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alex orlov

10 days

I've just released Doggerland, you can find it at the link in my bio. I have been meaning to write about ancient theories of geography for a while. Doggerland is a catalogue poem, a hand-made encyclopedia, and a fragmentary speculative geography.

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alex orlov

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3 months

there’s a freak on the street filming all the women

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3 months

This is St. Petersburg, Russia. What do you notice?

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alex orlov

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4 months

it’s kind of beautiful that all flight attendants are either gay sons or thot daughters. in the skies they are finally free

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alex orlov

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7 months

this form of protest is cool but belongs to a time when people in power cared about culture. as the cleric said after soleimani’s assassination, who are we meant to kill in return, spongebob? there is nothing public that the authorities aren’t happy to gut, except the roads

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7 months

Climate activists throw soup at the Mona Lisa in The Louvre.

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alex orlov

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15 days

love kojima but it is quite funny that he posts all these photos of him meeting celebrities and none of them ever post about meeting him

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alex orlov

@alex_orlov_

4 months

>job is getting hit in the head >believes in austrian school economics

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4 months

‘I love private property, and let me tell you something, if you care about your fucking country, read Ludwig Von Mises and the 6 lessons of the Austrian Economic School, motherfuckers!’ - @moicanoufc 🔥 Best post-fight interview of all time?? Safe to say the Overton window has

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alex orlov

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3 months

>introduce tuition fees >make universities reliant on fees from students >make international students pay more >universities become reliant on international student fees >ban international students genius move mister sunak

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We’ve taken action to reduce migration. Student dependant applications are now down by 80%.

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alex orlov

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5 months

my favourite lenin anecdote is when he visited an art college and saw all the weirdo avant-garde futurist shit they were doing and he was like “well i don’t get it but at least they’re having fun. i’m old”

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alex orlov

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4 months

first time i’ve ever looked at one of these and wondered what IS going on here

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4 months

What goes on here?

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7 months

I am going to annihilate you.

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alex orlov

@alex_orlov_

5 months

'Nolan is a dumb guy's idea of a smart guy' is a dumb person's idea of a smart take because he clearly just makes dumb movies and intends to do so. they only look like they're trying to be smart if you are dumb. Interstellar is about Love being a hidden law of nature be fr

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5 months

Nolan is a pseudointellectual who makes middlebrow blockbusters, but he happens to work in a period in which popular discourse (especially online) is dominated by pseudointellectuals who love middlebrow blockbusters (youtubers, video essayists, podcasters, etc).

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alex orlov

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6 months

I’ve seen some people call this bad writing because it’s more emotionally direct than how most people communicate, which is aggressively missing the point. This is a movie about how two autofiction writers interact in their relationships - yes, it sounds like perfectly written

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10 months

Sandra Hüller Anatomy of a Fall.

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alex orlov

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15 days

@no_earthquake I am unconvinced they even know who he is tbh

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alex orlov

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3 months

wait, you’re into the western marxist tradition AND religious mysticism? you are one crazy chica…

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alex orlov

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1 month

me when I’m manic once a month and decide to start fixing my life

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alex orlov

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1 month

new style: deliberately flawed/broken writing with grammar and spelling mistakes AI wouldn’t make, like medieval art which included flaws so as not to aspire to the perfection of God, also to allow the spirit a gap through which to leave the text (ch'ihónít'i)

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alex orlov

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5 months

@berezina @evangrizlon this one’s good

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alex orlov

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7 months

no art on a dead planet? buddy, there’s no art already! as a protest against the sucking out of meaning from public life, which is identical with the endless commodification that has ravaged the world - I fully support all forms of vandalism targeted at the old and ossified

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alex orlov

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7 months

maybe I haven’t read all three volumes of Capital.. But I smoke good. I have a kind heart. And I’m unemployed. at the end of the day that is what matters

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alex orlov

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4 months

@veevraavvrice fag hags

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alex orlov

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7 months

slightly Bataillean point: animals waste the vast majority of their time. They sit around most of the day, idly grooming themselves or napping. Sometimes they engage in more intense acts of waste, play or hunting. Nature docs absolutely distort this image, by focusing just

john milbank

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7 months

Why is every single TV nature programme Darwinian porn? Endlessly about predation and competition: ‘these chicks may look secure but nearby something is hovering etc etc’. Surely if they are supposed to encourage ecological awareness we need far more about cooperative harmony?

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alex orlov

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5 months

I really do not see any reason to make the conceptual leap of saying ‘ancient people did not have an inner sense like ours’ when what the evidence suggests is that they had a different sense of how to *express* interiority. any assertions beyond that are unfounded

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It's actually well sustained by many scholars that the ancients did not have an inner sense similar to ours, that the subject of ancient greece was otherwise individuated. JP Vernant argues that there is no inner-monolog in the Iliad. Achilles for example, when he stops himself

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alex orlov

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6 months

the reason for studying philosophy is the rush you get when you read something that totally reorients you. I think anyone who has experienced this feeling will recognise it, its like taking a hit. the enjoyment you get from any art but distilled. its just verbal heroin

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6 months

why study philosophy at all? once the "queen of the sciences" it has been, not surpassed, but rendered irrelevant by more specialized fields of inquiry (linguistics, neuroscience, etc.). however, to not have read Plato, Aristotle, the pre-Socratics, Lucretius, is a disadvantage

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alex orlov

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3 months

not a song but my favourite piece of prose I’ve ever encountered online is this comment left under video footage of a defunct steelworks. I return to it regularly

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4 months

My favorite thing about human beings are the vulnerable flash autobiographies people leave in the comments under videos of songs on youtube

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alex orlov

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14 days

@TinyxPants @no_earthquake I like that he has shooters. he's living his dream

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alex orlov

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3 months

@brit_fox1558 if you create a market where some consumers have to pay more for the same service, it makes sense to sell primarily to those consumers. it would’ve been stupid for universities *not* to do that given the marketisation of higher education. it was always a totally unforced error

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alex orlov

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6 months

dialogue that no human would naturally say. Because Sandra is, in this very moment, *writing* her dialogue - both parties in this dialogue are fictionalising themselves. Samuel literally incited and recorded this argument in order to get material for his autofiction!

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alex orlov

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5 months

Tenet is on no levels trying to be a smart movie. It's a Bond movie with a sci-fi narrative conceit that the movie tells you not to think about because it makes no sense. its there because it looks cool.

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alex orlov

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6 months

And this is a long relationship in which this argument has been rehearsed many times. In any relationship like this, your speaking points are practiced and repeated to the point of perfection. This movie is gesturing exactly towards the performativity of our relationships

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alex orlov

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6 months

u kind of just have to accept this in video games. they’re an art form but haven’t been able to take the steps into having an avant-garde and pushing boundaries because the audience and critical sphere is essentially braindead. if a game is anything other than fun it is reviled

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6 months

So many people not realising Death Stranding entire basic gameplay was inspired by this suggests that game critisism has failed on such a fundemental level that few critiques actually drew the rather important connection between real life and the game.

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alex orlov

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7 months

@a_fish_ionado have no problem with the protest and think it’s good, just think protest’s ability to change things is limited by the cynicism with which the elites function

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alex orlov

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3 months

Klee grasped what is intuitive in folk art: aesthetics as witticism, parody, and play

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3 months

type of shit newman was sending kramer

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alex orlov

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6 months

We write ourselves as characters, victims or heroes, and write our partners and loved ones into boxes so they fit into worlds we ourselves project outward. Anatomy of a Fall is about what it means to love and hate when we are the ones who bind ourselves in both situations

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alex orlov

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6 months

something’s shifted

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alex orlov

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2 months

it’s crazy how some people are unable to imagine the inner worlds of other people and take that as a sign that anyone but them is mentally deficient

worm food 🇵🇸🌸✨🌸🇵🇸

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2 months

u ever realize that vast amounts of people have never done like. any sort of introspection. no self analysis. never thought about their actions or thoughts beyond the most basic surface level. it’s terrifying

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alex orlov

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5 months

there should be coworkers for being unemployed

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alex orlov

@alex_orlov_

3 months

listen I do not know whether letby is guilty or innocent but I actually think it’s good that ghoulish youtubers don’t get to interfere in an ongoing murder trial by producing monetised poorly researched videos that prejudice the jury!

Hbomberguy

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3 months

"I cannot make a video about this miscarriage of justice because it would be a crime" is not a sentence you should be able to say. I'd have to write it from a sealed offshore bunker

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6yo: I'm not sure there is such a thing as progress Me: I - what? 6: I don't know if there's progress that you can save Me: I'm sorry but I don't understand 6: On my Sonic game. I don't know if it saves my progress or not Me: Ohhhhhh I get it. Does that bother you? 6: Not really!

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alex orlov

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7 months

on competition they create the impression that nature is a zero-sum game, that it’s a closed system where you need to fight over scraps of energy. Actually, everything is in excess, and life is a way to spill that excess energy out into new domains.

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alex orlov

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1 month

will you people shut up

Yegor Letovian Accelerationist 🇩🇴(LHOHQ.info)

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1 month

Tag yourselves Im CryptoHegelian Deleuzian

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alex orlov

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6 months

Officially got the offer, in August I will be an English teacher in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia :)

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alex orlov

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5 months

the guy is good at making dumb middlebrow movies! there are definite flaws in his filmmaking but trying to be too clever is not one of them. do you not remember him doing a ‘hero appears from behind the departing car’ trick with fucking Einstein. this shit is stupid

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alex orlov

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4 months

“what were you before you met me?” “I was drowning in the bog” A pause. “and what are you now?” he whisperer, sinking “bog ”

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ocean vuong, on earth we’re briefly gorgeous

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alex orlov

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5 months

this shit makes me go wild. so many cultural syncretisms fading into the background in the span of time. we barely know anything about these guys. they were probably the coolest people to ever live

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This was wild honestly

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alex orlov

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5 months

we’re back

alex orlov

@alex_orlov_

5 months

the job market is awesome i applied for like 100 jobs and didn’t even get an interview and the first offer i got was in mongolia so now i’m moving to mongolia

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alex orlov

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5 months

@berezina @evangrizlon ?

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alex orlov

@alex_orlov_

5 months

tragic: I don’t like annotating books because I find my thoughts ugly and disruptive when I return later but I hate reifying books and treating them as sacred objects. only middle ground is to not annotate books but to generally fuck them up. tearing out pages and eating them

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alex orlov

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5 months

One thing I’ve found interesting in The World Turned Upside Down is the number of people who lived in forests and marshes in 1600s England pre-enclosure and fen draining. It was a way to live a free life. No church, no Lord. Just your hut and your community in the forest.

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Percentage of Spanish population residing in caves (1963)

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alex orlov

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5 months

perfect amount of correct to be is 70%. aiming above this is hubris. a little over a fourth of the things you say should derive from your finite and flawed nature

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alex orlov

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4 months

we no longer live under capitalism.. Now; we live under Crapitalism (verso books 2023)

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alex orlov

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3 months

@mortybot423 not really much to say innit

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alex orlov

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3 months

@brit_fox1558 it was economically sensible because they pay £6000 more per year and demand for UK unis is huge and inflexible worldwide. if you're going to marketise unis (which I'd rather they didn't!) that extra 6k shouldve been something like a tourism tax going straight to public services

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alex orlov

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5 months

the job market is awesome i applied for like 100 jobs and didn’t even get an interview and the first offer i got was in mongolia so now i’m moving to mongolia

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alex orlov

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4 months

there is so much evidence this is real

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alex orlov

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5 months

@faqvarl It does seem to go for the ‘clever hard sci fi’ angle at first so I get why ppl think it’s trying to be smart.. but the message is Love brings us all together <3 even in space <3 the man is in his feels let him be

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alex orlov

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7 months

@poppy_haze this is called council communism

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alex orlov

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3 months

next update we're patching the bug where poetry appears in the mundane. it shouldnt be doing that

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alex orlov

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5 months

inner monologue discourse is sheer dumbassery. I am simply unconvinced that language is precise enough for us to designate different subjective experiences of that nature. we have no way of knowing that we mean the same thing by ‘internal monologue’ or ‘mental images’

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alex orlov

@alex_orlov_

5 months

we know that speakers of proto indo europeans used double doors because the languages deriving from proto indo european all preserve a lost dual case in their word for door. not really relevant but I think it’s cool

Masoud

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5 months

I'm not a prescriptivist but English really needs to get over the "pants/shorts/scissors/glasses... are pairs" vibe. They clearly are NOT. Either practically or conceptually and insisting they are is making everyone's life harder

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alex orlov

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3 months

@finelylesberg funnily enough it often isnt even stem people doing this. its journalist types who presumably studied either journalism or english/history at uni. they dont even have an excuse to not understand the words!

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alex orlov

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6 months

I want worse books with worse morals made by people who are actively evil and im not even joking

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alex orlov

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7 months

@milofux Agree fully, and I’m on the side of all forms of protest. I think stuff like this has a function also in drawing in activists, people who are inspired and willing to do similar things themselves. My cynicism is directed more at those in charge, not activists:)

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4 months

holy shit

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staring drunkenly at the splayed-open chip bag on our table at the bar and was so struck by its beauty I took a photo and it really is that beautiful

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4 months

can’t lie idgaf

soup girl

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4 months

EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT GOING OUTSIDE YOU STILL EXPERIENCE INDIRECT LIGHT INDOORS WHICH STILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON YOUR SKIN FROM aging to wrinkles to sunburn to even skin cancer. unless you live in a place with no windows and no indirect light, you should wear sunscreen!!!!!

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alex orlov

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6 months

@giveanonion agree entirely. I think there’s too much of a focus on naturalism in acting, hence all the pointless method acting some stars do. acting should serve the story being told - in this case, it’s more important that we hear the characters speaking very honestly ab what’s true to them

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alex orlov

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I feel like this is a very fraught question but anecdotally a lot of the dudes I know who read but don’t have a formal humanities education are way more attracted to works that are ‘canonical’/revered in a memey way

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Why don’t straight men read novels? | @dazed

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3 months

the situationism subreddit is entirely populated by people posting about their bad situationships and the replies always offer sincere advice while segueing into recommending society of the spectacle

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alex orlov

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5 months

@OprahDid911 it has like a realistic modelling of what a black hole would look like and does some cool things on exoplanets with weird physics. but the basic thrust of the movie is time travel motivated by love being a higher dimension than space and time lol

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alex orlov

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@moonbeeaam you’re right, I would say generally the museum is a depoliticised space designed to convey an abstract reverential awe for culture/heritage. france is especially invested in that sort of thing. these protests try to repoliticise such places - since there is really nowhere left to

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5 months

Kiefer’s Finnegans Wake exhibit last year

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4 months

what do y’all know about this

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6 months

this image tells you so much about the world. planes should have more armour where the red bits are so they get hit there less

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4 months

crazy how all these things that "just work" to reduce labour are actually progressively more complex ways of concealing labour. the theology of labour power pulling the strings under the puppet of technological progress

vx-underground

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Amazon has announced they're phasing out their checkout-less grocery stores. The "Just Walk Out" technology, which was labeled as automatic, was actually 1,000+ Indian employees monitoring you as you walked through the store.

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@eteheres @brit_fox1558 £33k is truly ludicrous jesus christ lmao

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alex orlov

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1 month

you can see the actual moment in which he realises Biden's brain is a viscous broth

Politics UK

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1 month

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer meets President Joe Biden for the first time

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alex orlov

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7 months

@nise_yoshimi PRIGOZHIN: “Raiden! Turn the game console off right now! Don’t worry, it’s a game!

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6 months

this is a worse situation than in movies where audiences accept some weirdness and are willing to have their buttons pushed. there are devs making fascinating work and exploring games as a form of expression and so-called ‘critics’ are just like why no fast travel :(

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while I have enjoyed germany I have decided I don’t like germans. a spiritually elderly country. everyone has supply teacher energy or looks like they pack little tupperwares for their lunch

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6 months

I’ve seen a wild thing sorry for itself. you need to hold space to observe this. Sometimes you lock eyes with a deer and you can tell it knows it’s going to die. kittens are so cute because you can see the self-pity in their eyes

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this is making me go crazy. humans are oriented upright and forwards and understand things in the same way. concepts are rooted in reverse like they hang from the sky and objects in mirror may be closer than they appear. but these guys just have a 359° view of things

The Birdist

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Absolutely insane *back of head* American Woodcock photo from Karim Bouzidi ( @southshore_raptors on Insta) on the eBird homepage right now. Again, this is the *back* of this bird's head.

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alex orlov

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quantifying the amount of reading you do and having a benchmark for the amount of books you should read is super passé. we're civilised, we need to be talking about who is reading no books in the most literary way possible

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3 months

why are all fascist concerns so childishly bodily & affect-y? I mean this seriously. It’s all ‘they want to make me eat the icky food’ ‘I want to go outside and play but they’re telling me it’s bedtime:(‘ and ‘he has the toy I want and I do NOT want to share’

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4 months

I don’t believe in ghosts because they are a bourgeois victorian fabulation. ghouls goblins and gremlins are the proletarian superstitions

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alex orlov

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7 months

@a_fish_ionado that really is quite wonderful, thank you for sharing

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3 months

finally an art critic who gets it

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alex orlov

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6 months

monster hunter was my favourite series as a kid and critics savaged those games for a decade for daring to create a lifeworld through gameplay - having to cook your own meat, track monsters etc. only came around when dark souls exploded and audiences forced them to change tracks

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you are incapable of building a worldview in which other people are anything other than mechanistic drones and you think YOU’RE the one operating on a higher plane of consciousness

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alex orlov

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5 months

these people have the world they want and they're still mad about it. the humanities in terminal decline, barely any jobs in history and lit departments, a proudly illiterate culture. will they be satisfied when no one is allowed to do anything they don't personally sign off on?

Charlotte Gill

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Always wanted to know more about this. Sound £879,525 taxpayer investment.

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type of shit I like now that likes are private

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I still like every Girl I ever liked wat be wrong w me

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6 months

people are so allergic to joy on here someone says that having a few pints after work is one of their pleasures in life and a bunch of busybodies quote tweet them like oooooh but make sure to drink responsibly!! people have enjoyed a pint after work for all of history shut up

Marie Le Conte

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what I fear Gen Z will never understand if they don't drink is that there's a level of inner peace you can only gain after having had a long frustrating day of work followed by precisely three drinks with friends, it's a form of zen only otherwise reached though firm religion

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alex orlov

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@eteheres @brit_fox1558 you’re right, my bad! I’m not sure where I got 16k from, maybe it used to be that

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alex orlov

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I wonder how easy it would be to convince people of the existence of a non-existent ancient text. like say a summary of it is on the verso side of a manuscript of strabo, write an article referencing it somewhere small and get it published, work your way up to a wikipedia article

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alex orlov

@alex_orlov_

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@TooCivilised lmaoo true, maybe the tories are that ‘withering away of the state’ marx talked about

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alex orlov

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I get where this is coming from but Liszt had women throwing their pantaloons at him and pouring his coffee dregs into glass vials in 1842. the queen personally requested that sherlock holmes be brought back after he was killed off. the extremes of fan culture are old.

QuoProQuid

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4 months

developing a half-baked theory that modern fan culture is fueled partially by the decline of third locations; the intense, almost cultish relationships within them stems from a yearning for communal experiences and connections that seem increasingly rare in physical space

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alex orlov

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tunnels are now decisively in. subterranean maps of being, a new cartography of the infernal, the absence of compasses or the light of day - boring machines which invert the imperative to climb towards the sun - abyssal guerillas slouching by candlelight

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alex orlov

@alex_orlov_

6 months

its funny how literally the "adult-centric YA" thing takes the Adorno quip that the ideal American consumer is an 11 year old adult

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alex orlov

@alex_orlov_

6 months

@jessiechrxst tbf I have to believe they’re people who have not had complicated long term relationships with someone because once you repeat a topic of argument over and over again it does indeed start to sound this precise and rehearsed!

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alex orlov

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obviously, ancient people would have had distinct interiorities to some extent. but arguments which claim we are underestimating the level of difference basically claim that differences in expression are hylomorphic with differences in thought. are we sure about that?

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alex orlov

@alex_orlov_

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@nodrectionhome this is an image of a commoner receiving the ‘Royal Touch’, which is said to cure disease thus demonstrating the divine legitimacy of the king. hope that guy on the right knows how lucky he is

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