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Song of the Rider.

"You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything?

That’s how the internet was." —@butisitart.bsky.social

China and the Future of Science.

taking Kharg Island
like a little bitch
blood splashes

at night in the empty kitchen
low sussuration in my ears

"White collar work and even the halfway point of an email job prove elusive; the tedious application processes function as force fields repelling the narrator. There’s a sense of middle class decline, of an educated man whose education has proved largely worthless, working jobs that would seem “beneath” him, even as he tries and often fails to romanticize their working class elements."