Aswin

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[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

NO one has ever painted contemplation better than Caspar David Friedrich

[Satan’s Niece @thekrissychula]

This is high art

[Amanda Yee 余美娜 @radiofreeamanda]

🇺🇸U.S. politicians: We're the BEST democracy in the world because our people VOTE in elections. Everybody should be like us. So much democracy. USA #1!!!

🇨🇳Xi Jinping:

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The Washington Post reports that Michael Anton and Sebastian Gorka had a falling out over who should receive credit for writing Trump's speeches. This is incorrect. In this thread, I will tell you the real reason why Anton dislikes Gorka. 🧵

[Kim Willsher @kimwillsher1]

Avignon. Mass rape trial. Gisèle Pelicot takes the stand for the last time: "This is a trial of cowardice. It is a trial of Dominique Pelicot and a trial of cowardice. It is time that this machist society stops banalising rape". #Mazan #Pelicot

[David Challen @David_Challen]

Gisèle Pelicot is on the stand today and asked about her decision to continue using the surname "Pelicot".

Gisèle explains that when the trial began her children were "ashamed" of the name.

She adds: "I have grandchildren who are called that.

"Today, I want them to be proud of their grandmother.

"My name is known across the world now. They shouldn't be ashamed of carrying that name.

"Today we will remember Gisèle Pelicot."

Yes we will. What a woman.

#ShameMustChangeSides

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

John Fowles explains in "The Aristos" (1964) how high IQ can subvert your will to act: "High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis." Rule 1: Do not lose the will

[keerthik śaśidharan @KS1729]

"When I stepped into Chandra’s [S. Chandrasekhar] office for the first time in 1979, I was immediately intrigued by a photograph that faced him from the wall opposite his desk. As I stood looking at it, Chandra told me the following story. He had first seen the photograph on the cover of a New York Times Magazine and had written to the magazine for a copy. He was referred to the artist, Piero Borello. Borello replied that Chandra could have a copy, even the original, but only if he cared to explain why he wanted it. Chandra responded:

“What impressed me about your picture was the extremely striking manner in which you visually portray one’s inner feelings towards one’s accomplishments: one is half-way up the ladder, but the few glimmerings of structure which one sees and to which one aspires are totally inaccessible, even if one were to climb to the top of the ladder. The realization of the absolute impossibility of achieving one’s goals is only enhanced by the shadow giving one an even lowlier feeling of one’s position.”"

-- Kameshwar Wali

[Danny Lee Wynter @dannyleewynter]

A tribute to the DAME

I will never forget you.

My thoughts are with your sons, grandchildren, family, friends & your legions of fans throughout the world who admired & loved you.

I couldn’t sleep last night, so wrote some words (below).

[kache @yacineMTB]

chess is literally a meme, they play by muscle memory and you win if your opponent makes a mistake, no strategy beside hard memorization and practice

[Aswin @aswinmurthy1]

@avataram My grandfather’s. No idea of the model or age. It has been in the family a long time.

[Infinite Books @infinitebooks]

Italo Calvino on reading as imagination

[Aswin @aswinmurthy1]

@pranaykotas @resanering @ThePrintIndia Poorly written. Riddled with errors - both factual and reasoning.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

"Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offense or from insults or from hurt feelings. It is an occupational hazard of living in society."

- Ann Widdecombe

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Should luxury clothes be handmade? Let's talk about it. 🧵

[Ana Martin. Greek and Latin @The_Latin_Tutor]

Tucked away in a suburban London cemetery, a tomb in the shape of a Bedouin tent sticks out from the rest. Designed by Lady Isabelle Burton, it takes us to the fascinating world of one of the most eccentric Victorian intellectuals. Let's take a look inside - literally 🧵1/

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Aldous Huxley, a diagnosis of normies

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

Cheap rent made Philip Glass possible too, who told me in 2012: “The problem is, when I came to New York, it’s much more difficult now. You could work 3 days a wk loading a truck or driving a cab, and you’d have enough money to live off of" the other 3+ weeks to do your art!

[Chris Power @chris_power]

‘like every writer, he measured other men’s virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do’ - from ‘The Secret Miracle’ by Borges