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2025.04.17

i never knew living alone was so scary. having friends who all went abroad for their uni years, i always wondered how it felt to live alone. when i finally got to live in a sharehouse last year, it didn't feel that different from living with my parents. it wasn't until today, when i went to the supermarket to buy groceries and essentials for my semi-empty house? home? that the solitude really kicks in. i truly didn't understand the power of those shopping list stuck to the fridge before i came home to an empty fridge, having forgotten to grab some eggs. i try filling the silence with my tv but i'm mildly paranoid so that doesn't really help.

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modern Neil Perry wearing a tshirt that says “I’m gay for Shakespeare”

“Aren’t you gay anyways?” Charlie asks. “Yeah,” Neil responds, smiling.

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Albert Camus with Stranger & Jean-Paul Sartre with Nothing- part of being cool is naming your cats after your novels.

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“The modern masses do not believe in anything visible, in the reality of their own experience… What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably part.”

— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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Disproving absurd lies ignores the most important part - absurdity has a purpose.

Obama being Hawaiian-born. No one celebrating 9/11 in New Jersey. A free and fair election with negligible fraud. Clinton not murdering people. Immigrants committing less crime….

None of those facts is a solution, because the problem isn’t mistaken facts. Intent that demands such facts is the problem.

Don’t ask “Is this true?”

Ask “Assuming this is true, what actions would that justify?”

Don’t ask “How can I convince you of the reality?”

Ask “What dark thing do you desire, that requires such lies to justify?”

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Zur Person Interview with Hannah Arendt, October 1964

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Czeslaw Milosz, Notebook.

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you ever catch a glimpse of a cloud passing in front of a full moon and you’re suddenly a highwayman in an 18th century ghost story who just left a tavern on a chilly october night to ride horseback through the woods till you reach the next town over

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people who dont even care about language: how can you just CHANGE grammar??? add new wORds?? unacceptable!!! language must never change!!!!!11 kids these days cant even spell!!

people who study language: ANARCHY!! ANARCHY!!!! LANGUAGE IS FLUID AND WORDS AREN’T REAL!! change! the! grammar! rules!! burn a dictionary!!! NO ONE CARES!!!!!

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https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl_o7BkB1fp/

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ACADEMIC PHRASE BANK MASTERPOST: CONNECTING WORDS

Addition

To begin with, 

In the first place, 

Firstly, 

The first reason

Additionally

Furthermore, 

Another reason why

Secondly, Thirdly, 

Next, 

Pursuing this further, 

Also

Lastly, Finally

In the same way,

Comparison

Similarly,

In the same way,

Likewise,

As with,

Equally,

Contrasting

However,

Nevertheless,

On the other hand,

Even so

Alternatively

At the same time

Otherwise

Instead

Conversely 

Result

Hence

Therefore

Accordingly

Consequently

Thus

As a result

In consequence 

For this reason

For this purpose

Time

Meanwhile

Presently

At last

Finally

Immediately

Thereafter

At that time

Eventually

Currently

Subsequently

In the meantime

Importance

Importantly

Especially

Above all

With attention to

Example

For example

For instance

That is

Such as

As revealed by

Illustrated by

Specifically

In particular

For one thing

This can be seen by

An instance of this

Literary

Clarifies

Conveys

Depicts

Demonstrates

Determines

Displays

Emphasizes

Establishes 

Explains

Exemplifies

Highlights

Illustrates

Indicates

Potrays

Represents

Shows

Signifies

Suggests

Beginnings/Causes/Effects

Affects

Generates

Ignites

Impacts

Imposes

Influences

Initiates

Introduces

Involves

Launches

Leads to

Presents

Promotes

Prompts

Results in

Summary

In conclusion,

To sum it all up,

To summarize,

In the final analysis

You can see why …

Finally,

Therefore,

In summary, 

In short,

In brief,

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“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass

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do you workout or do any physical activities?

I absolutely do not move a finger except to turn a book page

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do you ever watch a film n then afterwards get in this weird mindset where you think you’re in a film

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Theodor Adorno, ‘Himself in a Mirror,’ Frankfurt, 1963

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“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”

— Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man

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“The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.”

— Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment

“Is not the individual who functions normally, adequately, and healthily as a citizen of a sick society – is not such an individual himself sick?”

— Herbert Marcuse, Negations: Essays in Critical Theory

“The countless agencies of mass production and its culture impress standardized behavior on the individual as the only natural, decent, and rational one. Individuals define themselves now only as things, statistical elements, successes or failures.”

— Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer. Dialectic of Enlightenment