Scottish-Singaporean writer, chef, recluse, exile, & ponderer of the arcane. Substack & free articlesšŸ‘‡šŸ»ā¤ļøā€šŸ”„

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Joined October 2020
How to Survive Modernity is ā€œ#92 Rising in Health & Wellnessā€ and I don’t really know what that means but will take the opportunity to thank everyone who reads my stuff - it means the world, really ā¤ļøā€šŸ”„
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Work desks are not supposed to be facing a wall (child in detention, cowed, shameful, blocked off), but facing outward into the room (virile, confident, vigorous). Wires and computers ruined this and now we’re all cucked in our own homes.
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For much of my adult life I’ve intermittently thought; wow, what a terrible fate to be one of those sad cat ladies. Luckily I’ll never be that. And then one day, exactly as foretold by my astrologer, a stray kitten very confidently chose me. Despite my reluctance, she finally won me round with her persistent effort and ragged charm and plaintive cries and cautious affection and bravery in the face of near-certain death. And now I am a cat lady. Amelia has brought so much greatly needed stability, and endless endless joy to my life that I could never be sad about such a turn of events… but it’s just a very good reminder that God will humble you in the funniest of ways and when you very least expect it.
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Americans love to talk about their guns whenever there are riots in Europe, completely ignoring the fact that they are not actually allowed to use them. At this point the gun-toting American is a only a symbol of a lost world, and nothing more
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Unfortunately this can also happen to you if you’re a woman with a BPD friend. You have to starve them of all attention: even one like on a social media post or one curt reply to their frantic walls of text, and they will devour that energy like the ravenous vampire they are and use it to suck you back in. Cut them off utterly and totally and never look back.
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BPD isn’t real by the way, it’s just modern psychiatry/therapy speak for ā€œselfish abusive womanā€. It’s not an illness. It’s not a condition. It’s simply their base personality. Sometimes there are just bad people in this world and if you don’t accept this reality, you are making yourself a target and you will be abused by them forever.
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If you look to a clanker for philosophical thought, you are already dead inside. AI can never be a universal unbiased thing because it is not programmed with any moral structure. It is Godless. And this is why it will always just be a search engine.
Replying to @GuntherEagleman
There is no afterlife, no cosmic justice, and no inherent purpose. Consciousness ends at death in an indifferent universe that will outlast every human concern.
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Knowledge is not intelligence is not wisdom
Knowledge without wisdom is so commonplace now that it has become the standard. The constant devouring of books, articles, texts, factoids.. but with nothing beneath the surface, nothing being created, nothing gained
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The fastest way to show that every nihilist is LARPing is to hold a gun to their head and watch them urinate themselves. They say life isn’t worth living but if you try to help them with their proclaimed desire, those proclamations will very quickly be proven false.
This is James Idoine. He’s been banned from TikTok multiple times because he wants all life in the universe to go extinct. But the question is: Does he have a point?
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How could I have forgotten pearls and moonstone? Anything glowing and silvery makes me shiver
Every woman should know the fabrics and colours and jewellery that make her feel the most beautiful.. Vedic astrology can help with this.. I feel beautiful in black, silks, silver, and small tasteful diamonds perhaps because I am primarily Saturnian, Venusian, and Lunar
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Every woman should know the fabrics and colours and jewellery that make her feel the most beautiful.. Vedic astrology can help with this.. I feel beautiful in black, silks, silver, and small tasteful diamonds perhaps because I am primarily Saturnian, Venusian, and Lunar
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I stopped posting on instagram months ago but still looked at reels sometimes because there are some absolute gems. Sadly slop penetrates all. You WILL be forced at some point to listen to some ā€˜viral’ music or hear vocal fry or witness the spillover TikTok affectations from some braindead glassy-eyed influencer. I now keep my account only for archival purposes. My social media usage was always curated well and never a doom scroll, but even when it’s good, life is still so much better without it…… if you have TikTok you’re just ngmi btw…..
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Me when there are people anywhere when I’m running errands at 10am on a Wednesday
The employim are driving me crazy. Why is there traffic at 10am? You should have been at Jew daycare at 9am sharp.
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I don’t approve of mollycoddling, but everyone I’ve heard say ā€œchildren are resilientā€ are saying so for nefarious and or selfish reasons to excuse their own lazy and or harmful behaviour as the adult in the room
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When you are ā€œtalentedā€ and ā€œintelligentā€ as a woman but you feel the most happy, settled, and accomplished looking after loved ones and cooking and baking and homemaking, everyone thinks you are insane and wasting your life. You have to just keep doing what you love anyway
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I have done objectively remarkable things in my life but I’m baking a birthday cake for somebody I care about and my formerly feral kitten is safe and snoozing on the sofa and my home is clean and I’m about to spend time with family and I just find it very hard to care about those remarkable feats at times like these. External validation has never been important to me but it’s even less so these days, now that I’ve been ground into the dirt enough to know what is actually important to myself and my trajectory
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Everyone gets mad at me when I say that gym culture is for mentally ill women and encourages further mental illness but I have yet again been vindicated by recent happenings (Lucy Craig & Cornell). Seeking out aggressive, overly structured, stiff, competitive movement as a woman, locking up your hips and pelvis, revelling in your musculature, neglecting your monthly hormonal cycle, deliberately encroaching upon male dominated spaces, all encourage an imbalance of masculine/feminine energy and can even literally raise testosterone levels in a female body. Absolute destruction of your womanhood and your mental peace and your behaviour towards others (especially in a romantic relationship)
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Bodybuilding is a mental illness, but doubly so for women, since we are built for emotional safety & nourishment and wither away much faster than males if we don’t receive either. Gym culture is bad enough for females already, and this is it dialled up to a hundred. Not that women should go to the other extreme and sit motionless all day eating sugar and marshmallows and sweeties like a Peater. Of course women are capable of hard labour and discipline. But the type of labour matters, as does the purpose of said labour.
the comments i'm going insane, "prep brain" and it's literally just losing cognitive function because they're malnourished
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I’m almost 70, and people believe it all too easily. Here are my secrets for ageing like a used tea bag: 1. Skin: find a good pub and visit regularly. Sun, wind, cigar smoke, the occasional fist, whatever it takes. Just give them your credit card. 2. Body: eat more, work out never, get fat. Even with that, use PEDs: port, eggs and digestives. 3. Hair: let it go wherever it likes. Off the top, into the ears, out of the nose. 4. Stress: seek it out, especially financial stress. And - of course - never ever brush your teeth.
i’m almost 40, but people don’t seem to believe me. besides my asian genes, here are my secrets to stay looking young: 1. skin: find a good dermatologist and visit regularly. thermage, ultherapy, lasers, whatever it takes. just give them your credit card. 2. body: eat less, work out more, don’t get fat. even with that, use PEDs. ozempic exists for a reason. 3. hair: keep it thick and full. PRP if your hair starts thinning, and take turkish hairline if it’s too late. balding is optional. 4. stress: avoid it, especially financial stress. so make more money. btw, money is also the key ingredient for item 1, 2 and 3. hope this helps. šŸ˜‰
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