Hi friends,
I wrote about why it can be hard to know what you want and to ask for it, both on the internet and in person. Yes, this is a post about desire. Desire for a specific kind of very nerdy jokes.
One thing I've missed since I moved from Twitter to Mastodon is a certain strain of hyperintellectual shitposting. And, it's not like I could go back to Twitter and read it. Most of those people aren't posting anymore. There are plenty of very sincere Marxists on Mastodon, and many lovely anarchists, but people who were brain-poisoned in graduate school into finding critical theory hilarious seemed to be rare. I mean, they're always rare, but I could usually find them. Then, one person I follow posted this incredible joke, "columbo is the lacanian Big Other which is why he is so psychically effective against criminals."
Thanks for reading and see you on the internet!
AK