A trust fund kid is allowed to be Raymond Roussel (impossibly weird great artist), James Laughlin (publisher of impossibly weird great artists), the Tappan brothers (patron of radical benevolent causes), or Pannonica Rothschild (fucked cool people)
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if you're a trust fund kid your role is to either gleefully and unthinkingly participate in the lowest forms of culture or to lock yourself in a tower somewhere and work on some idiosyncratic project. anything else is annoying
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this one is cool. The exhibit is a bunch of white screens, that change when you put on 3d glasses. Exhibit is called Privacy Screen, by Carta Monir
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sometimes I think the real reason I go out is to experience the preternatural stillness of the city at 4:30 am as I walk home afterwards
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not emotionally ready for another andrea long chu essay
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maybe this aesthetic judgement isn't quite in line with my political ideals but I think it's weird when a guy has a lot of gimmicky flash tattoos
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lol. lmao even
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I'm assuming they're in it for the data but also it has a disconcerting amount of sway in the publishing industry despite it being easily manipulated/subject to the whims of booktok types, sort of a bad state of affairs all around
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*deep inhale*
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alright I'm gonna schedule an ffs consult
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hey any minute now this decades-long experiment in fashioning online community by talking about everything we want in an community, and how we want to hold people accountable to their community, i think it's finally coming together. everyone just has to become as ethical as me right this instant
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instax
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East Village Zine Fair — what a lovely day!
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"Every time I’ve felt my perspective shifting for the better, it has come from spending less time on social media and more time reimmersing myself in my community."
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maybe i can explain this one now, since i have @emializh.bsky.social’s book unpacked again
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Canada has a lot on the US but tbh the whole assisted suicide for disabled people in a structurally anti-disability system is a real big negative on the counter for me
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Thanks, AI
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"As faculty from CalState LongBeach elucidated, Boeing—one of the IDF’s longtime partners—has taken over the university. Driven by the twin pressures of austerity + militarization... 'the College[s] of Engineering [+] Business [have] quite literally transformed into Boeing’s labor-supply mill.'"
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Reminder to pre-order my book with @willowcatelyn.bsky.social
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good point. something that oddly scratches the itch but takes it in a completely orthogonal direction
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realizing at some point that you don't get the social media addiction brain cells back, just like quitting smoking will make you feel better but you probably won't ever be a triathlete
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What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs
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"It is a good market to play financial games in at the expense of the have nots if you are one of the haves" is a dipshit's argument and if anything makes me want to be real punitive towards the haves out of revenge
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How do I put this as bluntly as possible: homeowners celebrating equity increases aren't remotely as important as people struggling to pay rent
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"enjoy grad school and don't let it bum you out when you don't get a job" is not the correct response to all this, but it's a good clue to the dynamics that we still won't really talk about: that class background/family resources matter, and that grad funding disparities between universities matter.
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this is true but these people are a small minority allied with strict geopolitical realists both Dem and GOP who see Israel as a base by which to expand American imperial power in the region, and the religious nut jobs can only function via the arms of the imperial state
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