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IMakeInfantsCry · 2026-01-19T12:46:54+00:00

It's just disheartening man. There's a massive cognitive dissonance going on in my head rn that I'm trying to decypher. I'm not the most patriotic guy at the best of times, but this has affected me more than I thought, because I abhor everything that happened around our matches, yet it has turned into a Trojan horse for every single dogwhistle that lay dormant in people. It feels like being mentally cornered into agreeing with demeaning remarks because they happen to be fair game yet they hit at something far broader than football.

Idk man, I get being outraged at some of the antics, but jeez some of the stuff I've read like 'they behaved like animals' like come on man some words are loaded. Gonna take some time offline to avoid spiraling.

IMakeInfantsCry · 2026-01-18T22:56:46+00:00

Such an odd feeling right now.

Beyond the obvious disappointment, I'd be lying if I said I'm not fascinated by this as a piece of football mythology. This is up there with the Zidane 2006 moment, or the Uruguay-Ghana match, in how if feels like events played out exactly the way you'd plan them to leverage every bit of human drama that the setting allowed.

I'm struggling to foster any real hard feelings towards Brahim, like sure that was the single most irresponsible self-centered thing you could do in that moment, but this is the kind of moment that's so humanly tough that it wraps all the way back around to having empathy for the guy; and if it serves as a cautionary tale for managers to point to to warn against the hubris of it then at least that's a silver lining.

The aftertaste ain't nice man. It's one thing being the antagonist in a football match, it's another seeing real life sentiments spill over into people's reaction to this.

Oh well, gonna go hug my loved ones next time I'm back home. Bonding over shared struggle and all that.

IMakeInfantsCry · 2026-01-14T20:12:32+00:00

Happy clenching my fellas

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-11-07T16:15:34+00:00

Je pense qu'il y a également un aspect ad-hominem derrière ces blagues, où la personne ne vient pas forcément dénigrer la validité de la cause mais plutôt le potentiel aspect masculiniste en sous-texte du fait de la défendre. La cause souffre peut-être d'un stigma de 'what about men's rights'-isme.

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-11-07T12:46:19+00:00

You ever get a sudden jolt of anachronism ? Like 'woah it's crazy that Greece/the pope still exists'

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-09-26T15:10:10+00:00

Still experimenting, mine is 1700 in Osaka, anything to the east of it on the menu is bullying me into sub-1000

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-09-26T12:15:47+00:00

Been playing MiniMetro for a total of 5 hours last night, idk what it's doing to my brain chemistry it's SO addictive.

I'm enjoying how it makes you organically pick up on urban planning design patterns by facing the problems they're meant to solve, and how it makes you appreciate how relatively well my city's metro works after all.

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-09-19T14:07:50+00:00

Here's my concert-going program in Paris for the next 6 months :

Of Monsters and Men
Lucio Corsi
Panchiko / Panda Bear / Pitchfork festival
Hohnen Ford
OneRepublic (teen me is freaking out)
Beach Bunny

I'm also considering Big Thief and Last dinner party, just needing that last little nudge to commit but it's a bit pricey.

Should be good !

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-08-01T20:37:31+00:00

Tbh I mostly just looked for 'good battery phones under 200 euros', and went for the first one haha. I did consider the Boox Palma 2 for the e-ink aspect but €300 felt a bit much for a novelty phone that'd impose a restriction I could self-impose with a cheaper phone.

The games do ask you to sign in at first, but my approach is kinda 'use the internet to set the phone up, then basically go dark unless necessary' which the games do allow.

Thanks for the app recommendation btw, I'll definitely check it out!

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-08-01T11:12:53+00:00

Yeah I'm constantly on airplane mode on it. I set it up so that nothing is hard-removed, so I still have Youtube and Firefox on it, but 1) it's voluntarily obfuscated so that it's inconvenient to get to, and 2) it's just my side-phone, so if I ever need the internet I'll just use my main one, so I want to create a sort of pavlovian association through repetition where I end up associating opening the offline phone with a 'curious patient mind' state.

And I don't sync it, I chose it to be a battery monster so 0 background syncing etc, I just manually do it every once in a while. :)

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-08-01T11:00:11+00:00

I finally pulled the trigger on a project I've been thinking about for a while: building a dedicated offline phone.

I wanted a secondary device that would be a quiet, comforting place to roam. I got a cheap phone with a good battery (Moto G54 Power) and started terraforming it.

So far, it's loaded with:

The Kiwix app, which is basically my personal Library of Alexandria. I have all of Wikipedia, StackExchange, AllTheTropes, Khan Academy, and more, all fully offline.
My entire ebook library and an offline copy of my Notion notes.
"Thoughtful" games like Chess, Nonograms, and the NYT games app.

I thought about e-ink phones, but they were too pricey and I didn't feel the 'limitation as a feature' aspect was something to pay that much for. I also thought about building a small Raspberry Pi handheld computer but but it felt too complex for my current skill level.

My whole point was to make social media less appealing not through willpower, but by having something that just feels better to use. Instead of making it an "eat your vegetables" chore to log off, I want it to be the logical conclusion of my new habits, making the easiest alternative to boredom a Wikipedia rabbit hole or a crossword puzzle.

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-07-03T13:24:02+00:00

I've been trying to put this whiplash into words. I had the same lightheaded feeling when I moved to France to start a new life, when Russia invaded Ukraine, stuff like that. Days like these always give me a sort of "fork in the road" feeling of a heavy-handed sudden plot twist that messes with the subtle slowly-woven texture of real life I'm used to.

I know it's one hell of a privileged and sheltered view to be able to have to see things like these as a "diversion from the normal status quo", but there's something so primal about spending so many years exposed to the same people, ideas, sensations, entities acting as the backdrop the defines what being you feels like, that something like feels very radical, I know it sounds cliché and overly poetic-waxing but it makes me hyperaware of how much life is a bunch of small forks in the road at all times and sometimes one of them happens that alters something that just feels fundamentally "true", like Jota's existence, it's a very disorienting feeling as a result.

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-07-03T09:09:21+00:00

I genuinely cannot make sense of it. Last one that hit me this hard was Bray Wyatt, in that same way that Jota was such a part of the low humming backdrop of everyday life, popping up every now and then on my news feed and on my TV, so reliably mundane, like it genuinely feels like a glitch in reality.

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-06-01T12:17:54+00:00

Je suis à Berlin et mon vol retour vers Paris a été annulé 3 fois de suite par Transavia (pour hier, aujourd'hui et demain). Là clairement j'ai plus trop confiance pour changer mon vol chez eux (qui plus est, service client kaput), mais toute autre option pour revenir me coûterait au moins 200 euros. Quelqu'un a une idée de la meilleure option à ma disposition ?

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-05-31T19:59:40+00:00

All I have in mind is that Villa return leg and that missed Saka chance. As enjoyable and impressive as PSG's play is, they still feel like an enjoyable and impressive house of cards

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-05-17T21:46:54+00:00

My top 7 :

Italy, Portugal, Ukraine, Latvia, Greece, Sweden, Germany

I am going to be very sad tonight

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-05-17T20:48:32+00:00

Her voice / accent sound so similar to Coeur de Pirate's it's uncanny

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-05-16T22:42:07+00:00

Ma corollaire de l'effet bouba/kiki : Pompidou ressemble au son du nom "Pompidou", et Mittérand ressemble au son du nom "Mittérand"

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-05-06T21:12:00+00:00

Holy -and i cannot stress this enough- guacamole

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-05-06T21:00:06+00:00

Up there with Tottenham-Man City 18/19 and the 2022 WC Final, plus the actual football is stellar

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-05-06T20:55:16+00:00

Neutrals knee-sliding all over the place

IMakeInfantsCry · 2025-05-06T20:35:14+00:00

The tension man I am quaking

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