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people want to be wanted but don't think about the second order, don't realize how much they're letting not only themselves but their partners down if they refuse to want themselves eurydicelives.substack.com/p/relational-n…

@tkkong you’re better than the stereotypes tk

moved to the Marina and can confirm it's the best neighborhood in SF

promising myself a trip to new york if I get enough writing done like a toddler dangling candy in front of my own face

like I’ve been saying… 2026 is retatrutide’s year

From Lives of the Saints: “It is odd, the mixture of virtue and vice. No matter how many binges he went on, or what other things he did that I heard about, he had more ethics in his little finger than I could probably ever have. There are two kinds of people in the world, the kind who would never sit around talking about honor because they intrinsically have it, and then there is the type who would sit around talking about honor all the time, but who does not actually have it.”

@HeidiPriebe1 reminds me of this from @noampomsky — feels revolutionary to commit to thinking about nothing else for seven hours.

This is the best show currently on tv btw

@rtwlz this is crazy

About to annoy so many people

I’m obsessed with neighbors on hbo

Can confirm this was awesome

The great Lesley Manville turns 70 today and it's time to relive one of the most ferocious one-liners from Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Phantom Thread' (2017)

Elaine Scarry: “The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato’s Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person. But it also—as Diotima tells Socrates—prompts the begetting of poems and laws, the works of Homer, Hesiod, and Lycurgus. The poem and the law may then prompt descriptions of themselves—literary and legal commentaries—that seek to make the beauty of the prior thing more evident, to make, in other words, the poem’s or law’s “clear discernibility” even more “clearly discernible.” Thus the beauty of Beatrice in La vita nuova requires of Dante the writing of a sonnet, and the writing of that one sonnet prompts the writing of another: “After completing this last sonnet I was moved by a desire to write more poetry.”

deep cut

@GHadjia miss you come to sf!!

@noampomsky Unreal. Added to the list.

okay I went to every place suggested and the uncontested best burger in SF imo is the smash burger at niku butcher shop

pov you wake and this thing is staring at you like a weird victorian ghost

considered getting annoyed over something and then realized it truly is Problem #17 on my list right now and I need to reserve bandwidth for problems 1 through 5

I would say for me the runners up are the ABV burger and the zuni burger

@usmannk I did it’s not as good

@noampomsky can you try their normal one too and report back

spent my whole life literally never allowing myself to get angry bc my mom had a temper when I was younger and I was convinced I’d be the same way. started letting myself get angry, turns out I DO have anger issues but I just have to suck it up and manage them 🤷🏻‍♀️