#18 (p10-a) microfascisms just waiting to crystallize . . . i become cat #deleuze #haiku ❖

got distracted and accidentally used my free nero drink on a iced cappuccino with Real Milk 💔 it’s so over have come to (re)read Milkman by Anna Burns too oh how the narrative haunts me etc etc

phone camera apparently went spooky dark this morning not wanting you to see my pretentious tie-and-trench combo

Richard Siken

i haven’t seen any of Taskmaster yet but have concluded that if Ania Magliano and i in a room something in the universe would collapse what do you mean she’s a fake ginger tie-wearing curly-haired bisexual who went to Cambridge that has a boyfriend with the same name as mine

bisexual anthem. got a lot of time for this diva

this sounds like the memory of a memory of damp, lush walks back from coffee with a friend on cold and golden autumn days in a place and time you no longer live and have since mythologised

right now, taylor swift’s team is releasing multiple YouTube shorts with puzzles in for fans to solve …they’re made with AI. objects will change from one frame to another, text is blurry, and it’s got that telltale sheen surprising from someone who famously cares a lot about having work stolen

IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.

this. what a catastrophic embarrassment it is to label yourself the ‘english teacher’ of pop music, yet proceed to fundamentally misread a song about complex insecurity, internalised misogyny, and the industry, and release a vapid, immature diss track in response somewhat unbelievable, honestly

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

today i learned that i’m now actively being referred to within the wider circle of students we know as ‘alice with the hair’. it continues

christ alive i surely have not just heard ‘did you girlboss too close to the sun? x’ on the new taylor swift album

went to cambridge for three years but hey only just had my accent mocked out of nowhere by a private school southerner crush the oxbridge stereotype; straight male londoners anywhere are the problem ❤️

fuuuuuck what a banger one of those bangers that just makes you ache

blinked and it’s 11pm and i’ve spent two hours plunged in a poem i’m polishing about octopuses when i had reading to do mm ok no regrets 🫧🐙🫧 blbblblblllb

A better world is possible

aw man i’m really gonna have to lose my Di*ry of a CEO virginity cos Louis Tomlinson’s on it ffs if anyone wants to cut any and all noise coming out of Bartlett from the ep and just provide me with a transcript so i have context for Tommo’s answers that’d be ideal

"she breasted boobily down the stairs" but for journalism about northerners

really does me down that there is no punishment (and, instead, a reward) for being annoying often, the only time i actually see someone my age string a sentence together online is via LinkedIn. gen z are generally scared of transparency/being seen as cringe for… self-expression?

fuck off fuck off fuck off fuck OFF with this bullshit

This is a very welcome development indeed IF the recurrent costs of funding school librarians is fully budgeted. ‘A pile of books is no more a library than a crowd of soldiers is an army’ to quote Gabriel Naudé who figured this out … 400 years ago… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

i was pretty reclusive last year and moving to a new city meeting lots of new people has really opened up to me just how nice my hair must look because i honestly must get complimented on it by 70% of the strangers i encounter the stats are insane it’s so unbelievably dangerous for my ego

such a lovely hour talking poetry, joy, and freaky US presidents with Sasha Debevec-McKenney and Gustav Parker Hibbett at Books Upstairs 💖💖💖

Think this is absolutely true - so much is written about boys and Andrew Tate - Tate is more popular with grown men than boys!

Yeah it’s time to bring back my all time favorite tweet, by @donaldhughes.ca

my new favourite thing is a Zingibeer n bitters. live laugh love Zingibeer

Textile sample https://botfrens.com/collections/109/contents/124079

bake off know exactly what they’re doing inserting the paul hollywood ‘see me after class’ clip in all the promo for the back-to-school-themed ep

Everywhere you look in the UK it's like this - schools, universities, hospitals, police, work place...sexual abuse is rampant. If the UK govt tried to address this with the same vigour they have for targetting trans people, perhaps they could actually make a real difference for all women and girls.

A new JWST image, showing the star-forming region Sagittarius B2. Open up the image and lose yourself in the stars...

Second Best is the next TLDP single eeeeeeeeek

‘Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript appears never to have been copied or circulated, nor to have been known to anybody except the people who owned it.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

i will never ‘Finish setting up my phone’

took exactly four photos on the way to college this morning (bed ➡️ the room just below my class) thought i’d share my micro-odyssey

'Let me go into the depths of your infinity / I can sense your presence in the vicinity' always gets me

another day, another piece about “free speech” from 1 of highest paid journalists in the country promoted on the BBC News which -deals entirely with fears of “cancel culture” and right wing hate speech -without mention of proscribing Palestine Action, or fining Sussex for trans-inclusive policies

Death of the Author? had it coming, to be honest, after what happened to all those darlings

currently pretending listening to Andrew Scott talk is work

only just realised i am the age of Louis Tomlinson (the oldest band member, my favourite, my first love) when One Direction performed for the very last time. in november i will surpass that age horrifying because a) the passage of time is relentlessly unforgiving and b) those boys were so, so young

'We twinned our Yorkshire village with an Incan citadel in Peru'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this exists it is called thinking

um? in all the excitement i did not even realise we had a view of Martello Tower all evening i’ve got to learn to be a better Joycean

Running into a poem you loved is like bumping an old friend at a pub. Thus do I find Robert Creeley's "The Rain," six stanzas I copied on the back of my AP econ spiral notebook in high school, and re-read often during that neolib seminar. Ooof the splendid enjambment of that “semi-/lust”

Kyle went on to say 'I want people to go to university… to start businesses in our country.' He implies starting a business is the only, or certainly the most, worthwhile contribution we can make to the economy and society. What an insult to large numbers of students and graduates.

reading Deleuze for the first time and not only Deleuze but Deleuze on Hume ahahahhaha save me

This is, I think we can all agree, absolutely fucking ridiculous.

Timeline cleanse: