Aswin @aswinmurthy1

... Chennai, India Joined January 2010

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Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy

6 months ago

NO one has ever painted contemplation better than Caspar David Friedrich

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Satan’s Niece @thekrissychula

6 months ago

This is high art

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Amanda Yee 余美娜 @radiofreeamanda

9 months ago

🇺🇸U.S. politicians: We're the BEST democracy in the world because our people VOTE in elections. Everybody should be like us. So much democracy. USA #1!!! 🇨🇳Xi Jinping:

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The Washington Post reports that Michael Anton and Sebastian Gorka had a falling out over who should receive credit for writing Trump's speeches. This is incorrect. In this thread, I will tell you the real reason why Anton dislikes Gorka. 🧵

John Hudson @John_Hudson

11 months ago

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Kim Willsher @kimwillsher1

11 months ago

Avignon. Mass rape trial. Gisèle Pelicot takes the stand for the last time: "This is a trial of cowardice. It is a trial of Dominique Pelicot and a trial of cowardice. It is time that this machist society stops banalising rape". #Mazan #Pelicot

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David Challen @David_Challen

11 months ago

Gisèle Pelicot is on the stand today and asked about her decision to continue using the surname "Pelicot". Gisèle explains that when the trial began her children were "ashamed" of the name. She adds: "I have grandchildren who are called that. "Today, I want them to be proud of…

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Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy

11 months ago

John Fowles explains in "The Aristos" (1964) how high IQ can subvert your will to act: "High intelligence leads to multiplicity of interest and a sharpened capacity to foresee the consequences of any action. Will is lost in a labyrinth of hypothesis." Rule 1: Do not lose the will

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keerthik śaśidharan @KS1729

12 months ago

"When I stepped into Chandra’s [S. Chandrasekhar] office for the first time in 1979, I was immediately intrigued by a photograph that faced him from the wall opposite his desk. As I stood looking at it, Chandra told me the following story. He had first seen the photograph on the…

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Danny Lee Wynter @dannyleewynter

a year ago

A tribute to the DAME I will never forget you. My thoughts are with your sons, grandchildren, family, friends & your legions of fans throughout the world who admired & loved you. I couldn’t sleep last night, so wrote some words (below).

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kache @yacineMTB

a year ago

chess is literally a meme, they play by muscle memory and you win if your opponent makes a mistake, no strategy beside hard memorization and practice

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Infinite Books @InfiniteB88ks

a year ago

Italo Calvino on reading as imagination

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The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole84

a year ago

"Nobody has the right to live their lives being protected from offense or from insults or from hurt feelings. It is an occupational hazard of living in society." - Ann Widdecombe

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derek guy @dieworkwear

a year ago

Should luxury clothes be handmade? Let's talk about it. 🧵

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Ana Martin. Greek and Latin @The_Latin_Tutor

a year ago

Tucked away in a suburban London cemetery, a tomb in the shape of a Bedouin tent sticks out from the rest. Designed by Lady Isabelle Burton, it takes us to the fascinating world of one of the most eccentric Victorian intellectuals. Let's take a look inside - literally 🧵1/

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Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4

a year ago

Aldous Huxley, a diagnosis of normies

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Jack ⚓️ @jrbrownfield

a year ago

You need to be dilettantemaxxing. You need to be dabbling in various fields and pursuits. Half-heartedly exploring beekeeping. Reading the first two chapters of a physics textbook. Knitting 2/3 of a glove. You need to be abandoning projects

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DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy

2 years ago

Cheap rent made Philip Glass possible too, who told me in 2012: “The problem is, when I came to New York, it’s much more difficult now. You could work 3 days a wk loading a truck or driving a cab, and you’d have enough money to live off of" the other 3+ weeks to do your art!

Leigh Claire La Berge @marxforcats

2 years ago

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Chris Power @chris_power

2 years ago

‘like every writer, he measured other men’s virtues by what they had accomplished, yet asked that other men measure him by what he planned someday to do’ - from ‘The Secret Miracle’ by Borges

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derek guy @dieworkwear

2 years ago

I've heard rumors that some of the Savile Row tailoring houses have thought about moving off the Row in response to skyrocketing rents. Why they don't, I don't know. But there are two good reasons to stay clustered around the street. One obvious; one less obvious. The obvious…

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Aswin @aswinmurthy1

2 years ago

A hierarchical system that demands obedience of its components and not reason. A subservience birthed by fear or favour. “…who participates in reason so far as to apprehend it but not to possess it… for he is subservient not to reason but to feelings.”