Phlebas the Phoenician
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O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
musician, cyclist
F/k/a Tsar Czar Binks/SleepyHead_band on Twitter
musician, cyclist
F/k/a Tsar Czar Binks/SleepyHead_band on Twitter
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Lesson one: Yes, you can do a lot of things if you break the law.
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
December 3, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Lesson one: Yes, you can do a lot of things if you break the law.
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
Lesson two: Doing something is not the same as doing a good thing - it is harder to build than it is to destroy.
Trump has built nothing like the TVA. His lawbreaking is not "freeing the stuck wheels of bureaucracy."
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Yes they should disobey illegal orders
December 1, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Yes they should disobey illegal orders
-75lbs baby
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
-75lbs baby
I wouldn’t have considered it 28 years ago for many of the same reasons. Just worse now. Tbh I probably wouldn’t consider where I went now either
November 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I wouldn’t have considered it 28 years ago for many of the same reasons. Just worse now. Tbh I probably wouldn’t consider where I went now either
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I love this. I'm a screenwriter and cinematographer, but I also love capturing still images.
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I love this. I'm a screenwriter and cinematographer, but I also love capturing still images.
Gorgeous. What’s your set up
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Gorgeous. What’s your set up
Absolutely was the inspiration - lighting especially against black back drop
November 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Absolutely was the inspiration - lighting especially against black back drop
Poor bebe
November 27, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Poor bebe
It’s called the party’s over so yep the descent from fine things to … less fine things
November 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
It’s called the party’s over so yep the descent from fine things to … less fine things
Photography!
November 27, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Photography!
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“if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000…”
November 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
“if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000…”
This is a banger Kendyl
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
This is a banger Kendyl