DȺNIEL | xAZΔX

Art as vague as finance.

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trve detective

Instead of watching True Detective I looked at all the gifs I could find and I’m pretty sure it’s about nihilists who choked on memes and don’t have the courage to kill themselves.

[driftwork-deactivated20250516]

old(er)

It’s an undeniable fact that we are having to come to terms with that we are no longer young. In a few months time from today, we will be turning sixty-five and  will be receiving the State Pension for the first time. Though we may know that this is not that old these days, nor even what anyone would think of as even close to an advanced old age, whatever they may mean for you,  still as its only two months away we cannot help but think of all the others who have not managed to get to be as old as we are. (So its a Thursday morning and it’s time to consider in little details about the things that have happened and those that haven’t.) The cold breeze on our faces as we walked down the hill to post the book to a colleague and the envelope containing the completed pension claim form for the few years you were a civil servant. The awful sting of the cold artic air and we walking  along empty streets wondering why we left the house on foot rather than driving down the hill.

[helterskeltered]

[rhizombie]

i keep seeing the kids use “discourse” on twitter/tumblr but I’m so confused because it’s not used in the foucauldian or colloquial sense so what does it mean?? I feel so old

[actuallyexistingbarbarism]

Shipmap.org

An incredible visualisation of global shipping traffic, created by Kiln.digital and the UCL Energy Institute.

Pretty.

[kickassmemes1]

[mistermikaboshi]

[fractalcult]

[lokipea]

In our society, physical difference frightens people, you can be as evil as hell on the insides but do one little physical thing like, oh I don’t know, tattoo your face, and man do people freak out. It is a curse of our society that we must fit into a rigid pattern to belong. There’s no room for imagination and creativity.

Captain Howdy (Strangeland)

[bewbin]

LETS BRING BACK 1337 SPEAK 

[bewbin]

why do i even try 

[bunney]

I THoUGHT YOU MEANT THE YEAR

[montypythonfan]

[screenshotsofdespair]

[prestoncarbonaro-deactivated202]

[warabou]

a wolf in sheep’s clothing

[psyducked]

they’re on a stealth mission

[thesnobbyartsyblog]

Fresh as fuck.

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So I wrote a text about a man shitting himself in VR.

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https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-nyström/soyled-dreams/10153620474687799

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So I wrote a text about a man shitting himself in VR.

[amateurisms]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Kindle Unlimited is being flooded with 3,000-page garbage books that suck money out of the system

Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited service allows subscribers to download as many books as they want, and then pays writers based on the number of their pages that readers have read.

The service surveils your reading habits by checking the “furthest page visited” status on every book in your library, meaning that if you skip to the last page, the book considers you to have finished the whole thing.

Crapflooding scammers have therefore supplied a glut of “books” that run up to 3,000 pages (the longest Amazon will permit), filled with garbage, which open with a link to the last page. By paying (or tricking) people to download their “books” and click the link, they rack up 3,000 pages’ worth of credit to their author accounts. At $0.005/page, it can add up.

The more of this there is, the less money there is in the system for writers who produce actual books, and the less reason there is for anyone to participate in, or subscribe to, the system.

https://boingboing.net/2016/04/21/kindle-unlimited-is-being-floo.html