aohsu

@aohsusometimesy.bsky.social

Real talk: the magical utterance “real talk colon” — when felicitous — serves to label all surrounding talk as somehow “fake” or “insincere.” Use with care!

Baudrillard Warned Us

@baudrillardwarned.us

"At any rate, better a despairing analysis in felicitous language than an optimistic analysis in an infelicitous language that is maddeningly tedious and demoralizingly platitudinous, as is most often the case."
- The Perfect Crime

MobiQuotes

@mobiquotes.bsky.social

George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.