By this point in your life, you have probably reached a decision on whether you find it enjoyable to watch movies in which people get eviscerated with a chain saw.
Review of Onslaught by Kyle Smith in The Wall Street Journal
See also: men jealous of babies.
Tressie McMillan Cottom on Bluesky
The jeggings are load bearing.
(At one point during the chaotic event, demonstrators hoping to stop the sale released 10,000 crickets into the auditorium.)
Obituary for Carlos Garcia by Adam Nossiter, The New York Times
A more playful approach that has occasionally been used to illustrate soil decomposition, though without scientific rigor, is the burial of cotton underpants (Figure 1).
"Soil health assessment using buried cotton underpants with the help of 1000 citizen scientists", S. Franz Bender et al, Plants People Planet
Submitted by Charlotte.
Imaginary money is stubborn.
The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money, Brendan Greeley
I come into the peace of wild things/Who do not tax their lives with forethought/Of grief.
"The Peace of Wild Things", Wendell Berry
It's basically humans' best attempt at going Dolphin Mode.
"Rockaway Surfing Contest—No Boards Allowed", Travis Hunter for Hell Gate
Submitted by Natalie.
Something about seeing her own skull gave her an angry burst of hope.
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz
Under a cloudless sky, the landscape browns like a baking loaf.
The Habit of Rivers, Ted Leeson
Submitted by Dave.
We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy.
"Chomsky After Epstein", Alex Gendler for Strange Matters
Her belief in cryptids was as perfect as ever—long necks in lakes, ape asses in woods, leviathans.
Will There Ever Be Another You, Patricia Lockwood
Also very good:
He executed a sharp little spin, like a ballerina who was afraid of electricity, and strolled leisurely to the car to wait there, blasting music so progressive that its moment still hadn't arrived.
He looked kind and spent and sad, like a vegetarian vampire.
The clearest example of incelization of the lifeworld is looksmaxxing, an idea that began in incel-adjacent forums with concepts such as “sexual market value,” numerical attractiveness rankings, “Chads,” “sub-5s,” facial ratios, canthal tilt, jaw shape and genetic ceilings.
"The Incelization of the Lifeworld", John Ganz for his newsletter Unpopular Front
Submitted by Kelsey with the comment that "'incelization of the lifeworld is looksmaxxing' is 'sky the color of a television tuned to a dead channel' for a world where screens are never off."
He capped off the whole bit with one last post before going back to his regularly scheduled programming: releasing merch featuring a Roy Lichtenstein-esque pair of crying, heavily lashed eyes; and writing five- to eight-word sentences about missing someone, loving someone, finding oneself, dreams, goals, and other kinds of drivel one might expect from a Temu James De La Vega who seems to be basically printing money.
"@7SoulsDeep Must Be Stopped", Katie Way for Hell Gate
i knit a shawl of fake memories from a cruel little world of caste and fake latin, and i wrap it around my soft mind so that nothing new can chill or change it.
But these are the least solicitous billboards imaginable, solitaires throning over the highway, haughty and without any desire to be understood.
What Tech Calls Governing, Adrian Daub (excerpted in n+1)
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