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“Lately, I’ve been thinking about smoking. All the time,” writes author Xochitl Gonzalez. “With each passing day of this absolutely deranged year, my desire to contemplate how to make sense of it all while puffing on a cigarette grows.” Part of this smoking thing is a yearning for the past, admits Gonzalez. Not in an effort to recapture her youth, but to recapture an approach to time and life. “I can’t personally slow down technology or fix media or the demands of capitalism or any of the other existential things that have crept into our lives,” she writes. “But maybe what I can do is stop what I’m doing, ask somebody to come outside, and take five minutes to slow down with me while I engage in the very dangerous act of holding a flaming stick to my face. This could be my rebellion.” Read Gonzalez’s full essay: nymag.visitlink.me/55vbET

pretty good argument for the longer-term dangers of letting an AI think and write and decide for you

I’m sorry I don’t listen to Laufey if I wanted the experience of listening to the same song over and over again I have more artists to turn to #IMSORRY

$2 pickled egg at the nonbinary bar im about to turn this place into the gender ambiguous fart convention

I’m in the Lena-Lorde-Jack-Charli cinematic universe at 21 in the same way I was in the MCR-Twilight-fifty shades cinematic universe at 14

I’m going to need everybody to read this now.

nobody gets lena dunham like me and my closest friends who are all geniuses constantly teetering on the edge of loserdom

@randymarshfan1 And I’m Gonna Keep Writing About It

Girls is trending… and exactly a year ago I wrote about its cultural resurgence…

yo intentando no contarle mis planes a la gente antes de que se cumplan

Anne Carson #smallpoemsunday

@lionriotgrrr Lesbian in Overalls😍

my ex that used to call themselves a lesbian rlly has a baby and husband now like okay

if you are a teenager it is natural to be this level of self absorbed and you will have to find your way out of it as everyone does but if you are not then

My shoulder angel and devil frenching as I get choice paralysis in the soap aisle

I have this dream every night except the classmate is Myself

for a small fee, I will go to your enemy’s writing workshop and say “but who is the ‘you’ in this poem?”

Weed tolerance gap relationship