Amir @amir@schelling.pt

if you don't like any Bad things does that make you a Good person?

is "bad things" a fully-contained subset of "things i don't like"? does it have to be?

ok so is there any difference between "this thing is Bad" and "i don't like this thing"?

if yes, are there any Bad things that you *do* like? what are they?

idc that much about ethics i just wanna know if it *would* be, hypothetically

presumably they didn't want *me* to see it but they did post it right 🤔

would that be unethical lol

it's true that some of the best tweets are the instadeleted ones

considering starting a practice of screenshotting and keeping them in a folder just for me
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RT @0x49fa98
my favorite tweets are the ones that are instantly retracted. I catch someone saying something they know is forbidden, too honest, too incendiary, too much from the heart.

I try to like it, but it disappears, "that tweet has been deleted"

But I saw it, it was just …
https://twitter.com/0x49fa98/status/1405113731793788933

is it really an insight if it doesn't fit into less than 280 characters
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RT @meditationstuff
me: What is the relationship between matter and mind?

me: ...

also me: ok, but is that tweetable?
https://twitter.com/meditationstuff/status/1404986698996633604

i made a non-cursed replica,

here you can have it back now

i would keep it if not for the fact that i am now hearing voices telling me to sacrifice all that i own to @plesmasquerade

what happened

the same thing happens in writing that may be easier to see - just because you know a language grammatically and have the common vocab doesnt mean you can WRITE GOOD

and the reason for this, it would seem, is that the *way* to speak well differs A LOT from one language to another

this may be obvious but i literally just realized this. i thought there was a universal formula or smth!! lmao NO

i figured out that there is a way to be a charismatic and effective speaker and i've learned it some degree. but it turns out i only know how to do that in ONE language

this is especially frustrating to realize because i've always had problems with communication, and i've actually done a lot of work in trying to improving the way i talk to people

it seems like there's a sort of charisma that one can draw from in both speaking and writing that are each their separate arts; and training one does not perfectly translate to training the other

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RT @AbstractFairy
@amirism_ Heard a theory suggesting that literacy is a seperate language from the spoken one

This is *very* clear with arabic. Dialects vs. Fusha. Arabic script vs franco (english keyboard)
https://twitter.com/AbstractFairy/status/1404580119549784064

meanwhile when e.g. i'm doing a video call in english, the words that come into my mind feel totally inadequate in conveying what im trying to say

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RT @averykimball
@amirism_ practice on video chat with friends, fool
https://twitter.com/averykimball/status/1404584382459957248

i've been writing a big final report for college and i really feel thoughts coming out and taking the form of english words which i have to painstakingly translate into clunky indonesian;

the *reason* it bothers me in particular tho is that i've been noticing just how much the inferior parts (spoken english and written indonesian) restrict me in expressing myself the way i want

obviously this is because ive been living in indonesia for the past decade while spending a lot of time on the english-speaking internet

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RT @marsiennex2
@amirism_ Why is it bothering you and do you have any ideas about the cause/s for this difference?
https://twitter.com/marsiennex2/status/1404580028336250885

so here's a thing about my capacity for self expression

my written english > indonesian, but
my spoken indonesian > english

this is bothering me