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16 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
im looking at japanese league baseball hats. i can only assume this is my mid life crisis. reasoning forward from this, i must be halfway through my life. im okay with this
just the name “hiroshima carp” is really working on multiple aesthetic levels for me rn. the whales logo is kind of suburban dad vaporwave (rare vibe)
the ones with the guys are cool. theres one in particular im eyeing but if i post it might sell out before i can get my finances together, to be in a position to invest, in a baseball cap, what with my position of cultural influence and all. kind of a weird bizarro americana
these hats took on a weird talismanic quality to me after i found a miami dolphins hat at my grandfathers after he died. ive kind of just accepted it as a weird psychological in joke with myself. theres a stack of them near my bed now, i wear them to work

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15 Mar
found car keys in a field while walking my dog. it had a clicker, to my surprise i heard the car beep in the distance. followed its quack into a parking lot. there it was, success. but now what. if i leave the keys here, the car is more unsafe than ever. here i stand, paradox man
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i could leave a note, but its raining. is this presumptuous, to then assume that they would walk the actually quite far distance in the rain to re-obtain their keys? or is the note a signature of me taking on this yoke, saying that i will be the one to return in the rain. perhaps
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14 Mar
there was always “high culture” and “low culture”. now theres no more “high culture”, this distinction has not only been erased but intentionally flipped as academia and former cultural citadels aggressively pander and try to be cool by studying what always was “low culture”.
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of course in inverted world theres always a catch so at some point i started to think that the “new” underground thing, perhaps one of the last things to potentially even be able to function as an “underground” “sub”culture, is, paradoxically, parts of the internet. the odd parts
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13 Mar
my phone died on this little book hunting excursion (rare moment when i leave my desk) yesterday but i think i found a new contender for oldest book in my amateur christian material culture archives here at the studio. i will show u in this thread below, if u want.
technically i think this may be the first fully non american book that is over a century old that i have obtained. cool cover:
actually i just noticed it says Cambridge MA in here (didnt really look at it yet) so thankfully it is at least in some way american. a few names and even an address, in oxford. should i return it there
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12 Mar
theres no coming back from looking into the data on 1800s experiments regarding human sensitivity to electricity and how much it varies, looking at the voltages they were using, and comparing it to how much the average person is exposed to today. im not coming back from this
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some of these experiments used like one volt. obviously compare that to a nine volt battery. and the biological changes they observed were insane. there was a whole field of studying the biological effects and medical uses of electricity that is totally forgotten.
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11 Mar
one thing about watching a ton of debates (while working) on a variety of different topics is when i jump into a new one i can instantly tell who actually has the stronger argument based on the fact that when backed into a corner people make the same appeals, regardless of topic
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11 Mar
counterpoint: no
dudes out here really trying to throw something out the window and have it stop halfway down smDh
i rarely promise things but i can 100% assure u that the most intelligent questions you will ever ask yourself will make you sound like an absolute idiot to normal people if they heard them
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