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@dansinker's glorious rant
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:50:26 +0000 2013",
"text": "This has been a day.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:50:21 +0000 2013",
"text": "That's all. \n\nI didn't intend to go down this path. Glad I did.",
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{
"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:49:10 +0000 2013",
"text": "And all we have is the hope that the world we build is the one we want.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:48:34 +0000 2013",
"text": "THIS. \n\nThis is someone who is saying the things inside my head. And he's echoing other people too.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:47:29 +0000 2013",
"text": "And so it's just good, at the end of what has legitimately been a headfuck of a day, to see something like @fchimero's piece and realize:",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:46:38 +0000 2013",
"text": "And that is disheartening. A feeling of ONCE AGAIN being a pawn in a game that feels rigged from jump.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:45:40 +0000 2013",
"text": "Like today, I honestly don't know if this incredible piece of internet magic was actually just a piece of buzz-market bullshit.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:43:21 +0000 2013",
"text": "And I guess it's just good every now and then to say DON'T GIVE UP. But also to say YOU ARE NOT ALONE IN KIND OF WANTING TO.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:41:49 +0000 2013",
"text": "We're all trying to build something, but nobody has plans, and it's all kind of all over the place, and it's messy and it's hard. And tiring",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:40:33 +0000 2013",
"text": "We're all kinda lost. We know we want to be somewhere, but it's not here. And we don't totally know how to get there.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:39:40 +0000 2013",
"text": "And I think that's maybe where, as people who work in this digital culture and actually *give a shit* and *have hearts* are right now.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:38:47 +0000 2013",
"text": "And that's a *desperately* lonely feeling. When you have no way back, and you're in the dark and you're alone.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:37:41 +0000 2013",
"text": "A long time ago, in another lifetime, we proudly lit our way by the bridges that we burned. And then we realized we had no way back.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:36:17 +0000 2013",
"text": "This isn't the first culture I've been in where the loneliness of independence is the predominant theme.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:35:27 +0000 2013",
"text": "That bit in @fchimero's piece, where he quotes @xuhulk, \"Independence is lonely,\" is very true.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:34:22 +0000 2013",
"text": "We're all running sprints in what's supposed to be a marathon. And we're all playing a game where the people making the rules *don't play*",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:33:22 +0000 2013",
"text": "The first worst of the mouth of almost everyone I know lately is \"I'm tired.\" That's because we are.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:32:24 +0000 2013",
"text": "So I went a little sideways today. I think that's true of a lot of us lately. The miles add up. The speed wears us down.",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:29:26 +0000 2013",
"text": "All those quotes are from a remarkable essay from @fchimero. It's worth reading. A lot of times over: http://t.co/3dcc21erBK",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:28:45 +0000 2013",
"text": "\"Listen: we only deserve what we can maintain and keep safe. A community is only as good as how well it takes care of all its members.\"",
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{
"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:26:47 +0000 2013",
"text": "\"We are at the beginning of something good, but we need to take care of it and ourselves so it can keep going, better.\"",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:24:49 +0000 2013",
"text": "RT @lauraolin: In case you're wondering how @dansinker and @Mike_FTW are holding up at the end of this day http://t.co/tpugkSpD9F",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:15:17 +0000 2013",
"text": "\"digital culture has co-opted the language of revolution and magic without the muscle, ethics, conviction, or imagination of either\"",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:13:55 +0000 2013",
"text": "\"A mythology of speed is one of willful ignorance to the small details that hold the whole arrangement together.\"",
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"created_at": "Wed Sep 25 02:12:45 +0000 2013",
"text": "Uh guys? I think @fchimero's post may be a light back from a really dark place: http://t.co/3dcc21erBK",
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