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Chasing Morgan
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Chasing Morgan
@Cha5ingMorgan
asset backed. Marquis de Sade’s’ niece, twice removed. Phd dropout. unexpected friend
With you Katılım Mart 2023
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@StephenKing At this point of late stage capitalism the screaming child on the plan is music to my ears
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Let me tell you what’s going on here.
Two autonomous adults made choices about their own lives. That’s the whole story. What you think their choices mean is projection. What they think their choices mean for everyone else is equally irrelevant.
Do your thing. Leave everyone alone.
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Let me break down what’s going on here. He’s a deeply repressed homosexual (note the open-mouth smile) and entered the marriage with zero heterosexual experience because the idea of sex with men terrified him (or was forbidden by religion, family, culture). Sex with his wife is therefore either mechanically dutiful or outright aversive. When she’s enthusiastic or skilled, it highlights the mismatch: she knows what good sex feels like; he doesn’t and never will in this arrangement. That gap feels like a personal failure, so he holds her (very normal) premarital sex life over her head as a moral failure. Slut-shaming her restores the hierarchy he needs to feel like the “good” one. She’s the dirty one, he’s the pure, long-suffering husband who’s “sacrificing” for the marriage. It also conveniently excuses why he’s often disinterested or performs poorly in bed. It’s her fault. “She’s too used up” instead of “I’m gay.”
Trevor Sheatz@TrevorSheatz
My wife was formerly promiscuous. I was a virgin. She was then radically born-again. Committed to church, evangelized constantly, Puritan books in her bedroom, prayer journals, grief over past sexual sin, etc. We got to know each other well for over a year, dated for four months, engaged for two and a half, and didn't sin sexually with one another. Our first kiss with each other was at the altar on our wedding day (reaction pic attached!). We've been married for over five years now, and she's been the most wonderful and godly wife, mother to our three children, and homemaker you could imagine. She's more pure than most virgins, as biblical purity has less to with past sins (though they certainly matter) and more to do with one's current posture of the heart and daily decisions to honor the Lord (Matt. 5:8). We're far too quick to forget the story of the woman labeled as a known "sinner" (likely a prostitute) in Luke 7:36-50 who was washing Jesus' feet with her tears while kissing them too. The Pharisees were shocked that Jesus let a public sinner do this. Jesus responded with a parable about debts being forgiven and ended with this powerful conclusion: "Her many sins have been forgiven; that’s why she loved much. But the one who is forgiven little, loves little" (Luke 7:47). Everyone seems to highlight the benefits of virginity, and it certainly is a blessing. But we forget to highlight the benefits of being forgiven much as well. My wife knows the depths of Jesus' forgiveness more than most people, enabling her to more easily live out a life of passionate love for her Savior. A woman or man's past sexual sin matters. But what matters far more when it comes to deciding who to marry is if the person is truly born again, if their repentance is real, if they truly have a heart for Christ, if they truly follow Jesus and obey his commands. "God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong. God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world — what is viewed as nothing — to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence. It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us — our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, — in order that, as it is written: 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.'" (1 Cor. 1:27-31) "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and see, the new has come!" (2 Cor. 5:17)
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What did y’all think “Year of the Horse” meant? gas? diesel?
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We are flesh bags piloting skeletons. Adorn me!
I read two things in quick succession that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about together. The first was an FT piece about a man who spent six months emotionally sustained by the belief that he was exactly 6ft tall. A Swiss nurse measured him. A London nurse corrected her. He grieved. He should sue. The piece never asks why any of this matters — which is, of course, the only interesting question.
The second was Bryan Johnson — a man who has spent years attempting to quantify and optimise every measurable variable of human existence — posting that the single most important decision of his life was finding someone whose mind tickles him, touch soothes, essence animates. Not the metrics. The magic beneath.
The flesh bag has always been proxy for everything we think we actually want. Height = dominance. Brands = class. Physical symmetry = health. These are cave wall shortcuts and unreliable predictors of magic. You can buy what looks like class with the right handbag, suit, jewellery, car, vacation hot spots. You cannot buy magic. In this particular world I’m navigating, where I am the product, that is poignantly revealed.
The science is clear — social isolation carries a mortality risk comparable to smoking. By fifty, the quality of your closest relationships predicts your physical health better than any cholesterol reading. A recent Cornell study found that the depth of human connection accumulated over a lifetime measurably slows biological aging at the molecular level — less inflammation, slower epigenetic decay. Not the number of relationships. The quality of them.
Not one of these studies measured height.
The people loudest about external requirements (physical stats, adornments etc) are also, reliably, the most bewildered when the checklist doesn’t produce desirable results.
The best connections are built from everything that made you into whoever you currently are — your upbringing, every choice, mistake, obsession, achievement, exploration, wrong turn, and moment of grace — colliding with someone else’s version of the same chaos. It’s not something you can screen for on paper or dress for. It arrives, when it arrives, as something closer to weather than to selection.
This is your gentle reminder that I’m actually really small.
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta
Your romantic partner is the single highest-dose pharmacological input in your daily environment. Bryan Johnson frames this as poetry. The data is more violent than that. The Harvard Study of Adult Development tracked people for over 80 years. Relationship quality at age 50 predicted physical health at age 80 better than cholesterol, income, or career success. The mechanism is a specific neuroendocrine cascade. A supportive partner triggers oxytocin release, which suppresses cortisol, downregulates HPA axis activation, reduces systemic inflammation, and slows telomere attrition. Your cells literally divide longer before hitting senescence. The person sleeping next to you is either extending or compressing your biological clock at the chromosomal level, every single night. Now run the numbers on the poison side. Married adults in one sample had a telomere T/S ratio of 1.70. Unmarried adults: 1.58. That gap held after controlling for diet, exercise, smoking, obesity, and social support. Divorced men in a Swedish cohort showed 46% higher relative mortality risk. A separate study of 3,526 adults found marital disruption was associated with shorter telomere length even after adjusting for neuroticism and lifetime traumatic events. The inflammatory profile of a high-conflict marriage looks nearly identical to the biomarker signature of chronic work stress or long-term caregiving burden. This is the part people miss. Bryan said “somewhere between medicine and poison.” The pharmacology is more binary than that. Oxytocin from a quality partnership lowers blood pressure, reduces sympathetic nervous system activation, and improves immune surveillance. Chronic cortisol from a bad one drives the same oxidative damage to telomere cap structures that accelerates every major age-related disease. There is no neutral. The dose is always running. A 2003 study found that more frequent partner hugs correlated directly with lower resting blood pressure and heart rate. The cardiovascular system responds to your primary attachment bond the way a tissue responds to a drug. Dose, frequency, duration. “Medicine and poison” is the right frame. But Bryan undersold the dosage. This is the single largest uncontrolled variable in every longevity protocol on Earth, and almost nobody is tracking it.
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Speaking of pointers… here’s some for an incredible first date. First, set the stage. Barcelona, with morning trips up mountains, and promises of beyond. Second, a trip to @herve_bycm’s gorgeous atelier (with skills and service I cannot sing about loudly enough)
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Dumas' controversial novel 'La dame aux camélias' not only inspired the plot of the opera 'La traviata', but was based on a real life courtesan who had a love affair with Franz Liszt! Visit my website to learn about how I will be exploring all this in my next concert programme 🎹
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@Cha5ingMorgan The scary arrestvideos i saw was in SFO and it threw me off today
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In China, Seven dogs stolen from their owners have gone viral after escaping from an illegal transport truck and making their way home. They traveled 10.5 miles/17 km together, led by a corgi across highways and fields, now safely back with their respective owners.
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Any scrambled eggs better than Granger & Co? (Must be followed by the ricotta hotcakes with honeycomb butter 🥞)
Keen to get some recs for my daily brekkie + hot-girl walk as the weather gets better ☀️
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The swan is not managing a cost of living crisis.
Most gender role debates don’t mention the economic system that makes the whole conversation moot.
Pursue whatever dynamic feels right — that’s the actual promise of personal autonomy and feminism. Want a single-income household with a breadwinner and a homemaker? Great. But an increasingly tiny slice of the population can actually afford that arrangement. In the US, median household income requires two earners just to cover basics. The “traditional” structure being romanticised was already economically marginal, and it’s becoming more so every year.
So when the conversation becomes “men aren’t stepping up” or “women have abandoned their role” — who benefits from that framing? Not the people arguing about it. The systemic failure gets personalised, gendered, and redirected. You end up blaming each other for not fitting a mould that the economy actively makes impossible for most people.
Elegant misdirection. The people who’ve captured most of the wealth (=autonomy) get to watch everyone else argue about whose fault the resulting instability is.
PSA: go see Swan Lake. The swans have their shit together
Invis🧜♀️@invis4yo
All men in the universe know their role, except the human male
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Some of us don’t have to be dead for our underwear to be venerated 💅
Terence Shen@Terenceshen
In a Chinese museum, even a pair of Mao Zedong’s underwear is treated as a national treasure.
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dream log day 258: I get a bunch of men pregnant and abandon them
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