"Grammar is squishy, alive and changing." —Ann Leckie (2026)

Which is why I don't believe that there really is a theory of everything. Nothing sits still.

Language is not a collection of rules and facts. It is a process. A big, squishy chaotic process of figuring out what you want to say and how to say it, of negotiating how others are saying things and understanding them.

Sometimes necessity is the mother of invention, other times inspiration comes from the initiative to assist your father at his job. Blaise Pascal knows all about it.

I wonder who the arsonist behind the destruction of Wilhelm Schickard's calculating clock is.

Before today, in my whole life, I have never watched something so unprofessionally made but so passionately executed that the 1001th notes you have dissolve in the sheer heart and emotion that it evokes.

I accidentally clicked on the language bar that's visible while typing a post, and for this one I will set it to German. If it doesn't translate automatically, you will read this text in English.

I don't know the ins and outs of the Shy Girl thing, but I can tell you that finishing a novel is an endurance sport. You have to read the thing so many times that you're tired of it, and the sentences swim into each other like a soup by the 77th read-through. That's why so many of us have - 1/

I'm struggling a bit to finish Memories of Murder.

I don't believe that a career defining performance or magnum opus needs award season validation to contextualise it.

That intro to Every Girl You've Ever Loved (feat. Naomi Campbell) is cloud 9.🧖‍♂️ I love three other tracks on the album. I could do without the others. I have notes.

Are mass markets the new collectibles?

Go Denmark, go Denmark, go!

The Timothee Chalamet statement is not impactful in the grand scheme of things. The media outburst is what is platforming his comments on ballet and opera. Sheesh.

My respect is free, it's my disrespect you have to earn. The alternative to that is sheer entitlement and arrogance.

When you choose to wear an outfit that is generally considered inappropriate in a corporate setting, you are making a political statement whether you like it or not, and thereby signed up to let that statement eclipse what other thing you came there to do. I don't make the rules.

I like to stand aside to observe how personal internet people get when hating on the celebrities they have parasocial relationships with.

"They tell us race is an invention, that there is more genetic variation between two black people than there is between a black person and a white person. Then they tell us black people have a worse kind of breast cancer and get more fibroids. And white folk get cystic fibrosis...

In the land of the AI searchers, the reading man is king.

Personally, I'm insulted. I've been honing the art of anxiety for years. To have the math-rocks pretend they're anxious cheapens my efforts.

I need someone to tell me that Frankenstein coming out in 2025 and The Bride in 2026 is just serendipitous timing.

I cried in the scene where Joyce beheaded Vecna and it cut to flashbacks of how he caused each of them so much pain. I have lived vicariously through this justice.

Every now and then, the characters of Stranger Things will employ props for simple explanations.

Girls don't fart. If they do, it smells like roses: propaganda we were fed as little boys. What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice and everything nice.

My poem will get exhibited at Nottingham Central library this month.😁

Not hurting people's feelings should not be the basis for morality.

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I have decided to take music seriously and get a harmonica.

One game I'm anticipating for PC is Recur by Kaleidoscope.

If they say that they have more than one, that's a good response. If they have just one and they mention it, report them to the cinephile police.

It will get to a point where people would not be able to create things anymore, and would not be able to learn how even if they tried because the chronic use of AI would have stripped away the ability to conceive of a creative process.

Achebe: So here's my book. I want it published. Publisher: We got you. Jan. 16, 1966. Publisher: Should we still publish your book? Achebe:? Publisher: A coup happened in your book. Achebe: ?? Publisher: We don't want to be that guy, but a coup happened in Nigeria yesterday. Achebe: What?!

I haven't started on that. I did Sofia Coppola instead.

Invaluable. youtu.be/mScpHTIi-kM?...

If this was not the case, imagine the caricaturesque varieties of people we would have, whose sole existence is to be situated in a sort of demographic that's one-size-fits-all.

Friendly reminder.

Feminism flattens patriarchy to an oppressor-victim story. It's more nuanced than that. Everybody won, everybody lost.

I'm at a color crisis to determine if my favorite color is teal or viridian.

I had a major leap in my journey as a cinephile after I watched Reeves' The Batman in January of 2023, didn't particularly like it or understand it, then read the script around October of that year, and was blown away. I rewatched the film soon after, and it's now one of my favorites of all time.

Underrepresentation is best presented as a fact, not an accusation, because no one should be responsible for your own representation, but yourself.

Folks in Bridgerton are just willful eavesdroppers.

When you see this post, kindly name drop (or link) an academic writeup that you love or would recommend. I appreciate it.

This is the superior version.

I enjoyed Robert Eggers' Nosferatu.

A new Willow album is out!

I studied electrical and electronics engineering and there were only three women in my department of fifty. More guys applied for engineering than the ladies. Therefore, there will be more male engineers. Based on this case study, I can tell that natural inequalities exist. Nothing wrong with that.

At the end of the day, everyone ends up catching up with conspiracy theorists.

The first draft of a novel I wrote three years ago was so bad that I still don't know where I was going with the story. I'm considering hunting down the notebooks they're in and incinerating the leaves.

Audi alteram partem

The problem with letting statistics determine your verdict is that bad people will weaponize this oversight to their advantage and you end up believing a liar because statistically, they are the most injured. A good example is the issue of rape.