Alexandre, blind paragon @charmide Twitter profile

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@charmide

11 months

first date idea: we like each other's tweets for 12-18 months with no other interactions

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@charmide

8 months

sometimes you spend your entire life looking for that one person that gets you completely and that you get completely, instant mind meld, supreme telepathic connection, and then using that you realize they don't like you that much

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@charmide

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@RiverTamYDN @Notgnihtrow @softfromware it's not how you use that information, it's just generally useful when cooking to know how a temperature relates to boiling water at first glance

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@charmide

11 months

*takes the stand* RELATIONSHIPS ARE COLLABORATIVE STORYTELLING you need to be imagining the other else to be what they themselves want to become, express it in a compelling fashion that will resonate

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@charmide

10 months

so much of sex is about power dynamics and control, so much of romance is about finding the one making you forget these notions, entirely vulnerable, and enter a union where even the thought of keeping score makes no sense

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@charmide

10 months

@laine_writes not sure i have a theory, but being relatively impervious to it, i'd say it's because it signals some insecurity/excessively pick-me behavior that i find unattractive, compared to.. calm? strength? autonomy? someone serene and that doesn't need to constantly show, reverse-needy

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@charmide

8 months

@deepfates you know it's a good idea when all the cyberpunk universes do it

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@charmide

9 months

reply to this tweet and i will write a little vignette inspired by your twitter being

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@charmide

3 months

@postingtime for a price

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@charmide

1 year

@mib0x @simonsarris a lot of people. depends on the games. some of them straight up seem like second job, e.g. factorio. in general, competitive video games are repeated feedback loops and acquisition of mastery that feels close to any pursuit of real skill.

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@charmide

3 months

@daniellellecco i do too, in the same category of thoughts people who do resort to violence to advance their goals seem surprisingly bad at causing chaos in what is generally a pretty brittle world

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@charmide

1 year

@ellegist a lot of the brokenness of it feels behavioral, as in people have gotten on aggregate worse at taking social initiatives or are estranged from social scenes I don't doubt the wisdom of your tweet but I wonder how you get people to be receptive to it

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@charmide

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@insomni31780696 @RiverTamYDN @Notgnihtrow @softfromware yeah that's precisely why i said that's not how you use that information congratulations you figured it out

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@charmide

1 year

@animalologist i'm always surprised by how many people attack meritocracy on the ground that it's imperfect, don't think anyone would say standardized tests are perfect but they're clearly the best we've got and the whole thing is a work-in-progress

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@charmide

10 months

a good judge of how well you mesh with someone is how ridiculous the statements you manage to make sound flirty are

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@charmide

2 months

@sympatheticopp mh. i want to be a romantic about this — maybe true real fated love cares for nothing in the way, conventions & current state of reality included, and is scandalous by nature. feels like there'd be lots of cynical takes though. what do you think?

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@charmide

1 month

i'm confident that i'd fall in love with most of the women bouguereau painted in a way that would ruin my life for a while, it's good that they are only paintings

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@charmide

10 months

@sympatheticopp come on art hoes you gotta work with your material, embrace the terrain build something idiosyncratic, lean into the physiognomy

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@charmide

1 month

it's true that women are always late, my future wife should have shown up by now

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@charmide

2 months

@dissproportion i've caught feelings online without knowing how they looked like a few times by now, some of them turned into nice relationships, it really is a matter of app & medium, i think "we" get what we deserve, largely

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@charmide

10 months

i'm sad and twitter is making it worse, i'll be going on a little break to focus on other things, you kids have fun while i'm gone dm me if you want to stay in touch, i'm also the same handle on discord xoxoxo,

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@charmide

9 months

it's actually not supposed to be that difficult, but you'll only realize it the next time you try

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@charmide

11 days

i wish thirst traps actually trapped the thirst, but yet it persists

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@charmide

10 months

@eigenrobot befriending people in case they're a software engineer at tinder

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@charmide

11 months

you want to get noticed, you want to force things, you want control. you want a fairy tale of your own design. but that's not how life works. life works by serendipity, patience and cultivation.

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@charmide

10 months

@astridwilde1 @crystalxduan the irresistible appeal of unexplored territory, the universal brave explorer archetype

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@charmide

11 months

@8chabard when the therapist pays you at the end of the session because he is the one feeling better about this entire life thing

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@charmide

5 months

i'd like to reassure everyone: i have remained loyal and haven't been touching grass while i wasn't active on twitter — i just had a few existential crises, a touch of despair, and watched 7 seasons of mad men for the 1st time

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@charmide

8 months

@sympatheticopp mmh what's the usual cause? a) she doesn't know what good is, b) she is only exposed to bad/bad for her people so referential is messed up, c) she hates herself, d) all men are bad actually?

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@charmide

9 months

@sympatheticopp flirting for me does feel like the thrill of the stage and the cold sweats of public speaking, i'm a big believer in that theory

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@charmide

7 months

this is one of the funniest "the four genders" in SaaS history

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@charmide

7 months

in honor of my having 600 devoted followers (i love all of you), i would like to know: what ails you? reply with a problem you're having and i will come up with a very serious and actionable solution

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@charmide

1 year

@maiamindel other (meme quality)

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@charmide

3 months

i present to you: the crisis of masculinity

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@charmide

7 months

your existence is soothing, as a sort of work of art demonstrating what the universe can come up with, as a softly spoken reassurance that the people i want to spend time with do exist

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@charmide

11 months

my two possible states are "i don't want to interact with you" and "let's get married"

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@charmide

1 year

i believe pedestals and idealizing get a bad rep they don't deserve. they are great engines! in particular: a great thing about having a crush, irrespective of how deluded it can get, is that it brings out the best in me, including facets i thought long buried

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@nvpkp

1 year

a good way to make and keep friends is to see who they are from the start

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@charmide

10 months

playing hard to get anything done

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@charmide

10 months

have you considered making it worse?

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@charmide

2 months

@animalologist @sympatheticopp i like that, it's better than my cynical "alright well we did the thing and acted super rashly we can't lose face now, i guess this is it"

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@charmide

7 months

if anyone still wants to be Perceived, it'd be my honor

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@charmide

9 months

reply to this tweet and i will write a little vignette inspired by your twitter being

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@charmide

10 months

@goblinodds i think in some way shy/nerdy/inexperienced correlates with lack of agency/tendency to self-pity/wallowing — which is the real problem. not only unhelpful to solve the issue but also unattractive. particularly looks bad on men considering expectations.

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@charmide

7 months

there is something deeply disturbing to me about the notion that the mere fact of being open about your feelings can be seen as manipulative

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@charmide

7 months

i'm still mad, what kind of universe have we built if being transparent and truthful is seen as putting an undue burden on someone? how can you not realize that this incentivizes awful inhibitory self-destructive behaviors?

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@charmide

7 months

there is something deeply disturbing to me about the notion that the mere fact of being open about your feelings can be seen as manipulative

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@charmide

9 months

i'm perpetually less than a minute away from falling in love with a woman who writes well

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@charmide

1 year

@strangestloop incredible

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@charmide

11 months

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@charmide

11 months

how many contestants? what are the teams?

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@charmide

9 months

ok ok, this is fun but also harder than i thought, my perfectionism is tingling. wish i knew you all better. expect some delays in delivery, but it shall come.

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@charmide

3 months

@zeta_globin when you've only watched romcoms and enter a relationship for the first time

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@charmide

11 months

embrace the feelings, chase the people; do not be content with poor company or false love for isolation, start to build brick by brick your future entourage

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@charmide

8 months

performing a ritual burning ceremony (deleting a bunch of tweets so that i stop feeling the feelings)

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@charmide

9 months

never worked so hard in my life

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@charmide

3 months

i imagined the life i want to live and everyone knew you there

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@charmide

8 months

where can i get a licence to be allowed to have feelings?

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@charmide

4 months

it's a vibe

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@charmide

4 months

the 8h walk along the beach i'm currently planning for tomorrow will fix me

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@charmide

11 months

"I met lots of people, many interesting people, especially losers, who would show up at the cafe, talking endlessly and doing nothing. These were the most interesting people there. People who did nothing all their lives, but who otherwise were brilliant." - Emil Cioran

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@charmide

10 months

i want more parties and social affairs and drinks and flowing group conversations and muffled sound of music as we smoke outside and dancing and staring at each other from across the room and glancing looks and dozing off exhausted and cozy dinner parties and gracious hosting and

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@charmide

7 months

"how it's started" vs. "how it's going" but the two things have no discernable connection because really that's how life works most of the time

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@charmide

9 months

@eurydicelives so hard to understand these things if you never had them, so easy to have badly calibrated expectations

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@charmide

8 months

(skill issue)

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@charmide

6 months

if twitter is an MMO it has a terrible new player experience, i don't envy the 6 followers life, it's a very grindy game and not very well balanced, everything could use a good bit of game design

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@charmide

1 year

@katgleason mmh, I haven't noticed that in myself.. perhaps the closest is that in some cases the attraction and admiration are mixed and hard to tell apart (my attraction kinda requires admiration), to the point where I can't tell what's what

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@charmide

11 months

i was being self-conscious about following so many women on here but i think they just have better tweets, we have to step it up guys

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@charmide

3 months

@shaggysurvives so true, it always annoys me because it paints someone as completely passive, as if rizz was some mind control tech you could activate and had a moral duty not to point at people w/ partners, this isn't how real life works

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@charmide

9 months

@demiurgently was it checked off?

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@charmide

11 months

a rite of passage, a rush of emotion! i got a twitter crush and turned it into a pile of thoughts about limerence, writing and romance. i feel vulnerable sharing it, but i strive to be better at that, and hope to engender more of the same in you.

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@charmide

1 year

@PrinceVogel don't think he'd particularly disagree with you (see: )

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@charmide

1 year

@ctjlewis get in loser we're writing english

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@charmide

10 months

no but twitter you don't understand, if i don't like my friends' posts they'll think i hate them

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@charmide

10 months

@MasterTimBlais i am learning more than i intended

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@charmide

7 months

@webdevMason me going to the subreddit i know will provide me with the exact advice i know i want to hear

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@charmide

6 months

i sabotage so many relationships by getting in my own head about them and making things weird, it's unreal

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@charmide

1 year

@Aella_Girl

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@charmide

3 months

day 3 of unemployment, I have reverted to the ancient ritual of a tribe called the webdevs: redesigning my personal website

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@charmide

1 month

if you have an inner monologue it means you're part of the simulation and have no free will, it's the Great Lizard beaming down your code to you. sorry i don't make the rules

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@charmide

1 year

@BecomingCritter @ruthhook_ here is an okcupid data classic

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@charmide

8 months

@hyperdiscogirl this is a funny reply. THIS IS A FUNNY REPLY. i know there is no joke but i can be really witty, i just have something to do right now. please imagine this is the funniest reply you've ever read. THANK YOU, best regards, @charmide

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@charmide

10 months

my least toxic and most adaptive trait is that whenever i'm sad i just leave the house and walk a lot, you can't hurt me it's all free cardio

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@charmide

4 months

@sympatheticopp sounds suspiciously close to an incel origin story and how they ended up hating all women

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@charmide

7 months

our product roadmap is a stack of sci-fi novels from the 60s

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@charmide

7 months

@lillybilly299 did they double check that he didn't just mean he had a boner rn?

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@charmide

11 months

i was really sleep deprived yesterday, please forget about anything i might, in mania, have said, promised, did, commited, signed, or worked on. don't make it awkward, thank you in advance for your cooperation.

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@charmide

1 year

sometimes i think you mostly fall in love with people who will help you along the path of becoming someone you want to be in that way

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@charmide

11 months

@hi_frye universally applicable move tbh, i've justified bad life decisions by pretending to someone that i was just placating an ex before

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@charmide

7 months

yearning for someone to be here with me and hold me in their arms and shield me from the world, so we can build a nice little home together for the rest of our lives but not in a horny way, just in a "i have the flu and a high fever" way

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@charmide

1 month

i cannot, for the life of me, tell whether i want or should meet more people or aim to be left alone forever

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@charmide

8 months

there exist a thing that hasn't been done yet that you are perfectly suited for

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@charmide

10 months

@goblinodds yeah same, i also wish there was a way to do both at the same time to express that i hate them but still would like to bone them

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@charmide

9 months

heartbreaking: that one trait you are trying to get rid of was actually useful this time

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@charmide

11 months

@michaelcurzi Louis Pasteur was a french psyop to ensure french cuisine worldwide domination

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@charmide

10 months

mmh i'm mutual with all their mutuals, i have them surrounded, and yet they won't follow me back. what went wrong? how do you force someone to love you?

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@charmide

9 months

@goblinodds here i was trying to be all subtle

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@charmide

9 months

it's actually not supposed to be that difficult, but you'll only realize it the next time you try

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@charmide

6 months

@nvpkp aw 🫂 are you sure it's not a matter of role/team/environment fit more than anything else? colleagues don't get exposed to much, the perception is easily bent. don't be too harsh on yourself.

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@charmide

11 months

@default_friend the face of evil

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@charmide

9 months

💭 i should matchmake people with vignettes made of similar vibes

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@charmide

8 months

i am not like the other boys, i think about the byzantine empire instead

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@charmide

1 year

@ellegist i believe this is the technical term the intended audience will identify with:

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@charmide

11 months

i want an aristocrat. i want her to believe she is good and virtuous powerfully enough that she is. and not with disdain, but compassion. someone who drags upwards, a woman i can rise to the occasion for.

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@charmide

6 months

i think i've regretted pushing someone to legibilize how they feel about me every single time i've done it, i've been more and more over it vibes, understandings and hushed tones are enough, it's unfair to expect anyone to collapse their inner swirls into words

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