thanattis.bsky.social, connoisseur of failure

it/they. philosopher, meditator, buddhist, post-left total liberation anarchist w/o adjs, vegan straightedge, AAAspec queer, hapkidoist, musician, crypto trader

[thanattis.bsky.social, connoisseur of failure @thanattis]

Tweet only according to that Content whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become universally Relatable.

[alex bronzini-vender @alexbronzini]

Unironically what it's like to be a Harvard student in 2026

[heathcliff @heathcliff_184]

this is the cleanest public urination in the history of public urination and the panopticon still has a problem with omg fuck off

[scientism @mr_scientism]

People don’t actually believe you can learn subjects by reading books anymore. The popular model of learning is ‘learning by doing’ and video is second hand ‘learning by doing‘. Software developers (the first illiterate technical class) pioneered this worldview.

[Martha Ahumuza @MarthaAhumuza]

I recently saw a tweet that said "If women were told that having four fingers was the beauty standard, some would cut one off and still insist they did it for themselves." (paraphrased). Obviously that's hyperbole, but why do so many of our "personal preferences"

[semi fungible individual @CyrusOfHearts]

There's a developmental stage for middle class westerners where you genuinely believe all harm in the world can be avoided, and you get obsessed with finding possible processes and strategies for this - trigger warnings, points of privilege, pronouns.

It's quite a joyful state

[Puck! @puhcko]

You used to be able to jokingly steal a cops gun and all you would get is a literal slap on the wrist- you have no idea what we have lost.

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

Appeals to authority, status or credentials are the first refuge of the scoundrel and an immediate concession in any argument.

[地獄ケーキ(Hokusaist)👹🐉🗡️🇺🇸 @JigokuCake]

Engineer: "Getting a lot of machine vibes from this ancient temple."

Biotech guy: "That can't be right. I'm getting microbiological vibes."

[Steel-Toed Turbo Nerd @PaToFe4]

I’m left handed, play right handed guitar. I’ve thought about this a lot - The left hand might have to contort into weirder shapes, but with frets, you’ve got a wide area to hit, and a lot of what you’re doing is holding static shapes, muscle memory is enough. But time is *everything* - and especially with something like finger style guitar, where you need to be running a bass line + melody with 3-4 fingers, you need that more dextrous hand on the job.

Obviously you can train your non-dominant hand, piano players do it all the time. But there’s a reason I incorporate a lot of tapping and hammering, etc, into my playing. My left is just better at keeping time.

The last bit - since your left hand is holding the neck, you’ve naturally got a really strong foundation to use to support your hand. Whereas w/ the right hand, best case you’ve got 1 or 2 fingers braced against the body, worst case your hand is floating over the strings. Like painting a wall by either standing on a ladder, or being suspended from the ceiling, swinging from a rope.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

One thing that is NOT intuitive to me at all, is that right handed guitarists do their most technically complex work with their left hand, while the right hand can often get away with just really repetitive strums, whose only job is to stay on beat.

[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

Waking up in the morning is tough because one minute you’re a raw consciousness surfing chaotic waves of association and memory, and then suddenly you’re a person with a life and responsibilities.

[elliotism @elliotismz]

His occasional slop notwithstanding, Schlick is a quote master

"Then, it won't be necessary to talk about "philosophical questions", as *all* questions will be talked about philosophically, that is, meaningfully and clearly"

[sigh ‎ ‎ ‎ ⊹ swoon @sighswoon]

Once upon a time the internet felt bigger than the real world. A ton of windows expanding your view. Now it’s the opposite. A single friend group is far more complex than a global comment section. And there’s a reason for this. Internet used to feel like real people sharing their real lives. Now it’s a sort of hall of ghosts. These ghosts can be opinions formed off dead data , spoken through the voice of real people. A kind of haunting, shallow breeze from yesteryear. It could be passing feelings that are no longer felt by the individual, or even remembered. The simple sensation of simply ~not knowing at all what or who someone is, or where they’re speaking from~ may be the most dead feeling of all. Mystery on the internet is different than mystery in nature. Mystery in nature points to God. Mystery online points to a hole

[Mary Townsend @chezaristote]

grad school sets you up to think that the only spiritual completion of the intellectual life is a certain sort of job, and the painfulness of thinking your virtue has failed to live up to this is a horrible thing to do to a psyche

[florence 🦐🏳️‍🌈 @morallawwithin]

man these cowfuckers are desperate

[kndy!!!☭ @medearchive]

i joined my postgrad programme for english literature this Monday and when a professor asked during introduction what we all were reading all of them said they don't read even though they want to teach at a collegiate level. i am kinda depressed about this ngl.