Do you ever plan to extract your tweets into a more enduring platform independent form or let them die with the platform eventually
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Amrith Shanbhag ✊🏽 Retweeted Amrith Shanbhag ✊🏽
Corollary: Would you wanna make a book out of all your tweets and threads?
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https://twitter.com/amrith/status/1127885293976158208?s=21 …Amrith Shanbhag ✊🏽 added,
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Is that for real? Avaiyar is a medieval poet, not a modern tweeter.
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I missed that

must be a sort of “Confucius tweets” style fluff read1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
As I thought. It’s tempting to take old verse-wisdom and retcon Twitter onto them, but that’s wrong. Especially in India with palm life scribing being so expensive, these were super overwrought careful thoughts, not throwaway shitposting. Avaiyar, Kabir, Rahim, Subhashitani...
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You should research this old genre more visa. It’s probably the most Indian cultural-unconscious meme memory you appear to have carried to Singapore and are now expressing as a twitter phenotype. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhashita
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Neat! Have always vaguely sorta been meaning to get into it but always put it off because it seems daunting
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See if you can find a volume or two like this. My father memorized a bunch as a kid and in retirement often shares his own translations on email/WhatsApp.pic.twitter.com/bByuPP5Qt2
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This one is basically “no asshole rule” or “block/mute toxicity”. Very twitter energy as you might say.pic.twitter.com/ujN2J1Aak0
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