Category: General
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ett bra betyg
Jag verker passera min språkskurs (CEFR nivå B1). Grattis till mig! (Det är lyckligt för mig att provet fokuserade mer på att läsa och skriva än att lyssna och prata… mycket mer övning behövs!)
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noot noot, motherfucker
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notice that wall
Apropos of nothing but its glorious strangeness, one of twenty images (of what are presumably hundreds more, unscanned) ganked from an old Scientology textbook. Found via an ongoing thing at Metafilter where they’re raking through ancient posts to find forgotten gems.
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time fracture / fracture time
Just realised it’s pretty much exactly a year since I broke the talus of my left foot while climbing… which I guess I’m glad to have remembered on my way back from the climbing wall, rather than on the way there. I now have a lot of the mobility back in that ankle, though not…
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we live our lives within the poetry of our own demise
While I am under no illusions that they would ever count it as a valid rejoinder, this from Nick Cave pretty much nails the pre-philosophical (which is to say poetic, I suppose) objection I’ve had to the immortalist dreams of the transhumanoids. Someone in the mailbag asks whether, were it possible, he would want to…