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I'm dying Is it blissful? It's like a dream I want to dream 😍😍🙏
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A song that I keep coming back to when I'm struggling is Deafheaven's Dream House. Few songs encompass the bittersweetness of grief. You're sad and angry but just happy to have experienced it at all. Legendary track. https://youtu.be/RWyVhIBmdGw?si=ABrxOTgK09eWk506
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Sarcasm is my go-to way of being critical of things, but when those things are serious enough, sarcasm actually help normalize and perpetuate bad things. It’s more an escape valve for the impulse to resist than a mode of resistance. Cf: Zizek’s cyninicism as a mode of ideology. So as a matter of hygiene, I’ve basically stopped being sarcastic about US politics. I’ll either say it straight or shut up. Being clever is counterproductive. This is why people who like what’s going on tend to say things like, “c’mon lighten up, you’re over-reacting, it’s not that serious. You’re being paranoid/hysterical.” Getting adversaries who are not at immediate risk to “lighten up” is a key tactic of apologists for authoritarian overreach. Yes, it makes me less fun to have around, but that’s the cost of living in bad times.
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Ended up giving Lulu.com a spin. Will see what the quality is like. 🙏
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Any writers know an alternative option to Amazon KDP for quickly printing and shipping author copies without having to publish it?
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Ek luister na die nuwe Francois van Coke album en mis SA baie. 🙏🇿🇦
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Singhiblarity
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Sharing slop feels like sharing your dreams. It's always far more interesting for yourself than for others. 😅 That or I'm just moody. 😂
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Actually struggling with all the Ghibli slop. Eternal September vibes for slop on the timeline. 😅
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Feel like it needs a timer for guessing too. Don't want to compete against people that google what they see. 😅
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It's the future where Canada, in retaliation to tariff threats annexed a part of Michigan. 😅
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Latest newsletter is out! Enjoy! The Process of Making Something Heavy. https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/the-process-of-making-something-heavy
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That makes sense. Not sure why Afrikaans don't use the same wordplay even though it's there. Instead of 'tijd' it's 'tyd' and 'solidariteit' is verbatim. 😅
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😂👏 They still roast me about it.
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I like that the literal rough translation of the Afrikaans word for society (samelewing) is just: together living.
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Well. It's something I said in my head and it was rarely used in daily life in South Africa. It's only when I mentioned it, seeing it in an elevator that a friend was like what??
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Up to my late 20s I thought you pronounced lbs as labs, not pounds. Growing up metric does that you. 😂
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Intellectually they do but they still project intent between iMark and oMark (like separating actor from from character). Like ppl being mad at the ending as if it wasn't iMark's choice. Hard to explain. 😅
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You know that phenomena where people can't discern a character as different from their actor? I feel like I'm going crazy seeing this play out with people judging characters in Severance. It's different "people" lol. 😅
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I love walking in America. I prefer my sidewalks to be a bit more natural and the mega big cars blow the trash away from you. 👏🙏
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