Eleanor Gordon-Smith

Otter enthusiast. Philosophy PhD @ Princeton. Advice column at @GuardianAus. Stuff on radio. I'm not here any more, email me if you need.

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

@alex_usyd if this isn't Malabar then there are more horsey beaches than I am aware of and I need to come home post haste

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

The truth is I think we can control our sneezes and I look down on people who gender theirs. That walrus bark or the twinkle of fairy on a mushroom. Knock it off

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

@NoamChompers @sillynous We watched this the other night and it was so bananas that I a) cried and b) tried to mount the case that all horror is immoral (abandoned in the light of day)

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

@sillynous have you seen the boiler room set

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

@HiPhiNation I would rather turn *myself* to dust

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

Learning a new DAW is like moving house in that your fate is entirely sealed by the first week. You think "I'll figure that out later" & you mean "time will turn my grandchildren to dust before I attend to that again"

[Latif Nasser @latifnasser]

I always thought if you were charged with a crime in the USA, you could plead 3 ways:
(1) GUILTY
(2) NOT GUILTY or
(3) say nothing aka NO CONTEST (basically same as guilty)

Turns out, there’s a 4th option. A weird paradoxical & surprisingly common one you prob never heard of. 🧵

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

@ALogins I'm confident there was a big session about this at the 2016 Aristotelian society (with Kimberley Brownlee?) but for the life of me I can't find the program

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

@ALogins Sometimes wonder whether 'company' fits this bill. Does solitary confinement do something rights-based by depriving people of social contact, or is it just super extra experientially bad

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

@ArsonAtDennys stare with more wonder and perplexity than you've ever seen, track each bubble with their whole head, then ultimately be offended that they get wet if they stick their paw in it

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

if you are ever fatigued of imagination, drudgery has taken over delight, you think nothing can be seen anew, stick some bubbly water in front of a cat

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

@tfswebb Oh no. I thought you were just excited to have found the original ahaha

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

I would just like to say that writing an advice column has turned out to be one of the best & most fulfilling things I've ever done. I get so much from hearing about other people's ways through life. Anyway thank you for reading and letting me do this, how improbable ♥️

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Homeless person describes the most devastating thing they lost when the city swept away their stuff:

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

@mikesbarnes Whenever we go home so many Australians turn to Colin like "and tell me, do you agree that healthcare and education are good?"

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

You know that Zelle ad where he pays his friend for half of lunch by talking into his phone? And the amount he transfers is ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY FIVE US DOLLARS? I hate him and his rich lunch

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

Ok a huge part of the problem, obviously, is boys. But do not underestimate the extent to which the problem is also: nyc

[♡s♡ @sun_girlxo]

There’s this girl on TikTok who has a series investigating boys’ rooms in NYC and it’s my new favorite thing in the world.

Guaranteed some girl out there is losing her mind over this guy not texting her back

[Eleanor Gordon-Smith @TheRealEGS]

Circles by Mac Miller is still really nice

[Alexandre Lefebvre @alex_usyd]

I was invited to apply for the directorship of Australia Catholic University's Program in Western Civilization.

Here's my reply. @larkofadefinite @BrianLeiter