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 there’s a strange and beautiful feeling in reading an author whose experience and thoughts so closely resemble ours. maybe that means our lives are ordinary in a good way. a way that is worth writing about. 
 great day for people who think wars are some kind of chess game between militaries and states, and not dumbfuck violence horrifyingly inflicted on civilian populations in all sides. 
 i’ve been awake for 40 hours and i’m starting to have incredible ideas 
 anything that's user-facing has a price that's gonna scale linearly, so adding some operational n... 
 @6b1b8e04 me: this service sounds really nice, are we sure the company is going to exist in 6 months? 
 thousands of neurodivergents just anxiously waiting for the damn alert to go off so that you can actually start to do the things you have to do today 
 don't worry all you have to do to get the recognition you deserve is to win a nobel prize 
 I've heard this government system works brilliantly next to my naive, impractical anarchism 
 one thing i miss about twitter is the ability to say “what the fuck was that sound” and someone in my hood would know what i was talking about 
 if you want cringe and rage (because of course you do) watch Savior Complex, the doc is in hbo now 
 always touched when friends think of me while planning a heist of any size 
 if I find an F-35 I'm keeping it 
 the covid test is negative i just feel like garbage for the usual reasons 
 we should move closer to the ocean. i would hate it but the dog would be even happier