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"Ah, Spotify listening hours, how you betray me... I'll come back to you in a month I guess" — Apr 29, 2026 06:21AM
"Ah, Spotify listening hours, how you betray me... I'll come back to you in a month I guess" — Apr 29, 2026 06:21AM
Seriousness seemed the only mood a plain girl might adopt without exposing herself to the scorn or pity of others.
“Books were considered a sign of idleness at best and dangerous at worst.”
― The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
― The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
“Landscapes like ours were created by and survive through the efforts of nobodies. That's why I was so shocked to be given such a dead, rich, white man's version of its history at school. This is a landscape of modest, hardworking people. The real history of our landscape should be the history of the nobodies.”
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
― The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District
“Because memory…is everything. Physically speaking, a memory is nothing but a specific combination of neurons firing together—a symphony of neural activity. But in actuality, it’s the filter between us and reality. You think you’re tasting this wine, hearing the words I’m saying, in the present, but there’s no such thing. The neural impulses from your taste buds and your ears get transmitted to your brain, which processes them and dumps them into working memory—so by the time you know you’re experiencing something, it’s already in the past. Already a memory.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“How is it that we never completely comprehend our love for someone until they’re gone?”
― M Train: A Memoir
― M Train: A Memoir
“Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
A Truth Universally Acknowledged...
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Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
BROSKI NATION
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Book Club for Brittany Broski stans and everyone is welcome :) Will update with all books she talks about on her podcast The Broski Report and her TT, ...more
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