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Fopling
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One of my proudest achievements. It's been two years and I have not come close to matching it.
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Baker of bread, maker of wine, grad student of philosophy
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One of my proudest achievements. It's been two years and I have not come close to matching it.
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Im blessed in that both my girlfriend's cats love belly rubs! It's one of my favorite parts of visiting her
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I would never have thought about that. Good to know
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I wish I had them in my neck of the woods! I will make do with the Mallard ducklings
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Same, that was a great decision by the show
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We should never have chosen Schism as the song to keep the oarsmen in sync. They can't keep up with the time signature changes.
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The Suicide Squad Isekai is a deeply weird cultural artifact. It's the culmination of several long chains of influence hoping the Pacific multiple times across decades. The show itself seems a bit mid, but you could write a fascinating book tracing back all the influences to their origin points.
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To be is to be a masochist
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I'm dying internally after asking a lesbian in an excited tone "Have you seen Hundreds of Beavers?" I was asking about the movie with that title, but they started laughing at me before I could explain.
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I hate that it's AI doing this. It's can't preserve nuance. I don't necessarily hate making easier versions of books for people who aren't strong readers yet. I think a lot about Robinson Crusoe in Words of One Syllable, adapted in the 1860s for very young kids to learn to read.
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What is this from?
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My sourdough starter is a miraculous beast capable of bouncing back from more than three weeks of starvation in the fridge after only a single feeding
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I was single for about three years between my previous relationship and my current one. I leaned into my platonic relationships. There was a year when I went to a friend's house every single weekend to cook together.
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KAFUI. 🇬🇭
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You arrive in heaven. Before you stands The Lord, filthy and sweat soaked, wearing dingy tattered overalls. He gives you a once over while chewing contemplatively on a piece of straw. He drawls in an accent dripping with Savannah, “Does a boy get to whitewash a fence everyday, my child?”
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"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it — namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain." God as trixter trying to pass off his work onto his believers is a great concept
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Fopling
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Oh I don't know. I'd certainly call this debate exceptionally bad
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But a rewarding thread for those who found the end
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I tuned in to the debate and almost immediately wanted to turn it off again. This is such a repulsive exercise...
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Yeah, they didn't do a great job with the politics of East Germany. I mostly liked the dancing. That's the one thing I thought the remake did very well. Although, I could always rewatch the first half of Climax instead and get many more dance sequences.
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I'll have to add that one to my list. I was actually thinking about watching a Mario Bava movie tonight. On the Suspiria remake I'm totally with you. There are a lot of things I like about it, but it's a completely different experience from the original. I'd rather watch the original any day.
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Totally aside from my theory about Perfect Blue, I highly recommend the original Suspiria if you haven't seen it.
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I haven't seen that one, but it's directed by Bava so it might count. Giallo is characterized by a dreamlike tone juxtaposed with brutal murder, often committed by a black gloved figure. The films tend to be horror mysteries where discovering the identity of the killer is a big plot point.
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Do you like Giallo films? After watching Perfect Blue I saw a lot of formal similarities with that genre of Italian horror. I think Satoshi Kon must have at least seen some old Argento films.
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A couple of proud parents hanging out with their kids
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I'm watching Too Late for Tears, it's pretty good so far
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"She went down to the missing person's bureau and hasn't come back" great line
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Thinking about when a friend of Swinburne took him in and gave him a comfortable life. Swinburne never wrote great poetry after that. His friend said "I saved the man but killed the poet." Swinburne is my favorite poet, but I'm glad. He deserved happiness more than we deserve his poetry.
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Agreed, there can be no single category called intelligence. Even in a pluralistic model the act of hierarchizing people within it is pointless and often cruel.
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Average song about a woman written by a man: a woman is like a particularly good kind of truck. Average song about a woman written by a woman: my relationship with her is a combination of worshipful and erotic like unto that of Hosea with Jehovah.
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Shockingly similar to what I say when outlining my ontology. All of this is literally true
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Jana H-S (they/she)
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oh, you exist outside of the dichotomy. so do I. communication is an act of mutual self-destruction
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Fopling
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I've decided that I hate the Detroit airport. I'm contemplating my mortality in traffic
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That's alright, a knight and a queen (both pictured) are all you need to win a chess game.
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The continued violations bit is important. My favorite example was a speed camera placed on a four lane road at the bottom of a steep hill. Anyone who didn't ride their breaks continuously down the hill would get ticketed. You could stand on the sidewalk and watch it happen multiple times per hour.
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What exactly do you think canceling a historical figure entails other than hating them and explaining why other people should too? Thomas Jefferson is dead, nothing we do can hurt him. He won't go hungry because we point out his blatant hypocrisy.
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A pine overlooking the creek where I grew up. It's surrounded by larger deciduous trees which block some of its light. In the winter when it's the only green remaining it stands proud. The only one who can truly glory in the cold sun.
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To clarify I mean the walrus lifestyle
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Gorgeous beasts! I'm jealous of this lifestyle
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"The spirit of outlaw country is alive today in Canadian pop stars introducing that sound into country music" - some country musician on the radio I'm leaving this planet...
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I'd love to sit down with both Baudrillard and Marshall McLuhan. It would be interesting to see how they interact while talking about TV.
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Baudrillard Warned Us
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"In the image of television, the most beautiful prototypical object of this new era, the surrounding universe and our very bodies are becoming monitoring screens." - The Ecstasy of Communication
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I just make a pizza topped with spinach, goat cheese, fresh mozzarella, marinated tomatoes, and burrata
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You could always get into the language of flowers and start sending people messages they almost certainly will not understand
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Living in this crusader kings ass democracy
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The only bad news is that the echidnapus is extinct. I would love to see one in person.
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This was me with Simulacra and Simulation. There were whole essays in there where I couldn't even identify the broad strokes of the argument. Revisiting now has been more fruitful.
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Perhaps the most important task of all time, I'm glad you're taking it on
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Jana H-S (they/she)
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Paying A Mysterious Stranger 50 US Dollars For A Small Plastic Baggie Of Allegedly High Quality Posts
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So much AI video seems to have learned how light works from Thomas Kinkade paintings. It's so lush, saturated, and colorful in ways which look wrong
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I think these modules and exercises are more to sooth the conscience of administrators. They believe they have the moral high ground and that these students should be made to recognize that. The hand which wields the sword crying about how it's being forced into the violence.
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