Sweetums McGoo

the pulchritudinous balatron

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

Descartes on poetry:
FRIEND: It feels like four beats, maybe tetrameter?
DESCARTES: I think they're four iambs.

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

I saw the surface of her, merely the outer shell, and realized she was mere surface all the way to her core.

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

I don’t like the nature of this world. Why does her fur have feathers?

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

A body of man holding itself to my body
Accountable to nobody ought trust themselves

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty:

the spirit of the creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow- berry

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

Do I onion?

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

I like to play dumb but I don’t know how

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

“Every grain of rice you leave behind
is one maggot you eat in hell” OEWBG 12

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

Probably a good idea to program laziness into future AI. Cost benefit analysis of the usefulness of a given task is an important limit and might help against AI takeover because it’s literally…not…worth…it

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

I am always wearing this hat I can’t quite pull off

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

Shit i thought it was just sober october 1st

I’ll do better next year

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

I was today years old when I figured out that a sestina and a sestet are different things

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

My favorite spot to drink these days has so many barrels that no one can fit anymore unless you’re inside a barrel

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

“I can’t wait until they’re gone
I can’t wait until you’re gone
And I can go back to
Only having nail polish
In the fridge”- Anna 6/21/24

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

Watching my favorite trilogy tonight

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

Every time I go through a metal detector I immediately bite a spider because you never know

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

r u up?

lets rework the ancient myths

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

IT IS TIME…

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

fractal spiced lattes
streaming out into infinity
chestnut hieroglyphs
diacritical pumpkins
peppermint monoliths
encased in chrome and
chasms of deep green

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

A message from those trapped at Burning Man has just been released:

"They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes. We cannot get out. A shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are coming!"

[Sweetums McGoo @tangentleman]

The nurse offered me a glossier pamphlet of post-vasectomy care than the one I had, but I didn’t see a vas deferens.