Alex ๐
@cmdrburton
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Alex, 25, they/them. I draw and write and play too much Fallout and Elite: Dangerous. CMDR Alexander Burton. Header image courtesy of InspiroBot.
Kerala, India
Joined December 2020
I'll say this again. India is a deeply superstitious and overly religious country. This is a place which chokes thinkers, rationalists and progressives. High agency people will struggle to survive the drivel here. Everything from policies, politics to healthcare is based on
Met a family recently, most of the members are post graduates, but women in their house still sleep on floor during their menstrual cycle. Living in tier1 city. I donโt know how and who will save our people from our own people. The tribal mindset is scary amongst educated folks
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the thing for me is the image of a professor saying โIโm a professorโ as cops fuck them up, as though they thought, until then, and even still do, that it might make a difference. the things we learn and unlearn, the illusions we cling to just to stay sane, for years, just, fuck
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I don't know if it counts as a piece of art but the TikTok "apology to my cat" makes my heart pinch every time
yโall what is a painting or other work of visual art that never fails to destroy you every time you see it because BOY Iโll start:
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That ONE report of Ayurvedic herbal analysis that made me lose sleep especially because it was a child.
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A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of technocapitalist society occurs every year at this time, all across the country. 1/n
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@weirddalle John 6:70-71 Jesus answered them, โDid I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is sus.โ He spoke of Judas the son of Simon Iscariot, for he, one of the Twelve, was an imposter.
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The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!
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I realize JK Rowling's new novel might seem a little long at 1200 pages but a good portion of the space is taken up by fictitious mean tweets
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If chicken pox was a relatively new virus today, we'd see most people get an annoying, itchy rash then get better. Some would die, but not many. Three years into it, we would still not know about shingles. What will we know about SARS-CoV2 in 50 years that we don't know now?
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My next book is *Chokepoint Capitalism*, co-written with @rgibli: it's an action-oriented look at how tech and entertainment monopolies steal creators' incomes, with detailed, shovel-ready plans to unrig creative labor markets and pay artists: https://t.co/j8UnnmNRhD 1/
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A hierarchy of alienness: Pictures of animals from least to most related to you. Least-related animal: Sponges. You and sponges are both animals. That's basically all you've got in common.
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