God, the Lapidarist—a short vignette I wrote on Kant, the afterlife, and memory:

Ray Peat on an alcoholic writer who regained his fluency in speech after an intravenous injection of vitamin B2

overlooked banger imo

it's interesting how certain artists seem to need to suffer to make Great Art, but others can make Great Art from a place of joy. consider for example trent reznor and steve reich. for the former type, joy and contentment brings about mediocrity

do the e/acc javascript programmers who call themselves capitalists recognise that no matter how well they're paid, they are part of the worker class, not capital-owning class

Papers by Yoshinao Satoh, a short film: www.youtube.com/watch?v=56EG...

watching the late afternoon sunlight fall across the walls, plants, and floor of my garden, it strikes me that i can't express the sheer gravity of being alive, or even understand it

Senses are so different in the ocean. There's a hard limit to how far you can see, but every direction is just as important. You can touch the shadows of things that have moved past as they move past you and dissipate. You can hear across the world. Perhaps the only similar sense is smell.

wrote a little discursive essay on group self-selection, narrative construction, emptiness in buddhism, and deleuze. oxidist.github.io/2025/07/19/S...

wrote a little discursive essay on group self-selection, narrative construction, emptiness in buddhism, and deleuze. oxidist.github.io/2025/07/19/S...

i've finished about 2/3 of 'platform' by houellebecq and it's funny, prescient even, re: islam in europe, sex tourism being a microcosm of the first world's relationship to the third world etc. the problem with being so prescient is that it now reads like bronze age pervert-ist pablum

Why are these living patterns so obsessed with each others' topology?

visions of based world: using a dummy subject (as in 'it' in "it's raining") in phenomenological reports. for example, "it thinks, therefore 'i' is not"

my name is $NAME and i seek validation and approval via casual sex with women

how does subjective idealism deal with evolution? like, without positing an external environment in which reinforcement learning is happening

if i ever put "Father. Husband." in my bio feel free to shoot me in the head

new profile pic. point in red is the furthest point from any ocean on earth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pole_of...

there is no need to control, because you were never even in control. let that shi go

seeing that frees: meditations on emptiness and dependent arising by rob burbea

you are now suffering manually

1. all there is in internal experience is the now 2. when one imagines a future self, or another person, who embodies a trait such as confidence or discipline or agency, one creates a mental mood board (cont.)

it feels quite nice to open oneself to the richness of the present moment. there's so much more here than in the stirring of stale narratives by one's mind

i feel like i've become a better flirt after my vietnam trip. something about having to be more direct because of the unreliability of translation apps and the subsequent lack of negative consequences of that directness that i was expecting

Conference of the Birds

i did lsd a few days ago (100ug). among other notable effects, i've had 0 desire to smoke cigarettes despite a habit of smoking 3-4 cigarettes a day for the past few months

drink a verification can to continue

did you know that the word 'mesmerize' comes from a physiologist named franz mesmer

i got my last laptop when i graduated high school and this is the first laptop i bought with my own money, so yay

i got the m4 air, any tips for a first time mac user coming from linux

you're born 🔜 your life path 🔜 the 128-dimensional cat counterstrike player noclips behind you and 1 shots you instantly "Nothing purrrsonal, kid"

10 years from now i'm going to build a time machine, then i'll go back in the past and create a twitter account called @norvid-studies.bsky.social

i need to stop scrolling

why are the most consequential decisions of your life frontloaded

this post is part of my personal lexicon

concept: foid to whom i say "beautiful morning, you're the sun in my morning babe" every morning when she wakes up (in this scenario i have permanently fixed my sleep schedule)

cackling to myself at the thought of fumbling the love of my life

will you fulfill your aim of not dying like a dog? or will you die like a dog?

day 1 highlights: they go over myths of “nature” the first is “nature is flat”: the world is a blend of happenstance, dominated by random fluctuations. this frequently associates with growther mindset, where nature is open for domination and catastrophic changes can not amplify

i have an idea for a brilliant and meta tweet but it won't get the recognition it deserves. your kids will love it though

i'd like to clarify that while i love kanye, i'm not a fan of his music

these days i'm trying a thing where i don't think about what to say to a girl, i ask the lion at the core of my being what to say

math is a story one tells oneself, and it is remarkable that it is such a beautiful story

if you lead an unhealthy life your body is a loan shark giving 50% interest rate loans, and if you lead a healthy life your body is a central bank issuing 2% interest rate bonds i just wish it was more symmetrical

everything that makes me suffer is a self-fulfilling prophecy or feedback loop set into motion due to my own ignorance

random college memory: when i was 20 i learned about drinfeld modules. as it turns out, drinfeld invented those when he was 20

learning geometric group theory, i am beginning to appreciate groups, even finite groups, which (for finite groups) was unthinkable for as long as i've known what a group is