Shanthi

@exgenesis hi!

haven’t recovered from recent algo changes yet. Wanna get a grip on who I’m tweeting for. If you see this tweet reply so I know you’re in my sim cluster

@Aella_Girl I don't really buy it as "the root cause of anorexia" the way the author claims but I'd believe it's a major contributing factor to the disorder in a subset of sufferers: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14599241/

@Aella_Girl yes actually almost the exact same thing happened. 10-lb drop and then perma-reduced appetite. There's a theory called the "adaptation to flee famine hypothesis" that i think may apply here. Sudden weight loss triggers a response designed to help you flee a contaminated area or a

Three months ago I had a really bad illness that laid me out for a week and made me almost unable to eat for two weeks. Ever since then I've been down ten pounds and have a reduced appetite. What's going on?? Did the illness change my microbiome? Has this happened to anyone else

@Aella_Girl an area with scarce food. Become disinterested in food or even averse, restless, insensitive to hunger cues, insensitive to visual weight loss. I think it's what's going on in my case.

@Aella_Girl Do you mean "other" to be the option mixed race ppl click? Would be helpful to indicate that to survey takers or add a multiracial option.

@azmythalauris oh my gah

therapist: when did your mom die? me: she died on November 25th therapist: oh! the day before my birthday!🤗 me: ok

@rslantonie Love the format and the flow this felt freestyle but in a way I could follow. It’s a little trippy to listen to language where form and content match so closely. Especially appreciate the meme called up in text form- worked well for me as a reader.

okay @evodevotee i'm following your advice and doing my inkuary daily longpost on our conversation in the hopes of rejecting the nebulousness of an audience uncaptured void and accepting this place more like one large group chat, it was honestly so clutch to get ur feedback on my thoughts re why i've been so enamored with Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram (even though i still need to actually finish the book lmao) because the book actively demonstrates what i aim for with my writing style on twitter which gestures toward a continual return to hearing what you read, as an intentional error-corrective mechanism for the value of literacy *on the basis of orality* bringing up the example of how the KiDs ThEsE dAyS are learning how to read by guessing what the next word is rather than sounding out the word letter by letter, we're forgetting the phonetic basis on which language, as a human invention, comes from. and sure, you can argue for a better neuroplastic fit when talking with large language models but idk man (oh gosh but even now my writing of the acronym *idk* ended up reading in my mind's ear as "eye dunno" and that might end up being lost in translation but i digress, i'm writing for clarity here) maximizing for human throughput of information just ends up becoming the dominant use case for the written word, and the bar for how much a person needs to know how to read to get up to speed just ends up becoming so daunting. maybe i'm being too pedantic in believing that a lot of meaning in language that matters actually comes with the poetics of naming and treating it as a legitimate artform, which i don't think is appreciated as much anymore. i think a lot about the linnean form of taxonomic classification has roots in other languages like latin or germanic (and maybe other languages??), but contrast that with chemical compounds having systematic names that grazes past my ears like 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, (and even then i only picked that example because MF DOOM knew how to make it sound good, check out All Outta Ale). but okay in that previous paragraph, you can see how people adept in language are able to bring the words back down into something more digestible for the body when appropriately contextualized, so i'm maybe more sensitive to just how much context is needed to even scaffold for these senses to be activated again, let alone left alone to our own devices. the terminally onliner within me will prolly decry this as the beta shinji meme crouched down and facepalmed at his folding chair, surrounded by the unpalateable wordslop that is circulating throughout whatever this week's discourse kicked up. but i'm legitimately less worried about the overwhelm of new words to learn, and more concerned about the deadening of our human faculty to resonate with what is being communicated through language in and of itself. i think a lot about @yoltartar's refactoring of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: "which says that language shapes what concepts we’re able to think about. I think a more accurate description might be that language influences what sensations we treat as important or unimportant." based on how we have chosen to write and read, we've treated our eyes to be more important than our ears. and that saddens me. anyways it's getting late and i want to go to bed before midnight and i've been working on this for about... an hour, i think? we'll see how these thoughts land tomorrow, but thank you for listening to me today and appreciate your attention friend

@__drewface the bio-mother // bio-child relationship is completely unique and essential. this doesn't mean family structures with out that aren't viable or moral, but they can only be moral if maximum effort is made to recognize and compensate for the absence of bio mom

I am surprisingly beside myself with anger at the replies here. Oh, how they discount Ben's families' ability to provide for a child. (remember, he has a family) Oh, how they discount the child's spirit, and its love for its world, and for its family. Oh, how they assume.

@cursedmargarita this happened to my buddy Eric

relationship status: in an abusive marriage with a sentient puzzle cube

This cohort hasn't even graduated yet, and 4 of my students have jobs 😁 1. H graduated 5 weeks early with a $184k offer 2. B graduated 3 weeks early with a $150k offer 3. A graduated 3 weeks early with a $150k offer 4. K graduated 2 weeks early with a $138k offer

@lozareeno how does he smell

This is just to say I have found The man That was on The timeline Forgive me He is perfect So tender And so sweet

@lozareeno lfgggggggg

@RonTuretzky Prolific

@TylerAlterman is being gay in a homophobic culture a cult is being an abolitionist among slave owners a cult A desegregationist among the segregated etc etc etc I kinda ok this definition but only if a “cult” seen as morally neutral and often the early stage of a beneficial paradigm shift

A cult is anything which alienates you from the rest of society done that's what a cult is

The lovely Lady dressed in blue loves all of creation, even the ones that died a long long time ago

In the eyes of the Buddha, all lives are sacred, even if that life has ceased to be many reincarnations ago

socialism is when u try to merge the family and state. When you want to make the family more like a state or the state more like a family. Keeps getting fucked up partially bc it’s modeled on dysfunctional & naive ideas of the family.

@RichDecibels >///< awesome, yes, if you are ever in NYC would love it. Also happy to call but give me a chance to read about you first :)

@evodevotee podcast with tasshin made me very fond of your brain and would like to hang out one day if you please

@jordanwaparker @TylerAlterman First time there I mostly shoveled mud from point a to point b and removed trees. Second time was more carpentry stuff. Prob more carpentry needs now & trail maintenance.

@evodevotee @TylerAlterman Go on… 👀

Related: What are places other than Monastic Academy where any burned out tpot-y person can land and be productively rejuvenated?

@jordanwaparker @TylerAlterman This couple are really special hosts. Living in their home changed my world. Here’s their WWOOF profile wwoofusa.org/en/host/21538 Small homestead w lots of landscaping & basic carpentry needs. Neighbors also need help sometimes & would pay for labor.