Category: General
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hurry up and wait
In response to a question from L____, I decided that I’m not really sure how I’m feeling at the moment—which is less due to any lack of feeling or insight, and more due to a scrum of competing feelings and concerns, some of which have hung in the balance for the better part of a…
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complaints of a reluctant LARPer
Talking to an old friend about LinkedIn the other day, said friend described it as “business LARP”. The topic came up because, as a person who is easing themselves back into the searching-for-gainful-employment game, I am now obliged to engage with LinkedIn: in Sweden, it’s basically the default platform through which almost all recruitment takes…
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[x] springs eternal
If a poet wants to say anything meaningful about the world, he must not push the world away from himself or seek in any way to avoid it. Despite the best of plans and intentions, the world is more chaotic than ever, and this chaos is pushing it with increasing speed toward self-destruction. The poet must…
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a celebration of endings
It’s Biffy fuckin’ Clyro, ye radge. (Not that you could tell from this photo; my down-the-front days are long gone.) Rescheduled from February due to You Know What, this gig (last night at Den Grå Hal, Christiania, Copenhagen) happened to fall on the night before the last day of my contract at Lund. I’ve not…
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malevolent pigs
Seems like there’s skulduggery afoot in the Baltic: The three leaks — two in the Nord Stream 1 pipeline north-east of Bornholm, and one in the Nord Stream 2 pipeline south-east of the island — caused disturbances in the sea up to 1km wide, according to the Danish defence forces. @FinancialTimes https://www.ft.com/content/294e441d-7b24-4144-a51f-75bdf70d723c I have largely…