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Waving spaceman is the harbinger of an account merely monitored and rarely interacted with. (he/him)

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Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future

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@growplantsgrow @ben_edlund "They talked, and through their exchange Farong came to a deeper awakening."

I suppose my curiosity is evidence I have a while before realizing enlightenment.

<shrug>

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@growplantsgrow @ben_edlund 3.) He found Farong sitting upright, paying no attention to his visitor. They talked, and through their exchange Farong came to a deeper awakening.

After that, the birds stopped bringing flowers.

And Farong didn't mind at all.

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@frogspadca @ben_edlund For what ever reason when watching it struck me "At a various levels of mass air must be like water and hummingbirds are in that water."

We walk through air like lumbering giants who feel it of little practical consequence until it gets windy.

Not so for hummingbirds.

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@ben_edlund irreplicable

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@ben_edlund All that text about finding the same point in space (but the irreplaceability) reminds me of the teeny bit of Žižek I've read where he talks about the Parallax View.

It would be interesting to see where you were going with that.

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@ben_edlund So many wings.

That's a 3x on a tempus fugit scale.

which reminds me of another metric:

millihelen - the beauty necessary to launch a single ship

I though I came up with that one, but learned, eventually, it had been around since the 40's if Issac Asimov is to be believed.

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@ben_edlund So many good candidates!

Not for me to judge, but, from the hip...

I say hug it out!

An amalgam!

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@ben_edlund "A ruff day in the city and the crime bosses had made justice a chew toy.

They say it takes a criminal heart to make it here.

But I took the case.

And I'm a good dog."

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@waywrdaughter67 @ben_edlund Ooooo. That's very good. And erudite.

IMHO there's one main contender: "Dingobat"

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@ben_edlund Other comedic mulch/candidate phrases:

"We'll comb out this problem."
"A brush with death..."
"That snake need to be dealt with - permanently!"
"What a wicked web and weave!"

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@ben_edlund Yikes!

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@ben_edlund LeCroix... Varieties of Religious Experience...

Ah, the pneumatic hiss of a perfectly fitted box.

It’s a reciprocal to the fleeting, near-religious ecstasy of opening a new Apple product.

I, as a sort of James, declare this absolutely as one of the variety.

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@cliffmarks I'm not sure which is more chilling - the prospect that it is rooted in a personal and idiosyncratic pathology, that is is banal mercilessness, or it is deliberate and has an intended effect,

Given the cohort in charge it could be a amalgam.

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

If you're reading this on Twitter, this is the long-promised notice that I'm done here. See you on the Fediverse, see you on Bluesky - see you in a world of enshittification-resistant social media.

It's been fun, until it wasn't.

55/

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@doctorow At last!

I can (basically) completely quit Twitter.
TWITTER! (I'm never calling it...that letter.)