Back on the West Coast and in SF for the first time since June, and let me tell you, the NorCal foliage and soil and breezy humid Pacific fog really hit different than Boston lol

THE PROPHESY HAS BEEN FULFILLED DAYENU

I suspect that someone I matched with on Hinge is using ChatGPT in their messages with me, but I'm not entirely sure. This is such a dealbreaker for me, but maybe I'm just being paranoid and this is simply someone with an ingratiating corporate prose. I hate that I have to even think about this!!!

dressing up like a skeleton and whispering "memento mori" to all of your coworkers doesn't count as a death threat

CHOTINER: So you asked for a Birkin bag? KOKO: Yes. Possession Bag. CHOTINER: And you had the funds to acquire this? KOKO: No, Professor Purchase Koko Gorilla CHOTINER: That doesn't sound like the funds were justifiable. KOKO: Hostility Interviewer

Maybe I'm not plugged into the right literatures, but it seems like "the work of conversation" is substantially undertheorized in philosophy of language. Sustaining the flow of a mutually desired conversation takes cognitive/emotional labor, which can be distributed equitably—or not. #philsky 🐦🐦

There's a type of communication I've realized drives me up the wall, even though it's minimally Gricean: unequal division of conversational labor. Imagine someone who cooperatively/amiably does "payoff" moves (answering questions) but rarely does "setup" moves (asking questions, raising topics)

I'm in Providence and I found a lil baby river?

What does being a Good* Conversationalist mean to you? *normatively, descriptively, politically, aesthetically, somatically, idegaf 🐦🐦

If you carouse at the table I say I will carouse at the opposite side of the table;

“no one cares that she wants you to eat cake, cake is actually good and its just words and theres real issues to worry about” this is you, this is what you sound like

🐦🐦 🧵 from Yoko Hasegawa, 2014, 'Japanese: A Linguistic Introduction': In striking contrast to its simple sound system, the Japanese language employs what is arguably the most convoluted writing system ever devised in human history. Sampson (1985: 173) declares: 1/3

Sometimes you gotta step back and gasp in awe at how fucking bonkers the Japanese writing system is. They were really cookin' with that one. And what they cooked was scalding, spicy, decadent, and laughably heterogeneous. Like really good ramen.

2 novelistic theories of consciousness & identity: ORBITAL: "In space, no one can hear you Be Japanese" NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS: "In the NICU, no one can hear you Poast"

Does anyone have access to Annual Review of Linguistics + the nobleness of spirit to get me a PDF of this?!?! Thank you for your attention to this matter. #philsky 🐦🐦

Revisiting the classics in order to cure depression

😭😭😭 RIP

Angel hair disgusts me

Goddamn. I tried this but it backfired big time. Taking inspiration from George Constanza's "do the opposite" stratagem, my updated resolution is: To ¬φ at t

I have bad news about the good half of this resolution

My current theory is poems cause crime

For maybe the 1st time in my life, I'm in the odd position of being friends w/ someone v smart but rather conversationally/emotionally reserved. Not rude—just not super talkative & doesn't wear her heart on her sleeve. (I also have a big unrequited crush on her, which is a whole other can of worms.)

Yo does anyone have any theories on why *hygiene* specifically is so aversive to depressed people??? Part of it is my OCD for sure (makes hygiene routines laborious & scary in general) but it's also a common refrain from depressed people without OCD.

Sorry to be prescriptivist on main, but I really hate the recent prevalence of "yap". As I see it, "yap" is a mixed expressive with at-issue content="talk" & not-at-issue content="conversation is little more than logorrhea or bleating". I guess it's a diminutive of sorts. Or maybe a slur. Booo. 🐦🐦

"Polycrisis" is my middle name. Not literally. It's actually Alexander. But I might have to name a character in my novel Polly Crisis...

There are so many French people hanging out and chatting in the hostel I'm staying at. I keep wanting to speak French with them but then I remember that I'm filthy (haven't showered since Friday) and old (painfully 36) and that speaking French isn't actually exciting or unusual to THEM lol.

Met someone in rehab months ago who was 21 & said her favorite track off MR. MORALE that she listens to on repeat is 'We Cry Together'. I remember thinking to myself some version of "girl, ur in danger, check yourself before you wreck yourself!" But I ALSO love the song & find it hella relatable.

Sent my parents this pic and joked that the look I was going for was "Gulag Reject". Behold my mom's amazing response. INSTEAD OF LABOR CAMPS THINK OF ORGANIZING LABOR lmao

I get that I'm the boy who cried wolf here, but it sucks that I've told most of my friends that I want to kill myself and their response is either to ignore me or to say some version of "damn that sucks bro"

I think my top hobby these days is bruxism tbqh.

I'm going insane and posting through it. But not in an entertaining way. Just a kinda boring and pathetic way lol. It's kinda (very much) a compulsion.

My self-loathing & learned helplessness have been reaching disturbing levels of, like, clinical delusionalness lately. Hating myself this much & disclaiming any possible positive solutions is requiring me to spend all my waking hours actively distorting reality.

I finally ate food, things are on the up-and-up (slightly). Behold the Depressed Man's 3 PM Baltic Breakfast:

Trying to think if there's any bridges I can burn today in order to feel something other than numb despair

I miss being a real human with friends and activities and stuff. I don't understand why I'm still here.

My brain isn't working anymore. My body isn't working anymore. I feel like I've been dead for 15-20 years and the only reason I'm still here besmirching your timelines with my bullshit is cause the Grim Reaper is an underpaid/overworked bureaucrat with a huge backlog.

bday suicidality is real y'all

I'm turning 36 tomorrow and it makes me want to die

Waiting for that 6 am hydroxyzine to kick in........ Morning panic is back baby

Not enough people are talking about the aesthetic influence of HypnoToad smdh

There's boomers on Muni with pro-frog signs lol

my hot take is today is about showing maybe millions of people how it’s fun to say fuck the government

I'm still struggle to find the words to articulate this properly, but I think the defining aesthetic/mood/vibe of the No Kings protests is: Anomie in the face of ongoing collision between Online & Real Life This is an implicit theme in almost every sign, not to mention in the Trump admin itself

Re-entering the despair zone

Kings? I suppose not. I feel too depressed and unwell to do anything, but I think it'll just get worse with more King, so I guess I'm going to Boston Common...

I miss being depressed. Now what's my excuse for being unhappy all the time?

Damn, watching Foundation S3 alongside rewatching Severance S1 really draws out the deficiencies of the former! There are great facets to the show (the Shakespearean shitshow of the 3 Emperors losing everything; the pathos of Demerzel), but... Severance, though, fires on all cylinders all the time.

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.