alice maz

from paris with love renée vivien, natalie clifford barney, love and poetry in the belle époque

new by me: I write about renee vivien and natalie barney, two of the writers and women I most deeply adore. their art, their tragic love, myth vs reality, and lesbianism in the belle epoque alicemaz.substack.com/p/from-paris...

first time in singapore: wow automated immigration is amazing I love the panopticon now
second time in singapore: come on stupid machine... why don't you recognize my face this time... is it because I cut my hair...

I kind of like the fact that instead of just dying it degrades to text-only. feels like someone turned off the lights

I'm not trying to quit yet I just don't want to ruin my teeth whitening. so I'm trying to smoke with the side of my mouth lol

told myself in exchange for buying a pack of cigarettes I'd log out of twitter for a bit............. hello

At first the bluesky was designed as a.. perfect website..
the feeds didn't glitch out.. every post was funny & high effort.. there was no inscrutable drama or 'main character's

it was a disaster.

which is why the bluesky was redesigned to this.. 2012 twitter.. the peak of your civilization

simple from here: twitter rebrands to x, three years elapse, the trademark is deemed abandoned, bluesky rebrands to twitter

I saw all three of them today (one picked up my furniture one works at the self-storage place and one at the burger bar I met him at) I am absolutely dadmaxxing

orthodoxy: church is fun and religious experience should be ecstatic and we put pretty pictures everywhere and this is exactly what it was like 1000 years ago

am I filter bubbled I'm just seeing who I follow and it's wall to wall this shit

I want people to talk about research papers and argue about politics and mercilessly harass main characters in a more ecumenical way than current harassment is done but idk it's just not the venue for that yet

the actual thing we have to get over (and I realize I am contributing to this) is the only two ways people use bluesky so far is a) talking about bluesky, or b) saying things that depend on no external context whatsoever like "just had lunch"-posting or unfunny 2010 weird twitter style jokes

privilege stack includes how early you were to bluesky

傾国傾城 🥵🥴😵‍💫😖

if twitter is hellsite then bsky is valhallasite. we should have team colors and shit

yes, yes...

a month ago I was bemoaning having no good older male role models who I could talk to about life and relationships and stuff but somehow I've managed to acquire three different 60-something father figures in seattle

speedrunning the history of twitter, a few months ago it was 2010 "just had lunch" normieposting now it's 2015 "my death threats are woke praxis" silliness. we should be caught up to the present day by eoy

here is a man* who would not take it** anymore***

* woman
** international move logistics
*** will continue to take it

same as other right-wing phrases turned into memes like "this is what they took from us" and "we have to go back." it's making fun of the original usage!!

incidentally I feel obligated to point out that "which way western man" is the exact opposite of a dogwhistle because the point is to apply it to trivial or comical referents in a way that mocks the original sentiment

here's me

when people are sending death threats in an attempt to influence your policies and roadmap, that's pmf

after however many years of being avowedly non-ideological, I'm looking forward to being accused of carrying water for some particular ideology and being able to reply "actually I'm a confucian" and link to substack posts explaining exactly the kind of confucian I am

I want to slowly plunge my hand into this like a sack of dry beans

it's just that too much of the seed population was miserable leftists. hopefully they'll leave when federation comes or get diluted by new joiners or start going to war with each other soon

monetize by charging to block someone

I remember a month or two ago being disappointed the site was too hugboxxy but now I see we've gone full lord of the flies

nah this is just personality variation, some people (holding utility constant) value things they paid more for because sunk cost and cost to replace etc, others find satisfaction from the deal they got and the uniqueness of the item. I'm the same, I'm very affectionate about my used bikes eg

but maybe this is scarcity mindset... I can get new (used) couches if I ever come back to america...