Matt
@scriptumsent
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and gathering swallows X in the skies
Joined April 2011
Could’ve sworn this movie already existed
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At the phrase “Batman smells,” the warm evocation of holiday hopes is dashed and the unsuspecting listener plunged headlong into farce
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Your choice insult “smarty-pants” exposes your own ignorance…. Intelligence is not seated in the pants
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— Librarian at Alexandria, 2nd cent. BCE
What am i scrolling for ? What do i hope to find ?
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Yesterday 7yo son gleefully told me he had absconded with my copy of Aristotle’s Physics and wouldn’t tell me where he was hiding it. Today I walked into his room as he had the book open, looked up from reading and said “He’s talking about ‘being’ a lot.”
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If you can figure out how to configure your default state to be slightly amused rather than slightly annoyed you pretty much enter God Mode
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Marcel, mon ami, I’m calling on you… for one last job
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I’m not paying a nickel for your thoughts
After 232 years, the U.S. Mint has retired the penny. The end of its production comes amid a years-long farce of the government producing coins that cost more to make than they are worth. https://t.co/ThTcYYWDaX
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Getting caught in a performative contradiction is so embarrassing. I’ve been contradicting myself since before it was even cool.
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Performatively savoring every sentence of the book and being rapt with a sublime aesthetic experience
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tfw you’re depressed
german philosopher philipp mainländer argued that God committed suicide to create the universe, the cosmos being God’s corpse itself. the only way for God to do this, an infinite being, was to shatter His timelessness into a time-bound world. mainländer would also end his life
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"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.
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Society was better when we were all kinda pretending the Muppets were real. Like they’d be on talk shows and stuff
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Hall-of-famer
So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s
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