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Archive for January 2026

ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent

On 14 January 2026

There’s a whole part of Infinite Jest* where DFW talks about how annoying it is that the AA slogans, the shit that people say without thinking, or put on keychains—like “One Day At A Time” or “Nothing Changes If Nothing Changes,” etc—turned out to be true. Or more importantly: they turned out to be useful. […]

a stop-motion gorilla and cobra robot attacking each other in front of a mountain range

On 5 January 2026

It would be nice if there were an easy pseudosleep product, an Impossible Sleep or Better Than Sleep or Morningstar Spicy Black Bean Sleep.*. Sometimes a nap is not really what you want. Sometimes you DON’T want to have a whole sleep cycle and maybe mess things up for later, but you DO want to […]