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“Some constipated pedant who will take an eternity to get anything done”
Nicholas Walmsley
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Shymkent is charming
visiting Khoja Ahmad Yasavi
admitting that this is only the second novel by Thomas Hardy I have ever read
the first and for so long only one was Far From the Madding Crowd
(5) real humanities research dedicated to producing the cultural knowledge we need & which challenges the economic interests of big tech dies because actual academic humanities doesn't exist in public research universities after the right-wing takeover.
Have a less radical theory that transphobia tends to hit people in middle age because that's when humans begin to de-gender, something widely recognised in other societies that ours doesn't really know how to deal with...
Registered and collected paraphernalia for the 10k tomorrow
see you at the starting-line lads
I find myself not infrequently popping back into the Old Place because so so many Central Asia-focused and Central Asia-adjacent scholars writers journalists and thinkers are still active there and not here
And every time I step back out I need 🚿 🛀 🧼
the Other Place is a genuinely nasty and corrupting place
‘twas a lovely day for a run!
10K in 59:28
Try this instead:
I can get obsessive.
There is a demon inside me that forces me to create. If I don't, it whispers to me while I sleep.
I was a lonely child.
I did very well in art class, my teacher was the only one who affirmed me. I still chase that feeling.
I am an impractical person.
