Thursday, July 31, 2025 • 1 min read
Such a beautiful story about a girl’s upbringing and how it relates to her present admiration of nature. With her dream to play in theater plays crushed by her dad for no reason, she became a ghost of who she was, always lost and never knowing what to do with her life. She takes her vacations on farms and – as a city girl – she sees everything green that isn’t the fields as untouched nature which she learns is a misconception.
Wednesday, July 30, 2025 • 1 min read
This is my first Ghibli movie and not even their best, supposedly. It’s one of the most magical animated movies I’ve ever seen. If this doesn’t make their top 10, I’m endlessly excited to see their “better” ones. I really liked the context of this movie – set in the 1930s of Italy. My favorite line’s gotta be the most famous one: “I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.
Sunday, July 27, 2025 • 2 min read
“Left Wing” Zionism: How to Sell an Ethnostate by overzealots: It bothers me that this commentator repeats multiple times that states have to justify themselves to exist. States don’t need to take on a specific form to be legitimate. If their existence was inherently legitimate when possessing specific attributes, they wouldn’t need to employ as much force to ensure the continuity of their existence.
Sunday, July 27, 2025 • 1 min read
The Crazy World of Korea’s Plastic Surgery Industry by Mina Le: Calling that industry “crazy” is an understatement. Young people have to get work done or else they might struggle in their romantic relationships or finding jobs. At the same time, them getting work done makes it easier for other to refuse any procedures because they increasingly become a minority. In a way, this is patriarchy acting as a double bind yet again.
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 • 2 min read
I used to have a Last.fm account up until recently. I kept one around intermittently after initially creating one for the first time in 2019, connecting it to my Spotify and then forgetting about it for two years. After that I used it a bit but hated seeing how “horrible” the information it gave me looked like, so I started fresh with a new one. Then I started focusing too much on the numbers and had to quit it until I gave it another shot at the start of 2024.
Tuesday, July 22, 2025 • 1 min read
Finished reading: The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
❗️Disclaimer: Possible spoilers ahead.
Sunday, July 20, 2025 • 5 min read
In a way it was good for me to have started out blogging on Bearblog. It was simple enough, maybe a little too simple, but exactly what I needed to learn how to customize my experience with CSS and HTML – things I should’ve learned in school, but they kinda didn’t stick around in my head. Doing stuff like a DIY book section and trying to bootstrap a microblogging solution on top of Bearblog taught me a lot of things about rudimentary code logic and I’m eternally grateful for that.
Saturday, July 19, 2025 • 1 min read
Been obsessed with this album. It has been in my MusicBox for a while, and I regret not checking out sooner because Magdalena Bay’s show in my city was two weeks ago. Missed my chance, but maybe another time. Transitions everywhere, album has consistency and variety, and this [redacted] sings like an angel. Ever since listening to Trip by Jhené Aiko for the first time last summer, I’ve been looking for an equally ethereal experience.
Friday, July 18, 2025 • 1 min read
I use devices that can do so many different things that I nearly forgot the beauty in tools that do one thing and do it well. Keeping things simple pays off for me in the long run because I can focus on the goal more easily. I live in a very touristy city and in the past two years or so, I’ve been seeing lots and lots of people using standalone (digital) cameras for pictures.
Tuesday, July 15, 2025 • 2 min read
Finished reading: The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
❗️Disclaimer: Possible spoilers ahead.
Sunday, July 13, 2025 • 2 min read
The movie is really shallow with little to no character development. It is way too long because most of it is hectic fighting scenes or preparations for fighting, and quite frankly I couldn’t give less of a fuck. There is still like only one woman which is insane to me, and the acting in general is pretty mid to actually bad. There are no side characters you can grow attached to because importance is only attached to the three main characters who you just know won’t ever be killed because they carry the already shallow story.
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 • 3 min read
Copyright is supposed to give artists and creators ownership and control over their creations. Art and knowledge are intangible, merely bits of information, that can be copied and duplicated easily compared to tangible assets like money or real estate. Copyright was supposed to be the tool for protecting the small person. Yet, in all of its history copyright has only stifled creativity and commodified the commons of art beyond the reach of those who need it most: the poor, indie artists, and basically anyone who doesn’t hoard enough money to survive unemployment for six months without welfare benefits.
Friday, July 4, 2025 • 5 min read
For a while now, I’ve been deeply interested in robots and sentient intelligence other than that of humans in general. At first, it wasn’t much of a conscious decision to surround myself with media that in one way or another discusses this topic. In part it was sparked by a class I took in my first semester of political science in which we studied AI from a social scientific perspective in which we looked at the impact of AI on society, how society interacts with AI, who plays an important role in the AI space, and lastly who largely benefits or loses from AI (everywhere – vertically in the hierarchy and horizontally across geography).
Wednesday, July 2, 2025 • 3 min read
My exams are over, summer is here, and I’m busy again. This is the first summer in which I have a plethora of activities to engage in, thanks to antidepressants and plenty of therapy. There are a few games I’d like to play, many books I’m reading or about to start, and lastly a couple of shows and movies I’m watching sometimes alone and some other times with friends. I’m still crocheting my dwarf hat and now I’m also taking care of my body by going to the fitness studio.
Sunday, June 29, 2025 • 3 min read
I signed up for a fitness studio near me in early May. McFit had a special offer going on where I would pay 5€ for the first two months and then 30€ afterwards for a plan that would normally cost 50€. Ever since the signup, I’ve gone there five times total. I was unsure if training at the fitness studio would be for me or if it was a better investment for me to find other physically engaging activities like a badminton club or buying a bike, seeing as it’s quite a bit of money a month and I may lose interest before I’m allowed to cancel.
Friday, June 27, 2025 • 2 min read
Every song on this album is a bop. I really love the minimal production which is not something that many albums get right. In my opinion, it was a wise decision not to hype the album up to be something it isn’t, at least as far as I could tell. It can be whatever you make it out to be: a summer album, a party album, something akin to brat’s more introspective parts, etc.
Friday, June 20, 2025 • 1 min read
Her daughter is such a bitch and she knows it. She is literally testing her mother’s love towards her and is ready to incriminate her own mother just for her sadistic urges. Her fighting back was so skillfully done. But how did no one question that the horses survived? She must’ve planned it all for a while. It’s unclear when all of this happened and really how. I don’t get the ending.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 • 2 min read
I’ve been meaning to write a post for my blog for a few weeks now, but it seems like the more time passed, the less I was willing to actually write anything. It doesn’t help that my blog experienced an existential crisis where I didn’t know what I was going to do with it. I felt like an oversharer at times and the sort of series I had going on were not exciting anymore, feeling more like chores than fun.
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 • 2 min read
Rewatching this movie with my brother has awakened some awareness in me that I didn’t get when I watched this movie for the first time a few years ago. It’s mad disrespectful, out of touch, and reductionist. It’s giving a tech bro explaining why fighting back climate change is futile. All of this is so hardcore conspiracy theory fuel while still acting good natured that it makes my skin crawl.
Friday, April 25, 2025 • 1 min read
Finished reading: Dust by Hugh Howey This book series and its ending remind me of another series I read at the age of 13-14 by the Austrian author Ursula Poznanski called Eleria in which humanity also makes the planet uninhabitable and lives in so-called spheres that aren’t too different from silos. Lots of effort was put into concealing the reasons behind the uninhabitability of the Earth. Obviously, a reason was given, just not the truth.
Saturday, April 19, 2025 • 4 min read
Everyone around me knows that I’ve obsessed with Forever Howlong since its release on April 4 a few weeks ago. I’ve been listening to Black Country, New Roads comeback nonstop ever since and even bought its CD (my ultimate gesture of showing love to the craft, I guess). It starts out really strong and manages to maintain that strength all throughout the album through crescendos, instrumental breaks, and lyrical breakdowns that culminate the best rock music I’ve heard in a while; some of it folk-ish, vaguely Western tracks like Two Horses and Mary, while most of it is clearly post-rock.
Tuesday, April 15, 2025 • 1 min read
If an institution could succumb so quickly to an authoritarian power that theoretically threatens its existence, don’t you think that it’s most likely been part of that authoritarian movement for a while? Did it have to succumb to anything if it was the main actor in the demolition of the very thing that is its raison d’être which is freedom of thought and the freedom to question what is and isn’t?
Friday, April 11, 2025 • 3 min read
This post is inspired a little bit by Ava’s sunday, 6th april 2025 where she shared how her RSS feeds have been dry and how the internet (including – but not limited to – Bearblog) is feeling stale lately. I thought this was just me feeling down or something, but this was a symptom of me disconnecting completely except for RSS and Bearblog and a little bit of Mastodon here and there, and not really keeping up with what’s happening.
Thursday, April 10, 2025 • 6 min read
There is a ton of misinformation1 about various, mostly recent, events in Syria floating around, and I hear from relatives all the time – however “by the way” they mention it – that they don’t know a thing, actually. And it requires a lot of self-awareness that I’m surprised to see in said relatives to admit that while they know so many details, they nonetheless don’t grasp the full picture because their recounting of the story they’re telling has many contradictions they are aware of.
Thursday, April 3, 2025 • 2 min read
Something happened a few days ago (or rather a response to something) that I still have not gotten over. I’m mostly writing about it to make sense of my disappointment. FKA twigs was supposed to have a few shows across Europe and her Prague show, probably the most important one, was cancelled last minute. This is significant because her time in Prague is what inspired her latest project EUSEXUA1 so people were understandably stoked to attend those shows2.
Saturday, March 29, 2025 • 1 min read
Finished reading: Shift by Hugh Howey I love how this book served as a retelling of the first from a different perspective. We kind of got the full story with how Solo was discovered by Jules. We also got some info on how he lived up until he met her. It’s like there were two opponents in this entire story: the silo’s populace and its managers, the silo’s managers and their managers, an intruder and the intruded.
Monday, March 24, 2025 • 3 min read
I’m always so thrown off anew at the lengths misogynists are ready to go to further prove to themselves that their misogyny is rooted in reason – however twisted – and thus justified. I was attending a lecture about science theory and history and this is one of those lectures with the most flabbergasting revelations about science.1 In today’s lecture I learned that when putting together a female skeleton, they would pick and choose parts of a woman they would find appealing which means small head (less intelligence), long neck (a beauty standard), and wide pelvis (increased fertility).
Wednesday, March 19, 2025 • 2 min read
In one of his recent post “Leaving Things As They Are,” visionaryhussy from The House of Supreme Sultriness brings up being a lazy perfectionist. For some reason I felt obliged to explain why perfectionism brings a bout of laziness with it by default. Take what I’m saying here with a grain of salt. This is all based on personal observations only and not scientific in any way. So when you are a perfectionist, you are deeply interested in getting the details right.
Monday, March 17, 2025 • 3 min read
I’m officially parting ways with economics. I’ve been studying towards a bachelor’s degree in economics and social sciences (the official name) since September of last year and I’m done. I don’t want this. To people around me, this most likely doesn’t come as a surprise as I’ve been dissatisfied with taking courses, studying the materials, and listening to lectures for months. I’ve been feeling nothing but dread, but I kept telling myself that it would get better.
Thursday, March 13, 2025 • 5 min read
I admire bad people and I’m not going to sit here and talk you into believing that that is any good. In my recent post talking about my current CD collection, I showed off CDs from morally very questionable people and expressed interest in buying CDs of other morally corrupt acts, like for instance Grimes. Her music is genuinely good and I’ve been obsessed with her for a year. Miss Anthropocene was very obviously written about Elon Musk and I can’t unhear that.