"I`ve lived to bury my desires…", Alexander Pushkin (translated by Maurice Baring)
Guys, where do you get your book recs? And do you have recs? (Of books or of bootuber/ig/substack/podcast/...)
Anne Michaels, from her novel titled "Fugitive Pieces," originally published in 1996
not my usual stuff but remember:
if/when tiktok comes back,
it is not the same place. it is not the same. and most importantly do NOT under any circumstances forget that The Tangerine was the one who wanted it banned in the first place and he is no savior, he, like everyone else in government, is doing what benefits him.
pick up the patterns, look at history.
People have got to stop making Trump and Musk out to be idiots with no awareness of their surroundings, it only devalues the actual harm that they are doing
Musk is not too dumb to know what a Nazi salute looks like
News sources have to use terms like he appears to do this or alleged to do that because of risk of being sued for libel or slander or whatever but we do not
Be for fucking real, they know what they are doing and they are slowly getting more extreme like we are a frog in the pot and the water is slowly boiling around us
I'm so depressed, I feel like work is going to kill me lmao. My body is barely holding up. I'm beyond exhausted. And we're only 12 days in the year...
For some reason the versions of this where he gives two salutes is being deleted and replaced with a version with a quick cut to a cheering crowd so I’ll just share it here 🙃
Hey, y'all! I made these today! I release them into the world to support the cause! They're sized for 8.5x11 printer paper. Take 'em. Print 'em. Post 'em EVERYWHERE.