the kind of behavior you'd expect from the kind of beta who'd give away food to poor people and so on
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RT @thinkiamsad
if you sent a modern American evangelical back in time with a universal translator to the Council of Nicaea, it would take like 5 minutes tops before they said something so heretical that they were sentenced to one of the really nasty kinds of execution reserved for Gnostics https://twitter.com/JacobTBrunton/status/…
https://twitter.com/thinkiamsad/status/1613171724731793415
"And here's to brave McClellan, who the army now reveres .."
Whew could there be any clearer sign a song was written way early in the war
https://open.spotify.com/track/1QemSPbgRmEqEDE5N4yk45
"I'd call that unambitious"
- Granny Weatherwax
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RT @Fortean777
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
― Rumi
https://twitter.com/Fortean777/status/1608676481336737797
@aquarial using this next time I get rolled in the <2000 rapid arena on lichess
which machine do you wanna be close to
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RT @pmarca
The only people whose expertise counts are those close to the machine. https://twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1607815452872552448
https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1607873477872353280
Garnett chads having a rollicking good time with chapters like "Strain!" while PVcels scratch their heads over what "Laceration" is supposed to mean, exactly
Plus, everybody in Brothers K complaining about "realism" .. from Dmitri the deranged party animal to Kolya the insufferable tween
Is Dostoevsky joking? Is he screwing with critics who complain his novels are unrealistic, just dressed-up allegories? Or the reverse?
Seriously, how many enemies did Dostoevsky make running that lit journal
There's a thinly veiled jab at somebody every other page
Ivan predicting exactly how Rakitin's going to sell out, running not-too-edgy socialist magazine, investing his money (evil!), the neighborhood he'll build his house
Brutal roast, wonder who it was meant as a parody of
City whose football team is named after a formative gold rush blames the latest gold rush for its voter-inflicted suicide
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RT @HankPlante
The Techies came to San Francisco, made their money, drove up real estate prices and left. They strip-mined the culture, leaving behind a shell of what was once the most vibrant city on the West Coast. It became all about money. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/17/business/economy/california-san-fr…
https://twitter.com/HankPlante/status/1604183071061786624
For information, and to discover if they're actually doing automatic censoring:
My mastodon account can be found at https://schelling.pt/@jp
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