David

he/him. powered by coffee & tiny notebooks. now doing some policy, writing, and Muay Thai 🥊things in Fiji 🇫🇯 . Tweets my own. 🏳️‍🌈

[David @queerdavid]

get in loser, we’re going to Cyberia

[David @queerdavid]

I knew these were AI-generated faces but when I scrolled down to “himbo” the GASP I made… we might be cooked

[David @queerdavid]

This track is fantastic but is Lisa not reading Tarantino for his feet thing in the chorus? https://t.co/Ro0VBFzuyu

[Ditoks 🍉 @ditoks]

Temen2 ada yg bisa bantu/punya info queer shelter di Jakarta?

Dulu smpt bookmark twitnya tp hilang

Thank you all

[David @queerdavid]

https://t.co/mWLDNYKgZk

[David @queerdavid]

Oh to be a twinky knight with a plant shaped helmet

[nadhir @yesterdhir]

variant knight helm commission

[David @queerdavid]

very nice album in the "mantras + electronic music" genre https://t.co/mCoJMo7iNl

[David @queerdavid]

Some real gems in this one

[alex 🐀 @tinysnekcomics]

instead of spending election day doomscrolling or endlessly refreshing vote counts, i have a treat: a new and improved political compass for 2026, ranking politicians and important figures on the only dimensions that truly matter

[David @queerdavid]

I have increasingly been noticing while scrolling when I start to get a sort of vague, clenched smile on my face that accumulates after seeing a handful of funny posts. I've started mentally calling it "phone rictus". Like, "oh, I have phone rictus, time to put down the phone for a bit".

[David @queerdavid]

Truly remarkable cover image on the Wikipedia page for "electrostatics": https://t.co/T0J6vDy5NP

[David @queerdavid]

RIP Patrick Stewart. I tear up time I watch this monologue from Trek, where he retells a familiar myth to a dying alien captain.

https://t.co/Pgu469FS6e

[Jun 🦚 @junoraurusan]

Pamer beskap baru dgn kamera jelek (klo saya nya mah, gantenk)

[Richard D. Bartlett @RichDecibels]

the kids are alright

[David @queerdavid]

@QiaochuYuan Rhymes with meditating but not practicing sila

[yoshimi battles a reading backlog @nise_yoshimi]

the reason moby-dick remains such a vital piece of human art is that it addresses what is probably one of humanity's greatest collective atrocities, the genocide of the whales, with an ambivalence it cannot itself fully articulate. melville is distraught, but he can't explain why

[David @queerdavid]

@realityacid108 “Buddhism is neither dual nor non-dual” is an extremely good line that I am mentally bookmarking

[David @queerdavid]

@yesterdhir Messages from a happier timeline https://t.co/yR8JzBX8A7

[David @queerdavid]

I am losing my mind at this ascetic practice mentioned in the Pali Canon that vaguely resembles puppy play:

Then Puṇṇa, son of the Koliyans, an ox-duty ascetic, and also Seniya, a naked dog-duty ascetic, went to the Blessed One. Puṇṇa, the ox-duty ascetic, paid homage to the Blessed One and sat down at one side, while Seniya, the naked dog-duty ascetic, exchanged greetings with the Blessed One, and when this courteous and amiable talk was finished, he too sat down at one side curled up like a dog. Puṇṇa, the ox-duty ascetic, said to the Blessed One: “Venerable sir, this Seniya is a naked dog-duty ascetic who does what is hard to do: he eats his food when it is thrown to the ground. He has long taken up and practised that dog-duty. What will be his destination? What will be his future course?” (MN 57)

[David @queerdavid]

Incredibly annoying they decided to call it argon. Argon, the gas, is my favorite element. I keep thinking there is some hot news about the third most common gas in the atmosphere and getting momentarily excited.

[David @queerdavid]

I was hooked from Book 1, but it got to another level at the end of Book 5 with Moiraine vs. ******, just an insane confrontation I still think about decades after reading it.

[The Wheel Reads: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Chaos! @thewheelreads]

Five days.
What was the moment when Wheel of Time went from:
"This is pretty good."
to
"Oh. I'm reading all 14 books."

[David @queerdavid]

For my birthday I performed the sortes vergilianae, as I do every year, and drew one of the worst conceivable predictions, 11.49:

Et nunc ille quidem spe multum captus inani...
("and now, deluded by a vain hope...").

Aeneas is bringing the remains of Pallas to King Evander. Aeneas imagines that Evander is at home hoping for his son's safe return, unaware of his death in battle.

The Viscount Falkland also drew a line from this section of Book 11, from the same book that saw King Charles I draw a line from Book 4. Both of them were subsequently killed in the English Civil War, outcomes that were believed to have been predicted by those draws. This is an infamous story among classicists, it came up in in one of my Latin classes in college. https://t.co/OylZiEIMLQ