More 18th Century Thirst Traps Please

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He listens to Tyler at the watercooler complain that the paper printer is always stuck and the coffee in the breakroom is always cold.

He looks at the bubbles and contemplates planting bombs in the building and going on an anti-capitalist rampage killing CEOs.

"Hey, if you have depression, you should get yourself checked out!"

He sits in a psychiatrist office.

They missed his autism but they diagnosed him bpd and aspd. They did give him antidepressants to cure his existential despair though.

He finds himself completely bored. He's looking for a thrill - the Sublime, not that anyone knows what the hell that is.

Another boring work acquaintance suggests extreme sports. Tyler jokes about kinky clubs.

He tries both - why not?

The bungee jump gave him an adrenaline spike, but then he had to drive home to pay his electric bill.

He goes to the kinky club. Oh, that should feel a little decadent, transgressive, intoxicating! Nah... it's just another subculture with its own rigid rules, predictable aesthetics, repetitive scripts, hyper-consumerism and institutionalized routine. They just wrapped it up in leather and pvc.

And then he sees Tyler from the watercooler in a sexy maid outfit with bunny ears while holding a light beer.

Oh, the horror.

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

This article by professor Kehinde Andrews clarifies more about the story of racist harassment Arday has been suffering since he fucking got a teaching job at Cambridge in the first place, in 2023, as the FIRST Black professor in that fucking stupid institution, who sure is taking it's sweet time defending their worker, despite already fucking checking his work for plagiarism and saying he didn't do it:

https://www.voice-online.co.uk/opinion/comment/2026/08/07/ardays-resignation/

1. He wasn’t the first Black Professor at Cambridge, but he WAS the youngest X

2. He was ALSO autistic, and nonverbal for the first 11 years of his life X