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T.X. Watson

@txwatson.com
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The actor who plays T.X. Watson on the internet. Rhetoric PhD student at [I have been advised not to specify for legal reasons]. I had 50 million followers on TikTok

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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 10/07/2026
😭 I am honored to be the first quote you did at the con! #readercon
Photo of T.X. Watson holding a calligraphic note that reads "The only thing we know it's good at is tricking people into believing it's good at doing things."
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 08/10/2025
Sold a bunch of shares of ownership in my immortal soul recently, getting them packed up to ship now
Shares of ownership in T.X. Watson's immortal soul, packaged for shipment
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 30/09/2025
Who else thinks about the fact that algorithmically customized recommendation feeds create a pressure to self-censor your own media consumption to prevent your recommendations from becoming unflattering?
Tweet that reads "Girl at a party asked to see my YT recommendations because 'it's a good test for red flags' and this was the first recommendation I had." Video depicted is "What if Big Bird exploded in the Challenger disaster?" From the channel AlternateHistoryHub
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 22/08/2025
OH MY GOD FUCK YOU SQUARESPACE
Squarespace contact form saying my message has to be 256 characters or fewerSquarespace contact form telling me my message has to be 128 characters or fewer
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 15/08/2025
From "Program," Kenneth Burke, 1931. One of the big take-aways I got from COVID was that efficiency means unpreparedness. When you fine-tune systems to require only exactly the resources it takes to handle typical throughput, that system breaks every time something atypical happens.
Text: Let us reaffirm democracy (government by interference, by distrust) over against Fascism (regulation by a "benevolent" central authority—society based upon virtue, which is too flimsy a base, since it requires [a] that people be too consistently virtuous, [b] that the virtuous be also the … (continued in next image)(continued from previous) … capable, and [c] that the virtuous-calable be the persons who rise to authority). "But," say the practical, "interference, bad co-ordination, is the essential cause of our difficulties today; the 'system' requires its elimination." To which the æsthetic, as here defined, makes answer: "When a system becomes so complex that it requires a high degree of perfection for its survival, when it can't provide a civilized living by shoddy, unintelligent, lethargic methods, then mankind had better change the system for a system which can provide a civilized living by shoddy, unintelligent, lethargic methods." When inefficiency becomes a danger, we should so alter the system that inefficiency ceases to be a danger.
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 24/02/2025
I did so many things today and I feel like I did nothing
One text block clamped up with PVA glue drying on the spine, another bound and trimmed book on a table labeled "Severance season 1 transcripts"A patch on a pair of jeans, stylistically resembling T.X. Watson's Tiktok onscreen graphics
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 04/02/2025
A line from that story I posted yesterday that I've decided I want to see every day or so, just for the reminder.
Paper on a felt pin board that says "If something wants to kill you, you make it do the work. Murdering you should at the very least ruin the murderer's day."
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 24/01/2025
Wow. Fucking great. Thank you Google. 🖕
An email from Google workspace informing me that my account is being given access to NotebookLM Plus, another AI application, as a core service.
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 21/01/2025
@skylight.social lmao I flipped my camera at the end and my phone's editor is too jank to fix it 💀 I'd love to get on the AT proto tiktok beta
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 19/01/2025
A screenshot of the notification announcing that tiktok is unavailable.
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 01/01/2025
This does not feel in-character but maybe I will discover unexpected pools of energy
Post from Merriam-Webster reads "take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever word you land in is your word for 2025. Godspeed." The screenshot is stopped on the word "Rampage."
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 16/12/2024
I want this on a fucking t-shirt
A highlighted passage, which reads: "The rhetorical theoretical is condemned not only to being constantly reminded of formal logic but also to having to hear ad nausem about dialectic. No one really knows what dialectic is, but it is an excellent word to use to bait the rhetorician. It suggests a domain of purer, more rigorous, more powerful arguments lying beyond the messy arena in which rhetoric holds away. But the nature of dialectic is obviously in need of clarification. Dialectic cannot simply be whatever private preserve a philosopher may set up for arguments that he wishes to exempt from attack."
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 01/12/2024
After two hours of line editing the draft, I figured out on the LAST PAGE that there's ANOTHER THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK I need to use to make the point I'm trying to make Glad I already cancelled brunch I guess
Handwritten note on the last page of a manuscript, which reads, in all caps, "fuck, I need to use secondary world, motherfucker, fuck"
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 01/12/2024
First complete draft. Excited to go figure out all the places where I don't actually make sense
All 26 pages of the first draft of the paper I've been writing for days
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 30/11/2024
context
A passage of an academic paper explaining that if James Acaster, the subject of the paper, were reading it, he might find it funny if at that particular point the paper abruptly and nonsensically argued that a section of one of his specials clearly betrayed a psychosexual fixation on his mother.
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 30/11/2024
I just wrote the most clickbaitable passage in this essay about James Acaster. This is so wildly out of context that it would be genuinely funny for people to quote it as representative of the article's premise
A blurred section of a paper, the only clear text reading "Acaster's reference to his parents' bed in the hot chocolate routine reveals a psychosexual fixation on his mother, which he sublimates into his audience in the form of religiously charged aggression.
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 30/11/2024
Oh cool, the guy who wrote the book I found also couldn't put a formal theoretical framework to stand-up comedy Maybe I'll be able to use some of the stuff I've already written about incomprehensibility after all
A highlighted passage of text that reads "It may be that an art reliant on short bursts for its structure needs a full-blown theory of anticlimax to elucidate the unity of its form; nevertheless, I am unable to venture one here."
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 29/11/2024
I wonder how many words this is
24 four by six inch index cards covered in multicolored handwriting
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 28/11/2024
Color train with a twist Quote this purple set 💜 with your blue art 💙 I had to dig for this! It seems I don't use purple v much 😅 Kinda guessing which mutuals might have visual art on hand but I tag @ameliasom.bsky.social @oddpride.bsky.social @thinkomancer.bsky.social @sarahiscoffee.bsky.social
Partially finished embroidery of a severed hand on a purple shirtWatercolor painting of an open book with a purple background Watercolor painting of a purple feather burning with purple flamesStamped butterfly painted purple and yellow
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 28/11/2024
Context: this is what (One of four gallery instillations from) my Div III at Hampshire looked like
Diagram of a wall with framed blocks of text connected by colorful lines. Header reads "memetic engines of anticapitalism"
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 28/11/2024
Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn't a selfie
Index cards taped to a wall with lines between them like a conspiracy board. Header reads: "glamours are the shifting localized worldviews that we create and adopt in particular contexts to make sense of the world and connect with other people."
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 20/11/2024
If you see this, post a vampire
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 19/11/2024
Some tattoos I have
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 18/11/2024
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T.X. Watson @txwatson.com · 16/11/2024
Also in 2018 I appear to have watched 3 seasons of a show Netflix has wiped from the earth. it looks like seasons 1 and 3 were 13 episodes long, and season 2 was 19. I know nothing else about this show.
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