The Pavement

Obsessed with virtue signalling

Have you performed well?

Dec 29, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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Abolish LinkedIn

The lobotomy needs to end.

Dec 12, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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The era of jobs is ending

As it fucking should.

Dec 6, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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November 2025

The power of the state

And how to take (some of) it away. Right now.

Nov 17, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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What kills societies

We have nowhere left to go together.

Nov 3, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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October 2025

No more jobs, bitch!

Ad Astra or no?

Oct 23, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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Disco Elysium and post-socialist melancholia

Ruins of a promised Utopia.

Oct 17, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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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, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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The eerie silence of automation

The machine that took your task and your story.

Sep 26, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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August 2025

You can never be yourself

The masks fit better with each passing year.

Aug 19, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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The script has been written

Just play your role.

Aug 13, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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July 2025

Did an AI write this essay?

You may never know.

Jul 23, 2025 • Antonio Melonio

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