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dieslaughing.bsky.social
Aka @dieslaughing / @deep.read.belle on IG/Threads. mediaoscura.com owner/designer. Former host of Radio Oscura (2015-2022). Smells faintly of bourbon and beheadings.
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I love it when my pet sighs. Like what ails you my little unemployed freeloader.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

A life-changing author for me.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This is as much the era of MCU good guys will save us pornography as “aspirational” bad guys. Hear me out, how about instead of asking artists to take on the responsibility of guiding society toward virtue we put money into our schools and go back to teaching media literacy and the humanities.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

(yall gotta stop ceding ground to puritans. don't give them stickers or mpaa ratings or "mature" sections or "clean" imprints. they don't get a little censorship, as a treat.)

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

Getting back into the habit of perfume journaling as I test samples, and I think I'll post random lines here as I work through my ridiculous backlog. Today's test was Sarah Baker's Far from the Madding Crowd: "Smells like the liminal space between the cosmetic and shoe departments of a Dillard's."

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

Fuck it: French fries for breakfast it is.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Is this what people who see Jesus in a piece of toast feel like?

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

JFC

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

the venn diagram of stuff i think i will eat when i am meal planning vs stuff i want to eat at actual dinner time is two circles, separated by an infinite distance through time, space, and other dimensions whose qualities are so inconceivably foreign to us that we could not possible conceive of them

submitted 36 days ago • 23 comments

every angry take I’ve seen about using technology to offload the work of being a human is correct, and I’ll just add: you learn things from art you don’t like and/or finish! you learn things, about yourself and about the world, even from experiences you don’t enjoy! friction is necessary for growth!

submitted 37 days ago • 4 comments

Terrible week to give a shit

submitted 39 days ago • 50 comments

Me, cleaning out Henry’s schoolwork folder: “Henry! This is really good!” Him: “Yeah! That’s Martin Luther King, Jr. [flips a few pages] And this…. …is a Predator after he falls into a cactus.” 🌵

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Halfway through Too Like the Lightning and I keep swinging wildly between being intrigued and delighted to wanting to fucking die.

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

incomparable

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

the thing about the Gaiman story, as with so many stories of monstrous men, is that it's the same boring solipsistic pathology over and over and over. they all think that they're God's Specialest Boy and that if they do something, it can't possibly be wrong or bad. it's so pathetic.

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

I want to stop using my phone as my morning alarm; does anyone have a personal recommendation for a nice, gentle alarm clock under $50?

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

submitted 55 days ago • 578 comments

I wrote about moss and lichen and how to survive when greed makes the ground parched, and cold and parsimony is our portion: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 56 days ago • 24 comments

I just want to announce that I’ve had The Lions of Al-Rassan on my Goodreads TBR since 2007, at @cupiscent.bsky.social’s behest, and I just started it today. It’s called a TBR, not a TBRI or TBRN. 😌

submitted 73 days ago • 5 comments