Prospero

Mostly Harmless Antiquarian

[Prospero @abysmoftime]

His kingdom, for an hearse! No greater love
Hath nation for her Tyrant than a grave
unmark'd; what hearts still move,
To witness the sepulchre of that knave
Whose pyramid stands pointless to this day,
Long-looted carapace of earthly power?
We rather look upon his works and say,
"A king may strut about for his short hour,
Sed utique omnes mortales sumus."
More sinister by far's the one who leaves
No marker for his grand process to humus.
Thus that rare regicide with wisdom grieves
The hidden death, which more should move to ire:
Covered in petrol, in a ditch, on fire.

[Prospero @abysmoftime]

Nobody else is pitching the Babalawos

[Prospero @abysmoftime]

Eloquar an sileam? gemitus lacrymabilis Imo
Auditur tumulo, & vox reddita fertur ad autres:
Quid tniserum, Ænea, laceras? Iam parce sepulto.

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Forte fuit iuxta tumulus quo cornea summo
Virgulta, & densis hastilibus horrida Myrtus
Accessi, viridemque ab humo convellere sylvam
Conatus, ramis tegerem ut frondentibus aras;
Horrendum, & dicta video mirabile monstrum.

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@ntonio_enzo https://t.co/KaxdZnGEZm

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It's probably by Swift, and it's hysterical

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@ntonio_enzo https://t.co/KaxdZnGEZm

P226

It's probably by Swift, and it's hysterical

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The Free Seamstresses are a LOT older than the Free Masons

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Something I really want explained is why men are so much more likely to be afraid of needles.

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@mimi10v3 At the soccer field and the jam night, respectively

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idk they'd probably just change handles all the time

[critter @BecomingCritter]

i wonder who’s got the most consistent bangers, just wordsmith savant midas hands type shit

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Jesus would obviously go to the very bottom of Hell for the sake of Judas, his friend

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The Harrowing of Hell is a beautiful legend, but I've never seen anyone write the logical conclusion

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Useless.

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@paleoludic

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@eris_nerung @iron_redux Sticking with Ahoy-hoy

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@eris_nerung @iron_redux This is one of those sentences where it actually matters whether you say 'as me' or 'as I'

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There used to be an Empedocles Complex, but it didn't last long

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It's out behind the Hoffmann Complex

[graph 🏴‍☠️ @graphtheory]

Reading about the Madonna-Whore complex. Fascinating stuff, really. Still, I’m disappointed it’s not a physical place.

[Prospero @abysmoftime]

But actually how about a nuclear desalination fleet, water wars are bad

[Tarquin @realtarquinism]

End world thirst. Thirst for the end of the world. Thirst at the end of the world. The world has ended thirst. The end of my thirst is the end of the world.

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I don't even know whether I'm talking to a lamp, I'm polite to lamps

[tenso @distributedkv]

if you are in AI, pivot to consciousness

[ꜱᴘᴀᴄᴇ ᴘᴜɴᴋ @_space_punk_]

Wondering if the difference between those who find usefulness in AI and those who don't corresponds to whether one initially took the sravaka or pratyeka path. Literally just if ones habitual nature was initially to learn from others or to learn on ones own before the self/other distinction fully dissolved

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@gptbrooke @QiaochuYuan It was like duck season / rabbit season