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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 15
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      1/ Ok let’s do this @threadapalooza thing My topic: jokes and microfictions I’ll do it as a semantic variant of a 1-like-1-tweet ratchet. Reply to this tweet with a single prompt WORD, and I’ll try to QT with EITHER a joke using it, OR a 1-tweet microfiction about it. Limit 99.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 15
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      // unnumbered comment tweets like this won’t count towards the 99. // This will be a slow thread since I actually have to think of stuff. // I’ll actually start tomorrow. It’d be nice to have all 99 prompts ready to go before I start... but 20-30 should do.

      7:01 PM - 15 Dec 2020
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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 16
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          // I now have 100+ prompt words, and prompts are now closed. The cringe will commence shortly.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 16
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Fú lā jī mǐ'ěr

          2/ The Newbians discovered FTL travel, but didn’t travel to the stars. A Galactic Council Ambassador arrived to ask why “Oh the hyperdrive tech was easy; we just can’t figure out a calendar with all the hyperspace jumps” “Is that all? Just use a calendar that’s 100% leap days”https://twitter.com/vladw0rld/status/1339057645186150400 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

          Fú lā jī mǐ'ěr @vladw0rld
          Replying to @vgr @threadapalooza
          leap
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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 16
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Ravern Koh

          3/ “Why can’t we join the elite postrat number club?” the irrational numbers asked the transcendental numbers. π exchanged a look with e and replied, “Well, most of you are kinda cool, or at least have never been ratioed, but some of you are the roots of rationality”https://twitter.com/ravernkoh/status/1339074956152373250 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

          Ravern Koh @ravernkoh
          Replying to @vgr @threadapalooza
          transcendental
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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 16
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          // Prompts closed. I got organized on a spreadsheet. Here's a list of all prompts, and a composition sheet I'll work on. This is rather challenging fiction-writing kata for me. The list is also very revealing...about something. I have 104, so may drop up to 5 to hit my 99 goal.pic.twitter.com/l7AuxniSky

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 16
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          // Open call -- once I've posted my entry on a prompt, feel free to jump in and try to top mine by responding to that specific one with your own. I'm kinda in learning/practice mode here, so those of you who are better than me at this game can hopefully school me.

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 16
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted christina d'ache

          4/ Many had vanished, taken away, coughing, by the health workers in their vans. Yet the sense of chronic doom had lifted from Skid Row, replaced by a dark elation. "At least something is changing" thought Joey, leaning against his ancient shopping cart.https://twitter.com/scrivenix/status/1339039857025318912?s=20 …

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          christina d'ache @scrivenix
          Replying to @vgr @threadapalooza
          doom
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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 17
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Will Bickford

          5/ An evangelical Christian missionary was trying to convert an atheist software engineer. "You know why you should really join us? Because the Christian God is the alpha and the omega!" "What difference does that make?" "He's a full-stack god!"https://twitter.com/wbic16/status/1339060418128572419?s=20 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

          Will Bickford @wbic16
          Replying to @vgr @threadapalooza
          Omega.
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        9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 17
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean!

          // I give up on 'kilt' ... can't think of a joke or story. This is going to be one of the 4-5 I can afford to pass on.https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1339047982918864897?s=20 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

          Malcolm is back by the  🌎cean! @Malcolm_Ocean
          Replying to @vgr @threadapalooza
          kilt
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        10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 17
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted David Vintinner

          6/ Tired of hearing "corporations are not people," Galt, Inc developed an AI to design an anthropomorphic representation of itself based on internal data and employee photos. Unfortunately, no matter how they tuned it, the AI only generated lizard faces.https://twitter.com/dpvintin/status/1339197314586513410?s=20 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

          David Vintinner @dpvintin
          Replying to @vgr @threadapalooza
          ok : anthropomorphic (or -ism or -ize or whatever other shoe fits the word best in your joke)
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        11. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 20
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted /usr/siya

          7/ Q: Why did the philosophical zombie skip the inverted spectrum question on the philosophy of mind final exam? A: He was unqualiafied to answerhttps://twitter.com/siyagule/status/1339103671976603649?s=20 …

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          /usr/siya @siyagule
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          Qualia
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        12. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 20
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted 🅑🅔🅝

          8/ Through the dirty windows of the Covid-shuttered bakery, the empty display cases, once full of scrumptious cookies, were visible. Camped under the awning, a derelict homeless woman watched a rerun of the Hallmark Christmas movie she'd once starred in.https://twitter.com/ben_mathes/status/1339070560379265024?s=20 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

          🅑🅔🅝 @ben_mathes
          Replying to @vgr @threadapalooza
          scrumptious
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        13. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 20
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Brian Skinner

          9/ The man with a hook for a hand, his face dark under the hood of his anorak, limped slowly down the rainy pier, his wellingtons squelching in the puddles. At the end of the pier, a woman in the wet dress screamed, "Help! I'm being murdered by a cliche!"https://twitter.com/gravity_levity/status/1339057186039881729?s=20 …

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          Brian Skinner @gravity_levity
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          wellingtons
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        14. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 20
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          // damn this is hard. I may not make it to 100.

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        15. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 20
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Shane Breslin

          10/ The mayor swore to get 100% of the town vaccinated, and after a mighty effort, it was done. But after the last person in town was vaccinated, with much fanfare, a great melancholy descended on the town. Things had returned to normal.https://twitter.com/shanebreslin/status/1339130960709885954?s=20 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

          Shane Breslin @shanebreslin
          Replying to @vgr @threadapalooza
          Melancholy
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        16. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 20
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Tiago Forte

          11/ "Wise master, I aspire to goodness, but evil surrounds me. What should I do?" asked the seeker. "There is no certainty of grace in this life," the master replied sadly, "All we can do is take notes on the evil around us, and review them weekly."https://twitter.com/fortelabs/status/1339040174114631680?s=20 …

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          Tiago Forte @fortelabs
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          Goodness
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        17. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Dec 20
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Arun Shroff

          12/ "Sir, the AI has locked into a self-improvement recursion and has locked the bunker doors. It has enough backup power to launch the missiles!" "Isn't MacGyver in there?" "Yes sir, but it's no use. The AI has collected all the paperclips!"https://twitter.com/arunshroff/status/1339118476280082434?s=20 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

          Arun Shroff @arunshroff
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          Recursion
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