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7283 2025-08-27 00:15

albums that changed your life?

what's an album that you connected with spiritually, emotionally, maybe even physically?

wilco's yankee hotel foxtrot does it for me. layered, gorgeous, and emotional, the lyrics punch in ways that r

Anonymous 17 replies

7474 2025-09-14 05:20

I'm never eating this shit again I can't do it anymore

Anonymous 17 replies

7549 2025-09-24 15:18

Share your thoughts.

What are you thinking of? What's on your mind right now?

Anonymous 179 replies

8008 2025-11-14 14:03

Technology thread pt. 2

What have you been working on lately?

Need to get something off your chest?

Or are you looking for tech support?

This is the thread for you.

Anonymous 47 replies

7261 2025-08-22 15:54

Understanding soyjak culture

Has anyone here tried to make a genuine attempt to understand soyjak culture?

I feel like there genuinely is something to it, as deranged as it all seems they're at the forefront of western internet

Anonymous 42 replies

8248 2025-12-16 16:18

No title

I do not miss orange-yellow streetlights. They made me sleepy and disoriented, which sucks in the winter when it gets dark early and you still have to do normal person things until 6 or 7. I reject kn

Anonymous 9 replies

7951 2025-11-05 17:16

Ulysees

I'm reading Ulysees at the moment. Has anyone else read it? What did you think of it?

Anonymous 7 replies

3283 2025-04-24 10:51

book club thread #2

What are you reading right now? What do you think of it?

What have you read so far this year, and what are you going to read next?

> last one: >>238 (https://archive.md/chbSl)

Anonymous 95 replies

8063 2025-11-20 12:10

One must imagine Sisyphus hap-ACK!

>Claims to embrace life

>Wraps a tree at 100mph for no reason

Anonymous 6 replies

5835 2025-06-21 07:22

Documenting the AI Deluge

everything is moving too quickly. The transformation has gotten so obvious that Even on normie sites they have to admit that half of internet traffic is bots.
everyone has been made aware of the dead

Anonymous 40 replies

8201 2025-12-09 15:12

Hate-baiting about the humanities

I won't bother impressing you with my qualifications for these observations.
In no particular order:
1. Turchin's "Elite Overproduction" thesis is legit. Gatekeeping served an important social functio

Anonymous 14 replies

7246 2025-08-21 20:37

Space

How often do you think about it? What things do you think about it?

Anonymous 28 replies

8239 2025-12-16 01:41

Resolutions - They're coming

What is that defect you are getting rid of in 2026?
What is the version of you you expect to become one year from now?

Anonymous 36 replies

8131 2025-11-29 01:57

What is love?

Obviously it exists in some form, but is it really "the answer"?

Anonymous 19 replies

5382 2025-06-05 20:21

Any writers here?

What's your writing process like? What are you working on now?

Anonymous 86 replies

6717 2025-08-03 02:57

Language learning

Is anybody here learning a language? I'm watching youtube videos in German. Forced me to clean up my algorithm and make it only german.
Anyway, share resources regarding language learning books, gramm

Anonymous 53 replies

7254 2025-08-22 10:09

British Food

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd43YoaQaHo
our food is better than yours, we don't deserve the hate!

Anonymous 4 replies

8211 2025-12-10 10:35

Paradise Lost

How am I supposed to know which vowel combinations are secretly smuggled into one? Breaks me out of the flow every few lines. Made so much worse by the fact that every audio version is just some dude

Anonymous 12 replies

8036 2025-11-17 19:06

/u/kallocain-addict

Anonymous 22 replies

7969 2025-11-10 01:20

personal celebrity

does anyone else have a random person they keep up with online? i found this kid a few years ago making filthy frank clone videos and have followed his many new accounts, this was the last i could fin

Anonymous 7 replies

8170 2025-12-06 14:07

The ugliest body part

I think ears are the ugliest part of the body. They are simultaneously our most animalistic and also our most alien-looking bodypart. From the front they bend out like bird's wings; from the side the

Anonymous 14 replies

8144 2025-12-02 09:14

Wines mentioned in Houellebecq's "Submission"

Meursault
Sauternes
Champagne
Bas-Armagnac

Cahors
Châteauneuf-du-Pape
Irouléguy
Rully
"Port"
"A Lebanese red"


Non-wines:

"Pear Brandy"
Calvados
Boukha
Leffe

Anonymous 6 replies

6014 2025-06-30 13:21

Drugs and Drug Culture and Culture

I recently read Junkie, my first Burroughs. It got me thinking on the full democratization of drug use in America. Marijuana use is practically ubiquitous, there's legal opiates (kratom, etc) at every

Anonymous 37 replies

8097 2025-11-24 13:34

contemporary poetry

Do any of y'all have recommendations for contemporary poets who are currently producing work (or at least have published something in the 20th century)?

Contemporary literature is a rather large bli

Anonymous 8 replies

6406 2025-07-20 13:33

Ugliness

I have been re-reading Plato's dialogues, and one thing that strikes me about Socrates is his humorous openness regarding his own ugliness. Immediately, I recognize it's a form of irony and lowering t

Anonymous 33 replies

2843 2025-04-21 15:35

/dreaming/

The realm of dreams has always interested me. They are something that most people have encountered, see regularly, seem to have some relation to our lived lives, but immediately flee upon awakening. Y

Anonymous 108 replies

6101 2025-07-03 16:22

No title

Anons, what will be the next great philosophical development? Will there ever be another?

Anonymous 57 replies

1773 2025-04-16 10:33

tea general

what tea are you drinking these days?

Anonymous 102 replies

6308 2025-07-14 17:57

site updates + meta thread

Hi /pt/,

I fixed the thing where old threads get bumped by spam posts and then don't drop back down the catalog when the useless replies get deleted.

At the same time I bumped the version of the web

jgb 55 replies

8089 2025-11-23 10:01

No title

Who is he referring to here? Waltz? Morgenthau?

Anonymous 1 replies

7424 2025-09-08 21:39

koreader

Any koreader enjoyers here?

I'm running a PW3 Kindle on 5.9.x firmware but the earliest FW included within the jailbreak .zip is 5.12 so uhhhh what am I supposed to transfer over as far as that goes?

Anonymous 9 replies

8045 2025-11-18 15:43

Tacuinum Sanitatis f. 97v, Storyteller

Storyteller. Its nature is one of the causes of sleep. Optimum: the type advisable for the nature of the person wishing to sleep. Benefit: for those who enjoy this, it truly improves their digestion,

Anonymous 2 replies

8027 2025-11-16 20:02

Kapuscinskis THE EMPEROR

I just finished this and loved it. To those who have read: do we think he actually collected this testimony, or is it just made up? It seems too ridiculous to be believed at points. Either way, fantas

Anonymous 1 replies

8033 2025-11-17 14:23

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LA County's most charming botched tourist attraction

Anonymous 2 replies

7960 2025-11-09 00:36

Winter coat recs

My north face puffer has served me well for the past few years, but I’m hoping to move on. The Barbour meta feels a bit too tryhard, but I agree that zip > button. What is to be done?

Anonymous 3 replies

7355 2025-08-31 12:40

Self-improvement content that isn't cringe?

I'm currently trying to get my life back on track (focusing on work, fitness, relationships, cutting out bad substances) and looking for videos/podcasts to listen to while exercising and cleaning etc.

Anonymous 16 replies

8000 2025-11-13 14:39

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Anonymous 2 replies

6836 2025-08-09 06:18

I am antisemitic

That is all

Anonymous 67 replies

4949 2025-05-24 03:14

Tell me your favorite fragrances

This is a thread about perfumes and colognes in general. I want to know your favorites and your least favorites. I want to know your thoughts about various perfumes, houses, perfumers. At the airport

Anonymous 39 replies

3828 2025-04-30 12:38

No title

Your last watched film?
Your review?

Films 59 replies

7538 2025-09-23 12:24

Diet

I am creating this thread for the discussion of diet, as it pertains to you or to humanity as a whole.

Diet, food, nutrition. All of these things are under scrutiny today, but really have never left

Anonymous 13 replies

6814 2025-08-08 14:02

No title

>creates cool website
>posts takes on leddit instead

admin why

Anonymous 42 replies

6898 2025-08-10 03:17

I work for an AI company

I've never felt physically sick from work before, but this is doing it.

Imagine you are required to use four different AIs each day to maximize your productivity. Imagine the boss is talking about a

Anonymous 22 replies

7571 2025-09-26 09:33

Conspiracy theories

It seems that conspiracy theories are no longer a fringe phenomenon confined to tinfoil hat-wearing preppers and everyone is a conspiracy theorist now. Why do you think conspiratorial explanations of

Anonymous 34 replies

1619 2025-04-06 15:37

What are some niche stereotypes you have noticed?

For me it's that American boomers always accuse you of being 'rude' (and usually immediately follow that with insults) if you say something mildly sarcastic or correct them on anything.

Also gay men

Anonymous 72 replies

7515 2025-09-21 18:44

No title

Remember, no original research

Anonymous 34 replies

7615 2025-10-01 15:53

What are you reading?

Working through my stack of books after being in a slump last month. Currently reading The Passion According to G.H. by Lispector.

What is everyone reading?

Anonymous 13 replies

7371 2025-09-01 15:19

Demoraphic decline is subtly haunting

Libs will tell your ear off about "muh geedeepee", pension system falling apart and etcetera, right-wingers like to talk about replacement and death of nations and cultures. It's not that it's all bul

Anonymous 12 replies

7631 2025-10-02 04:05

good introductions to architecture?

have any of you read any good books on architecture broadly? or i guess on subtopics. i'm really interested in the field but my only knowledge atm comes from wikipedia articles & just visiting nearby

Anonymous 1 replies

7513 2025-09-21 17:42

I started a fashion & style discord server

https://discord.gg/EGGNGuYR

(Sorry if this is against rules to post, can remove if its a problem)
Disclaimer I know very little about fashion, I just want people to talk about it all with. If that so

Anonymous 16 replies

3549 2025-04-27 15:18

Psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis was one of the largest philo-scientific adjacent developments of the 20th century, but is it bogus? It seems philosophers reject it for not appreciating metaphysics, and scientists reje

Anonymous 60 replies

7560 2025-09-24 19:40

I listened to this album in the dark and I had to turn the lights on

What music scares you?

Anonymous 6 replies

6906 2025-08-10 09:21

Contemporary right wing writers/novels?

I read some M. Houellebecq, but aside from that I am familiar mostly with 20th century writers like Mishima, but I got through them fairly quick. Preferably people who are alive and writing right now

Anonymous 13 replies

7225 2025-08-21 01:57

canadian euthanasia

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/09/canada-euthanasia-demand-maid-policy/683562/

archive:
https://archive.is/adDZ3

opinions on the article? what are your thoughts on euthanasia?

Anonymous 21 replies

7337 2025-08-29 20:52

The Gutenberg Bible

No other technology man has devised came as close to perfection so early in its infancy as book printing. The Gutenberg Bible was impossibly refined—still today it is beautiful. It was also the firs

Anonymous 6 replies

7434 2025-09-10 17:58

rsp refugees

Kirk passed into the next life and rsp hung on to his coattails.

Anonymous 23 replies

7472 2025-09-13 23:43

NEPAL

A strange, noble country. I hear they are electing their new post-communist government via discord. They're disproportionately active in sceney anglophone internet communities. What is going on?

Anonymous 5 replies

7458 2025-09-12 09:46

What if we

What if we held hands under the limited-edition Rammstein wood table

Anonymous 2 replies

6763 2025-08-07 01:51

The Iconography of Lord Jagannath

Lord Jagannath is a Hindu deity worshiped in the Odisha region of India. He is regarded as an form of Krishna and as the Supreme Being.

There are some aspects to the history and philosophical implica

Anonymous 13 replies

7179 2025-08-19 02:13

mfa as the enemy

i've noticed a rising hatred towards the mfa amongst non-mfa holders who enjoy culture in recent years. is this hatred warranted? i can't deny that i hold some skepticism that this idea isn't just eve

Anonymous 25 replies

7000 2025-08-12 03:23

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Anonymous 2 replies

6750 2025-08-06 07:54

You will never stop the New right.

Leftists are on the run as the right win elections all over the world. In not a single country are leftists winning. There is nothing they can do, their age is over. Soon we will put them in the priso

Anonymous 20 replies

267 2024-07-24 17:16

Post something you've made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE6NZ4bsmow

post something you've made

Anonymous 147 replies

7022 2025-08-12 16:31

No title

Has anyone else here noticed people of their own generation sorta losing contact with reality over time? Like we all know boomers are delusional, but if you look closely it's like millennials and zoom

Anonymous 41 replies

7408 2025-09-05 13:15

No title

Arigato Gozaimasu Mr. Hosono-San... your sugoi ongaku changed the way I think about sound

Anonymous 1 replies

7324 2025-08-29 04:58

25 euro/dollar reward! /lit/ contest!

Hello,
I decided to host a literary contest for aspiring writers and poets from the "chans" communities. The rules are simple: submit your work in the comments below. The form does not matter; it can

Anonymous 12 replies

3897 2025-05-01 11:49

Trans Rosa Parks

>A transgender woman was arrested at the Florida State Capitol last month after she used a bathroom there to protest a state law that blocks transgender people from using a rest room that aligns with

Anonymous 107 replies

6425 2025-07-21 17:20

Best literary / culture blogs?

I'm looking for really sharp, insightful writers who talk about books and culture. Are there any bloggers out there on the level of James Wood, Robert Hughes, Sontag, Amis?

Anonymous 52 replies

7112 2025-08-15 18:28

re: admin

met him irl. cool guy.

Anonymous 26 replies

4033 2025-05-04 17:11

THE DOCTOR IS IN

Describe yourself, or someone you know, or even make someone up, and I will speculate and preform shitty psychoanalysis based on your post

DR.SELFSUCK 110 replies

6839 2025-08-09 08:00

writing group/discord?

u guys part of any writing groups or discords? been looking to join some to get some bounce for my ideas

Anonymous 27 replies

6980 2025-08-12 00:19

He was the greatest man in history

You should have listened to him, he tried to warn you. He told you that if you turned against him, the world you see today, a world so insane that any sane man will rise up and conquer it, would exist

Anonymous 18 replies

6417 2025-07-21 13:00

The most over-analyzed movie of all time?

people doing more hermeneutics on the shining than medieval theologians did with the bible. why?

Anonymous 16 replies

6934 2025-08-10 21:15

why is redscare so 4chan incel coded?

Like the people on the ledditcord don't even seem to listen to the podcast either they seem like just loser NEETs. Then I find this place and there's discussion about /tttt/. Also theres an rdrama sub

Anonymous 14 replies

6123 2025-07-05 10:23

what are yout thoughts on that site that shall not be named

Anonymous 38 replies

7131 2025-08-16 09:46

Gerard Manley Hopkins

What does /pt/ think about the 19th century poet Gerard Manley Hopkins?

Hopkins, who gave up poetry for several years due to his vocation as a priest, is known for such works as The Windhover, As Kin

Anonymous 1 replies

4723 2025-05-19 11:20

How’s Africa doing?

So like, what’s going on here? Has it gotten better or worse or? For the record I’m not taking North Africa into account, only the Sahel, Sahara, Central Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, so I mean t

Anonymous 23 replies

7046 2025-08-13 09:51

A review of St. Anger by Metallica

St. Anger is an album released by the heavy metal band Metallica in 2003. It was universally panned and still continues to be to this day. Many metal fans felt that Metallica had sold out, as the band

Anonymous 10 replies