Most of my reasons for why I don't want to get pregnant and have kids are "petty" and I'm okay with that. I don't want to have kids because I don't want to give up smoking or drinking. I don't want to have kids because I don't want to gain weight or develop stretch marks. I don't want to have kids because I love my alone time. I don't want to have kids because I don't want to drop them off at school every morning. I don't want to have kids because I like being flaky. I don't want to have kids because I don't want to divide my paycheck. I don't want to have kids because I get frustrated too easily. I don't want to have kids because I don't want to compromise the dynamic between me and my partner. I don't feel bad about any of this.

Everyone always says Bjork isn't of this world, but I'd contend she's the closest to the mother earth as any human could possibly be. She's like seafoam, like volcanic ash, like a burst of lava. She feels unabashedly and vibrantly - with all of the sincerity of innocence, without losing the primal heat. It's reflected in the way she moves, her vocal inflections, her face, her lyrics. I feel unbelievably lucky to be alive during the same time as this incredible artist, and the incredible people who help bring her work into visual reality.

The speed at which generative AI has been integrated into society has been weighing heavily on me lately. To some extent I can understand the appeal of new technology; curiosity to new things is normal. But when the goal seems to be to do as close to nothing as possible, I begin to think about what kind of life we're looking for.

It's immensely disheartening to me to see how easily everyone gave up on being human.