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placeholder thread for when i’m sober enough to write up a theory of mitski but it seems remarkable that nobody on the board has ever mentioned her.

it seems silly to criticize a fiction writer for making things up in a novel, but he was always careful about alluding to the real, yes? when I read the thing I lived about six blocks from enfield house. there’s a scene with gately in the parking lot of madison park vocational high school, and...

i definitely did learn things in school, and many of my classmates did too. the merit of the harder sciences is almost purely that it’s much harder to pretend that someone is able to build a bridge when they can’t than that they’re making incisive political arguements when they aren’t. it’s...

sometimes you’re in the pit because you’re in the pit other times it turns out you need a good chat with a friend or some time under the sun to perk you up. must be hard to get the sunlight in the UK, I’ve never felt it’s the same getting the bright indoor lights and supplementing vitamin D...

Cummings is the only one who knew how to pick up the “trillion pound notes just lying on the ground,” so now there’s not even anyone who says they think brexit can turn out economically net-positive.

go for a trip out around the country to check his eyesight and find it’s not so good

psychosis, i think, uh, you know it when you see it, frankly

I share the image because it’s funny to me—being psychotic by definition means an incapacity to determine your current state, right?

any word on what did him in? clearly a wanker but I confess to liking him a great deal more than I ever liked Steve Bannon, who was the closest thing to an equivalent in the Trump whitehouse.

Schmidt is a really spooky guy. Don’t like him at all. The man wants nothing more than to be inside the CIA. Hogan on the other hand is a stellar choice.

“discord layer” is an especially good descriptor given that it probably is mostly on Discord.

There was a certain cursed strand of early-00s American liberal discourse where Time was constantly reporting on “The Search for The Gay Gene,” which was a holy grail of sorts because if being gay was genetic, it couldn’t be a choice. This was exactly as dumb as it sounds, libs clutching at the...

I don’t think these things are evenly distributed —it’s very possible for there to not be enough trans awareness in general, and yet for it to exist in a strange fever pitch among certain populations. I think one of the best and most incisive pieces of satire over the last decade came from...

I hear it’s “fucked up” and “not very nice.” The August 2020 issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly: https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/issue/7/3

I think England is an unusual country because it's one of very few where gardens look better than the wilderness. To the extent there is any wilderness, of course.

Have been fascinated lately by the "Detrans" subreddit, for people who transitioned back to their birth identity. Niche of course, but the question that's interesting though is whether the category grows as trans visibility does also. A widely aired set of stats say that dissatisfaction with...

a notable trans journal recently put out an entire issue dedicated to andrea long chu studies, mostly negative. Good enough of an endorsement for me, frankly.

Who at the CIA would've been able to convince people to include a long list of roms for obscure nudie-games from the 90s. I mean… really.

Anyone got favorite gardens? I'm a big fan of Dries Van Noten's, pics here: https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/celebrity-homes-dries-van-noten-archive