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- The Deathbed Fallacy2 savers
- everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance - https://danioffline.substack.com/p/everyone-wants-to-be-a-dj-no-one1 savers
- CULTURAL DEATH IN THE AGE OF THE EXCESSIVE CHOICE | APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL - https://apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/11/24/cultural-death-in-the-age-of-the-excessive-choice/1 savers
- Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays - https://aeon.co/essays/tech-vexed-how-digital-life-threatens-our-capacity-for-awe1 savers
- Some Not Entirely Mainstream Tips for Meeting a Partner10 savers
- Fag-Hag dialectics - by roro <3 - communion - https://folieimposee.substack.com/p/new-friend-project1 savers
- Bill Watterson: 'Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled', Kenyon College - 1990 — Speakola2 savers
- A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox68 savers
- Puzzle Summary | WhenTaken - https://whentaken.com/game/summary1 savers
- Alt Text Selfies | Making a Case for Self-Description: It’s Not About Eye Candy - https://alttextselfies.net/essays/making-a-case-for-self-description/1 savers
- Tech continues to be political | Miriam Eric Suzanne - https://www.miriamsuzanne.com/2025/02/12/tech-ai-wtf/2 savers
- I Deleted My Second Brain - https://www.joanwestenberg.com/i-deleted-my-second-brain-692aa40d59d5f06dd5131e43/1 savers
- Nightclubbing: New York City’s The Saint | Red Bull Music Academy Daily - https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/07/nightclubbing-the-saint1 savers
- How to Walk in a Nightclub — The Hopkins Review - https://hopkinsreview.com/features/traversals-a-folio-on-walking-how-to-walk-in-a-nightclub1 savers
- Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead? - Journal #49 - https://www.e-flux.com/journal/49/60004/too-much-world-is-the-internet-dead1 savers
- Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters | Melon's Thoughts - https://thoughts.melonking.net/thoughts/every-site-needs-a-links-page-why-linking-matters2 savers
- principles — Parenthetical Recluse - https://parentheticalrecluse.com/principles1 savers
- Laguna~B | Glassware | Laguna~B (Magazine) | Essay | There is no ‘Nice’ Web. Yet by Bri Griffin - https://lagunab.com/magazine/essay-there-is-no-nice-web-yet-by-bri-griffin1 savers
- Talk to the City - https://talktothe.city/2 savers
- Metalabel7 savers
- How to Beat Procrastination — Wait But Why7 savers
- Why Procrastinators Procrastinate — Wait But Why12 savers
- you need to disappoint the people around you | tala's blog - https://tala.bearblog.dev/you-need-to-disappoint-the-people-around-you/1 savers
- most of what i know – Syllabus3 savers
- Romantic Urbanism – Syllabus3 savers
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How would my life change if I danced more?
everyone wants to be a DJ, no one wants to dance - https://danioffline.substack.com/p/everyone-wants-to-be-a-dj-no-oneWhat the internet has achieved, with algorithmic precision, is the eradication of hierarchy in meaning.
CULTURAL DEATH IN THE AGE OF THE EXCESSIVE CHOICE | APOCALYPSE CONFIDENTIAL - https://apocalypse-confidential.com/2025/11/24/cultural-death-in-the-age-of-the-excessive-choice/whatever [the human being] does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false.
Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays - https://aeon.co/essays/tech-vexed-how-digital-life-threatens-our-capacity-for-aweThen, if I really unveil that ocean scenario, I feel the resonance of my time with my father in the ocean; the unbridled play and excitement of those moments, though also the unease of how quickly they passed
Tech-vexed: how digital life threatens our capacity for awe | Aeon Essays - https://aeon.co/essays/tech-vexed-how-digital-life-threatens-our-capacity-for-aweBut having an enviable career is one thing, and being a happy person is another.
Bill Watterson: 'Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled', Kenyon College - 1990 — Speakolaif you increase the amount of human possibility flowing through your life in a more intelligent way, good things will happen to you
Some Not Entirely Mainstream Tips for Meeting a PartnerDo we not have to grow up at some point and try and fail and try again to connect with one another?
Fag-Hag dialectics - by roro <3 - communion - https://folieimposee.substack.com/p/new-friend-projectyou can’t build a life out of weekend friends
Fag-Hag dialectics - by roro <3 - communion - https://folieimposee.substack.com/p/new-friend-projectSecond, if you want to get out of the mess the key lies exactly in understanding that you are not the only person who has no one to talk to about the things you get obsessed by.
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inboxIt hit me: what got me here won’t get me where I need to be next.
I Deleted My Second Brain - https://www.joanwestenberg.com/i-deleted-my-second-brain-692aa40d59d5f06dd5131e43/one can build their own home to post bangers for the tight homies, make friends, and snipe those new friends with those hits of dopamine they so fiendishly rely on.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From Onlinellich also describes the concept of radical monopoly, which is that point where a technological tool is so dominant that people are excluded from society unless they become its users.
A Website To End All Websites | Henry From OnlineThe circular dancefloor meant no corners to hide in, no hierarchy, nothing more prominent than anything else.
Nightclubbing: New York City’s The Saint | Red Bull Music Academy Daily - https://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/07/nightclubbing-the-saintSo many nights out, especially as the clubs grow bigger and the warehouses more labyrinthine, are spent trailing one’s friends, searching for someone who may have gone outside, may have gone all together, whose phone may have died, whose consciousness may have drifted into another realm.
How to Walk in a Nightclub — The Hopkins Review - https://hopkinsreview.com/features/traversals-a-folio-on-walking-how-to-walk-in-a-nightclubI am sure that cinema was hit in many other places and times as well. It was shot, executed, starved, and kidnapped in Lebanon and Algeria, in Chechnya and the DRC, as well as in many other post-Cold War conflicts. It didn’t just withdraw and become unavailable,
Too Much World: Is the Internet Dead? - Journal #49 - https://www.e-flux.com/journal/49/60004/too-much-world-is-the-internet-deadLinking to other sites is an act of rebellion; but its also an act of meditation, and of ego death - linking to the work of others is a way of celebrating their achievements and by doing so, gaining dignity for yourself and your work.
Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters | Melon's Thoughts - https://thoughts.melonking.net/thoughts/every-site-needs-a-links-page-why-linking-mattersA loss of curation means that we have essentially relinquished our right to establish credibility and, as a result, our systems of value — as well as the type of communities we form — are shifting
Laguna~B | Glassware | Laguna~B (Magazine) | Essay | There is no ‘Nice’ Web. Yet by Bri Griffin - https://lagunab.com/magazine/essay-there-is-no-nice-web-yet-by-bri-griffinIf there is a ‘good web,’ few have access to it.
Laguna~B | Glassware | Laguna~B (Magazine) | Essay | There is no ‘Nice’ Web. Yet by Bri Griffin - https://lagunab.com/magazine/essay-there-is-no-nice-web-yet-by-bri-griffinAccess to information is tied to power; Virality and persistence are interlocked with influence and control
Laguna~B | Glassware | Laguna~B (Magazine) | Essay | There is no ‘Nice’ Web. Yet by Bri Griffin - https://lagunab.com/magazine/essay-there-is-no-nice-web-yet-by-bri-griffinDon't buy a new tool until you find yourself needing it to solve a problem with the current project: the tools that I've bought because I think I might need them at some point are the ones still in their boxes.
principles — Parenthetical Recluse - https://parentheticalrecluse.com/principlesIf you really want to start a business, quitting your job makes the Panic Monster your new roommate.
How to Beat Procrastination — Wait But WhyThe Dark Playground is a place every procrastinator knows well. It’s a place where leisure activities happen at times when leisure activities are not supposed to be happening. The fun you have in the Dark Playground isn’t actually fun because it’s completely unearned and the air is filled with guilt, anxiety, self-hatred, and dread.
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate — Wait But WhyYou can't be fully yourself and fully pleasing simultaneously. Something has to break: their perception of you or your relationship with yourself.
you need to disappoint the people around you | tala's blog - https://tala.bearblog.dev/you-need-to-disappoint-the-people-around-you/share secrets with strangers/ people you’ve just met
most of what i know – SyllabusWhat would cities look like to prioritize love as a necessary ingredient of a full life with as much seriousness as other worthy goals like affordable housing, good jobs, and safe transportation?
Romantic Urbanism – SyllabusThe danger is that of coming to love the prison.
Penile Colony, by C. S. Lewis - https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/penile-colony-c-s-lewis-masturbation/Among those shadowy brides he is always adored, always the perfect lover: no demand is made on his unselfishness, no mortification ever imposed on his vanity.
Penile Colony, by C. S. Lewis - https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/penile-colony-c-s-lewis-masturbation/