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i have come into knowledge of postdoctoral funding of which others could hardly dream. if you’re not mailing a printed out excel sheet alongside a USB stick via DHL or securing an official Six-Year Accreditation of Merit from a municipal government you’re not grinding

under communism every kitchen shall have a little chute dispensing brunoised onions. probably the lowest-hanging-fruit basic good for social provision, time-savings & all that

‪i probably should, it just feels like trying to talk someone out of getting into folk punk‬

in spite of not ever actually having been a microsect member myself i have a frankly quite problematic character-building view of doing one’s time in the microsect mines and so never put very much work into dissuading people

anyway, the underlying point is that this sort of usage is owed mostly to state & revolution, which says of the lower phase both socialist principles (work for your food + equal products for equal labour) are fulfilled and yet we don't have communism insofar as we still have bourgeois right

sure, i suppose if you folded in CCP members that'd be a good counterexample, though there are some reasons why doing this is contested enough. a more precise version of the initial point then would be that *among anglophones* most communists are in favour of a world without markets & money

in a certain sense that's true, the socialist/communist distinction we're used to doesn't begin til lenin. but on the other hand there is today a difference of emphasis where almost all communists are committed to a world without markets & money, but not all self-professed socialists (though some)

i realised my off and on productivity of late was caused by not listening to enough dub while working

up until the nineteen thirties every educated person was allocated one french phrase to use injudiciously in casual conversation when they couldn’t figure out what they really meant to say. lytton strachey’s was écrasé, kayla abused vis-à-vis for six months

three of the past four days i’ve said ‘don’t be so heteronomous’ & each time to a different person. a legitimately insane thing to say even prior to considering it’s something i’m telling the other party to do

the secret is that we keep marxism sort of confused & rough around the edges so that you (you in particular!) can have the joy of setting it right. it’s like a proof left to the reader, or those scenes in video games where you have to press the X button quickly to save the world

my meat has become gamey

i believe i have in me the kind of groupie skills that could’ve made the floruit any a-minus-or-worse-list musician about ten to fifteen percent better

i should readdress this question to evan

i made soy sauce buttercream for a big cake a little while ago which worked well & is basically similar in premiss

i think if i could invest in anything it would be the little silver spouty milk guys they have at certain diners. many places are still on giving you second dribbly cups. i can’t say i see the spout guys going anywhere but up

the best time to publish journal articles is 12, before you know anything or are capable of learning the things other people have said on the topic. the second best is posthumously, judging from when evan reviewed a dead guy’s article & they didn’t make him do evan’s revisions

if you tried to regress my posts per day on my physical distance from partner you would probably get like an R of .95 or something

yesterday someone told me i looked like a sixty year old and someone else asked me if i was married and tried to introduce me to a family facetime call while in airport security. i’ve finally hit my stride

you guys wouldn’t even believe how many things i’ve found, drawn out, rendered, readdressed and revivified in job letters lately

i accidentally got a plenary indulgence last month but i’m saving it for when i do something actually bad

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when i was a kid i discovered that once something (e.g. a backpack used to ferry lunchboxes) started to smell like sandwiches it was pretty much irreversible, things would be just like that now. for this reason i have a real moment of panic whenever i smell sandwiches at home

i think the only remaining engine of homoeroticism in america’s embarrassingly heterosexual libidinal economy is those washington dc staffer dudes-only-house roommate relationships, which become by one’s early 30s indistinguishable from marriage except in being more charged

Beeper Beeper has 110 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

actually it was beeper who open sourced their own code, & technically you could self host it though it’d be a bit of an undertaking (github.com/beeper)

there is one, for a while it was beeper, which is paid-only, but i think someone open-sourced an app (based on their codebase?) that does the same

- adorno

the design of the floss picker is to tempt the weary or forgetful with a detailed dream of flossing—a task that its fixed extension and short thread make impossible to achieve with any success. in this way it functions as a synecdoche for the whole ‘convenience store’

‪the platner reich has come early ‬

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