Mellow Diffidence

A walking challenge to all that is lucid, moral and concise; @[email protected]

[Luigi de Guzman @ouij]

I continue to be amazed that people think it strange that we #Jeopardy contestants can be friends.

Folks, in life you have two choices: make friends or make enemies. Make friends.

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

I do not know whether they will say this only wunce, but I nonetheless encourage you to read attentively...

[Operation Mincemeat @mincemeatlive]

This message is of a nature most importanté. Please share this message with your allies and make sure they’re signed up to the mailing list in order to receive crucial Operation Mincemeat communications. You have your orders… https://t.co/MD5P4tN8NZ

[Daring Fireball @daringfireball]

‘How I Experience the Web Today’
https://t.co/dQagDSknFE

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

How interesting! I, myself, am also somewhat short-staffed at the moment.

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

It's because of the stairs, isn't it.

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

Can’t help but think the “No e-Unicycles” sign at this tube station must have a pretty good backstory.

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

Another fantastic night at @mincemeatlive. I have no idea how you folks do this every night, but I’m so glad you do. I’m a giggling inconsolable happy wreck AGAIN. #GodThatsBrilliant

[Jeff Maurer @JeffMightBWrong]

Damn...CAPTCHAs getting hard.

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

From "How Poems Are Made" by Alice Walker:

[Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay]

'I am attracted to ellipsis, to the unsaid, to suggestion, to eloquent, deliberate silence.'

— Louise Glück

Love this. Links for me to Walter Bagehot: 'We must not let in daylight upon magic.' Today there is so much block capitals art. Making all explicit. Utterly spelled out.

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

Occam https://t.co/K9tPG7Ueux

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

@Stunt_Girl @twiterney @idr_labs @Stummerprime Kobayashi Maru V2…

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

@twiterney @Stunt_Girl @idr_labs @Stummerprime

[Adam Roberts @arrroberts]

Reciting the Litany on the Dover Road. https://t.co/9do5HZ8AsE

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

“Mum, I TOLD you I’m called Ravenfeather Blackclaw now!”

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

Particularly enjoying the Metashambles. FB has now reached the difficult part of its adolescence during which it is sitting in its bedroom wearing black, thinking it understands Nietzsche like no one before, and will either…

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

…disappear up its own fundament or become an utterly intolerable adult-in-name-only who talks incessantly about Ayn Rand at parties that no one invited it to.

[Annalee Newitz is @[email protected] @Annaleen]

Facebook's favorite response to every scandal is "we're hiring 10,000 people to deal with this." Remember when they supposedly hired 10,000 content moderators? Now they're hiring 10,000 people to build the metaverse! https://t.co/gCuE1Ik32Q

[Mellow Diffidence @darklooks]

@ouij @RMFifthCircuit Each time I reread I have new questions, and they’re always “What?!”