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May 28 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
ABOUT BRAZILIAN ENGINEERING 🇧🇷

Common sight in Brazil, especially in poorer areas, is infrastructure with bizarro topsy-turvy world de-constructed shapes and forms. Houses as thin as a person, shopfronts draped in jungle foliage-like wiring, red clay brick favelas with non-sequitur storeys from the upside down dimension layered on top of each other like badly stacked Tetris blocks. Really just a deconstructivist favelapunk nightmare, neighbourhoods full of buildings that look like they were designed by Frank Gehry on a $20 budget. Fun in the abstract to be sure but also a really ‘what the hell is going on in Brazil’-type phenomenon

Might surprise you but Brazil does actually have fairly extensive building and electrical codes, including standards from the Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT) and municipal building regulations. On paper many cities require permits, structural standards, grounding, breaker systems and safety compliance. In practice, nobody cares and violations are rarely prosecuted

Informal construction or ‘autoconstrução’ is a major element of favela growth. People ‘just show up’ on say a hillside one day and start building their little huts and there isn’t really anything you can do to stop them. A significant share of housing - especially in poorer urban peripheries and some favelas - has historically been self-built floor by floor over many years without architects or formal inspection. This can produce irregular shapes, exposed rebar, unfinished upper stories and random ad hoc extensions with Pablo Picasso dimensions. An incremental building culture exists where even legal buildings are often expanded gradually too as families try to save money. You may see odd geometry or apparently unfinished façades because owners either intend to add another floor later, don’t have money for anything else or, again, (because a lot of favela culture is in the mind) just don’t care

WRT the farcical amounts of wiring in some areas, improvised overhead wiring - sometimes called ‘spaghetti wiring’ - will be a result of unauthorised power hookups, aging infrastructure or overlapping telecom / electrical cabling. When you see electricity poles covered in this kind of wiring often it will be because people have attached those wires to the grid in order to siphon electricity off from it

I’ve seen a lot of unusually-shaped buildings in poorer neighbourhoods in Brazil and while I’m a very open-minded pro experimenting with form in architecture person don’t think I’ve ever seen a finished project were I thought “wow what a postmodernist triumph.” Building that sticks with me most was the Alice in Wonderland restroom at a roadside gas station I encountered while in Brazil’s northeast. Went in the gas station to buy a Coca Cola Zero and a protein bar, asked where the bathroom was. Time to fall down the rabbit hole! Attendant gave me a comically oversized key and pointed me to a tiny narrow door at the edge of the station forecourt. Put the key in the lock and opened the door, it opened up into a long, narrow stained white tile hallway only slightly wider than my shoulders. It got weirder - as I walked down the hallway the floor would undulate sharply, jolt up and down in level. The walls kept getting narrower and the roof lower too until eventually I couldn’t walk straight on. Had to turn and shimmy along sideways to keep progressing. Eventually had to crouch down slightly too because the roof was getting too low. When I finally reached the end of the passage there was a small hobbit door which I had to duck into to reach the toilet. Half expected to find a white rabbit inside. As it turned out there was no rabbit but it did at least seem like the bathroom had been built for rabbits, ceiling couldn’t have been higher than about 160cm. Had a piss and then made my way back along the passageway. Was in a bit of a stupor for a while afterwards, really remarkable through the looking glass spatial design. Only in BrazilImage See Also:
May 25 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
WATCHING ‘RYAN GOSLING STARS AS RYAN GOSLING’ ‘I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE’ REVIVALISM FILM ‘PROJECT HAIL MARY’ (2026) WITH A LATINA WOMAN

Noticed ‘Project Hail Mary’ (called derisively by some ‘Project Reddit’) was available on streaming. Saw it described as a Neo-‘Scientism’ film in the sense of it is thematically very ‘I Fucking Love Science’ but where the ‘Scientism’ here is ‘Scientism’ in a not massively woke way. Andy Weir Hard Science ‘Scientism’ where the author is too much of a sperg about making sure all ‘The Science’ is correct to care about properly getting into the weeds of social commentary and where the mostly upbeat plot is basically just the main character ‘doing science’ to ‘solve science puzzles’. I’m a big sucker for this kind of techno-optimism, I’m not embarrassed to admit I do actually ‘Fucking Love Science’

Suggested to Latina ‘friend’ and she perked up and said “yeah of course let’s watch it, actually I’ve seen it at the cinema twice already I really liked it I want to watch it again”. Thought ‘huh’? No offence to her she is sweet if a little ditzy but did wonder what was wrong with either her or ‘Project Hail Mary’ that she went to the cinema to see it twice. TLDR enjoyed the film but wouldn’t pay to see it twice, also I don’t have a vagina either. Strange

Film stars Ryan Gosling as himself which is great casting because Gosling does borderline Reddit but not full-on Reddit really well, you know he has enough charisma to float above ‘Reddit-ness’ even if a lot of his mannerisms are Reddit-coded. This casting prevents the film - despite Weir’s Reddit tendencies - from ever becoming properly Reddit, it has a lot of Reddit moments but Gosling as himself means it escapes full ‘Reddit-dom’. Contrast vs if Ryan Reynolds had been cast instead

With ‘Scientism’ in general it’s easy to descend into ‘Reddit-ness’, to get too excited and prematurely ejaculate a load of insipid moralisms into it. This is a shame because I am very pro pro-science messaging. I mean science here in the proper hard empiricism sense - Bacon, Kuhn, Feyerabend etc. Basically Fine Carl Sagan ‘Scientism’ descended into New Atheism ‘Scientism’ descended into the mess that was popular culture in the 2010s, then the COVID debacle too… ended up tarnishing ‘Science’ as a brand. ‘Science’ has been in need of a proper revival since

Plot is the sun and every other star within a few hundred light years is being eaten by space bacteria so Gosling has to go into space to the one star nearby that isn’t being eaten by space bacteria in order to find out why. When Gosling arrives he discovers spooky aliens have also traveled there for the same reason; their home star is being eaten by space bacteria too. Build-up to the alien reveal has a dash of cosmic horror about it, the interior of their ship is aesthetically a bit ‘I Fucking Love Science’ “uh actually intelligent life probably isn’t going to be humanoid it’s probably going to be Truly Alien” (fractals made of xenon, the air is ammonia etc) but it still manages to be tasteful ‘Alien’ alien

Single surviving occupant is revealed to be a rock alien Gosling names ‘Rocky’. Unfortunately it turns out Rocky’s species is a Reddit species - he talks and acts like a Redditor, is unambiguously Reddit in conception. Latina found the Rocky character hilarious, kept laughing out loud at him. Not even at the sometimes bordering Reddit-escape velocity quite sweet funny dialogue bits, at like the bits where he would be walking around and slip on a banana skin, at the very Minions-esque spiritually Indonesian parts of the character. Rocky is kind of cute to be sure but he isn’t laugh out loud funny - that and all the parts where she didn’t really seem to understand the ‘Space Is Really Fucking Big Science 101 Science’ to be honest I was starting to get the ick

Overall, some Reddit moments (esp. Rocky) but on balance a mostly not-Reddit film. Promising move towards a post-Reddit ‘I Fucking Love Science’ ‘Science’Image
Image Probably difficult to always avoid pro-Science content descending into ‘sub-Reddit-dom’ just because a lot of the people involved are going to be by disposition a little Reddit, ‘nerdy’ as we used to say. Don’t think the existence of Carl Sagan necessarily entails Bill Nye though Image
May 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
‘Boriswave’ goes from ‘Online Right’ term to full Wikipedia page. Originally the Wikipedia editors had refused to create a page for it because of its ‘Online Right’ origins but the term was being used so much in politics and the media that their hand has now been forced They include this part at the end of the article to emote about how upset they are about the article existing Image
May 25 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
BEST OF YOOKAY AESTHETICS 2026

Thread of the best ‘Yookay’ images from 2026 so far 🧵 Image ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL Image
May 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Very deep recurring longing for ‘Anglo-Peronism’ in the British psyche that needs to be constantly guarded against. Really represents Argentina’s final revenge against Britain; the Peronist brainworm - many people by instinct will support some version of it without any safeguards Image Really in it for the long game, Argentina. Go time on the Falklands if these lines intersect in the near future Image
May 22 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Are you a fan of this kind of ‘Neo-Native American Nativism?’ Given most illegal immigrants are Latinos it actually makes most operations ICE’s Native American Unit is involved in Neo-pre-Columbian conflicts Image Fun ‘Autism Brain’ idea to create a hunting and tracking unit composed entirely of Native groups, real ‘bug-collecting’ type initiative you could imagine a Prussian monarch like Frederick II doing. See also the ‘Eskimo Scouts’ - an elite unit composed entirely of Inuit groups Image
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May 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Chindian even less of convincing deracinated modern identity than Wasian or Blasian. The Chindian Israel is just Nepal. Actually, it’s East India if you count that region given it is already in India. You are Nepalese, you are Assamese, you will take birthright trips to Manipur Image These new Bay Area identities are becoming increasingly absurd. If you have started to identify as Chindian in recent months because you saw this meme identity on your reels you are advised to take a ‘time out’ in a traditional Nepalese menstruation hut Image
May 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Are you a fan of ‘Manchesterism’? Image Aesthetically it is Pink Pantheress Britain with Werking Class… in the North Characteristics
May 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Saudis are posting Agartha memes online to complain about the number of white people being hired for senior management roles in Saudi Arabia - “you have to be blonde to get hired for these positions now”

(Qiddiya is the name of a new city the Saudi government is developing) Average Hiring Requirements in Saudi Arabia Image
May 14 • 4 tweets • 5 min read
WATCHING MISOGYNIST ‘FOIDSLOP’ ‘WUTHERING HEIGHTS’ (2026) WITH A LATINA WOMAN

Was deciding on a movie to watch one evening with Latina friend, saw that ‘Wuthering Heights’ (2026) had recently become available on streaming. Suggested watching this because had seen it described as the platonic form of ‘foidslop’ so-called and was curious. Film is only loosely based on Emily Brontë’s novel, it’s a ‘Mounted by the Minotaur’ ‘Erotic Literature for Women’ ‘E.L.Jamesified’ TikTok era re-imagining involving some of the original characters. Remember the Buz Luhrmann Great Gatsby movie that had Jay-Z rapping over it? It’s stylised sort of like that but here it’s Jacob Elordi humping Margot Robbie on windswept Yorkshire moorland to a Charlie XCX soundtrack

Can’t tell if movie is supposed to be ‘right wing’, mean this in the sense of the women in this movie are completely deranged - to extent you wonder if it is being misogynist on purpose. Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff’s chadcock literally drives them into mental illness, it is genuinely hard to tell if movie intentionally has a ‘Red Pill’ worldview. Director is a woman, Emerald Fennell. Wondered if she was trying to make a point with it about male manipulators or whatever or if she actually made it like that because, as a woman, it turned her on. You can read it either way

Heathcliff ofc is one of the archetypical tormented Byronic antiheroes of British literature. He is a feral cad, that’s the character - but it feels like Fennell has turned those traits up to eleven here. She has him communicate almost entirely in taciturn grunts, occasionally an “aye up I love yeh Margot Robbie” in a gruff northern accent. Will say this movie seemed to have an appreciable (intended?) effect on some women. If you go back and read tweets from the time of the film’s theatrical release you can find a lot of them properly frothing at the fanny for Elordi

Asked my companion, “if Jacob Elordi approached you grunting through the fog on a misty moorland would you find that a turn on?”

“He’s Jacob Elordi”

“He’s not even saying anything, just full-on gorilla grunting. And the fog is really thick”

“He’s hot, yeah”

Elordi doesn’t jestermaxx at all, he just materialises occasionally and broods, sometimes he chops wood - which makes Margot Robbie crazy for him. Basic plot is Elordi’s Heathcliff is employed as a servant at Margot Robbie’s household. He is really hot but he’s also a working-class commoner. Margot is torn between wanting a rut on the dale and class expectations. One day after Heathcliff sucks her finger on an escarpment she breaks down sobbing and calls Heathcliff a chav, which causes him to immediately leave. He disappears for years and in his absence Margot marries betabucks provider Mr. Linton, though she can’t stop thinking about Elordi sucking her finger

“Would you marry a poor working class man if he was hot?”

“Depends how hot”

“Like Jacob Elordi”

“Maybe but the average wage in this country is a few hundred dollars a month. There are not many opportunities here. If he was from your country I would, I could move there”

One day Elordi suddenly returns, newly minted. Margot, who is pregnant and has learnt to suppress her cravings starts tingling again. Her Vietnamese servant clocks this and says “the fuck are you doing you’re married and pregnant.” Margot manages to hold out for a bit but Elordi fucks with her by marrying Mr. Linton’s sister who he chains up in a BDSM dungeon and has crawl around on the floor making dog noises. He literally tells her “I’m only marrying you to get back at Margot, I don’t love you, I’m going to abuse you” but because he’s hot she agrees

Soon though Margot folds and Elordi gets straight into surreptitiously cracking her next to the peat bogs. Eventually beta Linton discovers what is happening and bans her from seeing Elordi again. This makes her so mentally ill she miscarries and dies

“Did you find what Elordi does romantic in this movie?”

“He’s hot, yeah”Image
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May 14 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
BEST OF R/LEGALADVICEUK 🧵

r/LegalAdviceUK is a reddit subreddit where people ask for legal advice about their problems. Because of the levels of dysfunction in Britain today they often read as parody. A thread of some of the more absurd recent posts Image “Our church food bank is getting misused” Image
May 13 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Begs question to what extent can you meme ethnogenesis into being? ‘White American’ not strictly a real ethnicity but is considered a real thing. Enough ‘hapa’ children now with deracinated neurosis in search of an identity under hypermodenity, could ‘Wasian’ become a real thing? Image PREDICTION: By the 22nd Century - probably sooner - ‘Wasian’ will come to be considered a serious ethnic category. You will get Wasian Americans in the same way you get White or Black Americans. This will emerge culturally through force of numbers and collective identity neurosis
May 12 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
With continued globalisation international behavioural norms - social, political and aesthetic - will converge approximately on the average norms of Armenia; the cultural sweet spot for maximal global appeal. The C21st will be spiritually Armenian, the triumph of ‘Gold Chainism’ Image ‘The Armenian Standard’ is more attainable than Euro, Afro or Asiatic standards for anyone who fits into "other." Under lusotropicalism roughly Armenian norms are attainable for lusotropical model citizens of indeterminate backgrounds. Too brown to be white, too white to be brown
May 11 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Kardashianism’ represents the ‘goldchainification’ of female beauty standards under globalised lusotropicalism. Kardashians a more attainable form for average women than more traditional Eurocentric models and matches kinds of aesthetic preferences ‘Global Latina Belt’ has anyway Image Which country are you in? Difficult to say…
May 8 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Imagine governing so badly you meme Welsh independence into being. Wales by disposition very nationalistic - dormant under old labour politics the sentiment is now emerging again confused and blinking into the sun; splitting into regular British and celtic left wing nationalism Image It is version of same new divide in rest of country but it gets somewhat superseded in Wales by the added dimension of ‘Welshness’

OUT - Trade Unionist politics for the coal miners in the valleys

IN - Nationalism but based on how much Welsh you speak Image
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May 8 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
As ever real result isn’t just that Reform ‘electionmogged’ it’s that the old genteel labour - conservative duopoly has collapsed and the legacy parties have been reduced to third party status even if they still continue to exist. The central new ‘Yookay’ state ideological division that will define British politics in the coming decades has finally started to emerge; Vulgar Gay Race Communism vs Vulgar Nativist PopulismImage Reform not at ‘Technocratic Pantsuit Liberal Nationalism’ yet, also will continue to have the ‘First Wave Populist’ association because of Farage, but they seemed to have evolved from ‘ITV’s Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Take Away’-core into a more sophisticated ‘BBC’s The Apprentice’-core aesthetically recently. In that sense whatever you think of specific policy professionalised enough now to sustainably become Britain’s largest party, far less boomer-ish than they were before. Zia and other newer hires driving a lot of this changeImage
May 6 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The future of America is a lusotropical caste system dominated by coastal Judeo-Hapa elite. During their ethno-cultural genesis they will throw off their WASP heritage and remodel America in the mould of the original Judeo-Hapas; the Khazars. Do you support this inevitable state? Image Please consult the infographic Image
May 4 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Becoming a ‘Kazakh-boo’ Kazakhstan nerd because Japan is too mainstream Image YOUR WIFE:

Scrawny Yamato Rice-Farmer

MY WIFE:

Vitalistic Steppe Wasian Image
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Apr 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
>swiss think immigration is too high
>propose referendum to limit immigration
>government accepts proposals
>holds referendum to limit immigration
>limit immigration vote wins
>government limits immigration
>central issue of C21st western politics instantly solved
>it’s that easy x.com/polymarket/sta…Image This is not vote to ‘instantly kill all newborn babies that increase the population to 10,000,001’, more ‘take policy steps to ensure the population does not increase inordinately’ ie de facto reduce immigration. Referendum will be big test for migration restrictionists in Europe
Apr 29 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Very normal thing for an American to care deeply about with no ulterior motives. Instantly joins the pantheon of ‘Most American Quotes Ever Made’ by the great American political figures Image A great American tradition Image
Apr 29 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Sounds like I am making this up but I remember sitting under the tree the Buddha attained enlightenment under and realising in my head that because of many of my experiences in India (and elsewhere) I had been radicalised into having a much more pessimistic view of ‘human nature’ Image About giving up on ‘Star Trek Liberalism’