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2 kinsey fives making it work

“life, which is, after all, of some importance in its way,”

“pit and the pendulum” slander thank god

my life would be easier if i liked woolf more, or could read woolf better. that said this book is really fucking funny

“Eagerly recalling these and other instances of his unfitness for the life of society, an ineffable hope, that all the turbulence of his youth, his clumsiness, his blushes, his long walks, and his love of the country proved that he… was by birth a writer, rather than an aristocrat”

this happened to me but it was autism

every time he starts working up to an infodump i’m euphoric

i was insanely excited for incorrect whale facts and i can’t articulate how happy i am with what i’m getting. he’s introducing me to each whale like a personal friend

reading moby-dick to understand neal shusterman’s challenger deep

testament to headley’s poetry that i didn’t throw this book at “hashtag: blessed”

this cannot be the dynamic everyone has bastardized into generic yaoi tropes. armand put his ass in the saw basement this shit is for the real freaks everybody else get out!!!

modern au where stubb vapes

need to put melville and victor hugo in a room to talk about Man and the Infinite

this book is quite good when kuang lets it be good

yknow yeah it is actually fucking insane that companies, governments, and websites don’t legally have to disclose use of ai everywhere all the time. even before the debate about whether you should use it: if you’re using it, you should have to TELL ME

i'm deep down a rabbit hole about books i read when i was 12. remember when bean from ender's game shot himself into space to live in zero-gravity because he was going to keep growing forever until his lungs collapsed. and petra still wanted to have his babies. remember that

“‘Going aboard?’
‘Hands off, will you,’ said I.”

he’s really my best friend

“Aylen told Target Five, ‘Oh, yes, he’s telling us everything.’

Target Five tried, ‘He has a head injury.’”

crying

eliezer yudkowsky saying we might need to airstrike data centers to save the world... sure man. will snape be there

"But for some of them [people signing onto caution letters about AI destroying the world], it's not really about trying to save humanity, but rather a running of the con: the supposed danger of the systems is a splashy way to hype their own power, with the goal of scoring big investments in their own AI ventures (like Musk and Altman) or funding for their own research centers (like Bourgon)."

i know that “no children” and “this year” are the only famous tmg songs and the ones that have been done to death. but the thing i sometimes forget is that both of those are also truly and sincerely some of the best songs of all time

OH MY GOD. RATTHI GURATHIN DUO TIME?

IT GOES TO LIVE PERFORMANCES WITH RATTHI… ;—;

a medical issue……. its disability aid drones. yay

i want to go to the “Starchy Foods!!!” restaurant what the hell

my emotional support cozy dystopia

i've beat the horse thoroughly to death here but if griffin was going to show up and explain colonialism in detail then the footnotes DEFINITELY didn't need to

"'So if a fire tore through Babel, we could lose a full year of research?' asked Ramy.
'A year? Try decades. But that'll never happen.'"

oh okay of course not. now let me take a big sip of water before i read the rest of this book

it’s impressive to be able to write a metaphor about mental illness without being gruelingly heavy-handed but this book imo really nails it. and also it hits different reading this as an adult. like oh yeah. there is no bottom and the treasure’s all fake and i had to figure that out before i was old enough to vote

i know i'm being bitchy but the experience of this book is like

the text: here is a piece of worldbuilding that is presented innocuously by characters within the text but suggests the underlying investment of this school in imperialism

kuang's footnote, explicitly: FYI, these characters are skirting around how the university does imperialism

“Unfortunately, journalists have their own rat gonads to deal with.”