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monk@mechanical_monk• over 5 years ago

all my friends have blogs, so I also made one only low-effort public notes for now; high-production-quality longpoasts will come when I learn to write this will be a thread for the notes; god willing, there will be more than the one that I just wrote

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5/29/2020

monk@mechanical_monk• over 5 years ago

Replying to @mechanical_monk

my first ever blogpost is exceedingly meta https://t.co/lwZhnVpR2r

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5/29/2020

David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 5 years ago

Replying to @mechanical_monk

@mechanicalmonk1 Congrats on doing this!

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5/29/2020

monk@mechanical_monk• over 5 years ago

Replying to @DRMacIver

@DRMacIver thanks, and I guess you had something to do with it happening, so thanks for that too I wanted to have a blog forever, but that recent thread of yours finally bullied me into actually doing it

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5/29/2020

David R. MacIver@DRMacIver• over 5 years ago

Replying to @mechanical_monk

@mechanicalmonk1 I prefer to think of it as providing supportive life-improving advice and positive examples, but if it works I'll take it 😁

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5/29/2020

ian hines@imhinesmi• over 5 years ago

Replying to @mechanical_monk

@mechanicalmonk1 i can just feel the "oh jeez what am i supposed to write about uuhhhh"

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5/29/2020

monk@mechanical_monk• over 5 years ago

Replying to @imhinesmi

@imhinesmi 😀 https://t.co/JG92ENHL4H

ian hines@imhinesmi• over 5 years ago

@mechanicalmonk1 @DRMacIver if youre not sure what to write about just transcribe your inner monologue

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5/29/2020

ian hines@imhinesmi• over 5 years ago

Replying to @mechanical_monk

@mechanicalmonk1 my first journal entry was extremely like this https://t.co/TJ4wpl2RgN

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5/29/2020

Hazard@natural_hazard• over 5 years ago

Replying to @mechanical_monk

@mechanicalmonk1 yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! writing love and support :)

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5/30/2020

monk@mechanical_monk• over 5 years ago

Replying to @mechanical_monk

2. Be Dumber everyone knows so much: you know that you're not cut out for math! you know what that girl would think if you smiled at her! you know that you wouldn't enjoy jogging! you know that things will never get better! brain = gun gun -> foot https://t.co/LwF3dsBW1o

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6/1/2020

monk@mechanical_monk• over 5 years ago

Replying to @mechanical_monk

for tl;dr, see this twete https://t.co/Oty2LvRusk

monk@mechanical_monk• over 5 years ago

@QiaochuYuan Dumb is a great value Our brains tend to be total know-it-alls "if I try that, I will fail" "this is beyond my ability" "I will never find love" HOW TF DO YOU KNOW, NERD Be dumber

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