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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social

The downside being that people can fake liking art and literature, whereas you are actually wearing the jeans and have the biceps. You might affect a taste for highbrow literature without actually reading it (though you may come rapidly unstuck if questioned on it).

aug 27, 2025, 9:30 am • 0 0

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timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social

Oh, you can essentially fake the biceps and the mechanisms aren’t good for anyone. Better a reader than a roider.

aug 27, 2025, 9:47 am • 3 0 • view
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social

Whether you cheated to get them is another thing - but nevertheless you still have them, and this is about immediate attraction, so pretty much amounts to the same. But fakers get found out eventually.

aug 27, 2025, 6:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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Mark Slater @markslater.bsky.social

I personally tend to advertise my literary and/or artistic preferences via the medium of *incredibly* niche t-shirts (which will as a side effect generally display my complete lack of biceps). 😆

aug 27, 2025, 6:53 pm • 3 0 • view