Zig Zag @tic_tac_____

Interested in history, philosophy, psychology, culture. Likes / retweets are not endorsements. London Joined November 2012

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Ziggy_Sobotka @Ziggys_Duck

8 months ago

The game is the game, the system is the system, and the world keeps turning.

💞🫠 @__xmariah

8 months ago

The game is the game, the system is the system, and the world keeps turning. https://t.co/s9nkGHDGAj

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Grinding Poet @GrindingPoet

9 months ago

Live in today

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James Heale @JAHeale

9 months ago

Shots of Westminster taken in the fog this week by photographer Tom Wright

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This year, I read ten important historical novels: Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, To The Lighthouse, Bleak House, Portrait of a Lady, Anna Karenina, Life and Fate, Heart of Darkness, Madame Bovary, and The Magic Mountain. Reflections: • Four of these are more than 800 pages long. The…

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HarryHew @harryhew

a year ago

Leonard Cohen said the job of an artist isn't to create but to receive. A line he used often was: "If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often."

Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4

a year ago

Leonard Cohen said the job of an artist isn't to create but to receive. A line he used often was: "If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often."

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Spencer Cox @SpencerJCox

a year ago

Can’t stop thinking about this Francis Fukuyama paragraph from The End of History.

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Existential Comics (find me on bluesky) @existentialcoms

11 years ago

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "An honest, brave, compassionate human being." "No…I mean, how do you want to sell your labor?"

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall

3 years ago

#TheWire debuted 20 years ago tonight. I wrote about all the ways the HBO masterpiece has proven impossible to duplicate, no matter how often other shows try to imitate parts of it: rollingstone.com/tv/tv-features…

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Matt Levine @matt_levine

5 years ago

@jbarro because mutual funds charge 0.5-1% of AUM and SPACs charge 20% of AUM is the actual answer

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Centre for Grand Strategy @KCL_CGS

8 years ago

"The historical approach is intellectually humble; the aim is to comprehend situations, to study trends, to discover how things work: and the crowning attainment of historical study is a historical sense--an intuitive understanding of how things do not happen." L. Namier, 1952