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They've created a system where your worth as a person is measured by how much you contribute to your own replacement by a chatbot.

i’m also unsubscribing from their substack!!! omfgggggggg

i read their 3rd novel which takes its skeleton from a short dystopic fiction… i thought about re-reading but don’t wanna sully that work now 😭😭 i haven’t been this irked by a novel in a long time 😭😭😭😭 omfg

i’m giving up the other to-be-read novel from this author too because EWWWW!! i was excited about their 2025 release but i don’t think i’ll ever be able to see their work fully affer experiencing this wack ass debut.

finished another novel. i won’t name it because i hated it. it made me stop reading altogether because the experience was abysmal and radiated outward. i’m not keeping this one on my bookshelf, or closet, or anywhere in the crib for that matter. big fuckin yikes!!!

In Defense of Despair The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.

This is one of the most profound essays I’ve read in years. You don’t need me to tell you that Hanif Abdurraqib is one of the finest writers of our time, but this essay in particular is a hard-won offering. Please read it and share with people you love.

and spanish:

what’s been on repeat for me 😘

This is what happens when you don't tax rich people, I'm dead serious. You have to keep the money moving in rational ways or it all devolves to hustle

full of rage.

Princeton nuclear physicist, fusion energy expert Liu Chang leaves US for China Plasma specialist heads to Peking University to pursue magnetic confinement on mission to make nuclear fusion a reality

The Princeton nuclear fusion scientist Liu Chang is leaving for a position in Beijing — the latest case of a high profile Chinese scientist quitting the U.S. and returning home.

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Cheers to tomorrow, to the onward force that is building new worlds and new possibilities. We hold each other. We keep each other. We free each other. With rigor, care and force. Like Danez said — let me show you where the weapons are.

On sad days I’d swap out homecoming for lemonade…..but those days have to be MONUMENTAL

All of Beyoncé’s albums are *incredible*

With that said I feel the need to name my top 3:

1. Renaissance (like, let’s be serious)

2. 4 (…👀 her eldest daughter’s name..)

3. Homecoming (it’s a compilation… *BUT* it’s !!LIVE!! and every time I listen I remember she was doing that shit IRL…!)

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

somewhere hands / on my body mean medicine, ecstasy

Whoops — 6, 7 + 8 // 9 is what I’m figuring out next.

Just opened a memoir that has scared me since bringing it home and… after reading the first few pages I think a decision has been made :/ this book is gonna truly rock my shit 😭

Finished books 7, 8, and 9 this week. Deciding if I want to jump into a collection of essays next or a thick novel

Idgaf

I laughed out loud 😂😭

YEAH! Let go and let it in bb !!!!!!!

every time I let go of the act, the world rushes in, in profound ways.

struck by, and sitting with mythological de/construction

I read this before I read the collection. In the context (and sequence) of the other poems…….

this shit hits 100x harder.

don’t call us dead on the ground, closed, near a purple light

five. DONT CALL US DEAD
i cried on the train; recognizing the poetry in everything.

Many Times by Dijon on Apple Music Song · 2021 · Duration 2:06

hard reset

A pencil sketch of a blob with eyes with a pencil and a briefcase sticking out of it. “This is the Employment Jelly. Reblog whenever the hell you like and you’ll get a job that you love and deserve.”

For so many reasons.

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