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book club thread
Just finished On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. It's certainly didactic and probably a bit intractable
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UK politics
>I have a terrible suspicion that, a year from now, Britain will still find herself suffering under
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The Erasure of Middle America From Modern Media
For some context I'm 27 and have been collecting VHS tapes as a small hobby since I was 20, it began
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Le fil de française obligatoire
J'apprends le français pendant environ trois semaines maintenant. J'envie d'y parler et lire sa litt
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pseud user epidemic
lots of you guys are chill, but lots of you come across like 17y/o boys who consider themselves “int
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the boomers
really are going to kill us all, aren’t they?
it’s all gonna crumble JUST when you LEAST expect
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Terse Prose
Current prose in fiction is self-indulgent. Young authors put off so much gross pride through their
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Finally got booted off of old reddit and redirected to the login screen. I knew it was coming but ma
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Therapy, Self-Help, So On
Have any of you lot who think you have problems of the psychic kind tried to solve them? What has he
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Place your bets
100 years from now will the consensus on Israel be that it's a genocidal state or a normal state tha
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The year is 1978. You are listening to a post-punk band that sounds like the Velvet Underground. The
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Gotta respect him for having such a brutal chokehold on the political psyche of nearly everyone in t
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AI
How did worry about AI safety become a tech bro signifier and not the opposite? It’s clear that the
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tired of dealing with low culture people
get ridiculed for my tastes often. people say i'm "performative". i talk to people about my favorite
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Realism and Anti-Realism
Following Lee Braver’s exposition (in his 2007 book A Thing of This World: A History of Continental
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why aren't you adventuremaxxing instead of grinding sidequests for the apparatus while waiting for d
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A tale of three brothers.
This children’s story was told to me in a dream.
Not so long ago, three brothers from the Old Wor
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Sometimes, it depresses me very much that life will never have the melodic perfection which a song m
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guitar music
a thread for music in the vein of math rock, noise rock, post-rock, post-hardcore, slowcore, shoegaz
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Ive never really cared about height
I'm 5'6 now was always the shortest person as a kid at school but I've never cared really. Then you
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Realizing people hate me when I’m on adderall.
I’ve used adderall as a coping mechanism for the last few years, following a BPD-style breakdown tha
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site updates + meta thread
Hi /pt/,
I fixed the thing where old threads get bumped by spam posts and then don't drop back do
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On “Appalachian-Americans”
“The charm and mystery of bygone days broods over the mountain country - the charm of pioneer hardih
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All Of Brian Eno's Albums (1972-1984
All of Brian Eno's from 1972-1984.solo,collaborative,albums he had mayor involment(production,songwr
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Africa
Whatchu anons know about the Dark Continent? Have you ever been? It's maybe the region of the world
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Soap doesn't burn the pee hole anymore
Did they fix that or am I just better at not getting soap in my pee hole?
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Poetic Perversion
It saddens me to know the likes of D. H. Lawrence, Klimt and co are now but impossible for the perve
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BOOK REVIEW: My Year of Rest and Relaxation 2: Still Relaxin'
open.substack.com/pub/fatherkarine/p/book-review-my-year-of-rest-and-relaxation
> The sequel open
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Pawpaw and Commercializtion
Pawpaw, or Asimina triloba, is the largest tree-borne fruit native to the North American continent.
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HMS Implacable
The Royal Navy towed a 150 year old Napoleonic ship-of-the-line out into the English Channel and ble
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post your work
Post things you've made or are working on
>art
>writing
>recipes
>DIY handiwork
>etc.
whatever
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Language Question
Is it wrong to use basic, dirt-level language to describe beautiful things? Like those top-rated let
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/exercise/
with the warmer weather coming in, my mind has drifted to thoughts of physical activity and getting
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Econ 101
I've realized, though crucial to my daily life and beliefs, I know nothing about economics. In fact,
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why didn't you invest in Eastern Poland?
A famous meme from the 2010s posed the question: What will you say when your child asks: why didn't
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what's for breakfast?
I find breakfast unique among the meals of the day for its consistency. At least for most of my life
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Potential
Will God punish me for not realizing my potential? Is the greatest sin to let the gifts of God rot?
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/drgs/
out of curiosity of these users, I'd like to hear about your personalities and whether you are an up
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Truth and the sun
Absolute truth about humanity/the universe is not meant to be understood, and if it was it would pro
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pagans, paganism
Do you think it's possible to bring back paganism? Would you like to?
I admit, I have an inkling
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Depression
People act like Depression is just this freak pathology that can strike you arbitrarily at any time.
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I think every incel should try as hard as possible to become a white boy soundcloud rapper, not sure
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How do you learn to trust people?
I’m half-convinced I’m incapable of it. I’m 27, not getting any younger, and I’ve really gotta get o
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Spiritually "evil" places?
Not actually evil like Israel or Sudan but somehow "off", like assume all kinds of sinister things g
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Speaking of archetypes
Gay black guy who fucks twinks. Undoubtedly, you've seen him before. But who was the first?