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Brendan AE
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Brendan AE
@AnimalExtender
I'm a pedantic twit and I vote. Sometimes I post cat photos. Resident of Taiwan. 外國人
Taipei, Taiwan Joined Eylül 2018
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@vanillaopinions It’s not elitist if your opinion is “not worse, just different”
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animation is not cinema and it should not he classified as such
Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck@PAHoyeck
What's everyone's most elitist opinion?
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@JamesSurowiecki I advise everybody to be like me and be incapable of telling when somebody doesn’t understand sarcasm. I just assume they’re continuing with the bit
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The number of people who did not understand that this tweet was sarcastic is genuinely shocking - and funny.
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@nocontextmemes Every instinct in my body wants me to reply with something like “Well yeah, the US is the default country” but it’ll be seen by people who subscribe to the article of religious faith that Americans are incapable of sarcasm or irony and I don’t want to have to deal with that
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@axiochrono @nocontextmemes So yes, that level of detail is how I’ve learned to respond. You can say “well that’s not how I would have reacted if you just said you were from the USA” but most people I talk to are not you
But including the country in an address in an international context? that’s weird
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@axiochrono @nocontextmemes As an American living abroad I can say that if I say I’m American without adding any detail, the person asking me where I’m from almost always expects to hear more, and often acts annoyed if I don’t supply it in my initial answer, as if I’m being cheeky and they have no patience
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Brendan AE retweeted
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Regardless of one’s profession, people need to read more. Read within your field, read outside of your field, read fiction, read long form journalism, push yourself to read.
Too many people remain functionally illiterate and ignorant of the world despite abundant opportunity.
Philippe-Antoine Hoyeck@PAHoyeck
What's everyone's most elitist opinion?
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Jesus ‘CHRIST,’ a total loser, died like a Dog, has been DEAD for more than 24 hours and is NEVER COMING BACK!!!!!!”
Herod the Great, 33 AD
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@anon_opin It’s nice when this account posts an opinion that was probably submitted to troll people
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The problem with Italian restaurants is that they can't do pasta properly. They always serve it with lots of bite in it and the sauce isn't sweet enough. It's amazing how much they charge and they still can't equal what you can get in a tin for 45p at Tesco.
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@anon_opin You’re supposed to watch it pondering things about the wider world that you know the show will never address, like if the USA in this period is as racially harmonious as the UK then its internal political situation must be vastly different
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Bridgerton could be the greatest things ever created but there's no way I'm ever watching it, because there's few demographics harder to give a fuck about than posh English people in the early 1800s.
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@Criminalsimpson It’s kind of funny that Ralph is the only character in any episode of The Simpsons who pronounces Supernintendo Chalmers’s name right
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@ManaByte Clearly this person’s point was “if you think Apollo 13 landed on the moon in 1970, despite there being a very big Hollywood movie in the 1990s specifically about it NOT landing on the moon, you’re an idiot”
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@mikusingularity I can’t believe people exist who actually believe this with any consistency. Surely they’re just saying it because being unpleasant to faceless strangers online is one way they can bring some joy to their own unhappy lives?
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“The world isn’t perfect so you aren’t allowed to appreciate anything EVER” is such a miserable mindset.
Arklight Blues🏳️⚧️@ArkNemesis5
Genocide and hunger across the planet but here's a cool picture from a distance so you can be proud of yourself in your meritless complicity.
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@novasoupONLINE Love some people’s hobby of hinting at a sinister conspiracy but never spelling out what exactly they’re implying
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what would a Green Screen even suggest here. that they took a photo of the Earth in front of a green screen and then edited Space in after the fact
Nuggets in 4@mpjclears
@DiscussingFilm Lmaoooo a clear green screen??? Why are they hiding the facts from us
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@agraybee Regular “I’m not a mind reader” caveat and all that, but I felt a lot of the people appearing to misunderstand the Bechdel Test knew what they were doing, they were just doofuses who found it funny to deliberately annoy feminists
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The Bechdel Test was probably the most misunderstood millennial feminist artifact. It was just a way of illustrating how few movies portray women having normal interactions. It wasn't a literal test of feminismness.
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@d_h_sanders Twitter in 2026 is a place where everyone has fully realized the fact that you can type literally any sequence of words and hit “post” and it’ll post
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We live in a world where everyone pretends to not understand stuff
NewsWire@NewsWire_US
Gavin Newsom's office praises former President George W. Bush.
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@veIvetines Guy who insists islands are not part of the Asian landmass, so Japanese are not Asians unlike Koreans, Russians, French people, etc
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@souljagoyteller I know I harp on this a lot but when it comes to Republicans on social media, “they pretend to believe it because they think it’s funny” is an extremely useful explanation
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There’s this widespread belief among the right that Rachel Levine was Biden’s HHS secretary. Even the ones who are supposed to be smart say it
Alice@AliceFromQueens
This is the guy who ran HHS under Biden. Memes have eaten Matt Walsh's brain.
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Brendan AE retweeted
Don't let anyone shame you for not wanting Taiwan to suffer a similar fate.
Pirat_Nation 🔴@Pirat_Nation
Hong Kong has a new rule under its national security law. Police can now demand passwords or help to unlock phones, computers, and other devices during investigations. Refusing to comply can lead to up to one year in prison and a fine of 100,000 Hong Kong dollars. This applies to anyone in Hong Kong, including tourists and people just passing through the airport.
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