Pizza Slow, Twitter post from September 4, 2012, 243005085712543744

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Posted on Twitter over 14 years agoon September 04, 2012 - 3:18 PM and archived here at /twitter/2012/09/04/tweet-243005085712543744/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/twitter/2012/09/04/tweet-243005085712543744/ in the Twitter and Facebook collections in both HTML and markdown.

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Newer	Twitter post from September 7, 2012, 243894798803668992	07 September 2012
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Older	Wild	03 September 2012
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Like lots of people I suppose, I think of who I was and what I posted more than a year or two ago to be, on average, a little cringe. More than five years old? A little embarassing. Ten or more years old? A little shameful. On average, of course. So it goes.

In spite of all that, or in order to grow, I've horded my embarassments from various platforms over the years and present them here for your avoidance. This is not a place of honor, and so on.

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