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@arabelladevine

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adjacency-adjacent ✦ not from here ✦ post appreciator, question asker, conversation haver ✦ cringe but free ✦ hi new friend!!! 🪸

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Joined January 2009
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@arabelladevine
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10 months
getting to know high charisma people is a disappointing process you establish this strong rapport with someone quickly and it’s special to you. then you realise that they have this connection with everyone and it’s just like any other interaction for them you can’t even be mad
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@arabelladevine
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7 months
you can literally see how hot people think they are by how they move
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@arabelladevine
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2 months
authors should rewrite each other's books the way singers cover each other's songs
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@arabelladevine
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10 months
do fit people just have sore muscles all the time? i hate it. it’s so distracting
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@arabelladevine
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7 months
some people are saying sorry and some are saying you’re welcome
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7 months
unfortunately moving apologetically is bad for your health. chronically restrict your movements and you unlearn embodiment. you forget how to inhabit your own body comfortably
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@arabelladevine
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1 year
i have this theory that you should let your other pets see your dead pet’s body so they *get it* and don’t sit on the windowsill waiting for friend to come home
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10 months
@TylerAlterman wait what!!
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7 months
people have strong ideas about how you’re entitled to move based on how good looking they think you are they will punish you if they think you’re out of line
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@arabelladevine
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1 year
one thing about normie passing weird people is they’re often more intolerant of other weirdos than actual normies are
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7 months
if you experience enough social punishment of this kind you become socially hypervigilant. your bandwidth for connecting with others is impaired
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@arabelladevine
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10 months
@AnEriksenWife totally! but it’s that rare for them and frequent for you and that creates an imbalanced dynamic, neither good nor bad
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10 months
@tired_sun_aeiou i’ve never been in a gym. this is from attempting a press-up on my bedroom floor
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@arabelladevine
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3 months
you’re a lurker but you’ve decided you want followers - have a pfp, a bio, original tweets and a header image - reply to cool people you like - don’t be completely illegible (it’s tempting) bonus - use words that signal you understand ingroup ideas
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@arabelladevine
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9 months
there should be flights that don’t require you to go through airport security, for those willing to take that risk
@abigvle
halfblood princess 🇯🇲
9 months
What travel/vacation opinion would have you like this?
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5 months
this is how tolkien elves would have really viewed humans
@embryosophy
+ big buddhi + (ROCK SOMA)
5 months
for those who keep chickens, how long did it take you to stop naming them? for us it was probably after our second brood was born, so a couple of years. chickens come and go. real farmers know
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7 months
every personality type system has a type that’s just “the bad one”
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@arabelladevine
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11 months
this is the least pretentious art show blurb i've ever seen
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@arabelladevine
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6 years
@maryjennaa @HEXCELERATOR Thought I saw this earlier today 🤔
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@arabelladevine
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10 months
ngl i was a hater till i saw her at vibecamp and had an oh she’s 100% genuine realisation sorry aella <3
@kenthecowboy_
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10 months
I've said it before and I'll say it again, people hate aella because they don't believe women can be autistic.
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@arabelladevine
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1 year
i read this book about parenting explosive children (it was incredible) and the main insight i got from it is that “unpredictable” difficult children are generally reacting to about 8–12 problems that come up again and again i think this may be true for adults too
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7 months
none of this should be a blackpill btw. there are solutions to these problems
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7 months
@nnnnicholas the waitresses at the vegan sports bar know what they’re about
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@arabelladevine
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10 months
@BootsPlatypus parties, courses, college. it’s possible you’ve met charismatic people who are more measured/selective in the intensity of their attention. this may even look bitchy, mean or cold
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7 months
there are definitely not enough books about hosting for beginners
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@arabelladevine
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8 months
Baguette Most Overrated Breadstuff? • stale after six hours • delicious crust tears up your gums mercilessly • hard to pull apart with your hands • uninspiring when sliced • fluffy interior is flattened when you spread stuff on it • too much textural contrast
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@arabelladevine
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3 months
is there footage of people googling stuff pre 2006? was it really as good as we all remember?
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3 months
especially since we've lost the previous technology used to accomplish this, it might work for a few years idk
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7 months
will anyone admit how dumb darvo is? if you’ve been falsely accused, of course you’ll deny it, “attacking” the accuser by claiming they are the perpetrator (of false accusation) and you the victim
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@arabelladevine
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8 months
five years ago today 🥹
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1 month
having a human body is utterly fascinating and very overwhelming, (thank you!) – when can i have my orb of pure light back ??
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1 year
something people are missing about nick is that he is hyperthymic and has never had depression
@nickcammarata
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@thechaz probably poorly, I’ve never really felt depression so it might hit me stronger than most people
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1 year
they don’t understand death but they know inanimate things don’t come back to life the ghost has left the building
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4 months
this is a lot more amusing if you play it at 2× yes this is how i dance at Da club...
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3 months
k this is a sincerepoast when i’m depressed or overwhelmed i get… not nonverbal, but communication – at the level of forming sentences, making sense of what people are saying and following the string of conversation – becomes challenging
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9 months
i’d been in a cocoon of self abandonment for so long. i woke up from it one day this summer but still every day i have to wake up from it anew… every moment, i have to keep pressing down on the It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way button
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5 months
no offence but having a face account is annoying sometimes how am i supposed to overshare in these conditions
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1 month
if you travel you can cry in new and more interesting places
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@arabelladevine
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5 years
today’s mood is
@SwiftOnSecurity
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No I'm not going to contact you for a quote, MY WEB BROWSER IS CONTACTING YOU FOR A QUOTE ALREADY
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@arabelladevine
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8 months
what’s stopping you from giving randos high quality compliments dozens of times a day
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7 months
defending yourself looks the same whether you’re innocent or guilty you can’t judge guilt by the denial. look at the facts of the case lol
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2 years
@The_Squirrel__ @QasimRashid @SouthwestAir Impactful ethical consumerism requires a properly competitive market, which airlines are shielded from, in large part because of inadequate government protection of consumer interests
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1 year
is it true there are only eight electrical sockets at vibe camp? how is this gonna work
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7 months
this is what ageing’s like, you just enjoy this more and more until you die
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6 months
we’ve all been throwing this image around and it turns out everyone thinks it means something different lmao
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is this how people parse this image because I have always interpreted it as almost the opposite
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7 years
@eigenrobot Did u just protect the identity of your cat
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10 months
@keep_wolin sorry to hear that. it’s awkward on both sides. the connection is real but the imbalance in the dynamic can be a surprise
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6 months
did i forget (again!) that i’m not the Sim stuck in the pool but the player that deleted the ladder
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3 months
the way most people think about the masculine and feminine principles is almost exactly wrong
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8 months
take a painting class!!! colour is fascinating and you learn so much by carefully studying a single image and reproducing it “pixel by pixel” you’ll never see the same again. low hanging fruit for life enjoyment
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Last nights sketching
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10 months
@GRMLorensen naw, charisma is a trait that can be used for good or evil
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3 months
sufficiently advanced consumerism will heal you
@rds_illust
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@vampapayaa Reminds me of this greentext
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1 year
the bureaucratic burden in modern society is so desperate that a chunk of people just give up
@bungoman
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1 year
a probation officer once told me that the single thing all her problem cases had in common was that they don't ever check their mail i think about that a lot because i immediately recognized the kind of person she was talking about. their lives are usually a mess
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1 year
@nihilistPengu @coldhealing ?? what are you talking about she looks amazing
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7 months
@PaoloMiasma search maddy in gifs
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@arabelladevine
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1 year
@Oduehtak3664 @noampomsky I assumed it’s an artistic choice? I find it kinda cool… you just get the vibe of each post and the content is just an overwhelming, contradictory, incongruous and out of context stream of real people’s thoughts and experiences
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4 months
improving my model of you is my love language
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1 month
depressed people absolutely do pull moves like this all the time… they usually work about as well as you might imagine
@dumbbitchcap
Dumb Bitch Capital, LLC
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This comment on a TikTok re suicide 💯
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2 months
human life is short. the truly ambitious plan for handoff which plans measured in centuries are you participating in?
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1 year
I just get a what could go wrong vibe looking at this
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2 months
the person who comes up with the idea is rarely the person who can do the idea justice
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1 year
@UntilTrees and seeing the body is really powerful. it looks very different without the person in it
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5 months
do people still invite people on dates without explicitly stating they’re dates? is that still a thing i have to worry about
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10 days
gonna post a full write up of all things i want in life so you guys can tell me what i’m allowed to want
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1 year
if you’ve experienced darkness it’s unsurprising that you have very different takes on happiness and suffering
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1 month
got my vibecamp ticket 🎫 💃🏻 anon, will you be there?
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10 months
@_TamaraWinter i don’t see it as inauthentic at all! these imbalanced dynamics are tough on both sides
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5 months
tell me a better feeling
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1 month
i’m so full of pain lately, i have no idea what context could possibly redeem such a toxic mess of feelings. hiding away isn’t the answer
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5 months
i live on the seventh floor and lately decided to only take the stairs FoR mY hEaLtH there’s an evil little contrarian imp in me that’s loving this, like THINK of those pitiable liftcels! they don’t even know they could be getting FREE exercise. witness the stairmaxxèd QUEEN!!
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7 months
let a golden age of voice tweets commence
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8 months
having a hard time with things at the moment
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7 months
i still think we should all be liking all of our own tweets. what is this false modesty bullshit. that’s not very deep-okayness of you
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4 months
i spend seven hours in desperate, feverish conversation with you trying to explain my life philosophy. finally, i get up, slip this sheet across the table and walk out of your life forever what’s your open?
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3 months
looking into hiring someone to hate me and wish me ill. any leads appreciated
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this is how you’re supposed to be reading your esoteric tomes btw
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3 months
my deranged take is that with a small but nonzero amount of (ethical) social engineering we could make mainstream society like this
@tonyhawktruther
❥ 𝑪𝒐𝒇𝒇𝒆𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑭𝒂𝒏𝒔 ❥ ◡̈
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My sister hired some Amish guys to tear down an old shed the size of a small cabin and build a new one and she said they got there at 7:30 in the morning, had the old shed torn down and hauled away by 9:30, and the new shed completely built by 11:30 lol
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3 months
twitter is a game
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1 year
i find his takes trigger me. i don’t follow him. but i like the plurality of voices in the conversation. he seems like a genuine person with a useful perspective
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3 months
i like that i can just walk outside, and there are other people there, going about their business, and i can observe them
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4 months
i let someone be wrong online, please clap
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10 months
“i don’t read as many books as i did when i was a child” duh? childhood is for reading, adulthood is for action
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4 months
when i tell people i don't work and they ask me what i do all day i never know what to say
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4 months
having insane amounts of fun in photo booth right now. i feel like i'm eleven and learning what my facial expressions look like all over again
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2 months
does anyone want to chat? i’m sad
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3 months
the feminine is fiery, visionary, alchemical, spirited. birth and death. violence, creation, destruction. revelation, revolution, really quite disagreeable, terrible in its intensity. it is inspiration itself, the ensouling breath of life. it is unquestionably kiki
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5 months
90% of the deleted tweets i see on my timeline are excellent. i grieve for every one 🪦 tears in the rain 🪦
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7 months
i spend all day talking into my phone in a comically bad american accent which somehow works better for dictation than my normal accent
@m_ashcroft
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left without comment
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9 months
become skilled in getting help
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2 months
all my attempts at living with people in the past have failed, but this gives me hope that if i found people with the right kind of autism (the ten day cleaning the kitchen trust rebuilding sprint kind) we could make it work
@gptbrooke
brooke bowman
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Just heard about a group house that was in a really bad place because of conflict around cleaning the kitchen and someone stepped in to facilitate a 10 day sprint where they all really focused on rebuilding trust around kitchen things and the entire vibe of the house has shifted
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20 days
born a human? hope you enjoy learning skills
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the masculine is steady, strong, reliable, predictable, nourishing, protective, disciplined. it maintains, enacts, affirms. it is a haven, it is hearth and home – the base from which greatness can emerge. it is bouba
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my mother’s friend was made to take a course on grandparenting before getting access to her grandchild apparently the gist was that you have to respect the parents’ wishes in all matters
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10 months
psychiatrists should really be trained separately. i would be so mad if i donated my body and they wasted it on a bunch of psychiatrists
@solarsystern
irα!! (is in ethiopia june 26 - july 16)
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do you know how fucking dumb i felt today in anatomy lab. i want to be a psychiatrist. why the hell am i looking at a dead body
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9 days
only one thing should be happening in my life at a time, other things fuck off
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what’s your signature heart emoji colour? mine’s 🩵
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i don’t mean to pick on this one poster but this phenomenon of americans talking about things that are broadly true across the first world but only mentioning the US has always been so weird to me can you imagine a german saying this about germany?
@microsoft_worm
autonomous noumena normalization algorithm
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the fact that you can walk into ~any restaurant in ~any american city and be highly confident you won't get poisoned is an underrated feature of modernity
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4 months
pondering which groupchat to taint with aella discourse
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6 months
it’s very important to mark up your books so when friends borrow them, they can quickly identify passages that are ‘barf’ and ‘cringe’
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7 months
insane how overstimulated and exhausted i feel after having people over, even though i get so much joy out of it. it feels like some kind of mindset problem?
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4 months
not sure people online have internal experiences? they’re mostly just text, and sometimes pictures
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7 months
stop calling them orcas they’re whales! that kill! worst rebrand ever
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