@Rusty_Swarf

repairman, writing about Material Culture https://xitter.cf/t.co/XyfKl4XKzg

 in loco harmonium
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Joined January 2022
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"The best authors are dead authors."
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Rusty retweeted
Jakey T
@JakeyT153Sep 1
my generational wealth came in the form of knowledge, wisdom, skills and attitude. Thanks ancestors for the opportunity to give it a go.
feyisayo 💸
@feyisznAug 30
And respectfully… why did nobody in my bloodline lock in and secure the generational wealth before i got here?
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I'm tryna be the Walter Mossberg of the Post-Apocalypse.
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Rusty retweeted
Frazer@luxferensFeb 10
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Replying to @volantleander
one of Moby-dick's most underrated bits is how half the characters are awestruck by the hunt and recognize it as the most faustian experience a human could ever dare to have, and the other half are just unimpressed laborers raking in a check, simple as
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Replying to @taijitu_sees
@taijitu_sees
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Replying to @Rusty_Swarf @moultano
You need to be able to improvise common sense contracts in good faith. That's the bedrock skill.
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"Industrialization is our only trick for making things cheap enough that everyone can have them." "Craftsmanship is our only trick for making things nice enough that people preserve them virtually forever."
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much of our current problems can be linked to modern econ having the wrong ontology of production. the economy is not a price system that sometimes moves physical things. it's a physical system embedded in energy flows that sometimes uses prices to coordinate
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Replying to @Rusty_Swarf
It appears that he had a major issues in proprioceptive sensation. Posture sense error is common in psychosis/autism/body dysmorphic disorder. Its likely what he experienced and expressed w/ his painting skills but the quality of life must have been bad. xitter.cf/artistchagall/status/1…
Marc Chagall@artistchagall23 Aug 2025
Birthday #artbots #chagall
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THIS IS A CRITICAL TIME AND PLACE IN HISTORY or ... maybe not. Maybe we're in a dull, self-satisfied era of history. Squalid, dumb, just blundering around the historical landscape, like fools, flattering ourselves that we're in crisis
Rusty@Rusty_Swarf8 Aug 2025
Speaking of which ...
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Replying to @yoltartar
I always find this interview hilarious because she's complaining about the systematic steamrolling of shape rotator mechanics by PMC's, and JBP can't help but agree over her, exemplifying the exact phenomenon they're both decrying. youtube.com/watch?v=XYZP1wuG…

Autism, Academics, and Animals | Dr. Temple Grandin | EP 318

Dr Jordan B Peterson and Dr. Temple Grandin discuss the pros and co...

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Visakan Veerasamy
@visakanv14 Jun 2023
Replying to @visakanv
in the interest of scenius-building I now issue an open challenge to all my mutuals to QT this tweet with "<name>, explain <your thing> right fckn now, in one breath, standing on one foot" in a 1-page screenshot
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Architecture is the primary battleground of mainstream cults. Your cult becomes normalized in proportion to the amount of real estate it controls. Dumb cults invest in statues and one-of-a-kind unique properties like fancy temples. Smart cults invest in mass commodity building.
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