robel.

husband. father. amateur polymath.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

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Sleep as an unimaginably strange act of faith.

#CurrentlyReading Kaveh Akbar’s “Martyr!”

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#BooksOf2025 ✔️

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Little man draws “weird people”

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CDC links measles outbreaks in multiple states for the first time . If the outbreaks cannot be extinguished by January, the US will lose what is known as “elimination status”, determined by the WHO, which it has had for 25 years.

https://t.co/8dGHFAoymR

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“Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared that the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”

#CurrentlyReading
Chris Hedges’ “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (2009)

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“Nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs in the past.”

A banger of a start.

#CurrentlyReading @johngreen’s “Everything is Tuberculosis”

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☝️
Kudos to you @anna_cordelia @seemikedraw @lonelyplanet

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Son: Baba, can you read me this book before bed tonight?

The book — The Daredevil's Guide to Outer Space

Me: But ...

Son: It's not a story story. It's non-fiction. But I want it in my brain so my dreams have outer space stuff.

He's trying to hack his dreams. He's 7. #icecold

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Manu Larcenet’s graphic novel adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road” — equal parts devastating and strikingly beautiful.

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Read it here —

Evidence of a Life Lived: The Last Human Signature

https://t.co/JtwWfhERug

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(2)
"Every generation inherits its taste from the previous one, then rebels against it to create something new. But what happens when the previous generation's taste is just "whatever the algorithm showed me"? "

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(3)
"What do you rebel against when the entire creative landscape is a smooth gradient of optimized sameness?

The answer is devastating in its simplicity: you don't.

You can't rebel against nothing.

You can't find your voice in opposition to silence."

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"Evidence of a Life Lived: The Final Human Signature"
by @JoRoan

Excerpts

(1)
"We're living through the creative equivalent of inbreeding, each new "disruption" just a slightly mutated copy of the last, until we're all just remixing remixes of remixes."

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💪🏾

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MUST WATCH: "Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat" is an absolute powerhouse of a documentary — a bold, chilling, propulsive AND staggeringly creative construction that never insults your intelligence or coddles you.

https://t.co/penECgfQPF

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Done.
#BooksOf2024 ✔️

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@vinn_ayy But the manna will rain down from heaven, Vinny. Obviously.

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@addisstandard There's one H word that'll bring his three H's crumbling to their knees: hunger.

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“An international network of “race science” activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has been operating with secret funding from a multimillionaire US tech entrepreneur.”

https://t.co/mCjh1toxKQ