Elena

There’s something in bookmarked tweets that makes them feel special while establishing a weird relationship between the OP (or OT?) and the engaging profiles.

Hitting the bookmark icon makes a tweet more special, as it’s being sent to a private, personal folder, waiting to be reminded or revisited. The anonymity of bookmarkers adds depth to a tweet,... See more

More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.

This man re-animated ‘Sleeping Beauty’ just to propose to his girlfriend 💍 🥺

sensuality is actually not what we can see. It's always about feeling, whether it's music, whether it's touch. And to increase our sort of consumption of sex, sensuality, we often close our eyes. But pornography is purely visual. And that's why pornography is not at all sensuous. That actually really disrupts our thinking about sex.

My first recommendation would be fiction. Reading fiction is important to understand the cross-sectional variation in humanity, to understand how difficult generalizations can be, to just get a sense of how different social pieces fit together, and to get a sense of different historical eras – and plus, reading fiction is often just plain flat-out... See more

“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that progress is necessarily part of the package. I’m just telling you to live in it. Not just to endure it, not just to suffer it, not just to pass through it, but to live in it. To look at it. To try to get the picture. To live recklessly. To take chances. To make your own work... See more

It turns out my really big problem was thinking I might one day get rid of all my problems, when the truth is that there's no escaping the mucky, malodorous compost-heap of this reality. Which is OK, actually. Compost is the stuff that helps things grow.