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I didn’t quite realise until watching the Reputation stadium tour on Netflix: Taylor Swift is a religion
I’m not really joking
Choosing to work the 🐍 into her act and brand (it’s what her haters were calling her) is a particularly genius move. Doesn’t take a lot of cleverness to come up with it; it takes savvy, conviction and persuasion chops to execute on it
This song by the way is *superbly* well-written and to explain it I gotta queue up one of my favorite threads next
I find myself curious to contrast the geniuses of Taylor and Kanye. (I separate the person from the character, so I can study their craft & savvy without falling into the boring trap of hero-pedestalization.) They’re both uncommon geniuses in similar yet distinctly different ways
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step right up for another storytelling adventure from visa and jon, of the struggles of Small Business Hero(es)

there are over 80 slides in this, I'm going to leave out about half of them (the statistics and stuff... if you want you can look them up, I'll link to it at the end)
it's extra poignant for me to re-read this now that I'm a feral free agent myself

define success for yourself, don't let other people define it for u
our hero is inspired

(keep it simple!)
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So many people have all sorts of explanations for why Britain can’t be like Singapore but hardly anybody seems to grasp the number one reason:

We are smol

We have less than 10% of your population and we’re physically smaller than London
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Watching Marie Kondo get couples to go through their stuff is more intimate than watching people have sex. Doin’ it is easy, talking about your feelings is hard
I think a lot of people read her quotes and assumed she must be some sort of cold, ruthless, obsessive person but she’s actually so kind and gentle and sweet - kinder to her clients than they are to themselves
Would you be more comfortable sharing a nude picture of yourself, or having a camera crew follow you around your home and ask you about everything?
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As a warm-up for my #Mickey90 megathread starting 11/18, I'm gonna watch as many of Disney's Oswald The Lucky Rabbit cartoons as I can get access to, since OTLR is basically Mickey Mouse 1.0

I mean, just look at him. Walt lost the rights to OTLR & then re-created him as MM!
I own this dvd collection from 2007 which I was SO excited to own but I still haven't gotten around to watching, over a decade later! This twitter thread will be my excuse to finally watch these films.
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Here is an awesome book by @dave_bossert that pretty much covers everything about OTLR:
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6 years ago I hate-watched the first Twilight movie, but for obvious reasons I've never watched the entire saga.

We'll see how far through I make it today. Pray for me
Bella’s daddy is…a cop? Lord.
I truly remember nothing from this movie
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Kendrick Lamar’s Rise & The Importance Of Jay Rock (Thread)
I’ll start in 2005. Kendrick is a 17 or 18 year old rapper going by the name “K. Dot”. He’s about one year into his deal with local record label Top Dawg Entertainment. He’s here in a cypher in Jay Rock’s projects
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45 Days Of @ElvisCostello: a twitter megathread in anticipation of the Oct 12 release date of LOOK NOW, the new LP by Elvis Costello & The Imposters

This is either a bright idea or a brilliant mistake, but this is only, this is only, this is only the beginning...
I did something similar to this 5 years ago, in anticipation of EC & @theroots' Wise Up Ghost LP, on tumblr.

(You can still find all those posts if you look, although a lot of the YouTube links etc are now dead ends. It was 40 Days Of EC then, so for 2018 I'm upping it to 45.)
Mostly I will be going chronologically from the early years right up to the present, but it feels right to start out with Costello's 2002 song, "45."

Music Video directed by @jessebdylan


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since run bts just ended season 2, heres a thread of all the iconic moments. throwing it back all the way from the beginning.

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I subscribed for $5 & decided I'm gonna watch & tweet about 'em all in chronological order, even the later, terrible ones, for which I have an irrational affection.

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