New on Skirmishes: I write about Bring Them Down, Zone, and Chopin. Read now please! Read now thanks!! open.substack.com/pub/skirmish...
17.08.2025 19:55
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New on Skirmishes: I write about Bring Them Down, Zone, and Chopin. Read now please! Read now thanks!! open.substack.com/pub/skirmish...
...playing video games and masturbating?
[post on LinkedIn] A job candidate just stabbed me a blade forged of blackest obsidian. I made them my CFO.
Let me explain. [more]
They gentrified the desert of the real :/
Last Substack shit-talk I promise, but everyone there seems mostly concerned about the platform's promise as a genuine intellectual commons - a promise that they've basically made up in their head.
Also if I see "restack" once more time I will Blaspheme.
[post on Bluesky] You're a piece of shit.
[post on Substack] Just read Max Weber's 'The Protestant Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism', which made me think about how you're a piece of shit.
I wrote about Ailbhe NΓ Bhriain's exhibition in the Hugh Lane, Susan Sontag, photography, accumulation, and hauntology. Jacques Derrida is mentioned, for which I can only apologise.
open.substack.com/pub/skirmish...
Freud is great. He'll extend a metaphor over 2 pages then go "That was a shit metaphor, but makes you think how difficult this is to explain."
'6 - death instinct?' Good question, could honestly go either way.
I appreciate that the Internet Archive captures the best bits of library study, namely finding people's notes and marginalia. Someone here's scribbled a chapter summary onto the title page of Civilization and its Discontents.
Tag yourself, I'm 'more guilt'
New on Skirmishes: I wrote about some culture I've been enjoying in July 2025 open.substack.com/pub/skirmish...
Just glad I finally have a hobby that can also be a personality.
I've been running for the past couple of months quite seriously and it feels great. I get to be in nature, I feel my body doing things I didn't think were possible, and I get to have a little chocolate milkshake after for being good.
Decided to post a bit just to feel something (my guts being ripped out by birds)
Good news everyone: Substack's half-dicked platform has obliterated the poem's formatting. Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
New on Skirmishes: On a poem from the late Louise GlΓΌck.
The bit in The Great Gatsby where Daisy's like "You have such beautiful shirts!" but it's a wardrobe full of hockey jerseys.
Once on a TV broadcast of a rugby game, once in the background of the news at a student protest.
Finally, spaghetti for guys.
Here's the thing: [unintelligible]
Just realised Cornel West is in Matrix Reloaded and Revolutions. Any other philosophers/public intellectuals have starring role in non-doc films?
