Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 29/07/2026First explain it in 16 minutes and then cut by halves 010
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Can't believe you didn't ask me btw smh my head 110
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 26/07/2026It says these are assets that qualify for deductions, so presumably they are business deductions that reduce AGI and then carry to state taxable income, meaning it is applied to both (I do tax prep work and this would be my intuitive read) 110
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Herein lies long the tale of woe "To heights, we'll rise by nerds struck low" 011
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 20/07/2026What kinda crime do I gotta commit to get hanged in the Louvre??? 272
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Get this disgusting "art" out of my pristine political manifestoes 020
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 16/02/2026This is true, although amusingly I think Glinner is infinitely less opportunistic, he's just Like That 150
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 16/02/2026What do we want?? DELAYED GRATIFICATION When do we want it???? NOW 1104
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Tomorrow I'll be attending a Magic tournament at SCG Spotlight Atlanta! If anyone here is interested, it'll be streamed. 040
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 25/10/2025How could Dostoevsky have known me like this 030
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I talked about this Elsewhere, but I think probably even more important than "what defines political" is what is meant by "to cut off." I would expect there to be far more "I would never give up on my child" 'tough love' behavior, leading to the same thing, but not consciously intended. 010
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Was jumpscared by an "Executive producer: Peter Thiel" on this movie today 040
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Coming around to this dramatic "self-lobotomization" turn of phrase, to describe tendencies of people that actively undermine their own ability to understand anything at all. 120
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 27/08/2025I'm gonna do more here once again, I've decided. 020
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 27/08/2025I've been thinking a lot recently about these Kinds of things; regardless of prescriptive validity, virtue ethics seems shockingly effective at *describing* how personal traits function! Physical, intellectual (mindrot), or of course ethical: soulrot. 130
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Had my first volunteer shift at the bookstore today, happy to have met some very nifty people! 140
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I could beat anyone in a "more performative than thou" contest 020
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I'm sorry, I spoke in anger. I did not mean these harsh words. 030
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Thanks to reading, in all things, that gives me strength 010
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Funny that all I really have going for me is the ability to read 340
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Almost deprived someone of 1000+ bucks off their tax return on account of, as they say, an *oopsie whoopsie*. I am Fixing Everything, though, it'll be all right. 120
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Nono my girlfriend is in town and we've done wonderful things together! 120
Reposted by Eloquent🏺ElephantCosmological 🏺 @cosmological.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Boy, philosophy sure is wacky, ain't it? 141
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I think the biggest thing that springs to mind is the immune system, which as I understand it is hugely hostile to any sort of Foreign Thing, resulting in a bunch of irritation for until it's Dealt With in some way 130
Eloquent🏺Elephant @trunkulent.bsky.social · 03/12/2024I don't want a therapist, I want an eclectic groupchat of good-natured but disinterested and inquisitive random anonymites 140
