“The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.” — C.S. Lewis

very important for us to learn how to create people that look like this again

*through full-body sobs as I am annihilated by beauty* a-, ah-, and w-why do they call it th-, the, the Vale of Tears?

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I'd have never known! thanks for sharing, I'm glad it resonated

Nobody ever talks about how the other half of “Don’t bite the hand that feeds” is “Don’t feed the mouth that bites you.”

the Gentry is around, and listening

It’s my birthday! Please notice something beautiful today as a favor to me, thank you

Did anyone else get truly horrible sleep last night with the full moon?

I clicked on this without thinking, then heard three notes and realized that some things are not meant to be known and closed my computer

"The unexamined carrot is not worth purchasing."

I'm proud of this tweet because it is the only tweet ever made about men and women being different that also didn't piss anyone off

many people who have recovered from chronic illnesses have spoken about how the pivotal moment in their healing was choosing to believe it was possible in the first place

people want to see pelvic thrusts, shaken asses, hip gyrations on the dance floor. and sure do some cool shit with your hands too I guess idk

I'm just thinking out loud here, but do any of you have thoughts about whether there might be a sort of "hall of mirrors" thing that happens where people more and more stop engaging with source material directly and instead feed it to their preferred LLMs to figure out what to think about it? and in turn if this will cause people to start writing more for LLM's approval as a target audience / the meaningful metric of whether something is considered good or useful? what will intellectual work look like in a post-literate society?

there is no such thing as an embarassing dance move, only embarassable dancers

Lapis Lagoons Mail Club, say it 10 times fast 💨💙🩵

Sometimes I see a tweet and I’m like damn, I wish I had come up with that