2026-03-15
The death of the mass market paperback. Makes sense in today's world. I never really liked paperbacks in general and have always preferred reading books on my phone or computer. Also, digital publishing via websites is by far the best way to read these days, anyway. It's way easier to spin up a website to bring your work into the world as opposed to getting gatekept by publishers. Fuck those assholes. I'd rather more people make zines; they're way cooler.
It's not just balloon animals: a blog post written by Dylan Reed, a clown turned creative technologist on latex as an artistic medium. Made me look up "awesome balloon art," and I was not disappointed.
On the Education of Desire: an edifying blog post by John Michael Greer showing how desire isn't a chain, but a tool.
This project is really opening up my eyes to how much slop I consume on the internet. Most of the stuff I see are either memes from mainstream social media cross-posted in different group chats I'm in or shitty imageboard discourse. I think I've also been pretty disappointed in my RSS feed lately. I don't want to just post links from social media on here either, y'all deserve better than that. But really, I've been having a hard time finding anything really impactful from blogs or online magazines and stuff. I don't expect every week to be a boon for good content, but I might want to readjust my expectations here a bit.
The internet, like the world we live in, is a big place filled with lots of stuff. I feel somewhat limited in my perspective on it, though. I think I also forget to catalog certain things I've read on here, but also my judgment of what I feel is worthy to share might be skewed too.
Sorry for the weak output this week. Hopefully next week will come with more finds.
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