Does someone here lack heterossexuality enough to explain me how Violet Chachki ended up in a video of a goth band called Ultra Sunn? 🥲 @otvotvotvotv.bsky.social tell me everything

I think my new lifegoals are quitting academia and starting a band.🫠

Life is so weird right now, but it's autumn tomorrow. 💀

My true crime obsession has shifted into tracking the lives of Brazilian sociopaths after prison. Case in point: a religious leader who adopted street kids, built a cult with them, had them kill her husband who was worse than her is prison almost founding *another religion* and also came out as bi.

Chatbots are explicitly being designed “to elicit intimacy and emotional engagement in order to increase our trust in and dependency on them” (me in Wired magazine 🤭). This designed intimacy combined with AI sycophancy creates serious risks for delusional thinking www.wired.com/story/ai-psy...

First day back 🇲🇫: finding the neighbour's cat grumpyness painfully relatable; discovering the aesthethic power of a baguette collective; wanting the Jellycat blueberry pancakes more than I once wanted their plushie of an autumn leaf - which I ofc have 👻

See you Köln in 3 months - when instead of worrying about nonsense documents, I have to worry about my future instead. #ohadulthood #takemeback

Ordered a beer to go afraid to miss my flight; they gave me a latte cup and i feel as i am something between an alcoholic and a catfish

I am trying to sit down and read a book since yesterday, but everywhere I enter is either closing or there is someone insanely loud inside. This trip oscillates a lot between cute and cursed at once. 💀

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Urban poetry, Kölner version.

Thanks to Cardiff for funding our Sad Philosophy Workshop next week with me, @lopezcantero.bsky.social and @bexmillar.bsky.social We’ll be in the melancholy domains of grief and negative relationships, heartbreak and chatbots, and ai psychosis 🖤 🖤🖤

Somewhere in Germany, in the middle of nowhere, listening to 'Goodbye' by Apparat, the Dark series soundtrack, secretly wishing I’d be pulled into a time vortex where I had already taken care of all the bureaucracy I came here to deal with five years ago.

Good morning, intellectual mothership. 🖤🇩🇪

Google recalled me I was living the dream of my Game of Thrones fantasies in Rothenburg ob der Tauber a year ago 🖤 I do love my picture of a window reflecting an angel in the other window reflecting a tree (or maybe the opposite).

The art of searching your closet for a luggage organizer and only managing to find an irrational number of pink and/or fluffy things. Thankfully I already said Carnaval is now.

Carnaval came earlier www.dw.com/en/brazil-bo...

Call for papers: Centre researcher Pablo Fernández Velasco is co-editing. Original research, case studies, and perspectives welcome. Examples: ecological grief, climate anxiety, solastalgia, displacement trauma. www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Fun write up of Imagination/perception work from @nadinedijkstra.bsky.social @smfleming.bsky.social and others: www.scientificamerican.com/article/newf... I was just live on Canadian Breakfast radio chatting about it. Bad pun, but this work really has captured the public imagination!

OMG YES 🍁🙏🏻

"Entre l'homme et l'amour, il y a la femme. Entre l'homme et la femme, il y a un monde. Entre l'homme et le monde, il y a un mur." L'amour = le mur.

Might be that in trying to do interdisciplinary work I forgot my own discipline and now it feels like it’s not about any discipline at all.

Tomorrow’s a strike day in France i.e. nothing works and people are protesting. If anyone could tell the difference from a normal day here I would appreciate it.

Taking off to NRW on Sunday vs. having forgot to submit to GAP 12 vs. Every 30 seconds an instagram story from a friend in Düsseldorf. 🫠🫠🫠

Current mood: having to write and thus resisting the urge to abandon society running away by lighting pumpkin spice candles in my office as sensory cues to make me stay inside it. Candle is a gift by @otvotvotvotv.bsky.social , because my besties know it all 🖤🍁

Haha julgamento de fascista e coxinha 🥰

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Got an email from a psychologist in the US asking to do her internship with me. I haven’t even finished my degree, I live 700 km away from my department, and I’m like 5 years older than her. Basically, I qualify more as her patient than a supervisor.

Part of the how is house arrest + the judge’s galaxy-brain move of letting him keep his tapped phone, so he liveblogs his own crimes w/ real names in real time. Brazilian sociopaths are like the poster child for how not to be a criminal as your main job (actually not even as a hobby either) #nytimes

Trying to make Jamiroquai's concert the best solo date of the year. Tickets sold out. 💀

Countdown to fall: 19 days 🙏🏻🍂

Watching Jair Bolsonaro's trial in livestream reading the commentaries is an anthropological experience ( I am turning them off before they also become a traumatic one).

Maybe if I put 1kg of something on my keyboards I will be able to type in a proper QWERTZ device again. 🙏🏻

My biggest daily cognitive test is that my computer has a German (QWERTZ) keyboard that stopped working, so I plugged in a French one (AZERTY) and I have just been pressing keys like it’s the old keyboard for the last 10 months.

On my trip I ended up in the ICU w/ a friend after her suicide attempt. While I sat there I got an email about a translation I did, full of idiosyncratic corrections about a magazine's odd quoting style no one uses anywhere else. I am still wondering if the editors know what a real problem is.

Two years ago with wayy more hair I stopped by Munich to get my Visa and moved to Vienna right after, for a semester with the Wiener Kreis Institute. It was so good, I may have accidentally never left.

Almost ordered boots from Shein (they do look stylish), but I was afraid an underpaid 8-year-old might be come in the box as well.

Lost her virginity on her mother’s grave, kept her husband’s calcified heart on her. Goths wish they could.

Amo / sou

Sorry, but I gotta post it every year.

Procurar vestígios de outono em tudo.

Apparently a good track by :Wumpscut: can rise someone from the dead and give energy to my jetlagged self, since both are synonymous.

Just started watching Wednesday season 2. In the season 1 there were so many sentences this character said that I also said in real life, I thought she was the merge of my mind with my best friend's look

Me emailing the Promotionsbüro in Cologne

Squeezing 3 weeks in 90 seconds...

Paris 4ème / Marais

Had to go to home to find out there is a new documentary on Depeche Mode coming up in october.

And if you're South American with pretty decent looking teeth for a change

At the airport listening to gothic metal; maybe the terminal doors were a wormhole to 2004.

Back to France from São Paulo. À bientôt país querido. É muito estranho chegar no Brasil e se sentir um ET mas ser absorvido pelo lugar depois de uns dois dias e nem lembrar que tava estranho. 🤣