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My very good friends/two of the writers I admire most in the world have finally unleashed the newest addition to the gothic marxism syllabus. Happy early Halloween to those interested in the spectrality of the material

If you are a PhD student or early career academic who is put off by academic language I highly recommend this podcast, even if you don't like scary movies. The hosts approach high level theory with a lightness and no small amount of self-depreciation, making it feel accessible.

NEW WRITING: some sketched thoughts on "optimizing your time" thehaunt.blog/2026/10/17/i...

My boy will be REDEEMED

Song review and some notes on Oklou and personal memory. A fruitful and impactful encounter with one of last year's critical darlings. kylestevenkern.substack.com/p/oh-will-th...

Album recs: Holidays in United States - How to Count to Five Spring Breeding - Backflip Sountrack Circuit Circuit - START LAUGHING Jake Xerxes Fussell - The Old Beloved Path Cissné - awake children under the moon Doing AOTYs this year for sure. So is @thelitcritguy.bsky.social (cause I said so)

Forgot I can just upload these here now. A fragmented memorial of my coming out story as articulated through an episode of a tv show I liked. Again, happy coming out day. do me a favor and tell someone you love them today, while you still have the chance.

Happy coming out day to all who celebrate. Coming out was the best decision I ever made - it genuinely saved my life. I wrote about those struggles several years ago, in the form of this video essay, which remains some of my most honest work. youtu.be/E_TNelGse54?...

Do I still have friends working with EWOC or UE? I've questions for you, on behalf of workers in need

I saw The Daily Wire's attempt at a redemption sequel and can physically feel the now-greater distance between my soul and the divine kylestevenkern.substack.com/p/if-you-wat...

Joining the genre debate on the side of "its true because I said it" to sharpen the contradictions of the shitty hot take industrial apparatus kylestevenkern.substack.com/p/um-actuall...

If you'd like to know what reading dozens upon dozens of 40k novels can do to a person, I invite you to listen to the below.

Indie game visibility thread! 🚨 Babushka's Glitch Dungeon Yes! I love glitches!

using a great year for music to further broaden my horizons and it's going great. AOTYs so far include black metal about memory; blackgaze but also j-rock; blackgaze but also chiptune and about LOTR; a re-record of bedroom blackgaze from 10 years ago; two ambient albums about japan; and slayyyter

there is no one i know personally more deserving of this. so excited.

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Why does every mom have a 'secret trick' and why is it always reheating your coffee in the microwave

i for one think it was the wisdom of the court that gifted Alito the giant monument at his vacation home that says 'ALL DOGS ARE BOYS AND ALL CATS ARE GIRLS' rather than Princess Debasia von Racistburg of Anterberry and Thombs, his very close friend.

The crisis of the third century peaked after the capture of Valerian when Rome entered its most volatile period in its history. Rebellion and disorder culminated in the succession of western provinces into a new Gallic Empire youtu.be/8Zb43Vafkhw?...

not to make this about me but you can't imagine how fun and enlightening it is to watch these get put together. Jon's back in CA.

Obvious but GOW 2018, see more here (feat. @kayandskittles.bsky.social) youtu.be/oOgBDlhVR4c?...

My advice for incoming graduate students is put down the prep reading, get an oil change, and go to the eye doctor. Unless youre phding in a science that examines the impact of engine failure on chronic eye strain, there's probably a grant somewhere

was planning on remaining humble and wise to the depth of the human spirit from which there is an endless bounty of meaning, but my fiddle-leaf fig is thriving, which of course means i'm just better than other people. purer of soul.

The announcement of "Xenoblade Genesis" implies the existence of "Xenoblade Exodus," "Xenoblade Numbers," "Xenoblade Deuteronomy," and so on, with 66 games in total to come.

NEW WRITING: Hegel, contra the Primarchs: "Horus’s rebellion is not mere ambition or supernatural corruption but the violent attempt of the Particular to reassert itself against a Universal that has withdrawn into abstraction" www.patreon.com/posts/158429...

There's a new history podcast and it's so good all other podcasts are illegal now!

showed my gd face on something for once today