The Pavement

What kills societies

We have nowhere left to go together.

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October 2025

No more jobs, bitch!

Ad Astra or no?

Oct 23 • 

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Disco Elysium and post-socialist melancholia

Ruins of a promised Utopia.

Oct 17 • 

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September 2025

Applying for jobs is so fucking embarrassing

The rituals, the portals, the silence, the begging, the shame.

Sep 29 • 

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The eerie silence of automation

The machine that took your task and your story.

Sep 26 • 

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August 2025

You can never be yourself

The masks fit better with each passing year.

Aug 19 • 

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The script has been written

Just play your role.

Aug 13 • 

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July 2025

Did an AI write this essay?

You may never know.

Jul 23 • 

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When they take everything

We will be role-less. We will be bored. We will be angry.

Jul 15 • 

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May 2025

Emptiness machine

Falling for empty promises.

May 6 • 

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April 2025

Who gives a fuck?

A love letter to every rogue neuron screaming, pleading, demanding.

Apr 24 • 

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Most people are silently disappointed with how life turned out

The quiet mass murder of expectation.

Apr 18 • 

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