uphold mahmood mamdani thought
atiglain.bsky.social
uphold mahmood mamdani thought
@atiglain.bsky.social
This summer I experienced oneness for the first time and now know that it is 1. a real psychological phenomenon and 2. something pretty important I was missing from my life experience.
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
2. Before this summer, I hadn't ever experienced true "oneness" or "oceanic feeling" before (in a spiritual, meditative, or psychedelic sense) and basically didn't think it was real. I had experienced the sublime through art and plenty of intense emotion but never oneness
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
explore the ideas I had always wanted to explore. Knowing that there were fellow travelers made it seem possible. A couple of my friends got married because of that series as well lol.
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
1. There have been smaller works with smaller changes, but the Terra Ignota series changed my life. it was the first piece of art I had come across that showed me, unequivocally, that there were people out there that were generally on my wavelength. In a way it gave me permission to
November 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
These are excellent. I'll go back and comment more once I'm not grinding thesis but the last one filled me with intense emotions of all kinds. Man, I'be been missing good poetry and this really reminded how good a good poem can be so thank you for that
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 AM
yes!! i saw it opening night!!
November 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
he was amazing in twelfth night shakespeare in the park
November 15, 2025 at 5:36 AM
i love being in the fucking around era! good thing finding out is made up and has never happened to anyone before!
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
discovering how the technicals of drawing (for example) worked (think the discovery of 2 point perspective). People yearn for the marriage of the technical and artistic but that stuff genuinely only happens occasionally and when it’s not happening the question of good art is a lot harder to answer
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
(posting what i texted u) I think there is this anxiety that the ambiguity of aesthetics provokes that makes a lot of people try and grasp for the objective. The easiest way to do this is to appeal to an objective that was created beyond oneself, that originated when we were still genuinely
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 AM
I have a suspicion that john singer sargent would think of me as a failson and mediocrity but I wouldn't even be that mad about that
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I think Thomas Pynchon would hate me and my work
November 6, 2025 at 9:57 PM
is there something specific you're worried about? overtraining, injury, not hitting goals?
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
15-20 is the highest range I've seen, 8 is fine that's honestly my average for a lot of my workouts when I'm not maxing out. I'm a powerlifter though so ymmv
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
these whiny fucking tweets juxtaposed against news coverage of ICE teargassing elementary school-aged children on my timeline is just. well i would say, but i believe it violates TOS
November 6, 2025 at 4:40 AM
in their minds theyre allowed to abuse, rape, and murder with impunity but as soon as people get angry about it suddenly they're all birthday boys. lol.
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
When Victims Become Killers just has this :') which is incidentally how I found out they were related
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 AM
scary!
November 6, 2025 at 1:46 AM
do people just not know how to read?
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 AM
what??? how is that even possible?
November 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I've been saying this
November 5, 2025 at 6:16 AM