We never just wanted to make something beautiful. We wanted to make things better as I have always wanted
I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox
and which you were probably saving for breakfast
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
This is everything I didn’t say
Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit
Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and their Gardens (1904)
Long for Network Spirituality
"A Slower Internet... requires that dissimilar tasks occur in a diversity of spaces on a multitude of devices. Living with information does not mean that we have to give any type of machine a monopoly over our attention. Slower Internet is a process of cultivating a garden of machines that fit localized, individual desires."
“Deciding on a username is not easy. At some point, I’ll be embarrassed by my decision and want to start over. So I used the Random ID Generator (brenz.net/services/randomID.asp). The result is ‘suc42y.’ If you see beauty in this username, it’s not my fault.”
when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.
Love After Love by Derek Walcott
“In the old days, if someone had a secret they didn't want to share... you know what they did? They went up a mountain, found a tree, carved a hole in it, and whispered the secret into the hole. Then they covered it with mud. And leave the secret there forever.”
they don’t yet understand the horror of being frozen in other people’s gazes. They don’t understand the costs of being defined
“I just need more time to forget that the Internet exists.”
The great silence before the music begins, or after the music ends,
Does anyone constantly feel the need to "restart" things?
2025 trend predictions
minimalism
digital watch
nerdy computer lover vibes
adam sandler streetstyle
clogs
A hope that I would be able to loosen my grip a bit, clear my scars,
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im sorry im emotionally unstable because i grew up exposed to powerful interfaces among other issues
hell looks a lot like over-engineered social media feeds with useless metrics and quantification of interactions
but who are the people I want to
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inspire? Who are the people I want to be
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relatable for? And that is
Why Pop Music Keeps Repackaging the Technology of the Past