• How to enjoy writing #10: a poetic interlude from Claude

• How to enjoy writing #9: Identifying and valuing your encounters with ideas

• Current mood in AI generated images #83

• For I move slower and quieter than most

• How to enjoy writing #7: Knowing when (and why) to stop writing

• How to enjoy writing #6: procrastination is your friend, not your enemy

• How to enjoy writing #5: keep trying to say what you’re trying to say

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #82

• How to enjoy writing #4: embracing creative non-linearity

• How to enjoy writing #3: being realistic about how long you can spend writing

• If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a million locks and finally read a book in peace

• How to enjoy writing #2: placing limits on your writing

• How to enjoy writing #1: capturing your fringe thoughts

• And I’m never real, it’s just a sketch of me

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #81

• Celebrity Tory MP Alan Clark on his enthusiasm for sexual predation

• Turns out I have a similar approach to writing to Slavoj Žižek. Unsure how I feel about this.

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #80

• Too focused on the content and not enough on context

• How many politicians see being an MP as membership of the best private club in London?

• The casual antisemitism of leading Conservative politicians in the 1980s

• Current mood in AI generated images #79

• Current mood in AI generated images #78

• I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves before them

• Current mood in AI generated images #77

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #76

• My first attempt at AI-generated music

• Revealing the beauty latent within the digital fragments of our cluttered lifeworld

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #75

• i look to the sky and fling myself into the pattern

• In defence of optimism

• Current mood in AI generated images #74

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #73

• Current mood in AI generated images #72

• Is it possible to fold a watermelon?

• CfP: Sociology of the 1980s

• Current mood in AI generated images #71

• God speaks time and time again, but no one notices

• The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this

• The most gifted polymath of the 20th century reproaching himself about his laziness

• “I find, just now at least, the world a pleasant and exciting place”

• I produced this 5000 word paper in 17 mins. We’re all doomed.

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #70

• The end is where we start from

• Current mood in AI generated images #69

• It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living

• Current mood in AI generated images #68

• Do thou amend thy face, and I’ll amend my life

• The philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) on how ludicrous it would be to expect academics to publish papers every 6 months

• Who told you he’s not the shit? Well, a bloody liar he is

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #67

• Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself

• The emerging system of eco-apartheid

• RIP Sam. 14 years yesterday.

• On dance notation

• Current mood in AI generated images #66

• An infinite scream passing through nature

• A capybara and its guinea pig friends ❤️

• Current mood in AI generated images #65

• I’ve had this stuck in my head for the last 48 hours

• 🐈‍⬛ In praise of black cats

• Current mood in AI generated images #64

• A wild god searching for a faraway girl, who was basically a mirage that nevertheless loomed large

• Trinity College, after The Fall

• The chatbot Rorschach test part 1

• Current mood in AI generated images #63

• Current mood in AI generated images #62

• 🌳 Last year is dead, they seem to say. Begin afresh, afresh, afresh 🌳

• When I was young I was invincible

• “What was a slow grind towards broad poverty is going to become a fucking rapid march towards poverty”

• Current mood in AI generated images #61

• The old elephant loves Moonlight Sonata

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• Behavioural scientists were the lay preachers of late neoliberalism

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #60

• It is not too late to seek a newer world

• Current mood in AI generated images #59

• Intuition as social theory

• The reparative activity of cow-watching 🐮

• Videos of American police searching a library for obscene material

• What’s the opposite of flourishing? Languishing

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• Makers, we, of perfectly contemplated machines

• Are you a map-maker or a bungee jumper with your writing?

• The institutional hole at the heart of Manchester

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #58

• A trans reading of Poor Things

• Visualising the University of Manchester Campus

• Current mood in AI generated images #57

• Tell us where you’re from, what you want to become

• The cultural capital involved in applying for a PhD

• Inspiration is the indolent indulgence of the dabbler

• An introduction to asexuality

• I never trusted my love and her wallpaper feelings

• Daily Mail (2000): the internet may just be a passing fad, as millions give up on it

• How often do you interrupt yourself?

• Current mood in AI generated images #56

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say