Porphyrios

Employed (not sailing)
I go on walks
Olive oil and little things that come from the sea that you put on rice
JSBach fangirl
Now in the New World

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

A log-linearization in macroeconomics is equivalent to the assumption of a flat earth in physics. You reduce dimension and iron out non-linearities, like in an ordinary Mercator map. For small deviations, like walking the dog it may be a harmless assumption, but sailors beware!

[イレ @MlCETTO]

non sopravvivereste un giorno nelle università italiane dove l’esame è il 100% del voto lmao

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

Greatly ignorant on Balkans

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

@sharghzadeh Anyone who enjoys the winter is spiritually protestant and anally retentive

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

Me: I am not an orientalist
Also me:

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

Granada nel cuore

[Estrella ۞ Andalusí @baetis77]

Henry Stainer fue un pintor decimonónico nacido en Birmingham. En un viaje a Granada creó cuadros de corte romántico y orientalistas que mezclaban el exotismo de la Alhambra con la cotidianidad de sus habitantes.

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

@47Tolkien Most accurate map I have seen. Atlantic Spain and Croatia are definitely not S.

I would stretch C to the Apennines instead of the Po. That river is no border.

It looks harsh to put north east Greece, and European Turkey with Latvia.

[Andrew Guttenberg @guttenbirder22]

People dunk on overspending on clothes, but it’s legitimately one of the best things you can spend money on. $78 is two or three restaurant meals.

I’m 35 and I got a nice Patagonia fleece in HIGH SCHOOL that I still wear every week. I’m sure I’ve washed it at least 200 times.

[Kayvan @hichmadaan]

Orientalism (1978) was a masterpiece n all but Said failed to consider the fact that Orientalism is just aesthetically off the charts.

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

@rpatinoguzman Eh, just killed my paper

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

Nothing is as vicious as the fight for the second-to-last place betthe latter two competitors.

[شرق‌زده sharghzadeh @sharghzadeh]

Protestant iconoclasm culture. It’s the same reason Muslims love calligraphy.

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

My biggest wish is to be made central banker of Lebanon

[Wilterson Witzky da Silva 🀄🇫🇰 @ww_dasilva]

"Central Banker of a 3rd World Country" is up there with "Imperial Bureaucrat Sent to the Empire's Outskirts" in terms of jobs I most yearn for

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

Literally me

[michael @heatherr0ads]

roommate just told me he’s “running off seven hours of sleep”

[Saturn @ProfilStandard]

Athens is closer to Oran or Alexandria than it is to Paris or London.

It’s because Greeks are not westerners. They’re the quintessence of Orient.

[The Mind Scourge @TheMindScourge]

Ironically, the very thing that has been billed as a source of freedom - the car - is in reality the source of the greatest restrictions on freedom day to day in the US today

To say nothing of the financial costs of a car, the percentage of your mortgage you pay to house it in your garage (no one calculates this, but it’s not insignificant) or on the street, and the way the built environment is degraded by their presence, but specifically the way an entire police surveillance and regulatory regime has grown up around the car. The primary - often, only - way Americans *ever* engage with the police is via the car. Think about every viral police video - a majority start with the car. You could eliminate an entire class of police interactions without the car. Then beyond that you have mass license plate tracking (this would never be accepted if it was facial recognition), the registration/inspection structure, etc

Just a massive cost burden the industry (and government in collaboration) extracts from society

[Zak Kukoff @zck]

Scathing compliment from a turbo WASP in the elevator this morning: “Your shoes! They look so comfortable!” My shame knows no bounds

[Mikita 👨‍💻 @mikitaposts]

I love Albania 🇦🇱

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

Every thought that comes into my head is axiomatically true until disproven by my mind.

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

Finally in a sane country where the compatriots of the other sex know how to dress and what make ups to avoid. We're so back!

[Porphyrios @iltimorediddio]

Most people go from having a raw personality to an overcooked one