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rotor posted:ok so im as guilty of this as everyone else but i just realized this is the tweets thread so lets not get our cspam in our tweet thread plz & thank
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finally got around to updating the op to expand requested thread content to tumblr posts, toots, and skeets, as long as they're at least screenshotted
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don't forget chortles!
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Cat Face Joe posted:don't forget chortles!
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incorrect the best minds are thinking about how to uninstall python
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Kenny Logins posted:don't call it a comeback, the cool zone's been here for years heh
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that seems less a zine than a schizo pamphlet
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rjmccall posted:that seems less a zine than a schizo pamphlet I mean make your own conclusions but  https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5678153
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NoneMoreNegative posted:I mean make your own conclusions but lol yeah nailed it lmao @ someone in loving 1995 saying "clearly, the bad times are upon us." e: i read that a bit more and lol you could republish that word for word today and not get a second glance. weird how these people never change
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Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. Horace, 20 BCE
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big scary monsters posted:Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. I mean I'm no historian. I can't immediately discard the possibility that everything has been going steadily downhill for more than two millennia.
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Doom Mathematic posted:I mean I'm no historian. I can't immediately discard the possibility that everything has been going steadily downhill for more than two millennia.
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big scary monsters posted:Our sires' age was worse than our grandsires'. We, their sons, are more worthless than they; so in our turn we shall give the world a progeny yet more corrupt. wasn't that during the collapse of the centuries-old roman republic and a series of brutal civil wars unprecedented in their history?
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Jul 8, 2023 09:35
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7 years into Augustus' reign, but yeah the previous years were a mess. when it fell apart again we get a horse consul and a handful of emperors a year
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Ornamental Dingbat posted:https://twitter.com/lauriewired/status/1677082589507784704?t=pRVq3fPp1werK1G3D7TXLA&s=19 i saw Dumping Core at MoMA last year, it fuckin ruled
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mediaphage posted:tldr 
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Hopefully at some points in the future posting like this will be met with similar scorn to awesome epic reddit stories
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laserghost posted:Hopefully at some points in the future posting like this will be met with similar scorn to awesome epic reddit stories
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i skimmed the monkey cheese to get to the reply and it was good, thenneth
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always here for a good tom waits story https://twitter.com/CWSmets/status/1677410459165552640
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FMguru posted:always here for a good tom waits story 
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FMguru posted:always here for a good tom waits story lmao
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Agile Vector posted:7 years into Augustus' reign, but yeah the previous years were a mess. when it fell apart again we get a horse consul and a handful of emperors a year The horse as consul/senator was rather early on in the Principate—probably midway through Caligula's reign (37-41) when relations with the Senate broke down and was more likely a jab at the co-option of almost the whole of the cursus honorum. Caligula was many things and was certainly not a nice man, but care must be taken with these things because, above all else, the Romans were just utterly full of poo poo. In Caligula's case, they were faced with a situation where the emperor had been murdered¹ and what people generally assumed was a drooling gimp chosen by the prætorian put in his place. An emperor, it might be added, who was much more popular with the people than he was with the senatorial class (this was also the case, tho less luridly, with Nero) Contemporary sources are also thin—Tacitus' Annals, written closest to the events, regarding this period have significant lacunæ—but non-Roman writings such as Philo's The Embassy to Gaius portray not so much a perverted lunatic but just a callous, arrogant young man with a strange sense of humor. As for emperor clusters, well, there are two main events: the Year of the Four Emperors in 69CE and the Year of the Five Emperors in 193CE, which wasn't as nice—especially for Didius Julianus, who lasted a mere 66 days. And now, a tweet https://twitter.com/phosphor_glow/status/1677151289438883850?t=3Tg889RiOfWDrONfp6rq2g&s=19
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my favorite thing about caligula is that his name means little boot, because that’s what soldiers called him when he paraded around in miniature armor as a child
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Farty Crabcakes posted:The previous decades. The Social Wars, Sulla's occupation of the city, the Catiline Conspiracy, the 3rd Servile War, et al. But none of it was strictly unprecedented despite the Roman talent for crafting rose-colored glasses. this is a great refresher/education and i forgot there were multiple rounds of Too Many Emperors also that tweet is going to be stuck in my head for days Agile Vector fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Jul 9, 2023 |
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well-read undead posted:my favorite thing about caligula is that his name means little boot, because that’s what soldiers called him when he paraded around in miniature armor as a child And fun fact: the Horace that started this thread of conversation deserted the battle at Phillipi and returned to Rome under amnesty. (His cognomen, Flaccus, well, I'm sure you can guess what it means but I'm not quite sure the context is the same. Also a patrician, which is surprisingly less common than you might think when it comes to portrayals of the period.)
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Agile Vector posted:this is a great refresher/education and i forgot there were multiple rounds of Too Many Emperors quote:also that tweet is going to be stuck in my head for days 
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Farty Crabcakes posted:Well his name was Gaius Julius Cæsar Augustus Germanicus (Augustus coming after ascension). Even given the frequently insulting nature of Roman cognomens (Cæsar is among other things thought to be mocking the family tendency towards baldness, Cicero means chickpea, Brutus means "stupid-looking", Pulcher "pretty boy", etc) Caligula fuckin hated it and its usage in histories is another posthumous "gently caress you" diss culture run amok!
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FMguru posted:always here for a good tom waits story This is perfect.
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well-read undead posted:diss culture run amok! quote:Pēdīcābō ego vōs et irrumābō
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catallus really had a way with words  my partner and i have been (slowly) teaching ourselves latin, but reading this is well beyond my grasp, so i had look it up, and funnily enough, she already had it open in a browser tab by total coincidence also fun: out of curiosity i wanted to see what google translate would make of it and it translates the opening line as “I will follow you and I will visit you” lmao
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