A clever or cunning trick, devices or expedients (especially intended to deceive)*
Mark O’Neill 🐻
@radiobeartime.com
A casual observation.
Ill health meant I saw almost no TV over the last 2 years and now I find that I have lost the ability to watch “reality TV”. I simply cannot focus past the artifice.
Programmes like Strictly or Traitors and even chat shows feel like Thomas Ligotti stories.
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David W. Keith
@dwk.io
"I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five. Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!" —Henri Desgrange (organizer of the Tour de France)
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Baudrillard Warned Us
@baudrillardwarned.us
"Consciously produced by means of play and artifice, it presents itself as a simulacrum."
- Seduction
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