Thousand Face Hero

@LindyTasteful We’ll have to bring back the company town. It’s the only way.

@mfacehero The problem with remote work is there is nothing specifically tethering you to the place. Hard to prevent the remote work colony from just becoming a transient space.

The notion of Local Culture is a dying concept. The places where it still somewhat exists are usually in states of aging and decay. x.com/poolnoodle93/s…

I’ve long contemplated running a coworking camp in the mountains where we shut the internet off at 5pm.

@BecomingCritter IIRC the algo gives a boost to tweets with photos and tweets ending with a question mark?

tweets with photos always do better. pic doesn't even have to be relevant, you can just put any picture and it'll do numbers

@minordissent Too egotistical to believe there’s a higher power. Delusional enough to believe we’ve become one.

The absolute state of new atheism

@sivori Banks wrote of the Outside Context Problem. An existential threat so alien it could not be forseen nor even understood when you’re looking right at it. The conquistadores were absolutely an outside context problem.

The awestruck quality when you meet your superiors for the first time. Read the accounts of the conquistadors as an alien contact narrative from the point of view of the aliens. Perhaps the closest thing we will ever have to one.

@DrunkRepub He probably tried to probe Kate's dad too.

Imagine being Kate’s father

It was Sunday and we're headed off somewhere. My wife points to a bucket rolling loose on the property. "Doesn't that bother you?" "Sure, a bit." "So why not pick it up?" "Because it's Sunday, and there's always some bucket."

@poiThePoi @Romy_Holland They're thinking about it all wrong. The more comfortable the seating the longer I sit and the more my wife spends. It's great arrangement and they should give me a lavish chair.

@Romy_Holland @mfacehero Is the point that you are forced to parade the clothes in front of your husband and see his reaction or lack thereof?

whose idea was it to put no mirrors in the individual changing rooms at aritzia and instead make you walk into a large communal space to see how clothes look? today i left without even trying on my final 2 items bc i just wasn’t in the mood for the back and forth. obviously bad business design? ideally there is no friction between the shopper and the decision to purchase.

The next time I was in there and saw another husband doing the same I pointed it out to my wife. I felt vindicated.

Every upscale clothing store should provide seating. The more comfortable I am the longer I sit and the more my wife spends. I was once accosted by an Anthropologie employee for sitting on the edge of a solid wood display table out of desperation. Don't be like this.

@WomanDefiner He's a 34 year old unmarried childless gamer. If you take away the money there's nothing left of value.

I generally think Hasan is just a terrible person and that comes out in him just being nasty to anyone around him. There is a reason this guy doesn't have any real friends. He calls other people losers but the only time anyone wants to spend time with him is when they have something to gain from him. He doesn't have 1 real friend.

@RamboVanHalen I can't trust a man whose head is the same diameter as his neck.

Smol head + feminine wavey hands = not qualified👍

We would take LSD and walk to our neighborhood park. This was a planned community with a homeowners association run by hardliners. It was immaculate. Get down on your knees in front of that lawn. You can measure the uniformity of the blades of grass to the millimeter. Bright lights on topiaries. And the silence. An entire community and no sign of life. We walk to the park and stumble down the back trails kicking rocks and howling at the moon. Spence would warn us to quiet down: "They'll think we're homeless back here shouting at the rich". But we were only shouting at ourselves.

@JoshuaSteinman Growing up I watched Wes Anderson's characters and wished I could have been from a rich, dysfunctional family. At the time the irony was lost on me that I was already in one. Of course it wasn't as fun as in the films which is probably what blinded me to it.

@mfacehero “The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. “Vámonos, amigos,” he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.” -E.C.

Black tie. Red eye. Cross country. Ask me anything.

@kane The year is 2047 and California labor law is a patchwork of 700 different minimum wage laws governing every possible intersection of job sector and race.

Jane Kim, a progressive SF former supervisor who helped create the status quo of no prison for trafficking or deadly assault, knows that there are no stakes for being arrested for merely blocking traffic. She’s trying to cosplay a martyr but it’s just performative.

@sporadica I distinctly recall pouring a bottle of champagne over my head that night at midnight. I knew it would be crazy enough to remember forever and it worked.

good content, algorithm please give me more of it thank you