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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

a thread of my best one-liners https://t.co/zIn2mJGyj3

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6/4/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

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1. https://t.co/otTepQrBSs

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

All advice is context-dependent to a degree most do not realise until they encounter a different context

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6/4/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

2. https://t.co/0516JQaORM

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

literally any decent piece of advice can be weaponized in some way to justify getting back on your bullshit

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6/4/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

3. https://t.co/T7CHKdcyKz

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 7 years ago

The public is insufficiently educated on how to be a good public

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6/4/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

4. https://t.co/cNC86MObxb

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Bad actors are not sufficiently penalised for the far-reaching consequences of their actions

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6/4/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

5. https://t.co/agzDcVyIKt

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

The best things in life are often accidental or peripheral, and you can actually optimise for this

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6/4/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

6. https://t.co/alkrKnihhd

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

being naive is one of my best assets

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6/4/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

7. https://t.co/atTCEH7KPR

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 10 years ago

The real flying car / hoverboard / jetpack of 2020 will be a tool that helps you navigate information overload, not physical space

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6/4/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

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8. https://t.co/Gkljzm4K67

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 10 years ago

In a sense the media is a sort of moving Potemkin village of understanding, constantly adapting and reconstructing after-the-fact

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6/4/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

9. https://t.co/hYmXgEEgVz

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

having multiple twitter identities is transhuman

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6/8/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

10. https://t.co/6DMo6seI9t

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

all direction is misdirection

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6/11/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

11. https://t.co/rD6eAIJt3N

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

🤔 magic is curiosity + attentiveness + persistence + willingness to revise and re-evaluate everything 🤔

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6/11/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

12. https://t.co/GKNEvkIWfg

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Joking on the internet is not allowed

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6/22/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

13. https://t.co/HLKCGSvMIW

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

A very large % of everything that’s described as “half-joking” turns out to be powerfully true

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6/22/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

14. https://t.co/GOezX7CuD4

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

*taps mic* people wanna be fuckable more than they wanna fuck

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6/22/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

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15. https://t.co/bdbIHHOlqj

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

“I’m the real victim here” - every narcissist ever

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6/22/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

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16. https://t.co/nMmmP06NpE

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 7 years ago

One of the reasons narcissist PR works is that we can’t shut up about it

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6/22/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

17. https://t.co/phs1D2mZKc

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 7 years ago

Agreeing with people who think they disagree with you is the most fun conversation judo move

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6/23/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

18. https://t.co/8pmtjote0E

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

@mandalaeyes joy is freedom from the shackle of utilitarianism

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7/1/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

19. https://t.co/8InlXUVaX8

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

@ssica3003 @unravelofstack i can't help but think sometimes that people like being topped/dominated by their hate

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7/5/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

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20. https://t.co/a26fWiHBjw

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

self-loathing requires that you participate in the delusional conceit that you know who you are

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7/5/2019

🍍 __ 🙀@sharanvkaur• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv https://t.co/N2oZ6bI4Cv

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7/5/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @sharanvkaur

@sharanvkaur https://t.co/F08PJtiVQp

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7/5/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

21. https://t.co/VzPirfmXLE

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

We are all born creative and it is socialized out of us.

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7/7/2019

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 6 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

22. https://t.co/zTe37HKKfh

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 6 years ago

fucking is labor, fuckability is capital

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1/22/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 6 years ago

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23. https://t.co/Ly5uPL5bkn

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

thinking is easy, information architecture is hard

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1/22/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

24. https://t.co/o7mP4ZuirP https://t.co/wDKS62i5dG

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

you can’t think your way out of a courage deficit

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2/3/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

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25. https://t.co/j5YJ168doC

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

@sonyasupposedly @vgr [lights cigarette] art is the most humanitarian thing there is

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2/9/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

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26. https://t.co/OnIc3XJRDG https://t.co/ghR3pFQs3R

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 7 years ago

Success can be very dehumanizing

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2/17/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

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27. https://t.co/MWfTTwRFpl https://t.co/rSgB2LnYOr

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2/20/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

28. https://t.co/pXaib2pc0R https://t.co/OXfqp96uRP

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

@simpolism Self-loathing is a form of narcissism

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2/20/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

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29. https://t.co/yje65nZgYp https://t.co/SBFAzQvA3S

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 6 years ago

@literalbanana [half-jokingly] people contain multitudes, coherence is fascism

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2/21/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

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30. https://t.co/LqS4F1JWlb

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

@MsHortonTweets people don't wanna make better choices, they wanna make shitty choices and then complain about the shitty outcomes

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2/24/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

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31. https://t.co/DwKeeMqgYF

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 6 years ago

civilization is a sort of iterated, recursive potty training

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2/24/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

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32. https://t.co/r7X1AFoy6F

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 6 years ago

THE USER EXPERIENCE WILL BE DEGRADED UNTIL METRICS IMPROVE

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2/24/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

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33. https://t.co/LFJrKdczGM https://t.co/LP34mdT3zb

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

to think for yourself is to construct an echo chamber for yourself

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2/29/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

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34. https://t.co/umSTMvpb8A

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

it is critically important and absolutely pointless to oscillate between extremes

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5/16/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

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35. https://t.co/WyN5s9TPZR

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

if you ever think someone isn’t creative you should look at their excuses

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5/16/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

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36. https://t.co/btJH2OatZb

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

Most men with ambition have no taste and most men with taste have no ambition

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5/28/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

37. https://t.co/zvdJb3RVSJ

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

inside every hot girl there is a skeleton

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5/29/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

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38. https://t.co/AXqk3fvNwb

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

nice norms u got there, it would be a shame if someone were to transgress them

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6/20/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

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39. https://t.co/eUl2HI7ntx

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

if you’re serious about thinking about your positioning, it can change your positions

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8/11/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

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40. https://t.co/UkMsnFjOLh

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 4 years ago

this is not a practice life

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8/11/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

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41. https://t.co/PnFcHbRFQK

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

@eigenrobot many intelligent people are *advanced* bad at thinking

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9/27/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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42. https://t.co/m2b1UG5ODO

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

@AgnesCallard nobody deserves anything

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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43. https://t.co/VDEl1ibwVZ

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

adhd is an emotions problem disguised as a thinking problem

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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44. https://t.co/G4jt1SRUWS

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

if you’re a coward, and you misdiagnose yourself as an idiot, you’re going to be stuck there indefinitely https://t.co/wDKS62i5dG

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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45. https://t.co/xRp4P1H3FG

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

a person who holds themselves hostage gets genuinely worried for you when they see that you are a free person

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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46. https://t.co/YRn4dwiJ2f

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

changing your vocabulary is the most cheat-code-esque way to change your life I can think of and it’s perfectly legal

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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47. https://t.co/IJdqa1F1Pw

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

meditation to me is about learning to become a native of your body, rather than feel like an unwanted guest in it

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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48. https://t.co/dUJHvFjXWG

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

journaling → self-knowledge → power → freedom → joy

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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49. https://t.co/Sym76omzO0

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

took me years to begin to understand that one of the most heroic things you can do is not hate yourself

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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50. https://t.co/tFaWtEZM1p

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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51. https://t.co/cexsjuVNxz

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

casual reminder that you should enjoy at least some of your life *now*, not be deferring all joy in the hope of enjoyment some day in the future

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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52. https://t.co/XD8zzj2Fpg

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

I don’t need an employer to give me burnout I can do it all by myself

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

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53. https://t.co/R5BTUi3ZMh

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 4 years ago

the secret ingredient to almost everything good is simply giving a shit

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

54. https://t.co/UVrWAQjGKF

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

every act of kindness is a rebellion against a cruel, indifferent world

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

55. https://t.co/k5xwvWhX3V

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

you can totally study ethics to learn how to be a more effective evil person

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

56. https://t.co/vIQP91ECjm

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

The urgent and important task of the philosopher is to wake up every morning and ask everyone, “excuse me, what the fuck?”

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

57. https://t.co/gP8REkRt16

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

people who care about truth are always shocked to discover over and over again that most people don't care

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12/21/2021

Imp@imperialauditor• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv ow I feel subtweeted 😅

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12/21/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

58. https://t.co/e1kmOFXH43

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 9 years ago

Today's personal is tomorrow's political, next week's fashionable, next month's profitable, next year's passé https://t.co/XhZRd2S8iV

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12/27/2021

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

59. https://t.co/aIE8rzhvrN

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

@daemonhugger if you pursue any practical interest deeply enough you're eventually forced to confront philosophy

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1/29/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

60. https://t.co/4YYVzpuQ0f

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

@krishnanrohit things happen in cycles, so you can travel both backwards and forward in time just by being mindful of where you are

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2/5/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

61. https://t.co/ElpvVHCHef

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

life is cringe n then u die

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3/8/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

62. https://t.co/QH8UM9EWRh

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

what if you did a tiny little bit of the thing you’re avoiding, but like, as a joke

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3/8/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

63. https://t.co/0XULQ1crmI

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

all my haters are my collaborators

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3/8/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

64. https://t.co/P2hZjJazrO

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

💡! you don't actually need to "know" what you want in order to do what you want

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3/8/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

65. https://t.co/3kMmEwYCQ1

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

being embarrassed about being stuck always prolongs the stuckedness

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3/8/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

66. https://t.co/B6aojpkZHG

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

some people will interpret you living your best life as a provocation directed at them personally

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3/8/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

67. https://t.co/jJj1wtm2sn

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

you can really just encourage every motherfucker you meet to pursue their dreams, and watch them flourish along every dimension. it's perfectly legal

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3/8/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

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68. https://t.co/JVcNsQI75X

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

@liminal_warmth teaching is 10% knowing your stuff and 90% knowing precisely how and why people misunderstand your stuff

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3/11/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

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69. nice https://t.co/LfJhd5Wdad

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

you can’t moralize away a load-bearing coping mechanism

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3/21/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

70. https://t.co/Q01xiKIoZc

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 4 years ago

the trick to remembering things is to piggyback the data onto the emotional caravans in your bodymind’s trade network https://t.co/PZuqCWuknP

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3/26/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

71. https://t.co/Poky7i6qNx

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Publicly having self-worth can be a punishable offence

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4/7/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

72. https://t.co/9UL8PLxIFa

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 3 years ago

you either metabolize your resentment or it metabolizes you

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9/14/2022

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

73. https://t.co/8sIkNcPX7h

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

@selentelechia Attention is touching with your mind

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2/6/2023

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

74. https://t.co/4pODkVHtmP

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 3 years ago

our ancestors got picked off by megafauna, our peers get picked off by psychofauna

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2/6/2023

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

75. https://t.co/w2PFnKW1xe

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• almost 5 years ago

just as reality is unrealistic, authenticity gets parsed as inauthentic

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5/7/2023