Jayinee Basu

author of The City of Folding Faces and Asuras; translated Sukumar Ray's HJBRL

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it's 2023 and we still don't have automatic paper towel dispensers that shriek "JUST RIP MY FOCKIN TONGUE OUT MATE" at you

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these jalapeno salamis taste like safety pin

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@weirdoglitch @poppy_haze coincidentally @poppy_haze and I have both been photographed by @mfortki who also wrote about City of Folding Faces for iO9! <><><><> trippy

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wow this reality is so realistic

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@JonathanMetzl very! helped me to develop a healthy suspicion toward the Internet of Things

(original tweet was referencing a Disney Channel movie called Smart House lol)

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the only lesson I remember from childhood is that you should aim to have a house of median intelligence otherwise it'll trap you inside of it and try to be your mother

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what if instead of a car you could get someone to crumple you up into a ball and throw you where you need to go

you can be a spitball if it's an overnight trip and you need a bath

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ox bone soup is basically just really diluted lotion for your inside tube

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one of those fake memory towns for elders with dementia except for inconsolable billionaires after the revolution featuring lifelike robot interior decorators and swimming pools filled with plastic coins

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am i the only one who wishes the atmosphere were a petroleum based gel instead of this gaseous nitrogen/oxygen bullshit?

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Hajmola flavored Smarties called Farties

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it’d be so wild if people talked about other disease processes as weirdly as they do psychiatric ones;
yeah you have gallbladder wall thickening due to an unconscious response to some kind of trauma (i.e. an infection) that is now resulting in the conscious perception of pain

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A man yearns to see the raccoon who eats his cat’s food every night. But the raccoon is never seen

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why did baby yoda develop sclera, I was hoping it’d have 350 degree vision like a horse

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a wall with a bunch of pendulum clocks ticking loudly out of sync is made creepier by the fact that they'd sync up fairly quickly due to entrainment, meaning someone put up a million clocks only a moment ago just to scare you

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@saderotica Ice by Ana Kavan

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lip balm application provides sense of relief unparalleled in modernity

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how hard could it possibly have been to at some point insert the idea into a text or social practice of hinduism that if you’re touched by an “untouchable” the only way to purify yourself is by lighting yourself on fire

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"When a non-noxious stimulus causes the sensation of pain the area will be termed hyperaesthetic"