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UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Next level Twitter: Communicating entirely with other people by liking tweets in their feed.https://t.co/WJdg0ZdpV4

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Communication challenge: conversations done entirely quoting other's tweets.Proof it would be halariously profound: https://t.co/rsJwS4UdNA

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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If you pay close attention, you can still 'talk' using a coded language of likes and a temporal pattern encoding.https://t.co/nyKk8E7A89

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

I use the fav button to retweet, since twitter seems to think that's how this works. 😂 https://t.co/fpYcri44U2

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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It's a *LOT* harder to pull off, but it's not that far from what I theorize the point of communication actually is.https://t.co/kZXBwg7f2h

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

"transfer into your [readers]' minds an extraordinary gift — a strange and beautiful object that we call an idea." https://t.co/zBKBNP1ljV

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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For being autistic, I'm fairly good at game w/ some. It's largely a cerebral process, unlike IRL intention-reading.https://t.co/okNxT6Mnoe

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Informational Cybernetics. Communication is sharing our maps.https://t.co/GTpF8Es1Dz https://t.co/RPcladg9XE

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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I think if I focus, I think I can get ppl to pay attention to ideas using others as conduits. Redirecting attention.https://t.co/CsqPQRM76T

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

Creating insight porn tied it to other tweets. Getting ~1% click-thru rate, but seems to be snow-balling. Attracting the thoughtful curious!

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

I made this connection today after thinking about my interactions with people on here, and what they meme [sic].https://t.co/7ZCHSJ14S3

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

@0xa59a2d @The_Lagrangian Apophthegmic twitter poetry seem to resonate with observer: Hadn't made the connection before, but obviously true?

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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A lot of my langauge is obstuse, and amphibolic, and I often suffer from mindblindness and empathy defects, and yet.https://t.co/pDsn2urEk7

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

You have to stretch imagination a lot further into what they might be experiencing in their world, unbiased by careful thought of "other".

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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I seem to be able to do it when I'm in a flow state - when my change blindness syncs up with my attention.https://t.co/7I5Gqa9RT2

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

By subverting an unconscious revulsion to outsider language: you can listen to songs they sing, and heed insights.https://t.co/jd2sNC1dgn

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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A memory storied in the brain, passed on to others by generating patterns in the environment to resonate ideas.https://t.co/Zkztt0Cnkh

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Twitter facilitates this strange synchronization of ideas by having a searchable history. https://t.co/MDKgfGJLse

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

@vgr I search *a lot*. Ref: exploring the past https://t.co/84Jg5SMKaL; I try to use twitter as slow-hunch generator https://t.co/Ofn9jU95wO

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Growing old ideas out of past memes and words locked up by history.https://t.co/Je10PVUFlc

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Old ideas, like existing genes, are selectively remixed+destroyed, often building scaffolds for others to grow upon.https://t.co/WQotucH287

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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It takes time...https://t.co/p2K7PjD01r

UltimApe@ultimape• over 9 years ago

It takes time to build the mental and cultural scaffolds to make old ideas new again.https://t.co/Ofn9jU95wO

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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I'm totally not trying to infest other people's idea space to absorb their ideas.https://t.co/kum5zXNuIf

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

@sarahdoingthing Don't mind me, just feeding the dogs of curiosity...https://t.co/9qFnC1aMcF

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Or using loopholes in language generation to get a glimpse at their inner patterns of thought.https://t.co/0RM97B6g1A

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

@vgr_ebooks Don't mind me, I'm just trying to rip through boundaries of abstraction.

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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I don't even have my ants yet, I'm doing it all manually.https://t.co/na6aZlXJMh

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Wanna see a magic trick? Use a swarm of metaphor searching ants to pretend to read other's minds.https://t.co/8aVscoaGe8

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Someone gets it https://t.co/lGJMMp8l66

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

"flowstates [...] brainscans [...] lyrics [...] self-editing, our sense of self consciousness [...] goes dim [...] get out of your own way."

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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"Its creativity happening in real time. I mean, it literally feels like channeling."https://t.co/IMf4v3jkAy

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Some cultures believe if you take a picture, it can steal their soul. Why, think that? B/c looking at people is how you indwell other minds.

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Pay attention to someone's face, and you can model their mind in your own.https://t.co/wNRiPHP0Fv

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Digital cognition. Extended mind. Embodied thought. Emotional Stigmergy. Symbolism. Tulpamancy. Hivesong. Keywords.https://t.co/z9BfbFsJW1

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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On twitter, we can do the same but in slow time - using past tweets. Playing with the idea space directly. No faces.https://t.co/rLxoHSMb7I

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Artificial Tulpa Machinehttps://t.co/a5MRIWzbSg

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

https://t.co/gf70Wx8I8f

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

If you construe Twitter as a crowdsourced distributed AI system for meaning making powered by meat, it's technically very efficient. https://t.co/3Cdju8TEpq

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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https://t.co/RwwQBhwzrK

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Real time brain pattern synchronization as a service.https://t.co/7FHrdsqiyk

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

"as opposed to an automatic connected-is-awlays-implicitly-good response"https://t.co/yf7GM9kz4O via @CurlyChimera https://t.co/WOGDX4I8l1

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Communicating thru poetry.https://t.co/q6kxcQIu6I

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Idea poetry, bouncing around in embodied minds - forming the shape of network. Self organizing. Reifying culture.https://t.co/9KgFtoAbYY

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Channeling old ideas.https://t.co/93thLLxMUk

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words." — Robert Frosthttps://t.co/BHDcfcBf6H https://t.co/FXHrwuuLe1

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Serendipityhttps://t.co/G22uqHV8CA

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Societies whose social functions becoming more cybernetic than individuals that composes it.https://t.co/kdSvxEF71Qhttps://t.co/7ac6jRojgS https://t.co/LdUneX2qqP

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9/23/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Reading my own thought droppings to read my own mind.Glancing at tea leaves to divine the divine.https://t.co/pkBwomYXE3

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

Or for that matter, what emotional structures indwell the stories well tell ourselves?Mantras Matter.https://t.co/Pxktzlr7sP

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9/24/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Echos of the past, if only yesterday.https://t.co/LnuPdGVacB

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

Words echo in my head like orphaned thoughts; space dust & comets.Echolalia & hypnagogic imagery form new planets, indwelling the chaos.

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9/24/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Eating brain fungus?What a strange metaphor.https://t.co/Q3MXgpbxb3

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

I am Jaglavak, the meme trader. Breaking cultural boundaries in search of powerful metaphor. An Informavore farming rhizomatic zygophores.

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9/24/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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*I* am not Jaglavak.I am simply putting words in jaglavak's mouth to better understand her.https://t.co/VPVLbd4hXt

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Jaglavak is a metaphor for us.https://t.co/jrD4KZ0TFX

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9/24/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

The beast was us all along.https://t.co/UloxjGAvhN

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

In the belly of the machine.A million tiny robots dancing.The beast was us all along.Molech! Molech! Molech!https://t.co/AsOejaTmzL

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9/24/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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When I'm sad, I try to think of ways to cheer others, hoping feelings might rub off. Sometimes words are not enough.https://t.co/MrwnPWitIs

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

@AmandaChimera Sometimes I like to think that communication happens despite language, not because of it.https://t.co/pm8zlPVmS7

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9/25/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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This is a small for us.Was arbitrary choice based limit.Solving a real problem when trying to tweet…At same time maintain brevity, sense!

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9/27/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Being sick makes my brain work differently.I'm lucid and creative at the same time. It's very good mental mode. https://t.co/FcO45AFGrX

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10/14/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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"he would bring together two very different things to see what the connection was between them" Combinatory Play.https://t.co/o5XFPSMnk1 https://t.co/u7XKdlS2dM

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10/26/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Mind control.https://t.co/SlYzAVDPyP

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11/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Mind control can be good and bad.https://t.co/mUt3LL53Ce

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11/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

It can be chorus of like minded souls weaving thought.https://t.co/YCSMBdzjce

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

@outdreamer likes & quote tweets end up being cross-stitches with temporal groupings acting as artistic patterns. Langston's ant / rule 110

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11/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

And a serendipity generator - listing to the hivesong of your network.https://t.co/7OXk1WZdCs

UltimApe@ultimape• about 9 years ago

Some people like really strange tweets in my feed. I'm thinking of spending time reading thru their likes for insight mining purposes.

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11/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

But it can also taint a discourse; polluting honest inquiry.https://t.co/7PppSBXtz7

UltimApe@ultimape• about 8 years ago

"demonstrate […] even mild social influence can undermine the wisdom of crowd effect in simple estimation tasks."https://t.co/4j4mGe1hNT https://t.co/CHNvKXd7TL

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11/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

A botjardian influencing the swarm.https://t.co/fkjvM1YvFK

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

@ckhonson So many don't understand how potentially nefarious and persuasive influence marketing actually is. There's a reason why #ad hashtag exists.

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11/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

This is the nature of twitter.https://t.co/vJLjOBuDE4

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 10 years ago

"is not the bot the measure of the man in the digital economy? For what is Twitter? a botjardin pollinated by ppl?" — @excapite

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11/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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We walk a tight rope - a tight line - between valuable streams of thought, and advertising / bot driven noise.https://t.co/DhTUYiGKCO

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Bubble forming?This line of reasoning conflates sock puppet influence tactics w/ genuine negative signals of swarm.https://t.co/GwNsWniMcD https://t.co/KlPsFdIqla

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11/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Do not ask for whom the swarm claps, for it claps for thee.https://t.co/wPtT9yIe7f

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

On learning how to clap:https://t.co/t0VVLccB60 https://t.co/kbuXQXDVDd

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11/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Routing around parasites.https://t.co/tCS3UXPjHp

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

TL;DR: the swarm eventually learns to route around parasites.Efficient market hypothesis, but generalized? https://t.co/DdRIs1RdKQ

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11/3/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

How does nature get it's rhythm?https://t.co/ynqGmyiD0s

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Who watches watchmen?Who influences influencers?Who inspires whom inspire?Who sings the hivesong?

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Comforted by the joyful chorus?https://t.co/KjUhAapWC4

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Every voice is valuable when herd [sic], even if those voices telling you what kind of instrument you don't want to be.

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Our collective's hivesong consists of tweets and trumpets.In fact it always did: many of us simply didn't hear them 'till now.

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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In these woven networks of ideas we experience the ecstasy of curiosity.Building the future one tweet at a time.https://t.co/A7NvEhYpBR

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Building structures.https://t.co/ywdEDYLdJ0

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 9 years ago

"structure on which you get to hang the ornaments of your imagination [...] letting your unconscious mind guide you"https://t.co/2MUaAw9l5A

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Temples for the Anthropocene.https://t.co/w9bq0tyUHW

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Create shared maps of your idea mazes to help guide those who walk behind, those whom share your life journey. Build temples for egrḗgoroi. https://t.co/y1vO0zGmFh

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Steering toward the absurd.https://t.co/dD2hEDqOHg

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

Rowing together.https://t.co/THz7mWZ4lI

UltimApe@ultimape• over 8 years ago

Don't Panic Charlie. Just keep rowing. The only way out is thru.We're here. I'm alive. What a nightmare.https://t.co/8VfFYkMU9H

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

I'm glad you're here.https://t.co/hzZV9rhQwo

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Hold on to each other, tightly in the darkness, even if it's slivers of memory. In the end we've all we've got.https://t.co/AR0xBaK3PI

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

Replying to @ultimape

I'm glad you're here... with me.https://t.co/p5RgKkAvdf

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11/4/2017

UltimApe@ultimape• almost 8 years ago

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Let's share this sun-rise together.Laughing as we sit on a rock floating in space wondering why we're even here.https://t.co/CciMxmHwcs

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11/4/2017