#Writing

classic rock as john mulaney bits: a thread co-created by emily @spicylennon because who else could help me combine our two favorite things into one hell thread david bowie john
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I’ve seen a couple critiques of sclerotic bureaucracy lately that feel insightful but a little off to me. (https://americanmind.org/features/the-green-zone-plan/burst-the-complacency-bubble-before-its-too-late/, https://medium.com/@curtis.yarvin/plan
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I’m starting to strongly believe that mathematics is neither “obvious” nor “natural”.https://twitter.com/yet_so_far/status/1291867429245722630 I am not an expert on cognition, so what follows is pure shitpost, but let us think abo
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The NYT story about Bright was not structured as a story, it was more like a gossip item, forthrightly saying the whole item was “he claims.” Ppl still read it
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1/? I didn’t want to get onto this disk horse but I will. I hate to say it guys, in pop fantasy orcs are racist caricatures of black people, among
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Not sure how to explain this, but ALF was quite popular. In 1988, a Burger King promotion offered a series of ALF cardboard records and hand puppets. There was an
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my articulate thoughts: Dabi is set up as a DIRECT foil to Shouto (irt personal autonomy). Shouto's development was set around become his own person *despite* his upbringing, and here
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Sharing my Personal Knowledge Management system is made up of 4 types of note:- A capture note: unedited text captured in various ways- Organisation notes- Distil notes: expressing capture notes
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Short thread on @johnypits Afropean, notes from black Europe. Original plan: read it as companion to our planned summer Euro train hol. Then Covid intervened. So I read it now
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Hi, my name is LiamI enjoy coffee, people watching and writing about it.I have solar-powered confidence, I have a battery-operated smile.My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphorsAnd
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IF I HAD THREE WISHES... (a thread)• (1) - i wish ALL WISHES (not just mine) have to be ORALLY REQUESTED, meaning i can’t be slyly granted in thought or
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♥︎ 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝘆 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗷𝗮𝗰𝗸 —𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥. almost two years have passed since i started stanning you and calling you an idol. from the first day i knew you were going
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I am re-writing my tweet thread here to better link the 22 tweets together. These are Trump predictions from 2016. Somehow after the passage of time, 22 tweets didn’t link
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Went to the @fieldmusicmusic Zoom Q&A last night (of course) and I was once again struck by how lucky I am to have been following them for 15 years (God,
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I think it's important to remember the context William Golding was writing in when he wrote Lord of the Flies. His motivation was twofold, as I understand it. First, he
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Case and point to why you should pre-order locally rather than from Am*zon: Not a single bookstore within 50 miles of me has AMONG THE BEASTS & BRIARS in stock
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