This is extremely good. It also dovetails nicely with a conversation I regularly had with my wife when she was teaching and would have class after class of totally silent students. Students who (usually) knew the answers to the questions that were being asked of them, but could not say them out loud

"On an individual level, we need to abandon or reshape our relationships with our phones and regain a sense of our own personal and mental privacy. It’s a matter of existential, metaphysical importance." this essay from @katewagner.wehwalt.net is great.

all my friends get to go to a New Year’s Eve party while I’m stuck in my house too weak to leave my bed. Please tell me it doesn’t stay this way forever

my favorite books of the year

I was supposed to finish my book, buy a condo and start trying for a baby this year but instead I got incredibly sick and have only gotten sicker. Worst year of my life. Don’t even want to reflect on it. Good riddance

Really enjoyed @404media.co's list of year-end recommendations in my inbox this morning. In particular, this @katewagner.wehwalt.net essay (recommended by @samleecole.bsky.social) was an exceptional read and I can't recommend it highly enough: lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

"On an individual level, we need to abandon or reshape our relationships with our phones and regain a sense of our own personal and mental privacy." Check out this smart & troubling essay from @katewagner.wehwalt.net as you embark on another trip around the sun.

truth nuke

I wrote about apartments. I don’t think we’re building good ones open.substack.com/pub/ericerin...

Die Walküre is so funny because colloquially ur like “oh yeah the one with the fat lady in a helmet and that famous looney tunes song” but then you watch it and it is insane

This was one of the best essays I read this year

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they’re doing Adorno was CIA discourse on Twitter again

Many villains in this moment but TERFs deserve a special place in hell

yooooooooooooooo

Knight Errant (Self-Portrait) https://www.wikiart.org/en/oskar-kokoschka/not_detected_235870

does anything actually help PEM or is it just joever (I’m already laying in a dark room)

ok today i feel the worst i've ever felt in my life lol

A really interesting conversation. @katewagner.wehwalt.net has more than a bird's eye view of the desecration of the White House. She's deeply knowledgeable & reflective about trends in architecture & the politics involved. The ballroom phenomenon is emblematic of wider forces.

is December tornado good

why do I watch those meow meow brain rot videos. I feel like an enabler

"And I never say no" We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control. We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.

The heart rate monitor on my garmin is ludicrously off

man I still can’t figure out what’s causing PEM the push-crash cycle is so annoying

rich people are evil

Jesus Christ

house is so funny in that it’s never MS, lupus or sarcoidosis

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

my novel my beautiful novel...............

Finally got to the bus episode of house lol

my husband calls the dogs “the gents” and has now started saying “they’re gentmaxxing” (he is not online)

my Polish friend who is watching the ring cycle just WhatsApp called me to tell me that the giants are Polish coded (racistly)

Actually the problem is I have too much energy radiating from me in all directions thus consuming my physical corpus in a paroxysm of quiet destruction

Haven’t gone on a walk in a month I hate my life

well I do spend a lot of time thinking about Valhalla so

one of the major problems with our political system is that in liberal world u need four Harvard degrees to even so much as touch a campaign trail meanwhile in right wing world it basically takes less than nothing for a simple lumpen-grifter to ascend to chud Valhalla

this isn’t even a political statement btw it’s a craft one. A plotless novel is fine. A choiceless one is bad.

2026 predictions: - i get better inshallah

From the bags under my eyes, my emotionless expression and the void behind my eyes where light should be, you can tell I’m suffering from Journalism Face.

>"cis" women on testosterone in "heterosexual" marriages. you guys actually believe this shit? this is just trans without the pronouns

I generally don’t think the purpose of fiction is to right historical wrongs

problems with the publishing industry are often confused with problems of craft. once you're woke to this interpreting literary polemics gets a lot easier

of all the reasons to read hegel mine is the most useless (to understand hölderlin better)

NYT when a trans man wants to take testosterone: 😡😡😡😡😡 NYT when a cis woman wants to take testosterone: 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

the mirror self is somewhat related to a different obsession of mine which is the slovenian myth of the cave that leads to the other world. in 2023 i translated and further adapted the story for an english-speaking audience here katewagner.neocities.org/ss/p/misc/ot...

I seem to have entered a kind of very annoying push-crash cycle where I feel fine one day and like trash the next and it seems to be that when my body is fine my brain is fried and vice versa and now I feel like I’m playing whack a mole trying to find out what cooked me

i sold my antipsychotic meds to buy my ai girlfriend a new model upgrade for christmas. but then i found out she sold her data center to buy me a gun

ok so….i think I haven’t been drinking enough salt

Wagner creating the boy ubermensch: so imagine a rapist