not over
and everybody's looking at me
but no one looks at me like you
it all went wrong
i tried to tell you you were different
you never even paid me mind
and getting you to say i love you
isn't the same as ily
1 repliesand if i wasn't so obsessed
i admit that it's a waste of time
would you care to add me to the roster
my bones are getting weak
this time i don't wanna go home
i'll be one of your freaks
1 repliesyour sorry eyes put me to bed
wake me up from my sleep
why couldn't things be simple as i thought they would be
i clenched my jaw hard onto you, now i ran out of teeth
i once disingenuously cited this before on here to protect myself with distance, but that’s because i was leaning on the weakest element: the relationship distinction (which, in fairness to N, is applicable to the vast majority; the problem was with my usage, not his writing).
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View in bsky.appthis isn’t strictly true, but it’s best to let the moment express itself
idk if i’ll keep this up lmao
hey what the hell you forgot the main thing in the alt text
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kasey is the exception, because she is an online relationship that happens to be irl
hi eris!!! 🥺
it’s like actually fairly frustrating lmao, and why i’m tempted to threadgate some things. to be blunt i really don’t care that much about your opinion if you’re shooting from the hip and reading so literally and uncontextually. like it’s so clearly a speech-act too pls im crying
1 repliesits not universal, some ppl kinda engage cool. i just really wish the pressure of the proposition didn’t loom so large. because at that point its not even an objection, youve missed the language game entirely
1 repliesit’s hard because i’m also not really looking for alternative dogmas to come bite at me either. there’s like a whole meta game of appropriate philosophical engagement and that can’t really be an explicit discussion in this space
1 repliesi like talking with my friends it’s just disappointing when it feels like we decide to go play-doh mode. i’ll repeat again tho that some people “get it” to an extent and worth engaging with
threadgate me again hoe
i've obviously very keen to interpret this in a pragmatist direction, that many problematic situations are not arising for me, at least not in the way where "i don't know how to go on".
1 repliesi sleep on “a world without why” way too much, i’m literally always coming back to ideas from here
i got this poem the other day because i was reading a blog post of his talking about his age. Wallace Stevens's 'A Postcard from a Volcano'.
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SOMBER REFLECTIONS
Yesterday afternoon, the 35 or 36 people who live in my building gathered to celebrate the 95 th birthday of one of our residents, Mary McN...
Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;
And that in autumn, when the grapes
Made sharp air sharper by their smell
These had a being, breathing frost;
he had such a compelling and admirable personality and his ideological critique lectures were some of the most clever and personable philosophizing i’ve had the pleasure of witnessing. i can’t stop crying.
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i feel like a certain genre of philosopher is no longer possible, and it's a largely generational thing. philosophers with breadth as opposed to specialization, wit, charisma, humility, and self-awareness - personally warm-hearted but espousing politics with bite.
it seemed like he was in a lot of pain in the end :( i’m so fucking devastated
1 repliesone life, it’s worth an attempt crig.bandcamp.com/album/why-not
i took a pic of my work monitor because trying to load the transcript on mobile makes the browser go kabloom
i love doing that
that’s not surprising but my reaction of revulsion of loathing of my self is notable i suppose