oh I do not think about swinburne enough

wystan you bitch you simply don’t miss

oh and motherfucking Housman of course. lethal on contact, to me

honourable mention — if I had to pick an entire Auden poem it would probably be September 1, 1939 (he’d hate this for me I fear) but these two verses of As I Walked Out One Evening are devastating:

I’m like a magic eye trick! depending on perspective I might totally blend in or I might be a weird protuberant shape

what if instead,

hell fucking yes!!! nice to notch literally any kind of W

oh that's where you are?? CONGRATION i was so pleased to see it

(abandon politically, of course, it is not my business where you do or do not choose to leave or stay)

this is the only appropriate wish for someone going to england lmao (thank you!!)

anyway This Is Just To Say that I am off on a visit to england tomorrow, back on the 19th, as you all know my illustrious homeland has gone insane and started agegating the internet so I don't think I will be around much before then

this method involves listening to your internal monologue/panic/protracted screaming and interrupting it pointedly with "girl (gn) what the fuck are you talking about". cannot patent this, pretty sure it crested across my timeline just this afternoon

first Alex the Great, then Kitkat, now Claude... my idols are dead and my enemies are in power

I haven't actually needed them so far – remote work goes maybe 90% of the way to making my work life better lmao

literally my parents did this, and as a direct result it was impossible for me to get meaningful accommodations from my workplace in the UK

this broke through. and now I have to just be at work. if I fucking speak.

one monstrous thing about being alive right now is that you have to become numb to a lot of things. we were talking about the constant onslaught of AI accelerationism on billboards all over SF last night. I barely see them anymore. you have to choose where you put your energy or you will collapse.

i am always setting fresh new land-speed records for time elapsed between meeting and cancellation <3