✩‧₊ Stuff I like ₊‧✩

last updated: 6/23/2026

People who make stuff

Most of all,

I also enjoy Hank and John Green, all the main rationalist guys, the substack meditation people, and raw & feral.

Books

Top: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lesser favorites:

  • Parable of the Sower / Parable of the Talents (and, like, most of Octavia Butler’s works)
  • American Gods / most books by Neil Gaiman
  • HPMOR
  • Project Hail Mary

I find it hard to say that I have favorite non-fiction books, since I tend to be much more critical of them. But, I’ve recently enjoyed:

  • Waking Up (Sam Harris)
  • Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
  • Resisting Garbage (Lily Baum Pollans)

And my thinking has been changed by the sequences and all the basic EA books.

Music

Current obsessions:

  • Kill V. Maim (Grimes)
  • Hey (Pixies)
  • Star Game (by @)
  • Tangled in Ropes (Holy Locust)

Past obsessions:

Folkpunk: Almost every song in the discographies of June Henry, Jordan Kernan (hard to find, but its here and here and here), and Iris Bilinsky.

Other: Dana and Alden, Mother Mother, Radiohead, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, hey, nothing, Ricky Mitch & The Coal Miners

Some past favorites:

  • Locket (by Crumb)
  • Passin’ Me By (The Pharcyde)
  • Color in Your Cheeks (The Mountain Goats)
  • Spaced Out (Pretty Jane and the Magazines)
  • 93 'til Infinity (Souls of Mischief)
  • Ms. Jackson (Outkast)
  • Starman (David Bowie)
  • Dance in Room Song (Sipper)
  • Follow the Sound (The Backseat Lovers)

Movies / tv

  • Matilda
  • Perfect Days
  • Nausicaa
  • Ponyo
  • Dr. Who, the 9th through the 11th doctor
  • A buncha stuff on Dropout

(I don’t really watch stuff, so this is mostly residual from my childhood)

Podcasts

Top tier:

  • LeVar Burton Reads
  • Deconstructing Yourself
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed

I also sometimes listen to

  • 80k After Hours
  • How I Learned to Love Shrimp
  • Making Sense with Sam Harris
  • …LessWrong (30+ Karma) don’t judge me

Physical

  • Fire spinning, contact staff
  • Lindy Hop
  • Mosh pits
  • Water!! Cold plunges! Lakes!

Misc

  • Dressing up in clown drag
  • Hot rat summer (ᓚᘏᕐᐷ NOT the nerds)
  • Secretly drawing people I love
  • Reading the same thing as my friends
  • Singing songs at rallies
  • Tea
  • The smell of lavender
  • Organizing events
  • Reading physical books while walking
  • Carnations and wildflowers
  • Festivals (of the burner-genre)
  • DIY scenes of uhh most things… music, art, zines, etc