Velcro City Tourist Board
a cheap, mendacious world, where what passes for progress almost always turns out to be a confidence game
the thing we are frightened of is not close to the thing we already have
all iterations of the same one fundamental technological change
my kid could not have done this (not least because I don’t have one)
can you dig it?
his fixed nature as an organism may not prove adequate to stand the strain
morally right and theoretically superior
womanthology
28SEP26 / accessions
if none of your needs or desires are app-shaped
the art in your party
get a really good bullshit detector
his wisdom must walk hand and hand with his idiocy
party’s over
what can you give the man who literally already has everything
discredited descriptions of reality
archipelagoing, archipelagone
banging their gavel
nightmare machines (two different ones)
normal for Malmö
01SEP26 / accessions
a form of unfreedom in which one’s enemies dictate the rhythm of one’s thinking
this age of muddles and passions
det goda livet
an elaborate account of the overcoming of the smaller difficulties
ours is the tragedy of the silent stars
the only animal most philosophers have killed with their own two hands
sturgeon’s law (slight return)
the events in our lives that happen online are never depicted or mentioned
ratio’d
play the hand you’re dealt
hardcore will never die (but you will)
gonzo Borges
23JUL2026 / accessions
red, october
because all of these people are ducklings
the cozy catastrophists of cosplay doomerism
the very capacities that make agency possible
we (believe that we) have always lived in the castle
i find this line of questioning exhilarating
the old magic that made me
print-shop dispatches
double decades on the dime
weirdly equivalent, in a way that regularly warps my brain
everything is connected to something
an unusual segment of the species
right about the problems but hilariously, tragically wrong about the solutions
Zohran’s nonbinary praetorians
no one thinks deeply enough to notice
other, earlier modes of living are fully open to us
i would prefer not to
“community” as content, and as form
nothing proves this essential paralysis more clearly
good, cheap, fast; choose two
true imagination: Indignity by Lea Ypi
empty dreams, delivering not posthuman paradise but silicon oblivion
a one-man conspiracy
the real reason you’re not selling out in 2026
maskerade
track changes to their lair and kill them
building up against the left wall
keep shuffling those ideas around
on the valence of designed things
The Good Soldier
if the house keeps winning they’ll just burn it down
whatever circuits of vanity underlie the original impulse
this oppressive cardinality
… for some reason!
the consequences of failure are everywhere to see
dead media beat: mass-market paperbacks
halting states
on discernment
immediate and widespread access
rock and roll is (not) dead
a community of good fortune
woke up this way
internalize the narrative of our own obsolescence
temple of doom
that one guy rides again
generational hangover
and they burn so bright, while you can only wonder why
i’d buy that for a dollar
meme opera