Aisha

Is there like, a guidebook or sth

Deactivated IG only to hop on here for a min.

Can't believe I'm just seeing this, but reposting for posterity (or more for myself to have a record, rather!)

TIL the word 'jumbotron'

MRW, as everything from a toaster to a fridge now requires an internet connection. We need right to repair, not AI enabled toast settings.

So glad we fired all the DEI hires with "advanced degrees" and "expertise" and finally installed some qualified people

fucking incredible to leave a lorem ipsum in the copy during The Year of Our Lord 2025

a year when even chatbots could shit out something workable

"An independent journalist" who won't remain nameless Too many legacy outlets still refuse to credit indie journos. Enough is enough.

I got mad.

And finally, finally sprouted some teeny tiny shoots.
And now, it's cleaved clean off cos the little pot fell over when Lynxie tried to pounce on it.

Ah well. We truly own nothing.

You know it's *unconditional*, *unwavering* and *true* love that you're not even slightly mad at the fact that your cat literally broke the brand new shoots off a cutting that's been nothing but a stalk, leaf-less and nearly dead, for two years. It started showing signs of life just a fortnight ago.

axsh | Substack Click to read axsh, a Substack publication. Launched 4 hours ago.

Anyway, posting a link here in an attempt to what, document? Write? Create? Or just write more freely.

aishaxr.substack.com?utm_campaign...

Started two little (personal) projects today - setting up a friendgroup newsletter, and Substack. Pleasantly surprised at how beautiful the latter is to use.

Apart from all the great presentations at this symposium, one thing that stands out is that I REALLY need to package my work /self better.

Third pic, squirrels /chipmunks!

If anyone has any ideas on how I can start writing (non academic) and warm up in media again, I'd like to maybe give it a go (again). Just to keep in touch with my older /ex self, in a way, if that makes sense?
I got so much from journalism, and it took so much as well, but I miss it in a weird way.

Rereading Hunger Games, and it never gets old. On Mockingjay now, and feeling sad that it'll be over, much like the first time reading it.

Ok nvm, googled 😅😭

Link pls?

Answer emails and clean your house and remember to grade those remaining midterms and be present with your kid and think about fascism and 400 people dead in Gaza. But keep going because what do you even do

Anyway I have a 2000 word assignment on Platform societies due tomorrow and have done a poor 30 word intro so far that has nothing to do with platforms, nor the society shaped by it.

Anyway, Hunger Games is, as always, 100/100.

I really hope Collins isn't a zionist, aaaah.

May I just please complain about the NAMES in Sunrise tho. Suzanne Collins I love your books but not the characters names, some of them are so forced 😭 and ALL the songs /poetry in them too, even with the Covey story lines.

Just a few pages back into The Hunger Games, and it's so good? Like, Primrose getting picked, Katniss volunteering, the world setting in such a short space - all of it.

In COMPARISON, Sunrise is a bit of a let down in terms of story, but works quite well as background literature.

Finished Sunrise of the Reaping earlier today and just cracked open my old copy of The Hunger Games to do a lil re-read.

Sunrise (Haymitch's story) is good, but feels a bit rushed, a bit filler-esque, compared to both Ballad and HG.

This is wonderfully solid advice.

..... Vajra, how'd you manage to make this somehow worse that when I first saw it

😂😂😂😂😂

WHY ARE YALL LIKE THIS

He's pressed bc someone asked about his silence on Palestine in the comments

One person literally just said maybe you can also speak about Palestine, so maybe it's not all of us, it's just you.