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Christopher
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Christopher
@molochofficial
scheming Elizabethan courtier and academic sycophant
Providence, RI
Joined April 2016
- It’s increasingly clear that Ellen DeGeneres was an environmentally significant apex predator in the media ecosystem; she’d have extracted all entertainment value from the Hawk Tuah girl in a 3-minute segment and banished her back to anonymity, maintaining ecological balance
- It’s wild that the New York Public Library has THE original Winnie the Pooh toys and they don’t even receive much fanfare
- was reading about the silent film era and thinking about how silly the word "talkie" is, and was then forced to really consider, for the first time, the word "movie"
- the reason why this video goes viral whenever anyone posts it is that we all kind of secretly enjoy the performanceThe Life of a Showgirl
- We’ve regressed so far that Banksy is edgy again — the eternal return of 2004A new Banksy mural usually provokes excitement. But this one outside the Royal Courts of Justice is being carefully kept out of public view.
- When I was 12 or so I thought I had a clever idea and told my dad that I would always root for the team that represented the city with the largest population to maximize happiness and he looked at me with undisguised disgust and said "you would say something like that" lmao
- 7 foot tall undergrad told me that he was going to have to miss class for a game and, not wanting to make assumptions, I asked him what team he was on and he just said “come on” lmao
- Replying to @molochofficialWe got rid of all the wolves and now we’re surprised by all the deer
- What really kills me about this is that she didn’t even try to exaggerate how long her daily walk was because she simply assumed that everyone else would also find it torturous to walk for 10 minutesAnother walkable cities W
- College admissions discourse just reminded me that the father of the richest girl in my high school literally rented a lab and staffed it with scientists so that they’d list her as a co-author on any papers. He also funded and publicized a scholarship and then awarded it to her.
- Introducing: a Rhode Island pizza strip
the saddest thing is when you visit a city that’s not new york or chicago and they’re like “we also have a distinctive pizza style!” - oh? the historical period you study was one of rapid social transformation and stark contrasts? Yeah I bet it was.
