there once was a network called lightning. the recklessness seen there was frightening. a space-suited cat made a torch out of sats and we all wanted in on its heightening.

please shill me your favourite essayists and, even better, collections of essays as books.

not to me it wasn’t. it started a few weeks ago and had never previously happened.

I have a new lingo with mrs allen: “OSA’d”. it’s when she sends me a tiktok and I can’t watch it without a tiktok account because of the Online Safety Act. I’ve been OSA’d. she sends me a lot of edgy shit so this happens pretty regularly.

very very very good video on probably my biggest academic pet peeve. well worth the 20 minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH-ybecvuEo

I think it’s a literary allusion. it suggests that there is more to follow that links to bitchat (hence not a full stop) but which also stands on its own, is full, and is blossoming with potential (hence not a colon). the fact he left it blank suggests an invitation to the reader to actively contribute to constructing this narrative rather than merely passively consuming.

gm

for sobriety?

say you are constantly telling people not to say or do naughty things and if anything the app is very helpful in this respect because without it you would have no way of communicating with them

more to come on this very very shortly!

I’m not claiming he got credit others deserved because lots of people chipped in. I’m claiming the framing of “he solved X problem” is extremely misleading because he actually solved a completely different problem.

so in other words he should get all the credit in the world … for proving a reduced version of a separate conjecture.

duh

I can’t, imagining is a hate crime where I live.