A Wikipedia Editor’s Unintentional Autobiography
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A Wikipedia Editor’s Unintentional Autobiography

Wikipedia pages are my tarot cards. I don't edit them; I read them at 1 AM when I'm trying to understand something I can't quite yet name. An article on Speech Act theory leads to one on memory consolidation, which leads to symbolic interactionism, which leads to one on a philosopher I've never heard of. By 3 AM, I have seventeen tabs open, and if you mapped them, you'd have a perfect diagram of whatever I'm avoiding thinking about directly.
CONCERT REVIEW: Mustafa @ Lincoln Theater, 4/24/25
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CONCERT REVIEW: Mustafa @ Lincoln Theater, 4/24/25

Beneath the intricate chandeliers of Lincoln Theater in DC’s famous U Street corridor, Mustafa’s simply decorated stage featured only spare guitars and ouds. Greeted by a black screen with white text that read Dunya in Arabic script, the audience gradually streamed into their seats as it drew closer to eight. Many attendees draped their keffiyehs over their shoulders or sported clothing in support of the people of Gaza and Sudan, for whom the Canadian-Sudanese artist has consistently advocated for amidst the ongoing genocides.
Thirty-One years of decompression sickness: A review of Radiohead’s “The Bends”
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Thirty-One years of decompression sickness: A review of Radiohead’s “The Bends”

Today marks thirty-one years of decompression sickness. The album's title isn't metaphorical decoration; it's diagnostic. Decompression sickness, the bends, happens when you ascend too quickly from depth, when dissolved gases in your blood expand faster than your body can process them. Nitrogen bubbles form in joints and tissues, in the brain, in the heart. The pain is your body rejecting the transition, refusing the violence of moving between pressures too fast. This is what The Bends understands about existing in 1995, or 2026, or any moment when the gap between what you're supposed to feel and what you actually feel becomes physiologically untenable.