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Reading a 2003 ilxor thread where Momus (remember him?) and John Darnielle are being insufferably verbose. In Darnielle's defence he didn't marry a fan he started to correspond with when she was 14 so he probably wins the argument by default

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I have now contracted the "man flu" (influenza A virus, strain unknown)

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Tentatively posting about stuff I like. If you don't like it I meant it ironically www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTF3...

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Thought of the words "leather gaming controller" then googled them

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The 1976 song 'More Than a Feeling' is a lengthy description of a feeling

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Floating in a giant Erlenmeyer flask being gently tritated

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It's quite unfair but when I see a 30-to-40-year-old walking an akita or a shiba inu (which is daily in Paris) I think "Oh, you bought the dog from the Internet. How embarrassing for you"

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Filling a minuscule hole with water for the purposes of microbogging

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To me, every chocolate dessert is "death by chocolate". I am a dog

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I would love for someone to write that I have a kind of low cunning

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I have a bum elbow. But also a fancy hoity-toity knee

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Begging the users at r/lacan talking about whether a LLM can experience jouissance to read a second philosopher

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Menswear and menstear

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The primitive video games of my youth actually set very realistic expectations for how often I would have to use, look at, open and pick up a variety of objects

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It's only through the purest chance that, pressed for time this morning, I thought of mixing my lukewarm coffee and chocolate-flavoured protein powder, inventing the Vile Concoction

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(half-paying attention) Uh, yeah, I'll take the 100 duck-sized debate opponents

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Unfortunately despite the looming crisis of universal illiteracy I'm still able to read the frequent posts about it

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Much respect to the people who draw a gradual, aporic portrait of themselves through personal details they let slip in their posting but I'm a rotating dodecahedron

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"Adobe illustrator" used to be a real job and not this bullshit

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It wouldn't be inaccurate to call me an expert in OSINT (posting) as well as OPSEC (posting vaguely)

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Ugly scientist makes cover of Unpopular Science

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Excoriating my low-HP opponent in a debate

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2125 academic: Essentially, our work is to peer at the text and ask, "What is it giving?"

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Load 'er up, boys! It's time to launch a new venture at the economy!

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I'm working on the translation of a WW1 memoir and getting really choked up, "lol"

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Discovering that my mother has had a pseudonymous literary criticism blog for 10 years. Much to ponder

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Inquiring about the "meta" for gambling in casinos

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Reading a very earnest post about how it's bullshit that the person who claims to have observed the "batsquatch" cryptid in Akron, Ohio didn't think of the much likelier option — the Mothman

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The Greeks really ate when they came up with feta. And presumably afterwards

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What was that Korean game about Pinocchio called again? Oh yeah, www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-H...

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Reading a 2003 ilxor thread where Momus (remember him?) and John Darnielle are being insufferably verbose. In Darnielle's defence he didn't marry a fan he started to correspond with when she was 14 so he probably wins the argument by default

I have now contracted the "man flu" (influenza A virus, strain unknown)

Tentatively posting about stuff I like. If you don't like it I meant it ironically www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTF3...

Thought of the words "leather gaming controller" then googled them

The 1976 song 'More Than a Feeling' is a lengthy description of a feeling

Floating in a giant Erlenmeyer flask being gently tritated

It's quite unfair but when I see a 30-to-40-year-old walking an akita or a shiba inu (which is daily in Paris) I think "Oh, you bought the dog from the Internet. How embarrassing for you"

Filling a minuscule hole with water for the purposes of microbogging

To me, every chocolate dessert is "death by chocolate". I am a dog

I would love for someone to write that I have a kind of low cunning

I have a bum elbow. But also a fancy hoity-toity knee

Begging the users at r/lacan talking about whether a LLM can experience jouissance to read a second philosopher

Menswear and menstear

The primitive video games of my youth actually set very realistic expectations for how often I would have to use, look at, open and pick up a variety of objects

It's only through the purest chance that, pressed for time this morning, I thought of mixing my lukewarm coffee and chocolate-flavoured protein powder, inventing the Vile Concoction

(half-paying attention) Uh, yeah, I'll take the 100 duck-sized debate opponents

Unfortunately despite the looming crisis of universal illiteracy I'm still able to read the frequent posts about it

Much respect to the people who draw a gradual, aporic portrait of themselves through personal details they let slip in their posting but I'm a rotating dodecahedron

"Adobe illustrator" used to be a real job and not this bullshit

It wouldn't be inaccurate to call me an expert in OSINT (posting) as well as OPSEC (posting vaguely)

Ugly scientist makes cover of Unpopular Science

Excoriating my low-HP opponent in a debate

2125 academic: Essentially, our work is to peer at the text and ask, "What is it giving?"

Load 'er up, boys! It's time to launch a new venture at the economy!

I'm working on the translation of a WW1 memoir and getting really choked up, "lol"

Discovering that my mother has had a pseudonymous literary criticism blog for 10 years. Much to ponder

Inquiring about the "meta" for gambling in casinos

Reading a very earnest post about how it's bullshit that the person who claims to have observed the "batsquatch" cryptid in Akron, Ohio didn't think of the much likelier option — the Mothman

The Greeks really ate when they came up with feta. And presumably afterwards

What was that Korean game about Pinocchio called again? Oh yeah, www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-H...

They're giving me the Nobel for coming up with a harmless but painful shock emitted by various devices when the user breaches online etiquette

If you think your friend group doesn't have a nocebic mf... Well...

I think of myself as more of a crisis thespian

Nervously presenting partner from sandy clay family to silt loam parents