Prospero

Mostly Harmless Antiquarian

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"The kings go up and the kings go down,
And who knows who shall rule;
Next night a king may starve or sleep,
But men and birds and beasts shall weep
At the burial of a fool.

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@transgendererer bad knees

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Outlook is down

Suddenly the boomers take me seriously

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elder millennial convos be like

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@uPrice11 @funplings yes it is, you're thinking of providence plantations

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RIP uncle Jim https://t.co/9CM1zvzq3w

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all downhill since the Sinclair expedition frankly

[nephew jonathan @nephew_jonathan]

@NomDeFlume Mayflower-era Heritage Americans ONLY. Winthrop ship riffraff go back to England

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@repressionnap fair point; suppose I am overexposed to the exceptions

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this is probably why they act like the wehrmacht

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@garlic_wife pretty much every person born between 1990 and 2010 is on amphetamines

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@tracewoodgrains one of the least alien people here, tbh

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@MateriaMundi My mother was much taken with the Materia Mundi setting, and sends her regards.

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@floor_per_area @PrinceVogel oh God, I would never leave

[avery @averykimball]

if *all you have* is narcissistic identity

a contraption of levers you must hurry to pull before someone else pulls them, in shame for you

to what purpose might this horrid, powerful, relentless device be turned

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Well yeah what did you think the booze was for

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Owl_of_Atena @cradrrat Real men manage their own memory

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Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

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Trunchbull Effect

[autumn @adrusi]

how tf is "rapist who blogs about his horrifying rapes" a real thing, in my vicinity?

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@funplings @fractaltechnyc that is an incredibly fun bit of graphic design

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Realizing lately that a huge amount of good things in my life are downstream of dating happily in high school

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I can see my house from here!

[Stephen Stirling @SStirling]

I did it.

500,000+ isometric buildings. 150,000 street trees. 18,000 streets.

SimPhilly is done. Check back tomorrow for a link to the interactive map.

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just learned there's a congressman from Arizona called "Amish Shah" and now I'm thinking about Anabaptist Iran

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Freemasons are fundamentally an African institution

[plasma ۞ @plasmarob]

Freemasons are fundamentally a protestant institution but modern ones don't know that! And are anti mason

The consequences of this are continuing to take place