Ian Thomas

Rules: ?

Hard rind of fate, soft fruit of will

“Are the arts important?” Humanity practiced them long before they had use for science and will practice them long after math is gone. Is the dawn important? Is dusk?

"At his request, [Aldos Huxley's] wife shot him up with LSD a couple of hours before the end, and he tripped his way out of this world."
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In this house we believe:
That in 1974, Philip K Dick had a mystical experience when a beam of pink light, reflected off a woman's ichthys pendant, struck him in the head and delivered a divine knowledge.

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The greatest truths cannot be contained by language and image, and thus the internet.

A typography magazine called Type Shi

I dreamt that I was mansplaining nondualism to someone (AKA myself, according to nondualism).

Love is never rational, but I'll be damned if it's irrational.

Irrationality is the opposite of rationality. Arationality is beyond the boundaries of the rational/irrational binary. It is without reason, not against reason.

The Spectatorpers: The Press of Bram de Does - Fine Press Book Association In 2003 the enterprising Amsterdam graphic arts publisher De Buitenkant produced an elegant book celebrating the work of the Dutch designer and printer Bram de Does, in anticipation of his seventieth ...

"[Bram] made another bid for freedom and developed his parallel career in biodynamic gardening... He continued working 2 or 3 days a week for Enschedé. Enschedé commented on Bram’s way of working that, in spite of an impressive output, he was virtually immune to routine."
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Ambien(t) addiction is serious

My music genre of choice these days is "WARNING: do not drive or operate heavy machinery while listening"

Just remembered all the "Keep Calm and" posters

The irony of learning about the Amish via ChatGPT is not lost on me

ChatGPT passed my personal SAT test

"The meaning of a symbol (particle) is information (state). The higher the probability that you can measure a symbol, the lower the amount of information carried by that symbol."
—Federico Faggin, interviewed by Michael Phillip, summarized (bastardized) by Yours Truly

Going NowHere Fast

The act of categorizing yourself is as illusory as someone else categorizing you. "Categorizing" might, categorically, be the misstep ;)

It seems that members of "a culture" are just as susceptible of making irrational blanket statements about said culture as those who don't identify with it

Je suis horse girl

(Photo-less caption) A barefoot man, seated on a stoop, fenty folded over a copy of the New York Post featuring the headline "The Land of the Free"

Cool is cope

What if dropping essays for oration is the solution to AI in the classroom

I love that Church and Court are the two ends of the G line. I go towards Court for Work and Church for Home

B.E. (Begin End)

The revolution will be scored to TikTok phonk

Linear time is over if you want it

Tried to read the JFK files over someone's shoulder on the train this morning