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katie

1 year

mathematicians and analytic philosophers HATE HER: this woman tried to explain the basics of formal semantics using the absolute bare minimum amount of formalization

Formal semantics with as little math as possible

I was writing something up about presuppositions when I realized that I really wanted to be able to write things somewhat formally. So for…

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katie

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2 years

I am hearing now that dudes are mad at a woman for beating them in poker because she gambled on a statistically bad hand after reading her opponent’s tells, which is, as far as I was aware, the exact reason they call poker “gambling” and not “statistics”

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katie

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1 year

folks… we did it

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why does being depressed make it so hard to shower? before anyone tries to bully me I’m not saying I don’t shower. I shower every day, I’m just always dragging myself in there reluctantly. has anyone solved this

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2 years

that twitter engineer curbstomping elon on his own website, getting personally fired after a snitch tag, and then immediately being recruited by other companies is a hero. an icon. the moment.

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katie

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3 months

found my estranged father’s burner account lmao. yes, those are all three of the tweets he’s ever posted. yes, I haven’t spoken to him for just over eight years. yes, he only follows me and president biden

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childhood trauma brain is wild, once I was all freaked out about a meeting with a supervisor and my partner was like “ok what’s the worst thing that could happen” and I was like “well he might yell and not let me leave” and my partner was like ?!??!! no he might not ?!?!?!

latke

@latkedelrey

2 months

the hang ups my brain has from childhood are so funny. why do i always think people are going to yell at me. i think everyone is going to punish me. my dentist. my property manager. the barista at the coffee shop. a person i pass on the sidewalk. my therapist. my—

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katie

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1 year

i’m a kindergarten teacher and every day I make my students choose new pronouns and when they recite the pledge of allegiance they have to say “pride flag” instead of “flag of the United States of America” and “gay” instead of “God”

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2 months

once I was hanging out with a bunch of native spanish speakers and one of them was like “you know, it’s nice talking to you because it helps my english. you put words in orders I have never heard before” and everyone else started nodding. still unclear if compliment or insult

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katie

@focusfronting

4 months

right wing misogynist: this dumb bitch is so uptight left wing misogynist: (bravely) this dumb WHITE bitch is so uptight

joseph osmundson (all pronouns)

@reluctantlyjoe

4 months

To think you can be among the world’s biggest stars and get all the money that comes with it and to get THIS annoyed at a basic joke??? Whiteness is WILD. I would like Taylor Swift to have never existed.

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katie

@focusfronting

1 year

holy god we've done it again

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katie

@focusfronting

2 years

ok so what am I supposed to end e-mails with, because I’ve now heard that “best” and “regards” are both passive aggressive and I’m starting to realize I don’t have the social skills for this

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katie

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1 year

my mom is a lawyer and when i was like 13 we got in an argument and she accidentally called me "your honour". never really came back from that one.

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katie

@focusfronting

2 months

ok you know that tweet that’s like “sometimes people are so online that they start talking about normalizing things that are extremely extremely normal. like ‘normalize men wearing masculine clothes’ etc” anyway this is that

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2 months

omg just saw a hematologist post that blood iron (ferritin) should be 25-50 and mine has never even cracked 20. is this the real life post about the vitamin. is it happening to me right now

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katie

@focusfronting

6 months

pointed out that a guy used a word wrong and this is how he responded lmfao

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katie

@focusfronting

4 months

what if — bear with me here, I’m about to say something crazy — men are responsible for their own beliefs and actions

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katie

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9 months

was “I kissed a girl” good for cultural perceptions of queer women generally? no. was it good for my ability to make out with girls at parties? absolutely yes. thank you katy perry.

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katie

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1 year

oh no i hope he doesn't get me fired from my imaginary job now that he's found my imaginary school district

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4 months

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katie

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1 year

“lesbians can date trans men” “no actually they can’t” ok how about you one day try to experience the loving touch of another human being instead of doing whatever this is

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katie

@focusfronting

8 months

my parents secretly had a keylogger on my laptop from the ages of 12-18, can you imagine the psychic damage when I found out

James Frankie Thomas (of IDLEWILD)

@james_f_thomas

8 months

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if you find young people nowadays to be neurotic and prudish, consider that they're all growing up with their parents essentially watching them jack off

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katie

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9 months

my estranged father tried to crash my college graduation ceremony and when I told my mom she went to confront him and not only did she make him leave the entire state but she somehow returned with $1900 in cash. a very powerful woman.

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katie

@focusfronting

10 months

women’s fashion now is like “would you like this $400 linen dress sold by someone with dubious opinions on vaccines? or would you like this $15 polyester lingerie made in a sweatshop? those are the only choices.”

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katie

@focusfronting

2 months

ms williams I am coming to save you

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2 months

Max Burns

@themaxburns

2 months

Amazon billed its "Just Walk Out" stores as some triumph of AI. In reality, it was powered by thousands of low-paid Indian workers manually adding up items in your cart as you shopped. How insanely dystopian.

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katie

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1 month

hell yeah I love weed jokes, I wonder what the 88 thing means. probably safe to assume both numbers have nothing to do with hitler.

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katie

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11 months

I can’t believe this worked 😭

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katie

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1 year

can you believe that I was worried I made it too obvious

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katie

@focusfronting

2 months

when I had (still undiagnosed) gallstones I went to the ER and they thought it was kidney stones so they gave me an ultrasound and it came up clean so I asked the doctor what other organ it could be (gesturing at my entire torso) and he said “there are no other organs there”

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katie

@focusfronting

15 days

you can tell that finally achieving message discipline is a good thing for us by how absolutely steaming mad it makes the right-wing trolls

Gabby Klein

@GabbyKlein1

17 days

Do the majority of these kids know why they are protesting?

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katie

@focusfronting

1 year

lmao

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katie

@focusfronting

3 months

now right now you’re thinking “what a fucking loser” and to that I say: baby, you have NO IDEA

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katie

@focusfronting

2 months

relevant story: my mom did NOT like this girl I was friends with in middle school & I ignored her advice to drop her. 5 years later we co-produced a musical and when I looked at the program on opening night she had listed her boyfriend of two months as co-producer instead of me

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2 months

@missmulrooney My mom would always tell me and then I’d be like “you judgmental monster” and then 2-7 years later she’d be right

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katie

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3 months

if you guys like stories about him I have so, so many. for example, I once had to stop inviting one of my school friends over because he wouldn’t stop hitting on her. I was in grade 5, and she was in grade 6. no need to do math, I’ll tell you: she was 12 years old

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katie

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5 months

I’m gonna be real I thought only lesbians were capable of this

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This woman went to propose to her boyfriend then the unexpected happened 🥹

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katie

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1 year

I personally think it’s great that as long as you put the word “white” before “women” you can be as misogynistic as you want and no one can criticize you for it

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katie

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2 months

because they’re good people who respect you

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katie

@focusfronting

2 years

do I know anything about poker? absolutely not. but once I won 50 bucks off a bunch of band nerds and this story involves misogyny and thus I feel I am qualified to comment

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katie

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2 years

hold on apparently the guy she beat made her GIVE THE MONEY BACK????? and here I was thinking we lived in a society

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katie

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2 months

taking care of the bison

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katie

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11 months

tell me not to do it

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katie

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5 months

guys I’m so sorry to be such a bitch but every third qt of this is a poem that’s like “what if / a small animal / died” and I can’t take it anymore

b r o o k e *:･ﾟ✧

@peachlybeloved

11 months

y’all what is a painting or other work of visual art that never fails to destroy you every time you see it because BOY I’ll start:

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katie

@focusfronting

2 years

just read a tweet saying that banning professor-grad student relationships would drive women out of the field. I wish I was illiterate

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katie

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9 days

I like that people are included on this list of zionists on grounds ranging from “active pro-Israel propagandist who was in the IDF” to “seen holding a Starbucks cup”

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katie

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7 months

just saw these final messages a girl received from her little sister in Palestine before she was killed by airstrike. how can we stand by and let this happen???

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katie

@focusfronting

2 years

no kink at pride because kids are around + being trans is a kink = no trans people around kids. no trans people around kids + kids are everywhere = no trans people in public. that discourse was not a coincidence!!!!!

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katie

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2 months

I think if you list your house for an amount of money and I am willing to give you that amount of money in exchange for said house it should be illegal to be like “no. I actually want a secret, larger amount of money.”

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katie

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1 year

a lot of “smart” people (by this I mean people with fancy jobs who went to fancy schools, not actual smart people) really overestimate how much more intelligent they are than the average person

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katie

@focusfronting

3 months

this is transcendent honestly

The New Inquiry

@newinquiry

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Inside the "Forbidden Courses" at the billionaire-backed University of Austin—the campus of the “anti woke” commentariat. Student names have been anonymized.

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katie

@focusfronting

11 months

perhaps the most incredible opening paragraph of an e-mail I have ever seen

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katie

@focusfronting

2 years

might go with “anxiously, katie” because at least it’s usually accurate

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katie

@focusfronting

6 months

I read it a few months ago because I was so curious about whether it really did contain some kind of deep philosophical insight and I cannot overstate how much it is literally just about how to fight a war in ancient China. It’s like “make sure you cross salt-marshes quickly!”

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such a good question. who or what started the 'reading the Art of War as a self-help book' trend?

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katie

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3 months

holy mother of god

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katie

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24 days

fascist: it’s so funny when protesters are beaten by the police leftist: (bravely) it’s so funny when WHITE protesters are beaten by the police

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katie

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3 months

I do care but not in the way this test is assuming

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@timerube

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taking a homophobia test and finding it very difficult to score 0%

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katie

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4 months

just saw a serious, intelligent person say to much agreement that they avoid plagiarism by replacing every fourth word with a synonym. starting to think we need a mass academic honesty reeducation campaign

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katie

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5 months

btw I accomplished this goal today by making my partner sit outside of the shower and tell me the plot of a manga about lesbians

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katie

@focusfronting

2 years

there is NO field that more grievously overestimates the layman's understanding of what they do than computer science. if you do too much programming you ascend/descend to an entirely different plane of existence where you think that regular human beings know what linux is

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katie

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2 months

the way xfinity handles refunds is obviously intended to look like a scam so people don’t claim the money they’re owed. very advanced evil techniques

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katie

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9 months

I’m always trying to tell myself that just because someone is my ideological opponent it doesn’t mean that they’re evil and then republicans are like “what if instead of reforming our immigration policy we cut people up with saws and then drowned them”

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katie

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1 year

elon musk is going through his gay former employee’s phd dissertation to take paragraphs out of context in order to suggest he’s a sexual predator. we live in hell.

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katie

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8 months

forever thinking about that guy who was like “I don’t know a SINGLE gay couple who have been married for 50 years.” like why do you think that is? mama let’s research

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1 month

wow, interesting. anyway I don’t live in the UK so I can truthfully state that JK Rowling is a holocaust denier without her using the threat of expensive litigation to suppress my speech

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On 13 March I tweeted that JK Rowling “is a Holocaust denier”. That allegation was false and offensive. I have deleted it and apologise to JK Rowling.

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katie

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9 months

I actually think it’s bad that basically every influencer whose target audience is young men talks and acts like women are subhuman

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2 years

why are the only acceptable hobbies for academics running and rock climbing. i will never want to do either of those things and i don't trust people who enjoy them

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3 months

I like Peterson’s work by and large, he seems like a cool guy, but I wish he would just admit that the studio told him “under no circumstances put anything even remotely Arabic in the mouths of this movie’s anti-colonialist freedom fighters” instead of all of this nonsense

✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi

@roxana_hadadi

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so modern mandarin, which paul & yueh speak in DUNE, can survive 20,000 years. but all of the arabic and persian used in herbert's book -- references to ramadan and sunni muslims and an algerian cry of resistance -- would become outdated? come on, man.

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katie

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2 months

always funny to see incel accounts post this kind of thing because literally thousands of men who look like this or worse are happily married. the difference between them and this guy is that they’re not spending all day posting about how women are picky bitches

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found a guy that goes to therapy, does his own laundry, and uses a top sheet. he’s free tomorrow night. should he pick you up at 6 or 7?

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katie

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2 months

like oh. yeah. you actually can’t do that to people who aren’t your children. forgot about that for a sec

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katie

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2 years

watching a tv episode where a professor is going to commit literal murder in order to obtain the position of……………department chair

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1 month

men should start in prison and have to earn their way out

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katie

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I’m losing my fucking mind at the Canadian stop choices

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I know the Hyperloop is a scam and not feasible but imagine how cool it would be to have a giant worldwide metro network that allows people to go from one continent to another in a couple hours!

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katie

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2 years

when I have a presentation I’m anxious about I dress real slutty so people are like “wow this outfit is inappropriate” instead of “wow this talk is bad.” am I allowed to tweet this or am I setting back feminism

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2 months

am I allowed to speculate cause let’s just say I am putting two and two together

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it’s going to sound like i’m just dunking on this guy (I am, but not exclusively), but caring a lot about IQ is a strong sign of a mediocre mind. genuinely brilliant people don’t believe in or care about this stuff

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What are some signs a person is high IQ - what are some “hard to fake” signs where you can look at someone and say “probably a member of a group that is higher IQ than average?”

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katie

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1 year

@PWPKoval he’s sooooo mad about this he was tagging elon asking him to ban people who post it LMAO

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1 year

just to be absolutely clear so that straight people can’t ignore it either: the reason these guys claim all gay and trans people are child predators is because they want people to murder us.

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1 year

can someone dm me if anyone picks this up who isn't a full-time twitter clown, i'm owed a celebratory cake if it gets on fox news

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8 months

lmao before I figured out how to remove it my reaction to this was to start typing out a lot of spontaneous heartfelt essays about how much I hated my father

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1 year

that “engineer” becoming an intern at twitter, promising to completely overhaul the search function, and then immediately quitting when he realized it was too hard has completely cured my impostor syndrome

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2 months

I am large of body and also spirit so this never happens to me but I recently learned that if you are a petite woman sometimes people will just like… pick you up?

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3 months

@RacheI_Deutsch no but he really should be they’d hit it right off

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2 months

sometimes I paraphrase stuff for character limit reasons but this is a 100% accurate verbatim retelling of that interaction

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2 months

although now that I think of it “being yelled at while unable to leave” is not dissimilar from some conference q&as i have witnessed

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3 months

@cervixpiercer also how I feel about the will turtles not be part of the choir tweet

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2 years

lmao my mom told one of her coworkers that i go to the massachusetts institute of technology and they were like "oh, didn't she go to university? i didn't realize she wanted to go to trade school." i love not being from america.

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4 months

plagiarizing from your undergrad advisee is CRAAAAAZZYYYYY they’re gonna have to revoke her phd at this point, right? the bill ackman divorcé arc is nigh

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Continuing with Oxman (2011, left), compare this 120-word paragraph with the 2010 bachelor's thesis by her supervisee, Mindy Eng (right).

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1 year

I’m a little obsessed with the guy who made an app for teenagers to give anonymous compliments, sold it to Meta, then made THE EXACT SAME APP AGAIN and sold it to Discord

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miss teen USA started her resignation post with a quote from an insanely obscure Nietzsche notebook fragment, ok queen

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@missmulrooney My mom would always tell me and then I’d be like “you judgmental monster” and then 2-7 years later she’d be right

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2 months

man I just found out this guy used to teach at a community college, I weep for the youth

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they were syntacticians btw so like they were really saying something with the second bit

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3 months

how can anything ever compete really

Kristi Yamaguccimane

@TheWapplehouse

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what’s the worst tweet you’ve ever seen

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katie

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2 years

an important law of the internet is that every joke tweet must have at least one reply from someone who has never encountered the concept of a joke before

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@focusfronting

2 years

it pisses me off when smart people are good-looking. who gave you the right.

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can someone explain why the kennedy scion abruptly stopped retweeting news about himself and started posting these absolute s-tier bangers

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3 months

@greg16676935420 @gary_loman I blocked him dude

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2 years

what’s your (anonymized!) conference presentation horror story, mine was when someone gave a talk and then in the q&a it was immediately pointed out that what they thought was interesting was just a spelling convention and the whole paper was based on a misunderstanding

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just checked and they broke up and she’s a corporate lawyer so yeah that all checks out

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1 year

@SoulaPapadopoo if a kid says “merry Christmas” instead of “happy holidays” I pelt them with unsharpened pencils

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