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Singleterry
@singleterry.bsky.social
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English teacher / writer. Liberal Democrat NO DMs, NO Crypto, no Illuminati/ NO sex workers/dating, No donations/beggars, No lottery winners. Political junkie. Cardinals baseball/ Chiefs Fan. #USC #ChapmanU #BlueCrew
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"It is very easy to endure the difficulties of one's enemies. It is the successes of one's friends that are hard to bear. " ~Oscar Wilde
HANG ON! I'm busy being amazing.
CANCEL 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦? we can't even cancel print jobs.
IT’S OCTOBER, do what you want at night; ghosts don’t care.
Life is mostly froth and bubble, / Two things stand like stone, / Kindness in another’s trouble, / Courage in your own. -Adam Lindsay Gordon, poet (19 Oct 1833-1870)
"Display of superior knowledge is as great a vulgarity as display of superior wealth—greater, indeed.” H. W. Fowler, the Autocrat of English Usage | The New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Autocrat of English Usage
Henry W. Fowler believed he knew how sentences should read—and his judgments have shaped The New Yorker’s style for a century.
www.newyorker.com
"Display of superior knowledge is as great a vulgarity as display of superior wealth—greater, indeed.”
LOST & FOUND : "May I help you?"
ME: "Did anyone turn in any abs?"
IF anyone needs me, I will be busy pulling on a push door
Any day can be a great day if you never bother getting out of bed in the morning.
ARGUABLY one of the WORST things to get ... is out of bed.
Always dress for the neck tattoo you want, not the one you have.
When someone accuses me of making up a word I severely chastigate them.
MY arthritis just flared up from scrolling to my birth year in an online form.
Your eyelashes. They're scaring the children.
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. -Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist (17 Oct 1915-2005)
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -Oscar Wilde, writer (16 Oct 1854-1900)
I haven’t been everywhere, but it is unambiguously on my list!
HEY... WANNA SEE A *Perfect relationship? ***
Watch a movie..”
THANK YOU for your honesty. I hope you planned an escape route.
“One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.”—Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900)
"HE who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."--Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900)
PRACTICE SELF-CARE like vampires: sleep all day, eat all night, & outlive everyone who has ever loved you.