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1. my followers! you guys are wonderful and unbelievably polite and interesting and I cherish you
2. Clint Eastwood's eyes in A Fistful of Dollars
3. Monogatari
4. Pillow Book
easily the most aesthetic book I have encountered sorry Murasaki
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0140448063/
easily the most aesthetic book I have encountered sorry Murasaki
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0140448063/
5. Clownfish
Absolutely lovable and their presence brightens our oceans and our lives
Absolutely lovable and their presence brightens our oceans and our lives
6. Stretching when you wake up in the morning especially if there's sunlight through your curtains and a gentle summer breeze
Did you know that the fancy word for stretching is 'pendiculation'?
Did you know that the fancy word for stretching is 'pendiculation'?
7. The Cloisters!
Its a museum in upper Manhattan holding the Met's medieval art collection, and is itself a rebuild of a monastery in France. Very beautiful and worth the visit.
Its a museum in upper Manhattan holding the Met's medieval art collection, and is itself a rebuild of a monastery in France. Very beautiful and worth the visit.
8. Pets
You can give a home to a nonhuman creature and and it will love you in its way. Pets will share your life and in caring for one you will learn more about what it means to be human.
Try a adopting a pet if you havent before!
You can give a home to a nonhuman creature and and it will love you in its way. Pets will share your life and in caring for one you will learn more about what it means to be human.
Try a adopting a pet if you havent before!
9. Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire
These two loved each other an awful lot and spent their lives together making beautiful books for kids.
Greek Myths was my favorite when I was six
These two loved each other an awful lot and spent their lives together making beautiful books for kids.
Greek Myths was my favorite when I was six
10. Trees
Trees give you shade when it's hot, produce all kinds of fruit, and give us wood for building houses. Animals can live in them too!
The biggest tree is Pando, which is actually 40,000 trees. Give it a visit sometime!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
Trees give you shade when it's hot, produce all kinds of fruit, and give us wood for building houses. Animals can live in them too!
The biggest tree is Pando, which is actually 40,000 trees. Give it a visit sometime!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
11. Pyramids
Pyramids are a geometric structure that humans and aliens can't get enough of. They're all over the world. I've never seen a big one but I'd love to someday.
The Giza pyramid was originally covered in smooth limestone, and may have originally had a golden cap!
Pyramids are a geometric structure that humans and aliens can't get enough of. They're all over the world. I've never seen a big one but I'd love to someday.
The Giza pyramid was originally covered in smooth limestone, and may have originally had a golden cap!
12. The immune system
I'm not gonna lie, I don't understand how this works. It's impossibly complicated and somehow protects you from all sorts of tiny things that can make you ill.
When I get sick I read about what macrophages do and that usually helps me feel better.
I'm not gonna lie, I don't understand how this works. It's impossibly complicated and somehow protects you from all sorts of tiny things that can make you ill.
When I get sick I read about what macrophages do and that usually helps me feel better.
going to take a break to watch a movie with @selentelechia but im gonna keep this up!
13. Tweed
I don't know whether most people have tried wearing tweed but if you live in a place with chilly winters check it out!
Originally used for country wear, it works in cities and campuses today, and you're sure to get compliments from strangers! https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/884958452316909568?s=19
I don't know whether most people have tried wearing tweed but if you live in a place with chilly winters check it out!
Originally used for country wear, it works in cities and campuses today, and you're sure to get compliments from strangers! https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/884958452316909568?s=19
14. Speaking of which: tailors!
It's common to buy clothes off the rack, but you can take them to a tailor and for a small price paid to that skilled artisan they can make them fit perfectly
Your clothes will feel even better and you'll look fantastic https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1196607959515553792?s=19
It's common to buy clothes off the rack, but you can take them to a tailor and for a small price paid to that skilled artisan they can make them fit perfectly
Your clothes will feel even better and you'll look fantastic https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1196607959515553792?s=19
15. Sailboats
Is there anything more romantic than sailing? All you need is a chunk of wood, some canvas, and a few yards of well-placed lines and the wind will carry you across the world. What a marvel!
Great circle navigation got me my first big job, so it's practical too.
Is there anything more romantic than sailing? All you need is a chunk of wood, some canvas, and a few yards of well-placed lines and the wind will carry you across the world. What a marvel!
Great circle navigation got me my first big job, so it's practical too.
16. The Roman Empire
Sure the Romans did some bad things, but their civilization lasted a thousand years and lives on today in our language, religion, and thought. There's always something new but almost-familiar to learn
Check out a podcast to start!
https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
Sure the Romans did some bad things, but their civilization lasted a thousand years and lives on today in our language, religion, and thought. There's always something new but almost-familiar to learn
Check out a podcast to start!
https://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
17. Sharks
Sure, the great whites are well known and spooky, but sharks come in all shapes and colors
They're one of the few remaining classes of non-bony fishes, and their skin is incredibly smooth
Sure, the great whites are well known and spooky, but sharks come in all shapes and colors
They're one of the few remaining classes of non-bony fishes, and their skin is incredibly smooth
18. This conversation
These guys are extemely chill and an example of how to talk to other people on the internet when you disagree
I think about them a lot!
These guys are extemely chill and an example of how to talk to other people on the internet when you disagree
I think about them a lot!
19. I lied in (17) but it was for a good reason
Specifically to refer to another (this) Good thing, a time where a guy made a comic and people got mad at him for dumb reasons and he decided it would be fun to enjoy it
I feel a Kinship with him
Specifically to refer to another (this) Good thing, a time where a guy made a comic and people got mad at him for dumb reasons and he decided it would be fun to enjoy it
I feel a Kinship with him
20. That feeling where you're waking up in the morning from a dream, and slowly open your eyes and reassemble your identity and what has happened to you in the last thirty-odd years (this is actually a little spooky when you're in a pickle so try to live well)
21. Leonard Cohen
So talented, so sweet, so sad. Deep waters move in his music. 'Hallelujah' is his best known song but this is my favorite, his elegy for Janis Joplin and for a time in America
Still mad they gave that Nobel to Dylan instead of Cohen.
So talented, so sweet, so sad. Deep waters move in his music. 'Hallelujah' is his best known song but this is my favorite, his elegy for Janis Joplin and for a time in America
Still mad they gave that Nobel to Dylan instead of Cohen.
22. Diatoms
What the hell? These exist? And they're ALIVE? And they're plants that are EVERYWHERE?
Diatoms! What the hell!!
What the hell? These exist? And they're ALIVE? And they're plants that are EVERYWHERE?
Diatoms! What the hell!!
23. Lazy Rivers!
I'm going to move some of our stuff to storage to make room for baby furniture, then come back and have a beer and some burgers and watch the sun set, and reminisce about a Summer Past when @liminal_warmth got plastered on a lazy river. https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1059224644149018626
I'm going to move some of our stuff to storage to make room for baby furniture, then come back and have a beer and some burgers and watch the sun set, and reminisce about a Summer Past when @liminal_warmth got plastered on a lazy river. https://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1059224644149018626
24. @Nelsonsscoop of Stillwater, MN
Nelson's is the ideal ice cream shop form. You will like it!
It's just a little shop on a corner with dozens of flavors
The last time I visited my then-girlfriend paid $1.50 for a "small" ice cream cone as big as her head on a hot summer day
Nelson's is the ideal ice cream shop form. You will like it!
It's just a little shop on a corner with dozens of flavors
The last time I visited my then-girlfriend paid $1.50 for a "small" ice cream cone as big as her head on a hot summer day
25. I don't know what this is but I love it
You don't have to watch for the whole hour but it's shockingly easy to do so
You don't have to watch for the whole hour but it's shockingly easy to do so
26. @magichat #9
When I lived in Richmond, VA this was my go-to beer in the summer
I didn't have air conditioning, so I'd come home and strip to my boxers and drink a few of these while I played Starcraft 2
Magical memories from an otherwise hard time in my life
When I lived in Richmond, VA this was my go-to beer in the summer
I didn't have air conditioning, so I'd come home and strip to my boxers and drink a few of these while I played Starcraft 2
Magical memories from an otherwise hard time in my life
27. Helping people out
Helping people out is one of the coolest things you can do. We are a prosocial race!
You get to feel good and they get to feel good and you both win a deepened friendship.
Titus understood this, and being Helpful is the third point of the Scout Law.
Helping people out is one of the coolest things you can do. We are a prosocial race!
You get to feel good and they get to feel good and you both win a deepened friendship.
Titus understood this, and being Helpful is the third point of the Scout Law.
28. One really good thing to do is to record little video messages for your kids when you haven't even met them yet and give the recordings to the kids when they're older so even when you're gone they can hear you say how much you've always loved them.
29. Hearing faint music from a distance
When you hear music at night, coming from just outside your sight, it's really wonderful--you know that nearby there are people having a good time in each other's company, and even if you don't say hello you get to share in their delight
When you hear music at night, coming from just outside your sight, it's really wonderful--you know that nearby there are people having a good time in each other's company, and even if you don't say hello you get to share in their delight
