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You are fantastic. You are a phosphorescent mushroom with a thousand eyes. You are a jackal-faced lobster on the moon. You are a grimoire made from moss and pressed wildflowers and the ichor of acorn gods.

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"I don't understand why you'd throw away a perfectly good brand like that" said one user on X (formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico)

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I actually hate the "lol the giant asteroid will deliver us from this suffering" jokes. Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?

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I’ve gone down a rabbit hole with Philosophy Tube research: I started with “Why are American cities on grids?” and now I’m deep into historical theories on whether Thomas Jefferson was autistic

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Narrative shrinkflation

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zippers definitely gotta be in like the top 17 inventions of all time

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the number of phrases i routinely quote from a random youtube playlist called "clean vines for the children of jesus" that i used to watch when i was 15 is astonishing. i wonder if topweeklytv6841 will ever know the impact they had...

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I think... we can turn the "separate the art from the artist" phrase on its head, and say "no matter how much you love a story or a piece of art, never let the author, the storyteller or the artist become your master through that love"

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The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."

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fascinating opinion. i hold nearly the opposite position and think apple cider vinegar is thoroughly alright.

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More ideas: Grand Canyon — God's Gash Yellowstone — Realm of Vulcan Appalachians — The Slumbering Titans Mt. Everest — Madman's Peak Nile River — Jörmangandr, the Great Serpent

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I wrote a GRAPHICS BLOG POST about how to MAKE TERRAIN out of SPLINES and SIMPLE MATH in Blender with Geometry Nodes! This technique is very powerful and easy to implement and there's lots of interesting ways to extend it. zone.dog/braindump/sp...

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fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

submitted 47 days ago • 330 comments

getting lots of notifications about new followers, but every time i check their accounts they're always like "12 followers, 17.8k following" and ugh. bots. i think i maybe have like 2 organic followers total.

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When playing chess, one of the most devastating moves your opponent can play is the dreaded check mate. This pretty much fucks you

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i fucking love a good chromatically descending bassline.

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one major improvement i've seen in the world over the course of my lifetime is the emergence of lightly-salted sweets. i just swung by a bakery to pick up a chocolate chip cookie and it had the slightest flaking of kosher salt on it. that shit went crazy. i think we're doing great in that department

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rewatching arcane for the third time. vi is maybe the coolest character ever written.

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Just used Copilot's editing capability in VSCode (backed by Claude Sonnet 3.5) to do an annoying but simple refactor for a project I'm working on. And oh my god. Programming is fun again.

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i don't believe in right or wrong, only happy and sad. my moral code is "do the thing most likely to make me happy according to my prediction of its consequences." this simplifies ethics for me considerably. i am nice to people because seeing them happy makes me happy. altruism is an illusion.

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also very important to use The Force to open automatic doors whenever one gets an opportunity

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am going much more block-heavy as i curate my algorithm on here compared to on twitter. if i block you please don't take it personally. unless i tell you to take it personally in which case absolutely take it personally and become very angry.

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oh let's fucking GO

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TIME (Palindrome by Word) Time keeps forever. It grows us in light. The unfurling days see shadows turn. In turn, shadows see days unfurling. The light in us grows. It forever keeps time.

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A UFO that’s identified is just a FO until it lands and then it’s an O.

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There are times when I feel my mental illness, my wild heart, & my word-work will always keep me from having a happy home. So I wrote these words to try to survive. Maybe they can help you, too. I long for the day when I can have a home and be a song, but until then, I will just keep singing.

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I just saw an obituary headline for a bacteriologist described as “a giant in his field” and I’m like of course have you seen how small bacteria are?

submitted 70 days ago • 42 comments

spent some time today clicking "show less like this" on every political or emotionally manipulative post i came across here. if i'm leaving twitter, i'm really leaving twitter goddamnit. my discover tab shall be nothing but bookstore fans and mushroom and cat photos.

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You are fantastic. You are a phosphorescent mushroom with a thousand eyes. You are a jackal-faced lobster on the moon. You are a grimoire made from moss and pressed wildflowers and the ichor of acorn gods.

"I don't understand why you'd throw away a perfectly good brand like that" said one user on X (formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico)

I actually hate the "lol the giant asteroid will deliver us from this suffering" jokes. Are there any other people in the progressive movement who think that humans are actually fucking amazing?

I’ve gone down a rabbit hole with Philosophy Tube research: I started with “Why are American cities on grids?” and now I’m deep into historical theories on whether Thomas Jefferson was autistic

Narrative shrinkflation

zippers definitely gotta be in like the top 17 inventions of all time

the number of phrases i routinely quote from a random youtube playlist called "clean vines for the children of jesus" that i used to watch when i was 15 is astonishing. i wonder if topweeklytv6841 will ever know the impact they had...

I think... we can turn the "separate the art from the artist" phrase on its head, and say "no matter how much you love a story or a piece of art, never let the author, the storyteller or the artist become your master through that love"

The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."

fascinating opinion. i hold nearly the opposite position and think apple cider vinegar is thoroughly alright.

More ideas: Grand Canyon — God's Gash Yellowstone — Realm of Vulcan Appalachians — The Slumbering Titans Mt. Everest — Madman's Peak Nile River — Jörmangandr, the Great Serpent

I wrote a GRAPHICS BLOG POST about how to MAKE TERRAIN out of SPLINES and SIMPLE MATH in Blender with Geometry Nodes! This technique is very powerful and easy to implement and there's lots of interesting ways to extend it. zone.dog/braindump/sp...

fascinated by a rhetorical strategy i see all the time now, which is making up an extreme edge case to argue against doing anything for the public good, and doing this from the putative left.

getting lots of notifications about new followers, but every time i check their accounts they're always like "12 followers, 17.8k following" and ugh. bots. i think i maybe have like 2 organic followers total.

When playing chess, one of the most devastating moves your opponent can play is the dreaded check mate. This pretty much fucks you

i fucking love a good chromatically descending bassline.

one major improvement i've seen in the world over the course of my lifetime is the emergence of lightly-salted sweets. i just swung by a bakery to pick up a chocolate chip cookie and it had the slightest flaking of kosher salt on it. that shit went crazy. i think we're doing great in that department

rewatching arcane for the third time. vi is maybe the coolest character ever written.

Just used Copilot's editing capability in VSCode (backed by Claude Sonnet 3.5) to do an annoying but simple refactor for a project I'm working on. And oh my god. Programming is fun again.

i don't believe in right or wrong, only happy and sad. my moral code is "do the thing most likely to make me happy according to my prediction of its consequences." this simplifies ethics for me considerably. i am nice to people because seeing them happy makes me happy. altruism is an illusion.

also very important to use The Force to open automatic doors whenever one gets an opportunity

am going much more block-heavy as i curate my algorithm on here compared to on twitter. if i block you please don't take it personally. unless i tell you to take it personally in which case absolutely take it personally and become very angry.

oh let's fucking GO

TIME (Palindrome by Word) Time keeps forever. It grows us in light. The unfurling days see shadows turn. In turn, shadows see days unfurling. The light in us grows. It forever keeps time.

A UFO that’s identified is just a FO until it lands and then it’s an O.

There are times when I feel my mental illness, my wild heart, & my word-work will always keep me from having a happy home. So I wrote these words to try to survive. Maybe they can help you, too. I long for the day when I can have a home and be a song, but until then, I will just keep singing.

I just saw an obituary headline for a bacteriologist described as “a giant in his field” and I’m like of course have you seen how small bacteria are?

spent some time today clicking "show less like this" on every political or emotionally manipulative post i came across here. if i'm leaving twitter, i'm really leaving twitter goddamnit. my discover tab shall be nothing but bookstore fans and mushroom and cat photos.

Word of the day is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a dislike of company and the desire to be left alone.

Buying books and reading books are 2 separate hobbies

This one hits too hard.