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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Sep 17

september 15, 2025: i just figured out tom green and seth green are different guys

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Sep 10

it's been like eight months

Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jul 31

i'm so sorry but i've actually been told by very serious people that this isn't realistic and Helsinki should probably give up on this nonsense :/

(jk this is amazing)

Hannu Oskala @hannuoskala.fi · Jul 30

HUGE NEWS FROM HELSINKI, FINLAND

Helsinki, a city of 690 000 people, has now had a full year without any traffic fatalities. None. No pedestrian, cyclist, scooter user or car deaths.

This is a huge achievement for a city of our size. 💪🏻

A little background 🧵 1/

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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jul 30

this joke was unappreciated in its time. decades after my death it will be rediscovered and elevated to its deserved position among the stars

Vinny @vcolavin.com · Dec 17

that to-do list of details and items introduced at the beginning of the story which will need to be used during the climax? check off "gun".

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jul 5

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A ★★★ review of The Gold Rush (1925)

super competent slapstick with a shallow romantic drama tacked on. in its original context it was apparently impressive but i think we're allowed to look down from the shoulders of giants and say, i a...

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jun 28

i can't imagine a single system that would be totally resilient degradation and corruption by bad actors over decades or centuries. even a perfectly egalitarian democracy would be vulnerable to a stupid and cruel populace

maybe authoritarian is here because a lot of people wanted authoritarianism

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jun 28

i watched night moves and i thought it sucked and it was bad

A ★ review of Night Moves (1975)

vapid and lecherous, written by men who think women are mysterious and nonsense sex creatures lots of little continuity errors between the cuts, especially the fight scene, to the point that it might ...

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jun 20

a nice vineripe tomato, room temperature or sun warmed, never cold. red all the way through. you can't beat that. i'd eat a tomato like an apple, just eat the thing on its own, that's a perfect thing. the peppery smell of vine in your fingernails

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Apr 4

all crawling vines and bitter fruit

Vinny @vcolavin.com · Apr 4

just thinkin bout stuff

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Apr 4

i'm just casually wondering if there's a sickness in our hearts that we ignored as it festered and metastasized. if we spent decades or centuries as convenient bedfellows of pointless cruelty and violence and the darkness grew in from the corners of our eyes until it covered them

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Apr 3

a month ago i bought like 30 pounds of dried rice and beans

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Feb 21

never stop imagining a better world

Vinny @vcolavin.com · Feb 20

list of cloud types

Vinny @vcolavin.com · Feb 15

of the european microstates, andorra is certainly the one whose name is composed of the most prepositions strung together

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Feb 3

i would like to be carved from a large cool grey stone such as basalt over the course of years, tap by tap of a hammer and chisel

Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jan 27

oh that's a reasonable guess

Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jan 27

this is clearly a shameful attack on romanian-moldovan unification by the blu-ray disc association

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jan 27

moldova was in DVD region 5 but is in Blu-ray region 3. what the hell happened

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · Jan 24

I believe what many people actually want in their heart of hearts is for the "right" thing to happen without requiring anybody to wield power. But it turns out there is no magic. It's just us.

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jan 21

much like electric bicycles, lentils are utterly utopian. i will not elaborate

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jan 19

talented artists spent hundreds of hours of their precious lives posing clay puppets by hand in a labor of love. awful. just awful

Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jan 19

releasing your movie on netflix is a good way to make sure it withers into obscurity and irrelevance. i didn't even know they released a chicken run sequel in 2023 until i specifically went to check if such a thing existed

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jan 2

elsevier delenda est

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Vinny @vcolavin.com · Jan 2

happy new year's

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