Spencer Thomas

@spencer_th0mas

Commentary, broadly construed. Author of Leaves and Circles. Ask me about it

New York, NY
Joined February 2010

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  1. This is why Eminent Domain was created

  2. If you want to see what the Tragedy of the Anti-Commons looks like in real life, look no further than the NY and SF housing markets

  3. Lake Wokechobee

  4. Getting photo retouching done on the composites for my book. Hooray

  5. Hilariously sad when one's lived answer to the Veil of Ignorance are "Yeah, but that didn't happen. Got mine" or "I'd succeed anyway lol"

  6. If you like amazing photomanipulation work, check out Flora Borsi:

  7. Spencer Thomas followed , , and
    • @lx

      Game designer & co-founder at . Digital art, survival horror, & sci-fi. Constant uncertainty & curiosity. In favor of kindness.

    • @99rise

      Grassroots network of organizers building the movement to end corruption & win real democracy thru nonviolent civil resistance. This is the c4 account of 99Rise

  8. Insisting that because you, like me, got yourself out of poverty that anyone should be able to betrays stunning ignorance/willful blindness

  9. Surviving in a system that leaves so many behind regardless of how hard they work should not you leave you blind to its brokenness

  10. I, too, dug myself out of poverty through hard work and persistence! Except there was also tons of luck and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

  11. Enjoy your daily dose of bootstraps survivorship bias and related social mobility related phenomena:

  12. Even for non-worshippers of Just World Fallacy, admitting social mobility is a joke is often simply too painful-destroys illusion of control

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