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A person’s character is known by the concepts they keep http://matthewgasda.substack.com contributing writer @unherd
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Re upping this because it’s now clear to me that most people have no mental model for what life was like before absolutely everyone had a camera and internet on them all the time, they cannot even conceive of how this state of affairs may require new mores
the comments on this one are very ... interesting unherd.com/2025/07/the-sa…
a dating app but for 'sacrificing animals at random' to 'locate new gods'
i'm so sorry BCH
oh? you've never read sophie kemp? haven't seen a matt gasda play? no walter rodney? or aimé césaire? you've never read plato? aristotle? haven't dabbled in gerald murnane? laszlo krasznahorkai? no pynchon or delillo? type shit haha, wanna catch a yankee game sometime?
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Available for preorder from Rose Books now: WRITER'S DIARY by Matthew Gasda @FOMO_sacer, out October 28, 2025! rosebooks.co
we are experiencing a metaphorical solar minimum of love & romance this summer that is destroying all feeling and sensitivity across the globe
What's a conspiracy theory you believe with your whole heart?
This is LITERALLY what 1984 was about. The consequences of growing up in a state where you're being surveilled 24/7, with any possible deviation from what's deemed "acceptable" being shamed and punished
Zoomers don't know how to have fun & I think that's their biggest problem. They are too afraid of being perceived.
mimetic violence against the chosen sacrifice on social media = heroin telling people they should stop = ?
Next weekend 7/26 8:30pm: SERPENT CLUB PRESS: NEW WRITING ISSUE III RELEASE PARTY - copies of the new issue, featuring work by @RossBarkan Emmalea Russo @AnaKrivolapova @communecore @philiptraylen Ella Schmidt @FOMO_sacer Udith Dematagoda @ingmar_bugman and others + art by…
trying to stick to the level of ideas here--this line of argument is just like "it's not a mob if they deserved it"
Stunned to see people reading the Coldplay Cheater as a victim of privacy invasion. Totally wrong frame. This isn't mob sadism, or scapegoating, or some irrational woke backlash. The guy took his paramour in public and embraced her at length. Naively, nonchalantly, glibly. He…
Joni Mitchell points out that the dominant style of American female pop vocalists is cheer leader and I cannot unhear it, the performative enthusiasm, the glitter and pom-poms energy, perfect for a nation of people stuck in the dynamics of high school
jeff buckley in an interview about bob dylan's sad-eyed lady of the lowlands