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Dramatix 🍺

@garyniv.bsky.social

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I tell the truth often. And I lie often. I don’t want to discriminate just in case epistemic state becomes a protected class. 📍Yvelines, France. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yz34ajevb6yx57ywa4645dkk/feed/aaafl542uk5rs

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Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · Apr 4

pin me, pin me

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Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 56m

telling my cat NO in 4 different language. maybe maybe.

Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 12h

I’m in France so it’s past my bedtime. Maybe some other time.

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Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 12h

"On gouverne pas avec la réalité.
On gouverne avec les apparences."

Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 13h

So you're saying a sufficiently advanced compliment is indistinguishable from a swear?

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Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 15h

You do deliver superior intercourse

Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 16h

"La vie est une vallée de larmes. On n'est pas ici pour être heureux mais pour mériter notre place au ciel."
-- Testament (2023).

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Wristy @wristroom.bsky.social · 2d

If you need an alternative to marinated tofu, you should definitely try steak

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Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 18h

sounds like he's paraphrasing Jesus

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Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 18h

hard work never pays well

Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 2d

try adding the verbatim param to the url: &tbs=li:1

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Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 2d

the youtube algorithm wants me to re-re-watch secret garden
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[MV] BAEK JI YOUNG(백지영)_The woman(그여자) (SECRET GARDEN DRAMA OST Part.1)

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Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 2d

the slashdot to reddit to t-shirt to facebook to bsky banger pipeline

Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 2d

Why is beige.party not beige? Can I change the background? I think that's my main concern rn.

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 2d

Before (2012) / After (2025) Rue le Vau, Paris 20. The change here is so radical that perceiving the photos as aligned is difficult (see the orange building and the trees on the left). In 2024, this section was converted into a school street with a bike lane running through the greenery.

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Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 2d

and to think this whole universe was created for billions of years just so i can exist

Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 2d

show me where on the booger the art hurt you

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Andrei @theuntranslated.bsky.social · 3d

Mircea Cărtărescu’s Interview for De Standaard: On Theodoros, Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealism, writing methods, literary fame, ambition, tyranny, and his work in progress

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Mircea Cărtărescu’s Interview for De Standaard: On Theodoros, Giorgio de Chirico, Surrealism, writing methods, literary fame, ambition, tyranny, and his work in progress

Photo: C.Stadler/Bwag I am honoured again to publish on The Untranslated an interview with Mircea Cărtărescu. Like the previous time, the interview was conducted by my Belgian friends Emiel Roothoo…

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Dramatix 🍺 @garyniv.bsky.social · 2d

"I don’t believe too much in national cultures."
That goes against some of what he says in his latest Journal about various literary cultures. I understand why he gave this answer but there is very much a Romanian literary culture and Theodoros is in a way living proof.