This shit is gonna make me cry, man. I gotta fucking read this guy’s book.

see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF1-15J2DWY

Clickbait Title: A Video Essay of Spectacular Inefficiency

via: https://justinkuiper.substack.com/p/mrbeast-graphs

In politics, the best ideas do not always win.

I’m not sure leaning into gender essentialism is the best way to solve our problems, but whatever I guess.

This video really fucked me up, man.

One of the first things advanced students and instructors told me when I got my black belt was: from this point onward, you are learning and practicing. Before then, you were just learning. Maybe I’m just learning how to write novels right now. I’m stepping onto the mat and finding my bearings.

Cheugy (/ˈtʃuːɡi/ CHOO-ghee) is an American neologism coined in 2013 as a pejorative description of lifestyle trends associated with the early 2010s. This aesthetic has been described as “the opposite of trendy” or “trying too hard”. The term has been used positively by some who identify with the aesthetic.

New word.

This is the official are.na group for CARI. Check out our work at https://cari.institute/

Covered was a blog from the late 00s where artists would redraw famous comic book covers and they’d be shown side by side.

I never managed to submit anything but I was reading along, I loved it. This one, a cover of Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories 211, was my fave.

A catalogue of aesthetic trends in popular culture.

I’ve been asked a couple of times if I came up with this word.

Noгma is a non-graphic design studio in Turin, Italy, that explores the nihilistic possibility of eliminating aesthetic choice from the transmission of information. Noгma does absolutely nothing special.

@alex@social.alexschroeder.ch has a post about why blogging.

One speaks to an imagined audience.

(Me referencing “More hexes more spells” last post made me wanna see if Hellstar Plus has made any music lately and she had but also she had linked to this synaesthetic masterpiece by Saul Steinberg.)

For readers, they look just like normal blog posts, there’s RSS and there’s a normal web view. The weirdo chat bubble interface is only for the person writing them.

It’s supposedly a way to overcome writer’s block. I haven’t tried the app (and not gonna), but I do believe that this does work.

My “scaling algorithm threefold” 💁🏻‍♀️