radit

thinker about things

[ig: @kihmberlie @kihmberlie]

this is whimsical af

[SpideyDoesStuff @SpideyDoeStuff]

Mamdani at night

[𓆩 mario 𓆪 @yunhwagism]

chase infiniti’s beauty is unmatched

[Jesse Tinsley @JesseTinsley]

Imagine telling someone in 1999…

The year is 2026.

The President is Donald Trump in his second non consecutive term.

The richest man in the world is PayPal cofounder Elon Musk… but not because of fintech or Paypal. Because of rockets, electric cars, AI, satellites, brain chips and something called “Boring Company”.

Apple is worth trillions but its main business isn’t computers… its selling glass rectangles everyone stares at for 9 hours a day.

People don’t watch TV. They watch teenagers explain geopolitics, finance, and relationship advice in ~60 second videos.

The biggest taxi company owns no taxis.
The biggest hotel company owns no hotels.
The most powerful media companies are social networks where everyone argues with strangers for free.

Kids are making millions filming themselves playing video games.

AI Robots write emails, code, legal memos, songs, essays, and breakup texts.

The internet is mostly bots arguing with humans who are trying to prove they aren’t bots.

You can summon a car, groceries, a doctor, a date, a private jet, or a dog walker from your phone.

People pay real money for invisible currencies, digital monkeys, AI girlfriends and pictures that disappear after 24 hours.

The richest companies in the world don’t sell oil, steel, or cars. They sell attention, compute, data, and addiction.

And somehow, after all of that everyone is still using Excel.

[Karine Hsu @karine_hsu]

new polaroid billboards are A+

[NoteS. @NoteSphere]

FIFA didn’t accredit Florence Pernet, so she shot the 2026 World Cup through her TV screen at home.

[Pascio @IAmPascio]

Holy fuck, what I did just read...

[Laocoon @tzzz045]

@Isted__

[Mustafa @oprydai]

daily dose of premium content

[lost in latency @lostinlatencyX]

these are not just posters but messages!

[Gizem Akdag @gizakdag]

World Cup postcards

[Rachael Nelson @rachael__nelson]

Horizontal aspect ratio is absolutely in on social

Thank goodness

Preferred by eyeballs

This is how we naturally see

[Jay Yang @Jayyanginspires]

Nothing (and I mean NOTHING) has even come close to accelerating my career like writing online has.

[Mauthe Doog 👁️ @mauthe_doog]

People see Mary as more innocent than Clark, not as much of a bad person, but I'm not sure that's the case. She's less obviously destructive, but...

Mary's treatment was a loop I think, as in, she probably used the same style treatment for everyone (as suggested by her tapes, being literal copies of her message.) Clark came to her for help, and she kept on the same treatments over and over that clearly weren't working. In particular, she kept roleplaying as his wife, who (he thinks) took everything from him, making him relive a terrible memory.

Of course he hates the roleplay! It's just bad memories and positioning himself as the bad guy. And maybe he was, but why would anyone like that? Mary doesn't ever seem to even give him a little slack about what happened, when if what Clark says is true, it would have been a very stressful situation to live with.

But she forces him to roleplay and relive a terrible night multiple times, so in the dinner scene he forces her to do the opposite: roleplay again and finally see him from his own perspective. Mary wanted to act as his wife, so he rubs it in by forcing the hair on her to make her realise how horrible the whole memory/situation is.

This isn't to say that Clark isn't shirking responsibility (he is) and that he's actually a good man (he isn't), but Mary didn't really try to engage with Clark despite him begging her too. Clark reached out to Mary for help and her treatment only made it worse. It's no wonder he took a chance to escape when he could. Mary was right to be terrified when entering the Backrooms, being a reflection of his mind, because she hadn't really entered it before.

I think she does it because of her mother. Her mother was delusional, and you can't entertain those delusions at all when interacting with them. Clark is angry and shirks responsibility, but he isn't delusional. Mary, stuck in her own loop, treated him like she would her mother. At best her blind treatment of Clark just didn't help him, but at worst it actively made him worse.

It's probably (at least partially) why she smiles at the end during the interview/interrogation. She's finally understanding what it's like to have someone try to analyse you without really engaging. It's patronising and probably going to make everything worse. We even see a Still Life of her sitting utterly terrified and distressed in that exact chair, suggesting that was how Mary was feeling, while all that Phil had to offer was questions he already knew the answers to and a vague threat that she'll be taken away.

I don't think Mary is a good person, honestly. She's not that different from Clark in the end, although her method of coping is at least (usually) more helpful than his. But it's more destructive when it isn't, because as a therapist she works with damaged people and helping the wrong way leads to real harm.

[primordial intelligence @primal_brainer]

stay inconveniently curious!

Some of my favorite reads on Substack this week! 🖍♥︎

[Rachel Karten @milkkarten]

short-form...horizontal video? in today's newsletter i wrote about why instagram is feeling less vertical these days and my theory that they might be putting their thumb on the scale as they prioritize television.

[Trevoh Chalobah @TrevohChalobah]

Believe

[England @England]

Welcome back to the #ThreeLions squad, @TrevohChalobah! 🤝

[B/R Football @brfootball]

England have called up Trevoh Chalobah to their World Cup squad to replace the injured Tino Livramento, per multiple reports 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[Ardianto Satriawan @ardisatriawan]

Puas banget bjirrr ngatainnya.

"Satuan Penjilat Prabowo Gibran"

"Kabinet anj***"

"Kabinet bangs**"