What Would Chuck Klosterman Do?

The scrapbook of a twentysomething - THIRTYsomething! God, when did I last update this - multimedia fashion victim. Last Year's Girl, or Lis to her friends, is a journalist, blogger and amateur photographer. Some of these things actually pay her, but mostly she just wants to be liked. She likes social technology, homemade pizza, great-tasting lipgloss, Starbucks cappuccino and rock 'n' roll tales of redemption; makes her home in Glasgow and left her heart in New York City. She doesn't know why she needs a Tumblr account. Keep up with her at pixlet [dot] net.

[lastyearsgirl]

Any condition in your life you feel will last forever: it won’t. Gradually or sharply, the shape and texture of your relationships will change; your feelings will evolve, transmute, fold in on themselves. Circumstances change. They will end, and sometimes, begin again.

Baby # 2: Electric Boogaloo

[lastyearsgirl]

You could look at overthinking as negatively-biased daydreaming. One is simply more culturally acceptable than the other.

Filling the worry-hole with something better

[lastyearsgirl]

A hobby has to prove you still have a self outside work. It has to make your life feel less generic. It has to soothe you, distinguish you, and reassure you that your free time is not being squandered. Which is a lot to ask from pottery, or running, or coffee, or books. The tragedy is not just that hobbies got more serious. It is that we now need them to carry emotional weight they were never designed to hold.

You Can't Even Relax Correctly - by Rodrigo Brancatelli

[lastyearsgirl]

Best of all is being young in the city ... Which I no longer am. But I am certainly not about to give up on it.

Aging in a Brightly Lit, Big City: Jay McInerney, With a New Novel - The New York Times

[lastyearsgirl]

Sometimes, even at my advanced age, I think, oh, I don't fit here. This isn't my space. I can't easily fit in. But I have pieces of lots of places in me, and that's a good thing.

#9: is it too late to change your life? • Buttondown

[lastyearsgirl]

I remain hopeful partly as defiance.

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here - The New York Times

[lastyearsgirl]

I think pain is so overrated, but I do think that finding my way out of pain into pleasure is very inspiring. So I respect pain, but I don’t look for it.

Robyn on ‘Sexistential’ Album & Motherhood

[lastyearsgirl]

These tools promise productivity. But it’s a devil’s bargain. Yes, they allow us to do more work. But they don't always allow us to do better or smarter work. Most importantly, whatever time they save will never become "our own." History should be our greatest teacher here: economists dreamed that technological advances would usher in a glorious age of shortened work days and expansive leisure and learning, as workers were liberated from the drudgery of mundane tasks now performed by automated machines. But that dream backfired spectacularly.

Don’t Let The Machines Do The Living | Patreon

[lastyearsgirl]

I am bored with critiques that end after naming “late-stage capitalism” as the villain, without ever introducing me to a hero ... I am tired of complaints about the unfairness of hetero parenting, statistics about loneliness, charts about inequality, and fundraising texts from the Democratic party. Fine, yes, let's acknowledge those realities. But also: Give me ambitious visions of other ways of living! Offer me a half-complete itinerary for a mysterious adventure! Romance me!

Ann Friedman Weekly

[lastyearsgirl]

You recognize taste when you step into someone’s world and it feels like you’ve been transported ... The effort the person has made to surround themselves with things that they love, they really love, and find beautiful is so clear.

Having Taste - From the Desk of Marlowe Granados

[lastyearsgirl]

To put it bluntly, is the best accommodation for you setting limits about how much time you’re willing to spend around people who make you feel like shit?

#1441: “I want to travel with my friends but I’m afraid my brain will ruin my friendships.” – CaptainAwkward.com

[lastyearsgirl]

["Young Hearts Spark Fire"] sounded like hearing “Alex Chilton” for the first time and realizing that the Replacements could’ve been an arena-rock act if they truly wanted. Or the time I spun a promo CD of Bleed American in my car and got a speeding ticket by the time “Your House” came on. Or the first time my parents went away for the weekend after I bought a 50-watt amp and I could crank the volume knob past 2. Or just any night in high school where I somehow had access to more than two beers and thought, “It doesn’t get any better than this.”

The Boys Are Leaving Town: The Final Days Of Japandroids

[lastyearsgirl]

Care like aunts who are impelled into altruistic relationships with those with whom we form communities (whether we like it or not), those both near and far, whose discomforts may or may not be ours, including those who don’t agree with us, while we attempt to navigate this human and more-than-human world of porous and penetrated borders.

Tackling The Climate Crisis Like Aunts Rather Than Parents

[hoursofreading]

The Joy of Reading Books You Don't Entirely Understand - Reactor

It really should be acceptable and normal to say “I don’t entirely understand what I just read, but I loved it.”

[eternalgirlscout]

[tinyampersand]

ilu tumblr

[lastyearsgirl]

You are someone who needs dreams more than you need nice things.

'Why Did No One Tell Me That Life Is So Limited?'

[lastyearsgirl]

In the digital age, we often neglect our bodies entirely, and use them merely as a way to transport our heads to meetings.

Your phone is why you don't feel sexy

[lastyearsgirl]

AI, no matter how well trained, no matter how much it can simulate the tone of a newspaper, and no matter how many editors you have look over what it spits out, lacks one vital thing that must be present in any ethical journalism: Accountability. It cannot tell you how it made the decisions to write what it wrote, and the editor checking its work can’t tell you either. Therefore AI must be limited to being a tool for journalists to use, rather than a technology that replaces journalists.

Selling Your House For Firewood - by Hamilton Nolan