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plotting about

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all writing is about recognition.

dress it up, dress it down. everyone is looking for a way to be seen, to have the feeling they can't articulate be articulated for them.

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

woa this is so fun!

[cold 🥑 @coldhealing]

"Dinergoth" is an accurate term to describe an interesting trend in middle American culture but that article is seething and offputting in a way that any serious publication would have significantly edited

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@coldhealing Substackification of media

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No babe I’m fine I just didn’t know George W. Bush had a substack that’s all

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Download hinge. Swipe. Match. Talk. Go on exactly one date. If it doesn’t work, delete the app and never redownload.

[Alis @alisha_hg]

Insane how my sister downloaded hinge, matched and met her bf, and they’ve been together ever since. Literally one and done, didn’t know that was even possible in nyc.

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Real clout is successful illegibility

[Grace 🦎🩵🐣🐈‍⬛🌃 @HormoneHangover]

I know of a beautiful woman who wrapped up her Chemistry PhD and went to become a cloistered nun, intending to never go outside the convent again. What a rare and strange life experience. I wonder how she’s doing in there?

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The goal of going on a date isn’t convincing the other person to like you, it’s being so authentic you polarize them and get signal

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If you don’t have the chip on your shoulder, you’re going to lose.

He who has a why can bear almost any how.

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The corollary to this is that the pirate places are becoming structured and de-risked. Was way harder to start a company 10 years ago vs today

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The world is getting both more striver-coded (finance, college admissions, grad schools) and pirate-rewarded (crypto, startups, content)

The middle class of agency is disappearing

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https://t.co/Qg7e54Xy4o

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The single thing I tell my guy friends on how to date / The only thing that moves the needle:

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She always speaks in riddles, I call her the sphinx

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"my rent is high so i'm in favor of rent control"
"my taxes are high so i'm in favor of lower taxes"

"whatever benefits me should win" is not a set of values that policy can sustainably be made from. the people yearn for rawl's veil of ignorance

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People get so weird about the "tricks" to make someone like them. Make eye contact, say their name, etc. Sorry the trick is to have aura

[Cartoons Hate Her! @CartoonsHateHer]

Amateur psychoanalysis has led many women to diagnose their lukewarm boyfriends and dates as "avoidant attached" when they're actually just disinterested--or even when they're treating them in objectively horrible ways. Link in replies.

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citrini article was 1 week ago btw

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it's surprising that people don't lie more. it takes effort to, and this ends up being generally good (i.e. most social media news seems true or true with a spin)

obviously ai makes lying easier but currently still more friction to prompt a lie at this point

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@visakanv https://t.co/2tlz7q89tB

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Instagramification of reality

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Instagramification of reality

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

there's a phenomenon that everyone here must be familiar with by now, but I feel like it hasn't yet been given a really good name. it's the relegation, demotion, debasement of in-person reality in service of media/content/feeds/socials. i'll start collecting examples here

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all good lives are funny little lives