He was a proper old-fashioned London geezer (cringe word, hate it, can't think of a better one, worst of all it's the correct word), kind of East Endy, kind of Real London, the kind you don't really meet but if you do it always feels like an uncanny immersive theatre experience. They're anachronistic. They only belong in the London collectively imagined by people who don't spend any time in it.

like magnets

i have read not even 1 book

i was tempted to lie about my name

god being the centre magnet

yeah people dont get it they assume its ahnaf

i want to do that too

Slug

Hours staring at the ceiling, the wall, curling up into a ball. It seems annoyed with the light, it kind of recoils. It will get lighter. I wonder where it goes in the day.

barren land

its good

is everyoneback on tumblr now

stalgivc is the greatest poster of all time

...

lol

there is a distinction between western-modern pedagogical systems that's like text-based as in a legal method but there is an idea of "pathshala" or "guru shissho"/ "porompora" i mean how masters relayed knowledge to the student by (oral) transmission often by memorising books. so what was taught was always interactive. knowledge was interactive, you spoke with people rather than read texts.

the textwall is as much for me as it is for you

i did until you asked which kind of gave it away

you cannot feed someone language, they have to speak

i see a website though something that reconfigures or is mazelike

its performative

you have a beautiful account btw

wow, you are the first stranger to write a textwall to me

i hadn't considered this pedagogically or as a kind of personal knowledge management system (puke) at all but i suppose it is both of those things

okay this is interesting because pedagogies we have rn are not proper models

ahnaf abrar

as in

i believe search always should be immersive, because whatever is pre planned and non consuming (what you are looking for is total engulfment by the spectre of the real), a joyous intensity, a flow of virtue

isaac

somewhere between instagram and chatgpt

was it worth it