May 9why is ted lasso Bad Now?this shouldn’t be shocking news if you know me (or read this blog), but i watch a lot of tv. despite this, i’m not used to it not being very good! most of the time, when a show that i am watching ‘live’ (more, as it comes out) starts to…7 min read7 min read
May 2feeding the trollsi proclaim my status as a hater proudly. i see no reason to deny it, because sometimes you have to accept a bad part of yourself to focus on the good parts. also it is simply very fun to be a hater. to be honest, that’s probably this blog’s raison…6 min read6 min read
Apr 27birthdaysas someone who has, fortunately or unfortunately depending on one’s perspective, been born, i have a birthday. because i live in england (this is deeply unfortunate), i am aware of this fact, and care about it quite a bit. …5 min read5 min read
Apr 12addendum: detesting the ‘aesthetic’continuing on from my previous article, i have finally lost a little bit of the crazy {impossible} that went into that piece. in fact, i actually reread something i wrote for the first time ever so! i was at the end of my tether with photo dumps, and probably instagram…4 min read4 min read
Mar 30‘photo dumps’, self-cannibalisation, and simulacraif you have spent any time on instagram in the past whenever, you have probably stumbled upon the idea of a ‘photo dump’. you have probably posted one yourself. i have also posted a few! the whole aim of instagram, some would argue, is to simply dump photos! as a…3 min read3 min read
Mar 22musing no. 1- modern life is rubbishi think im going to try and post one of these every month. i will accompany these with an album i really like that sums up my current feeling. until i think for a better title, enjoy some blur i remain in a state of perpetual annoyance. this whole ‘blog’…3 min read3 min read
Mar 13a piece on the futurei sit writing this article on my bed, with a weak cough from a latent chest infection, [1] daydreaming of what would happen if it were to be shown to the world. how would it look on the website? how do i include paragraph breaks- one full break or only…3 min read3 min read
Mar 2the art of semantic usefulnessin the age of instagram infographics, and tired jokes about posts from @feminist or @impact or some other procedurally generated petty-bourgeois bullshit, it feels like an open goal to deride the whole phenomenon. i still have every single change.org petition eradicated from my twitter feed. …Politics2 min readPolitics2 min read
Dec 25, 2022my favourite things of the yearinstead of doing top 10 whatever, this is just a list of things that have released/been discovered by me this year, and which i love the beths- wonderful indie rock band from new zealand. i was vaguely aware of them before but this was the year i really got into…3 min read3 min read
Apr 1, 2022climate change isn’t our fault. why do we think it is?in society, we are told about our effect on the environment by the government, endlessly told through mindless trauma porn about the “poor polar bears that have their habitat destroyed by you!”. on tv, we are encouraged to donate “just £3 a month to adopt this poor bonobo, its habitat…Climate Change3 min readClimate Change3 min read