Reporting to you live from the Summer of Discontent. It’s a weird time.
Reporting to you live from the Summer of Discontent. It’s a weird time.
Between the Queen’s Jubilee and my birthday, all of last week and the past weekend was something of a write off. We had friends in town, the weather was brilliant, the mood was celebratory and I didn’t want to do anything taxing.
So I didn’t!
I am BEGGING you people to interrogate your own ideologies better. And if you find yourself agreeing with actual Nazis maybe…don’t.
Not to be overly alarmist, but the oligarchs are solidifying power (mostly in stupid ways but we don’t seem to be able to stop them), there is a hot war in Europe, the theocratic extremists are legislating for us now, and the planet is on fire.
Your favourite elder millennial aunt has been abandoning you again lately, my loves, and she is sorry!
Narrowly avoiding a nuclear winter, mostly by luck and chance.
I’m still struggling to get back into blogging and a lot of other things post-covid, it turns out.
The internet is a kind, wholesome place in which it is definitely safe to be new and terrible at something in public. Right?
So, hi! Hello! Welcome to de.cadence. A place for the off-beat, out of step, or shamelessly self-indulgent, all lovingly curated by your favorite millennial internet aunt.