Giles Goat-Girl @nadienadianadie Twitter profile

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

1 year

Thank you for recognizing people like me

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1 year

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

28 days

Found some great stuff at incredible prices in this bookstore where I feared for my life.

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28 days

When the used bookshop is in violation of fire code>>>

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Giles Goat-Girl

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2 years

Trans woman *audience cheers* in the military *audience booing* commits treason *audience riots of happiness* to help the russians *i am shot on the spot*

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@GloamHallow @Very__Regular I vaguely remember a tweet saying something along the lines that rothko was the artist most harmed by the jpeg file format

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2 years

@LargeRatGirl Reminds me of this

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Giles Goat-Girl

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7 months

a thread for some of my favorite I read this year:

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27 days

@mpersivale The point of bookstores/record stores like these is not to find something specific when you go in, but to get the treasures hidden inside somewhere

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5 months

I’m restarting reading at the bar discourse as we speak

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5 months

caught myself on the precipice of restarting Stoner (John Williams, 1965) discourse

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@nrduford A fascinating character

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3 months

Si crees que las únicas dos opciones para una novela mexicana son escribir sobre ser fifí o escribir sobre la barrialidad en Neza, creo que no deberías ni escribir ni opniar sobre literatura.

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@LegoRacers2 My parents had an acquaintance who introduced herself as probably the only Hungarian-Nahuatl speaker since the time of the second Mexican empire

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

3 months

with Barth's passing the canon of the first wave of american postmodernism as represented by this photo has Robert Coover (front row, left, smiling at Gaddis) as its last representative. He is 92 years old.

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Giles Goat-Girl

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2 years

Was it really that funny tho

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3 months

Pretty funny that I own three books that use the same painting on the cover (the Rilke is flipped, so it doesn’t match the others exaxtly). Might buy nyrb’s Simone Weil book to complete the set

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3 months

I think Barth's answer from his paris review interview is a great rebuttal to DFW's "Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being" line.

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1 year

@tamphopho True gooners don’t have time to post

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Giles Goat-Girl

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6 months

Visited nyc, bought some books, saw one of my favorite paintings. This will be my last post for a while, a friend has talked me into a social media break for two months. See y’all later.

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Giles Goat-Girl

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3 months

RIP to the one of the realest (fictional) writers out there

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2 years

@julie_neuhouser This is somehow worse than Mardoll. How do you manage to help two of the worst armed forces?

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1 year

@kkrocketz eggvestigated lmao

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2 months

A local bookstore got a good home library donation and I spent more money than I should have

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3 years

Brouwer fixed point theorem application irl incoming

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

8 months

Craziest book find of my life. Feeling like I committed a crime, got this for under three US dollars.

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Giles Goat-Girl

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3 years

Les hacen una sesión de fotos y son felices, la representación no hace cambios, es asimilación y captura, es una ilusión de transformación que nos distrae del problema. Terrible que creen que pedir series a Vogue con personajes negrxs, lgbetiq, etc hará algún cambio.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

5 months

Juan Rulfo is smoking a pipe

Synekura Audio

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5 months

Kate Zambreno, 'Author Photo, Part One'

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Giles Goat-Girl

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27 days

@mvsteph1 secret location in mexico city

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2 years

@OldDreyfusard Amazing how Paul Ryan pretty much disappeared after the election.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

2 months

Books I read in April

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

2 months

Jameson calling hobbies a “ marginal and degraded experience” is a fascinating take

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

6 months

I fucking failed because I am completely addicted to this website.

Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

6 months

Visited nyc, bought some books, saw one of my favorite paintings. This will be my last post for a while, a friend has talked me into a social media break for two months. See y’all later.

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Giles Goat-Girl

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3 months

The last pages from Barth’s last book.

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3 months

Finished Chimera. Due to recent events it has been one of the most emotive reads in a while. A master of form.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

2 years

Dreaming of making 2023 the year where I read all the biggest unread (fiction) books in my library, displayed here by (the very imperfect metric of) page count, ascending. The cutoff at the bottom was 700 pages, and the longest—by almost a thousand pages—was of course, Proust.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

4 years

the coolest math thing to ever happen in mexico is like that algtop congress all the way back in 1956 which every professor still talks about despite not being there, after which hurewicz died falling of a maya pyramid.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

4 months

No Barth, Barthelme, Gaddis or Gass?

Gal Beckerman

@galbeckerman

4 months

Since thinking about the American canon has occupied a solid part of my brain for the last couple months, I'm happy now to offload this task to you...here's our list of 136 Great American Novels. Enjoy and argue.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

3 years

Person who has only watched evangelion interacting with another piece of media for the first time: reminds me of evangelion.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

1 year

i'm sorry but if you're a professor of literature and haven't read borges you're not a good professor of literature.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

3 months

Zach is one of the people here with the best taste! His excitement/love for Donoso should tell you how much you’re missing by not reading this masterpiece!

Zach Issenberg

@ZIssenberg

3 months

The greatest horror novel of all time returns! José Donoso's The Obscene Bird of Night is out today, in a new unabridged translation from @meganalimcd by @NewDirections . This novel is one of my greatest reading experiences, and it could be yours too. Do yourself a favor, read!

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

3 years

Can’t remember the last time a book made me think “what the fuck am I reading” so often, and I’m less than 50 pages in.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

10 months

4 books from this year

lóri

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4 books

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Giles Goat-Girl

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3 years

@kitesva yeah there's no way to make it look nice

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

3 months

wrong

Ryan Hauser ◁▷◁

@R__Hauser

3 months

Easily the best mascot/logo as well. Undefeated, in fact.

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@LinkofSunshine Not buying the clinton more progressive than Obama tbh

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7 months

@nrduford Assigned ftm at birth

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@nadienadianadie

3 months

If you see this, share four books you don't often see recommended!

Zach Issenberg

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3 months

If you see this, share four books you don't often see recommended!

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3 years

Hot take: anthony fantano is the oldest millenial

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

2 years

@tara_chara @acvalens Occupy lived way longer in the collective memory of everyone, even if 2020 seemed closer to a breaking point. Don’t really get why.

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@nadienadianadie

2 years

Corres llamando sionista a una persona nada más por ser judía? Quien lo diría…

Dana C

@Dana_Corres

2 years

Solo para que lo tengamos claro: la teoría queer y eso de la "performatividad del género" no es ni decolonial ni antirracista. Salió directamente de las universidades blancas y de la pluma de una mujer blanca y muy privilegiada (y sionista, además). En la teoría queer y en el

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2 months

Holy shit I opened this to read it at the bus atop (it has Stephen + wife’s ex libris)

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@nadienadianadie

2 months

A local bookstore got a good home library donation and I spent more money than I should have

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3 years

I want what William H. Gass and his wife Mary had.

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Giles Goat-Girl

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5 months

@bengrossbg coming around to your position after reading the article. I had assumed it was a donation which included some money for research and “make tuition free” was part of the agreement, but in reality it’s just the tuition part lol.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

4 years

All the math I do

CircumstantialEvidence

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4 years

Proof by stupidity

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3 months

Book I finished on public transport, book i started on public transport, and the book for which I rode public transport to buy.

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8 months

Upgraded the copy of the book I’m currently reading and is on pace to become my all time favorite

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9 months

Need to stay awake for a couple extra hours

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Giles Goat-Girl

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1 year

getting called classist by tenured professors over the belief that they should be well read.

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2 years

marcelo antimonarquista confirmed

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

8 months

I’ve been mulling this today with back/neck pain but here we go: ten favorite novels in no particular order: Infinite Jest Autobiography of Red Pedro Páramo Wittgenstein’s Mistress The Melancholy of Resistance The Puttermesser Papers Morirás lejos Hunger Giles Goat-Boy Solaris

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

4 years

do i know any math? no. do i pretend to know any math? i do

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

8 months

Big haul today plus two lucky dirt cheap ebay finds that didn’t mention they were signed :)

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Giles Goat-Girl

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3 months

Student protestors are going to student protest (good!) and admin is going to do admin stuff about that (generally bad!) but the concept of a “resistance to genocide minor” is straight out of Don DeLillo and incredibly funny.

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Incredible story. USC offers a minor in “resistance to genocide”, this girl minored in it, was named valedictorian, and then they cancelled her speech because she might talk about genocide

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3 years

Mathematics is just generalized counting

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2 years

@AliceAvizandum From the Wikipedia page of Witold Hurewicz, notable mathematician. Every year someone mentions it during topology classes.

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3 years

decided not to go to math grad school

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3 years

@grassmannian For almost all real numbers x, the coefficients of the continued fraction expansion of x have the same geometric mean, known as Khinchin’s constant. We have not proven that any specific number satisfies this, although the Euler-Mascheroni constant is a candidate.

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2 years

@MargBarAmerica What’s the gayest machine at the gym

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1 year

Decided to recreate one of the great meetings of postwar American writers using their books.

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16 days

the most annoying thing about the jk rowling lolita thing is that everyone is spelling it nabakov for some reason

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11 months

@hecubian_devil Incredible typo

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7 months

@socialaskan (that’s one of her better pics)

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

4 months

“Truly terrifying” lmao chill, it’s a perfectly reasonable illustration for a book of essays on food. And skewered is also a stretch, it’s just not entirely laudatory.

Geraldine Just Follow TheEverywhereist on Threads

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4 months

The New York Times just skewered my new book. The review is filled with personal attacks and tone-policing, and includes an aside that I didn't write about my father enough. But what is truly terrifying is the graphic they used, of someone dining on what appears to be my head.

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Giles Goat-Girl

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@crsseviltwin Nació en el 68. Asumiendo que haya salido de la prepa a los 18, estuvo en la unam del 86 al 90. Nadie lgbt en filos en la unam? Está hasta difícil de imaginar.

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@MedinaMora Ojalá no

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3 months

an album with one face on the cover

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an album with one face on the cover

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9 months

finished this holy shit what a book

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3 years

Most math is irrelevant and that’s okay

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10 months

Bookmail from a friend: three tomes and a novella

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

4 years

This is false. Teichmüller (and Bieberbach too) actively participated in the Deutsche Mathematik movement (including publishing in their journal) which aimed to eliminate "jewish influence" from the german mathematical practice. Fuck off.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

1 year

I’ve been in and out of slumps for a while now. Here are the four books I finished in June.

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@nadienadianadie

3 years

I don’t like this

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4 months

@CathodeFlowers @LegoRacers2 There were quite a few Soviet anthropologists/linguists working in Mexico in the twentieth century, so not as impressive but still really cool!

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

2 months

i think this person doesn't know what conversationalist means

Hannah Williams

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2 months

Very boring for somebody in the NY lit scene to interview their friend about their debut book and write about how they're the voice of their generation, yet again, because they write in updated-alt-lit-internet-speak

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2 years

@cervixpiercer WET NURSES. like I know there are similar things, but like. Like with this specificity.

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

4 months

Best book I’ve read in a while, please go check out @underreadgerman ’s video covering Hildesheimer, Koeppen, Schmidt and Johnson!

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

2 years

Found another of my favorite type of nlab pages

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

28 days

The prodigal daughter returns! Anyways here are the books I read while on a twitter break (missing the conference of the birds, no clue where I left my copy)

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

2 years

ok, but this means his dad is actually a comrade who has helped waste trillions of dollars in developing a useless warplane.

Jessica Ritchey (jmritchey.bsky.social)

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2 years

Lollllllllll Ana Mardoll's dad is one of the leads on Lockheed Martin's F-35 project. I'd figure you'd need that kind of pull in the company to be able to create a cushy job for your failson.

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@nadienadianadie

3 months

Giving me barthelme vibes

Alexc1ted

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I never know if it’s better to post a single photo or 4 photos whenever I get my film developed. Either way I’m obsessed with this photo so I’m going to post it again.

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2 years

@girlpecker @henrikenberg we need a fourth one to complete a political spectrum.

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3 months

insane bot reply (check the speed at which the account tweets)

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Giles Goat-Girl

@nadienadianadie

4 years

@ toda la comunidad trans de latinoamerica ya de una vez hay que aplicarle esto a españita

Andrew

@kohakudoori

4 years

You can exclude entire countries from seeing the content of your tweets too

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1 year

@Skylandersfan69 @APunishedBill Oh it gets worse: in another quote tweet she mentioned Zachee Imanitawho, a black trans woman who was recently murdered. This is the only time she has brought her name up.

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@nadienadianadie

3 years

@plt_abbie Have you really used all the arrows if you’re not using zapfino

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6 months

Doing coke for the first time at a bookstore is very on brand for me

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5 months

Sorry for screenshooting but lol. lmao even.

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5 months

Never not thinking about how Wendy Carlos and her longtime life partner got bottom surgery on the same day by the same doctor.

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@nadienadianadie

3 months

i'm sorry but if you're a professor of literature and you tweet something like this you're not a good professor of literature.

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The boomerification of Gen X reaches final form.

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3 months

i'm reading chimera right now and this happens

Luis Panini

@TheLuisPanini

3 months

R.I.P. John Barth. A most original and challenging author, creator of the quote embedded in a quote embedded in a quote embedded in a quote embedded in a quote embedded in a quote embedded in a quote (see his story Menelaiad, collected in his magnificent Lost in the Funhouse).

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@james_f_thomas My hot take has always been that it’s about the war

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