If you have to tell me how sarcastic you are, you’re far too sincere for the level of sarcasm I’m seeking to surround myself with.

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

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Might create my own personal national holiday where I let my intrusive thoughts take the lead for a day.

We stopped to watch. That felt like a kindness, in a way, to bear witness. And so, we watched him, sipping our drinks and crunching our chips and trying not to think about it too much. It awaits us all, in the end.

I really need to stop forgetting about these Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. (11/20) #BookSky #Books #BookChallenge #20DayBookChallenge

This may be controversial(?), but I’m starting to get tired of seeing people act like (and sometimes even explicitly state) people who read are intrinsically better, more moral people. Reading has nothing to do with moral hygiene. Lots of shitty people read. -

I miss when the internet felt like the zone from Roadside Picnic/Stalker, so many strange artefacts.

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She’s knocked down by an unseen force, hitting the floor before passing through it entirely, down, down, and then further down still, into absence, nothingness, blackness.-

What’s the scariest dream you ever had? Mine are frequently littered with nuclear war and plans crashes (although not yet a plane crash DURING a nuclear war, so I’ve still got something to look forward to)

Curious as to what Shirley Jackson’s version of Antman and the Wasp would have been like

Don’t know if anyone’s into their méringue or Haitian jazz (well, statistically someone is), but I would strongly recommend the album ‘Tanbou Toujou Lou’. It’s groovy, soulful, and kinda haunting. Can’t get enough of it recently.

I loathe the earnestness of crypto bros, finance gurus, and other victims of neoliberal Stockholm syndrome. We used to be insufferable about real ideologies.

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It looks like you're depressed at how terrible the world is right now. Cheer up. There's probably some cheese in the fridge.

As someone who struggles at parties, I’ve been courting more depressed friends in the hope that wakes are a better fit.

If you ever feel downbeat about your chances of finding an audience, imagine how Jesus felt following John the Baptist. Or how Charles Manson felt following Jesus. Or how Elon Musk felt following Charles Manson.

*Instant noodles and garlic bread for dinner* I’m actually really into fusions cuisine

Nine out of ten dentists recommend filling your circulatory system with toothpaste

Worried I’m going to use up all my good thoughts whilst I only have a small following. Late-comers will have to settle for my “accidental dadaism” era

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Do you ever re-read one of your stories and think “why the hell did I put that in there?” I was formatting a story for Substack and found myself having to exorcise some weird diatribe I went on about why so many of the bodies in Pompeii look like they’re masturbating…

“It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” says Mesler, having only ever walked.

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There was a period where people kept saying the internet wasn’t real life and then a period where people started to accept that the internet had become real life but I think we’re out of that now and that the internet isn’t real life anymore, it’s some sort of hyperreal zone of impossible terrains

A ginormous insect got into my flat and has been spending his time looking sad and flailing around on his back. I have elected to name him Gregor.

From what I know of Kafka, I should think he took Franz Ferdinand's assassination rather personally

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Introductions may be difficult, but they are obligatory.

What are people’s favourite times in the day to write? Mine are either immediately after I wake up or late at night. Middle of the day is the death zone for me, as far as productivity is concerned.

If I lived life as if every day were my last then I’d still be on the ketamine. God, I love that stuff.

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I can’t shake this idea that, when we die, we experience what we expect/want/fear the “afterlife” to be, one last firework show before our neural circuits burn out forever.

really putting the "fire" in "ceasefire"

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

If all else fails, I’m hoping I can at least go down the L. Ron Hubbard route and use my fiction as the basis for some wacky cult

Given how people are starting to embrace misspellings and grammatical errors to prove their content is not AI generated, errors that will presumably be used to train future AI, I wonder if we’re about to see an even faster language evolution cycle than social media has already brought, something-

If you had to be ground up into pulp and turned into a book, which book would you be and why?

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I’m currently writing a review/light critique of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest and it is, predictably, a massive pain in the ass. Feel like I’ve stumbled upon some baroque form of self-harm.

I refuse to be niche-ified. I will stay broad. I am a rectangle. A really long rectangle.

The great tragedy of humanity is that we spent thousands of years evolving higher functions, only to realise we’d probably be happier without them.

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YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Bit late to the party on this one but if you haven’t seen Dark (on Netflix) then you definitely should. It’s sort of like if Nietzsche wrote a soap opera and then stuck the manuscript in a particle accelerator, anyone who’s seen it will know exactly what I mean.

Literally spent half an hour trying to think of the word for that shake that dogs do, only to find out that there isn’t, in fact, a specific word for it. I feel cheated. Any suggestions?

The problem with creating a social media platform to share your writing is how quickly the platform comes to distract from the writing itself…

Just had a lesson in humility. I was ignoring the beeping of the washing machine, instead searching all over the house for my vape. Only once I renounced my sinful ambitions and decided to attend to the laundry did I discover that my vape was on top of the washer this whole time. God has a plan for-

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