Amir @amir@schelling.pt

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

if you speak >1 languages, do you have a thing where you write better in one language but speak better in another?