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I'll never buy an iron. I apologise to the corporate job. I hope I get.

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"To engage written word means to follow a line of thought, which requires considerable powers of classifying, inference-making and reasoning. It means to uncover lies, confusions, and overgeneralizations, to detect abuse of logic and common sense. It also means to weigh ideas, to compare and contrast assertions, to connect one generalization to another.

To accomplish this, one must achieve a certain distance from the words themselves, which is, in fact, encouraged by the isolated and impersonal text. That is why a good reader does not cheer an apt sentence or pause to applaud even an inspired paragraph. Analytic thought is too busy for that, and too detached."

- Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death

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“The Secondhand Grief We Never Talk About

“You died, and I lost other people too. People who are still alive, but not the same.”

No one talks about this kind of grief.

The grief within the grief.

The secondhand losses.

You died—and that shattered me.

But in the aftermath, other people quietly slipped away too.

Some grew distant.

Some changed so much I barely recognize them.

And some…

walked away completely.

Just when I needed them the most.

Maybe they didn’t know what to say.

Maybe my grief made them uncomfortable.

Maybe they couldn’t handle the silence, the tears, the version of me that was no longer okay.

But the truth is—I needed them anyway.

Even if they didn’t have the perfect words.

Even if all they could offer was their presence.

Even if all we did was sit in the same room, quietly missing the same person.

But instead, I was left with unanswered texts.

Conversations that dried up.

Plans that never got rescheduled.

And it’s a strange kind of pain—

to be mourning someone who died,

while also mourning the people who are still alive

but no longer showing up.

So if you’ve ever felt that too—

if your circle got smaller when your grief got heavier—

you’re not imagining it.

Grief has a way of showing you who’s really able to sit with pain.

Who’s willing to stay, even when things get uncomfortable.

Who loves you when you’re not okay.

It’s a second wave of heartbreak no one prepares you for.

But I see it.

I feel it.

And if you're carrying both losses—the person who died and the ones who disappeared—you are not alone.”

Thank you Jads mum

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Falling in love with a friend.

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"The first is that at no point do I care to claim that changes in media bring about changes in the structure of people's minds or changes in their cognitive capacities. There are some who make this claim or come close to it (for example, Jerome Bruner, Jack Goody, Walter Ong, Marshall McLuhan, Julian Jaynes, and Eric Havelock).

I am inclined to think they are right, but my argument does not require it. Therefore, I will not burden myself with arguing the possibility, for example, that oral people are less developed intellectually, in some Piagetian sense, than writing people, or that "television" people are less developed intellectually than either.

My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the intellect, by favoring certain definitions of intelligence and wisdom, and by demanding a certain kind of content–in a phrase, by creating new forms of truth-telling. I will say once again that I am no relativist in this matter, and that I believe the epistemology created by television not only is inferior to a print-based epistemology but is dangerous and absurdist."

- Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death (20th Anniversary Edition), P.27

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Transformer's - Revenge of the fallen (2009)

Watching this now makes me feel like they put no effort into action movies anymore.

It's a ridiculous movie. But it's thoughtful, fun, lighthearted, and entertaining. Haven't seen this many explosions in years!

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New nsft post → @enterriskywriting

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Here's a poem.

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Arthur Siegel, 1949

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i write the best 1) in the gym and 2) when procrastinating

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To eat, is to survive. To create, is to remember you're alive.

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Just went through all my unreleased music and I'm pleasantly surprised

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