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Purity of Heart is to Post One Thing
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men love to go on google maps and see how far things are from each other
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when someone visibly coughs blood into a handkerchief in a period piece that’s conspicuous consumption
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me: and you could have it all, my empire of dirt
my girlfriend [a worm]: oh fuck yes
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inside you are two wolves. this is below the minimum viable population threshold, so they soon die out. the deer population inside you explodes, quickly stripping you of your internal vegetation. erosion increases, streams and rivers silt up, and insect numbers collapse due to ha
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the part with the pen is the most fucked up thing ive ever seen
In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion
[video from The Curiosity Show: ]
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this is the only way you can actually fully appreciate a painting
A 10-millionth visitor to the Rijksmuseum of Netherlands was allowed to spend the night at Rembrandt's painting "Night Watch" with a bottle of wine and dinner
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im sorry but why would you expect literally anything other than this. this is the least wild thing i have ever heard
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ERCOT: our infrastructure was simply not designed for temperatures this cold
also ERCOT: our infrastructure was simply not designed for temperatures this hot
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@bartlebytaco
@no_earthquake
cant find it but this is like a darker "no bless you for giacomo??"
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glad that this one resonated
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trying to cheat on my philosophy final by texting my friend who took it last year: “hey man, how ought one to live”
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this is a real op-ed in favor of drunk driving that the new york times ran in 1984
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[blinking and crying in the sun] yeah the cave guys only let me see 600 flickering shadows a day now. there’s another cave but it kind of sucks. im going to go back down again tomorrow
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5yo just asked if clouds were made out of fire, presocratic ass question
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when i bring a nice fit to the party then realize i still have to talk to people
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hate to be a hater but people are having a relentless mid-off in the qts
y’all what is a painting or other work of visual art that never fails to destroy you every time you see it because BOY I’ll start:
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@lastpositivist
members of the exclusive club im in are so insufferable hahaha im a member by the way
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unfortunately look at phone appears to be the most powerful force in the universe, we dont stand a chance
Gorillas at the zoo are becoming addicted to people showing them videos on their phones
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pretty fucked up that i can't perfectly communicate a feeling merely by feeling it very strongly
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@dee_bee_h
this is someone who clearly understood shakespeare on a deep level and was willing to internalize and act upon the lessons therein
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in the early 2010s i went to college with so many girls just like early grimes, i think something about the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere can no longer support this type of woman they are forced to become something worse to adapt
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4yo struggling to understand the concept of being sad about the result of a soccer game: “but how can you be sad? i’m right here and i love you”
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this isnt a war tweet but its also a war tweet
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"sure babe ill come to bed i just have to check how wide the dardanelles strait is and also how many miles of canals there are in ho chi minh city, and how many far it is by sea from gijon to cadiz"
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Reply with your best post of the year. Not the one that did the best numbers necessarily but the one you’re proudest of
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what is this fucking book my grandma gave me
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@BrandyLJensen
@alex_abads
“do you have any hidden illnesses that would prevent you from physically overpowering a determined and well-trained thief”
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just discovered that “professionally losing money on slot machines” is a job you can have??
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when youre 17 the most important thing in the world is being sad at a party
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cower before the blood pigeon
This mildly terrifying CT scan was made by Scott Echols capturing tiny blood vessels in the head of a pigeon, created by a special ‘contrast agent’ to highlight the microvasculatory system [read more: ]
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a weird thing about the coming decade is that we're going to be struggling with huge economic, political, and social problems directly precipitated by the pandemic but the pandemic itself is going to be memoryholed and not associated with the problems at all
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"dating history"? any reader of hegel understands that we are all, in a sense, dating history...
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serenely liking the tweet and then the dunk on it mere seconds later with zero cognitive dissonance like an astronaut who has seen earth from space and understands the fundamental unity of all things
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while you were arguing about translating aufheben online i was auf haben a good time
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@MikeBenchCapon
sure but how often would you, as a teacher, 1) expect that to be the case and 2) expect students to both realize this and follow through on it
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@bigblackjacobin
@lastpositivist
i like to imagine its like the magician who videotaped himself flipping coins for a week until he got 25 heads in a row and only showed people that one
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[hades after persephone redecorates a little] what fresh hell is this
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you really start to appreciate the cultural work that the tooth fairy myth is doing when you have to explain to a four year old that soon her teeth will start to fall out of her head
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stephen pinker: you claim to have ‘ratioed’ me, and yet the very word shares a root with ‘rationality’…
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i slept on this but 100% watch it, unbelievable quality
Eric Adams teaches you how to search your child's room. Truly New York's weirdest guy.
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zoomers: on tiktok
philosophers: ontic talk
really makes you think
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nasty, brutish, and jorts
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there’s a kind of treacly smarminess that always sees itself as self-justifying on here but i am sorry i can’t see a thousand people saying “this destroyed me” about a webcomic without opening my mouth
hate to be a hater but people are having a relentless mid-off in the qts
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I genuinely do not understand why people were into this one and not tour de horse
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the problem with entering a battle of wills with a baby is that ultimately they care less if they live or die than you do
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“now glaucon, are we harmed by beings, or by non-beings?”
“beings, of course”
“and is a lack of sleep a being?”
“surely not”
“then as a non-being, can it cause us any harm?”
“i don’t see how it can, socrates”
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immanuel kant was born in koenigsburg, which is german for “burger king”
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“do you have a sec to go over how a man might face his death unblinkingly”
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"sorry last thing, real quick - can virtue be taught?"
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if you meet some minimum bar of conventional femme attractiveness you can convince a significant number of men on the internet to do literally anything and if you aren’t trying you’re wasting your historical circumstances
"can't talk now babe, I'm tanning my balls for the soulless tradcon TikTok girl's weird fetish"
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friedrich nietzsche: god is dead
the roman catholic church: god is bread
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when heidegger said language is the house of Being, he wanted to be its interior Dasein-er
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my favorite things are old french novels where people are languishing in the capital, penniless, "if i cant find four hundred francs in the next two days i will kms" but no one ever once even considers getting a job
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the odyssey continues to resonate with modern readers because it’s just “we’re so fucking back/it’s so over” again and again and again
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her: you say you have issues with commitment
him: thats right, i really do
her: i just got off the phone with the bit
him: [whispering] fuck
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sick of doordash let’s really dig into this one
I was reading up on ADHD and sex issues for a therapy client, and googling “ADHD and sex” led to me stumbling upon the next great Twitter Discourse
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this is like 90% of the iliad
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@skyler_higley
@lastpositivist
I just fired the person that I pay to read tweets aloud to me. unacceptable behavior
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its so weird and alien how when patroklos dies achilleus doesn't react at all
I know this sort of thing is a relatively common view but it really makes me wonder if the people who write these things have read, like, any ancient literature at all.
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incredible move to decide to go literal, then fail to include an actual instance of the object in question
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ok haven't seen this one: Friedrich Nietzsche: The Man Who Thought Science Was Gay
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transgender people: why was there only one set of footprints there
the federal bureau of investigation: that is where i carried you
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ladies if you can perceive a red flag that means a little bit of your soul is red and shaped like a flag
Ladies if his favorite philosopher is Aristotle it’s a red flag
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says a lot about society that they’ll make a tv show called “Euphoria” but not,, “Eudaimonia”…
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2yo calls every lion “lion king”, she’s so supportive
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damn girl are you a norton edition cause you critical as hell
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@meanunclejack
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all anyone wants is to be given 5-7 orgasms by a man who looks like he’s struggling to summon the courage to draw another breath
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@DKThomp
@lastpositivist
me: these contradictions can’t possibly be heightened any further
a hereditary royal: hold my scepter
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just been reminded that for my daughter, the very hungry caterpillar was not about the transformation and birth of a butterfly but about the sudden death and disappearance of a beloved caterpillar
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yes obviously these pieces all belong in the private church of an aristocrat away from this vulgar rabble
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are you fucking kidding me
Here is a thread of my favourite maps of South America. Let me know which you like most and give me your best theories for how thel all fit together. Starting with Forests. 1/13
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this is the most down bad thing I have ever seen
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the two most reliably good kinds of novels have historically been "man walks around thinking about things" and "woman throws a dinner party"
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want to read my sons 1 star, sexist review of “forzen”
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my 4yo, moaning on the couch after his brother took the toy he was playing with:
“I can’t feel my heart. I have to leave this place, things aren’t going well for me here.”
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the only morally defensible way to address professors is to accidentally call them "mom" and then drop out of the program in embarrassment
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imagining someone describe a baby as "toxic"
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rebranding "going on a date" as "software planning with a client" is one of the most sicko moves i have ever had the misfortune to be exposed to
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@lastpositivist
going to be whispering “Stalin’s lived experiences” under my breath every few seconds until I die
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little tip for the young, listen intensively to an album during a period of turmoil in your life then don’t listen to it again for five or ten years. this will give you the ability to inflict maximum psychic damage upon yourself with it in the future
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a lot of things that people say are in decline are not in decline, but i think the internet actually is and its really sad. it didnt occur to me i was using google and reading blogs and essays that i was living through a golden age of something that would not last
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