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philosophy dilettante // failed esotericist // tormenting landlords at @living_rent

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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
when guys on dating apps ask me who my favourite philosopher is i make up a random german sounding name. half of the time they “oh yeah i’ve read some of his stuff”
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2 years
love me some Hans Kartoffelkopf
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eilidh
2 years
told a guy i was talking to on hinge that i’m into philosophy and want to do graduate studies and he was like oh you should read sapiens by yuval noah harari
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eilidh
3 years
fucking livid, just caught another guy taking photos of my at the gym. this is the second time in few weeks. from now i’m making a point to tweet everytime something like this happens because i don’t think men fully understand just how common it is.
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eilidh
2 years
please for the love of god just fund the NHS
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
why does hegel write like that. who hurt him
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eilidh
3 years
🇬🇧 in bio 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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eilidh
2 years
to the people giving me dating advice thank you :) i am not making fun of a man trying to relate to my interests, i am saying this is funny because sapiens is a bad book :)
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
the only thing that will prevent total climate collapse is communism btw
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
3 years
aberdeen: a city of CULTURE
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
@SteveTromans his younger brother, Phil Lang, is also a favourite of mine!
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
i often think about about the guy at the bar who upon hearing that i studied philosophy said “i’m sorry to hear that” and walked away
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
3 years
if voter ID is required make passports free
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
everytime i mention a) philosophy or b) organising stuff i am doomed but what else do i have to talk about lmao i have no personality of my own!!!
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
Sorry. Not beautiful. And no amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.
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NASA Webb Telescope
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👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse :
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@beauvoirbaddie
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2 years
the 9yr i nanny started crying when i said the word brain today because he hates to be reminded that he has one in his head
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
3 years
/ as to why men feel like they are entitled to such behaviour. YOU need to be having the conversation with your mates when they act fucking creepy. you need to start calling out other men. stop putting the onus on me and other women to rectify fucking weirdo behaviour
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@beauvoirbaddie
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2 years
we need a planned economy because i can't lose another male friend in his 20s to the aspiration of becoming a dj
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
getting message like this in my facebook message requests now cheers ahhahahaah
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2 years
please for the love of god just fund the NHS
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
it cost £13.50!!! for some cardboard, teabags and chocolate and a fucking keyring!
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
3 years
men really “i ain’t reading all that” to your texts but go read phenomenology of spirit smh
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
3 years
you can't be a socialist or independence supporter in labour but you can be a tory 🥰
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eilidh
3 years
i know the responses telling me to report are well intentioned so thank you. but the point isn’t whether i report it or not. reporting only does so much. i’m making a point of publicising every incident like this because it starts a extremely necessary conversation /
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2 years
“not all landlords are bad!!” okay but here are a bunch advocating for illegal evictions because they have decided the law and due process are too much of an inconvenience to them
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eilidh
3 years
oh you’ve got mould? have you considered stopping your breathing?
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eilidh
3 years
this is 3.3 hours of work on minimum wage
@ScotRail
ScotRail
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You asked for it so we've delivered it. You can now book return journeys between Glasgow and Edinburgh with the return ticket valid for up to one month. Travel any time of day for £30, or with off-peak travel it's just £18.40.
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
“your 20s are the best years of your life!” scream the generation who are actively making my life unliveable
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
3 years
@GooseGooseMoose i have obviously. but i’m making a point to document it as well because it needs to be discussed and i don’t think people understand how fucking annoying it is, cheers tho 🙃
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eilidh
2 years
saw someone on tiktok say the purpose of life is learning self love. no, it’s about completing the system of german idealism
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2 years
breaking what i thought was a permanent twitter break to share this absolute corker with you lot
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eilidh
3 years
i’m not coming for anyone i just hope this sparks wider conversation about what can be done
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eilidh
3 years
contacted a lady about a kitten on gumtree and her husband has been keeping me updated as she’s out at the moment
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eilidh
2 years
sorry if u saw this already on insta but look how cute this wee idiot is in his harness. i am training him to go for walks
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eilidh
3 years
can someone make goodreads but for academic papers
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eilidh
2 years
chow for now boo 😘
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eilidh
3 years
why does my dad talk about wordle like it’s the football
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eilidh
3 years
if you rate of pay is so competitive you shouldn’t have any issues posting it 😘😘😘😘😘
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@beauvoirbaddie
eilidh
2 years
bUt ThEy aRen’T pOiTiCaL aNd ArE gOoD fOr ToUrIsM
@ScotNational
The National
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BREAKING: King Charles has been allowed to vet and potentially lobby for changes to emergency legislation to freeze rents in Scotland
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eilidh
2 years
need to preface this saying that i have a phil degree and hopefully will be a grad student come autumn. trust me i try not to talk philosophy irl for this reason!!!
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eilidh
2 years
macrodosing hell by living in the uk
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eilidh
3 years
this is getting muted because some of you are ridiculously annoying by calling me a "liar" or getting butthurt over "mEnS FeELinGs". ta to those for the kinda messages though! x
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eilidh
2 years
you’re an abolitionist, you say? yet you’re bonking me and sending me to horny jail? curious
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eilidh
2 years
hey (with the intention of acting only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law)
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eilidh
2 years
twitter laid me off today. if you know of any open positions for senior software engineers, let me know. i was the lead dev on the “your timeline refreshing before you finished reading that tweet” function
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eilidh
2 years
oh no guys they are going to protest 😢
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2 years
Sorry. Not beautiful. No amount of authoritarian tolerance is going to change that.
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eilidh
4 years
Joined the @scottishgreens today! Here’s to a independent and greener Scotland
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3 years
new trolley problem just dropped
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eilidh
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solidarity to fellow scot twitter people, for we will be witness to the most unhinged takes on colonialism from accounts like celticnationalist123 and sc0tlandl0v3rX in the coming hours
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eilidh
2 years
hi, australian here! here’s my top tips on how you can be annoying, patronising & unhelpful to people experiencing temperatures they never experience, in countries with infrastructure completely unequipped to deal with a heatwave of 40° C (🧵)
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3 years
*twists off beer cap* i’m going in boys
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eilidh
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i’m going to have to redownload hinge if things dont get back online
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eilidh
3 years
i'm leaving uni with roughly £35k worth of debt. If i manage to find job, i'd be lucky to get something around £22k a year. once you factor in rent, utilities debt repayment etc, I'm left with nothing. graduates nowadays are in a perpetual cycle of "earn to pay the debt"
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eilidh
2 years
valid criticism isn’t abuse lol 👍
@BBCNews
BBC News (UK)
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Love Island's Dr Alex George faces online abuse after buying four Welsh holiday homes
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2 years
okay you should probably keep it that way
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eilidh
2 years
banning menthols and 10 packs but not banning lemonade-skittle-peach-raspberry-explosion-fornite-slurp-juice vapes because of their appeal to young people is equally funny as it ridiculous
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u guys know reading can be fun right. like u don’t have to read hegel
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eilidh
2 years
this “privileged status as a woman” also means 1 in 4 women in the uk are raped or sexually assaulted
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Now, who did this!?? 😂😂😂 #JohnnyDeppWins
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they should make a system of german idealism that is complete
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eilidh
3 years
Wtf the NHS just called me personally and told me I needed to isolate immediately through Christmas and new years bc they found out one of the new symptoms of the virus is having a great personality & a big fat juicy ass
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@GooseGooseMoose yeah because going up to a man and confronting him about his behaviour is such a good idea 👍
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i think if you are a communist you should always act in solidarity with trans people and not to act in a way that makes their life harder 👍
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if u hang out with people lots you use twitter less. i want u all to think about this
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trying to write why i am passionate about the 20hr a week admin job for a carpeting company on indeed
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eilidh
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don’t be angry at the workers currently on strike, be angry that bosses that have given workers not choice but to strike
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HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SUCH IDIOTIC PLANNING I HAVE NEVER FELT RAGE LIKE THIS BEFORE
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asked mum what she wanted for christmas and she replied for me and my brother to be happy and healthy. okay well sorry babes you’re getting a candle
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the worst person you know just made another stupid point
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eilidh
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very festive of you natalie go fuck yourself
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Natalie Elphicke
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This Christmas reinforces to me how vital it is that we bring the treacherous small boats crossings to an end once and for all.
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eilidh
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she’s dead mate
@gnuseibeh
Ghanem Nuseibeh
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London tube drivers are paid 2 times as much as an A&E nurse on the NHS, and 20% more than an A&E graduate doctor. I abhor the greed of the RMT. Where is Thatcher when you need her?!
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props to all the little rats that control this man’s brain, they’ve really outdone themselves this time
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Labour leader Keir Starmer quotes Margaret Thatcher and says she was “right” in speech on crime.
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i can’t believe people are saying kids shouldn’t cycle. as cyclist who was hit by a bus & hasn’t been able to cycle for 6 months bc theyre still petrified & received little help from the police - cycling isn’t dangerous, it’s the hostile culture towards cyclists that is
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well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of a dying NHS, an unregulated and exploitative housing market, stagnated wages, excessive student debt, climate change and over a decade of austerity
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The Telegraph
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🏫Those under 26 are increasingly under the sway of cultural socialism, and not tackling it is producing a strongly Left-wing generation
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eilidh
3 years
posting this tweet was like doing ouija board for rangers fans
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🇬🇧 in bio 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
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£25 is not as important as your comrades’ solidarity 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
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maybe some of you online leftists are going to have to go out and get involved in organising and mutual aid now instead of criticising literally everything on twitter oh no what a shame
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@TrickyTroll @katiedimartin @VirgilVvd1231 @TaylorLorenz hey man have you tried not sending people death threats online or
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landlords are now crying because they think AI generated tenancy termination letters will put them out of a job
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why have they used an image of jess phillips of the usa/karen
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eilidh
3 years
hey guys just as a reminder since it’s pride month to put your pronouns in your bio it takes 2 seconds and it makes you hotter
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eilidh
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i love that all the vaccination centres are 9-5. completely useless for those working in service industries/shift work who are more likely to be at higher risk at the moment
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eilidh
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i got hit by a bus and went flying on princes street today whilst i was cycling home. i’m a bit scratched and bruised but i wouldn’t be alive if i wasn’t it weren’t for my helmet. please please PLEASE wear a helmet!!!!
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eilidh
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the UK giving France 12 points was a secret Brexit deal clause #Eurovision
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eilidh
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love that mildly euphoric feeling of finally getting to a book after a couple of weeks of not reading. like why did i ever stop doing this. this is great
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eilidh
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guys remember when everyone said the years following the pandemic would be like the roaring twenties with massive cultural boom and now we don’t have any fuel or gas for the coming winter
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actually preheating the oven and not shoving something in at 200 degrees and hoping for the best
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@christapeterso how the hell did this pass peer review
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2 years
merry christmas to everyone except landlords 👍
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eilidh
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a country which wages war on garlic bread in a punitive, futile and ideologically conservative effort against obesity but doesn't secure the rights for tenants not to be further exploited by their landlord during a cost of living crisis isn't actually a very good one
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eilidh
3 years
my new years resolutions are to eat more kebabs and bully more landlords
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eilidh
2 years
happy friday comrades i looked pissed because a total of three separate landlords annoyed me today but off to the pub to drink for a jar i go🫡👍
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girl i know who was HEAVY on the foucault in undergrad is doing elf on the shelf l m a o
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eilidh
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the next twitter feature will tell you which of your mutuals hates you
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eilidh
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is having undergrads address lecturers as Prof or Doctor an american thing? maybe it was just my department but everyone was referred to by their first name
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elon paid 43 billion to stop you from talking about hegel online
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all my homies hate the orange walk
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i’ve been depressed since i was 14. this is the first time in ten years i feel like i’ve truly had a grasp on my mental health and actually feel alright for once. definitely not the sexiest year but certainly the most stable - and i’m so grateful for that
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i love responses like this because it reminds me of the fact that many have the luxury of not knowing academic philosophy exists
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