confused?

the million things I have tried and failed to be

[stijlw]

we are all guttermaxxing but some of us are starpilled

[triviallytrue]

A random assortment of writing that has stuck with me especially hard

Seven Swords for Difficult Problems

a meditation on boundaries

Hot Allostatic Load

Forgiveness

Issendai's series on estranged parent forums

The Asshole Filter

I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.

Everything is Correlated

explain to me how gears are machined

[triviallytrue]

2023 additions

a tour of the common failure modes of left wing thought

Different Worlds

an AI risk effortpost

The Housing Theory of Everything

The A Button Challenge and its applications

[triviallytrue]

2024 additions

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again

Why I don't believe in the placebo effect

Identify the relevant agent

How two students built an A-bomb

Trauma As Physics

How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

[triviallytrue]

2025 additions

Some Journeys to the West

the void

Sex and Moral Sight

I Want to Believe in Abundance

Will Jesus Christ return in an election year?

[triviallytrue]

2026 additions

Counting Arguments and AI

Why poor countries stopped catching up

The Adolescence of Technology

Twins reared apart do not exist

Everyone is Gambling and No One is Happy

Notes on Managing ADHD

[cobaltocalcito]

Something oddly intimate here

[cobaltocalcito]

so late to the party i only just discovered bags by clairo released in 2019

[cobaltocalcito]

are you from Tennessee because you’re the only c i see

[orcboxer]

you try to describe a simple landscape and next thing you know you're learning the exact definitions of words like gully, gulch, headscarp, thalweg, polje, ponor, estavelle, alluvial, cenote, and you realize there is no such thing as a simple landscape

[cobaltocalcito]

I love ba bao zhou but really it’s just a non savory chili

[cobaltocalcito]

People who run or gym in headphones are so mysterious to me… how can you stand plasticky sticky leathery cups adding significant weight to your head, trapping and condensing sweat with extreme efficiency (destroying hundreds of dollars of electrical equipment) while doing anything active???

[cobaltocalcito]

r o kwon is a little too similar in name to r f kuang but way better as a writer imo

[cobaltocalcito]

ever since I was a child I’ve had recurrent, loving fantasies of getting hit by a car

[cobaltocalcito]

walking across middle Manhattan like what if in lieu of 4th avenue there were 3-4 other avenues in between 3rd and 5th

[systemdeez]

Sometimes I go "meow meow meow." Not today though because I'm full of darkness.

[cobaltocalcito]

i forget how painfully beautiful classical choral music can get it almost makes me feel, just for an instant, that god is real

[cobaltocalcito]

everybody is a bestselling author these days, where are the worstsellers

[cobaltocalcito]

whatever night owls feel as unfairly treated by societal expectations i feel as an early bird in my software dev circles in the city

[cobaltocalcito]

nobody told me there are 15 HUNDRED species of tardigrades!

[cobaltocalcito]

things that can be area:

1. Man

2. Rug

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