| 1 | Jun 4, '23 | there's an incredible story going on in the mountaineering community rn. there's a Malaysian climber who was at death's door, and was rescued by a sherpa who risked his own life to | 358× | 19M | 130k | 16k | 7.8k |
| 2 | Jul 11, '23 | from time to time I think about this post, which I think remains in the top 0.01% of everything I have ever read | 205× | 10.9M | 170k | 20k | 19k |
| 3 | May 26, '24 | I can’t take Whiplash seriously because the premise is flawed; you don’t get good as a jazz drummer by becoming a human metronome. The whole thing has a cartoon model of musical ex | 164× | 8.7M | 29k | 791 | 5.9k |
| 4 | May 26, '23 | Guy describes how his friend is the group’s Airport Dad (takes everyone’s passports, double-checks everything, etc) the comments are full of ladies who wanna marry him | 155× | 8.2M | 67k | 3.5k | 4.6k |
| 5 | Nov 14, '24 | the tiktok imams are tired | 147× | 7.8M | 89k | 5.8k | 15k |
| 6 | Aug 20, '23 | the tragic thing that I suppose lots of people have to learn the hard way is that getting people to care is an almost completely independent skill to acquiring achievements or acco | 96.8× | 5.1M | 41k | 2k | 3.3k |
| 7 | Feb 26, '25 | favorite subreddit I’ve discovered in a long while, /r/thatsabooklight, where people point out the mundane origins of movie props | 79.1× | 4.2M | 133k | 6.3k | 24k |
| 8 | Jul 14, '23 | this mf failed to detonate his shoe bomb once 22 years ago and now everybody everywhere has to take off their shoes at every airport forever until the end of time | 67.1× | 3.6M | 62k | 2.8k | 1.3k |
| 9 | Aug 7, '23 | love this: awkward shy rejection-sensitive pimply asian guy asked 100 girls out on a date. 19 said yes! 10 were lesbian. concludes that he got over his fear of rejection in a singl | 65.2× | 3.5M | 50k | 1.6k | 4.5k |
| 10 | Jun 11, '24 | this remains to me one of the most interesting emails ever written | 59.7× | 3.2M | 31k | 2.1k | 7.3k |
| 11 | Oct 10, '23 | kind of cool to know: a lot of celebrity Wikipedia pages have photos of them at comic con because there’s one guy (Gage Skidmore) who photographs them all | 57.5× | 3M | 49k | 4.9k | 2.5k |
| 12 | Dec 18, '23 | free vpn installer tonight queen? | 56.9× | 3M | 71k | 9.9k | 4k |
| 13 | Feb 2, '25 | imo all apps with a 'for you' timeline should allow you to toggle a bizzaro switch and browse the 'NOT for you' timeline, just to feel what the opposite is like | 53.9× | 2.9M | 16k | 851 | 604 |
| 14 | Aug 12, '24 | for itsy bitsy | 47.2× | 2.5M | 59k | 5.8k | 2.5k |
| 15 | Jun 9, '23 | first real good 9/11 joke i've ever seen | 45.9× | 2.4M | 32k | 2.3k | 635 |
| 16 | Feb 24, '25 | Arnold had an abusive alcoholic father. He was born in an Austrian village with ~2000 people and had little money. He started lifting weights, got so good at it, which took him to | 44.8× | 2.4M | 33k | 1.1k | 2.9k |
| 17 | Feb 16, '24 | excellent minute of a comedian getting a hot girl to do a side by side comparison of hot girl mannerisms | 40.6× | 2.2M | 13k | 546 | 4.6k |
| 18 | Aug 28, '23 | my wife is a smart sensible woman and it seemed sensible to both of us that it would be a good idea for her to socialize with other moms online and it seems like every day she is j | 37.2× | 2M | 4.3k | 162 | 482 |
| 19 | Nov 15, '24 | collection of 4chan posts that are extended criticisms or analyses of something, hit me up with whatever comes to mind 1. john oliver | 35.3× | 1.9M | 15k | 1.2k | 15k |
| 20 | Apr 29, '18 | we already live in a boring dystopia | 34.4× | 0 | 109k | 36k | 1.8k |
| 21 | Nov 26, '23 | one thing ive learned as a serious-hobbyist media consumer is that if a movie like this is actually made, it will somehow end up being the most profound one with the actual richest | 33× | 1.8M | 33k | 1.9k | 1k |
| 22 | Oct 19, '24 | the bluetooth voice lady showed up on my tiktok so here you go. stick to the end for “bluetooth sad” | 31.6× | 1.7M | 34k | 4.1k | 9.6k |
| 23 | Jun 4, '23 | here's a video of the sherpa. astounding. I would've assumed that having one's life saved like this would be a humbling experience, one of profound gratitude | 29.6× | 1.6M | 14k | 760 | 797 |
| 24 | Jun 4, '23 | the sherpa, Gelje, had even persuaded his own client to cancel their own attempt so that they could save Ravi's life. Ravi then subsequently did media appearances and ig posts etc | 27.6× | 1.5M | 12k | 660 | 175 |
| 25 | Feb 5, '24 | i'm so curious to understand the economics behind this business. have they actually built the thing? how much did it cost to make? what do they do if nobody buys it? how did they f | 25.8× | 1.4M | 5.6k | 229 | 1.1k |
| 26 | Jun 4, '23 | looks like Ravi has since updated to acknowledge the sherpas, and unblocked Gelje... who responded with tremendous grace | 24.7× | 1.3M | 13k | 582 | 213 |
| 27 | Jan 30, '24 | for future ref, the recommended reading list at the back of the manual of The Sims | 23.4× | 1.2M | 12k | 1.6k | 5.3k |
| 28 | Jun 10, '24 | imo: if you’re deliberate about “doing the reading”, whatever that means for any domain, within a year it’s possible to be in the top ~5% in the scene. This is because 95% of peopl | 23.1× | 1.2M | 6.2k | 592 | 2.8k |
| 29 | Dec 27, '23 | casually dropped banger from The House Bunny (2008) | 23.1× | 1.2M | 38k | 4k | 1.8k |
| 30 | Jun 4, '23 | anyway. 👑 Gelje Sherpa!!! 👑 May you have a great rest-of-your life and may your name and deeds echo eternal through Valhalla 🫡 > "Saving one life is more important than prayi | 21.3× | 1.1M | 43k | 3.5k | 452 |
| 31 | Dec 19, '24 | facial and body language have memes and fads just like spoken and written language do. imo it’s part of why imo you can sometimes tell from someone’s face what their ingroup affili | 20.2× | 1.1M | 16k | 447 | 2.6k |
| 32 | May 2, '25 | one thing about the japanese, they will develop a special interest in something and then do it better than you | 19.8× | 1.1M | 22k | 1.1k | 2.1k |
| 33 | May 13, '24 | yknow, I don’t recall a single man telling me, when I was growing up, how great it is to be a dad | 19.5× | 1M | 4.6k | 187 | 715 |
| 34 | May 26, '23 | the plane studying stance is my favorite part | 18.2× | 966k | 22k | 1.4k | 1.4k |
| 35 | Jan 17, '24 | a while ago people were asking how come it took humanity so long to develop agriculture etc. i suspect the answer is basically this. innovations are deviations which threaten the p | 17.5× | 930k | 7.2k | 851 | 1.5k |
| 36 | Sep 10, '23 | collecting notes on what seems to be an emerging story of animals being onboarded onto our superstimuli | 17.2× | 913k | 8.3k | 588 | 770 |
| 37 | Apr 14, '25 | kids will say things like “strawberries taste better when I’m wearing my strawberry socks” and I bet they’re 100% right and this subtle sense of aesthetic gestalt is socialized out | 15.4× | 819k | 8k | 430 | 570 |
| 38 | Jan 12, '24 | one of the funny things about life– hilarious when it happens to others, humbling when it happens to you– is meeting someone who’s casually, indifferently better at a thing than th | 15.4× | 816k | 7.6k | 551 | 1.5k |
| 39 | Jan 1, '24 | feel like I haven’t see a “there are too many podcasts, why is everyone trying to start a podcast” take in a while | 14.8× | 784k | 31k | 2k | 1.2k |
| 40 | Mar 5, '25 | an interesting thing about humans is that pretty much everyone gets at least 20% smarter when they’re doing pranks or other goofy shit. saw this in the military all the time | 14.5× | 768k | 31k | 1.3k | 2.5k |
| 41 | May 12, '24 | when I was in the military I was responsible for a file, meant to track loans of certain items. one month my superior yelled at me for not bringing him the file. “but nobody loaned | 14.4× | 763k | 4.7k | 67 | 284 |
| 42 | Mar 17, '24 | this is a 1996 guide on how to help someone use a computer. it’s strikingly resonant with ‘how to be a parent’, or really ‘how to help anyone with anything’. a nice example of “the | 12.8× | 677k | 8.6k | 1.7k | 5.4k |
| 43 | Jan 1, '24 | you can meet enough new people and build a new life amongst them well enough that the people in the former group become a comparatively insignificant rounding error | 12.5× | 662k | 15k | 1.2k | 996 |
| 44 | Apr 10, '24 | i'm happily married 10+ years with a wife and son who love me and i have none of that shit together lol. this is the "shiny lure" class of advice i was talking about. ime the only | 12.2× | 647k | 6.3k | 571 | 1.2k |
| 45 | Dec 5, '24 | one thing i've noticed in the past 20+ years of being very online is that a lot of people who end up being really popular, get their early start from doing a gimmick, and then drop | 12.2× | 647k | 9.6k | 394 | 1.3k |
| 46 | Jun 4, '23 | @solarsystern i think maybe in his narrative he might be mad at the sherpa for revealing his vulnerability, like he doesn't want to admit that he needed help | 11.9× | 632k | 11k | 154 | 54 |
| 47 | May 26, '23 | care and competence is sexy!! | 11.4× | 607k | 7k | 237 | 112 |
| 48 | Jul 29, '24 | this is gonna sound like a bit, but i'm serious: if there's one thing i suspect might be a cure to all ills, it is good reply game. i'd argue that good reply game, in le guin's sen | 11.2× | 594k | 7.1k | 517 | 3k |
| 49 | Apr 12, '25 | pretty straightforward heuristic. i trust their cost-benefit analysis and so i'll do it when they do it | 10.5× | 555k | 8.4k | 293 | 911 |
| 50 | Feb 1, '25 | reading this tweet was the most brain-scrambling thing that’s happened to me since having a child | 9.8× | 520k | 4.7k | 329 | 851 |
| 51 | Jan 11, '25 | an interesting genre of pic is "celebrity as a bridesmaid at a friend's wedding" | 8.8× | 466k | 8.5k | 180 | 985 |
| 52 | Apr 24, '24 | one of life’s big “cheats” is: you can learn a lot by reading a lot and talking with a lot of people and thinking through it all | 7.8× | 413k | 8.4k | 1.2k | 1.5k |
| 53 | Mar 9, '25 | these improover type memes somehow always have a glaring omission: the absence of cultivating a great peer group, friends, community | 7.4× | 395k | 6.1k | 216 | 1.1k |
| 54 | Apr 24, '25 | @SparrowAdorer bluetooth lady is hot so i’d bet the cash/payment lady must be too | 7.4× | 394k | 5.1k | 41 | 1.5k |
| 55 | Dec 25, '23 | I like this photo I took when I was out on a walk today | 7.2× | 383k | 23k | 789 | 351 |
| 56 | May 20, '25 | when I was single I used to love talking with girls who had bfs. if they like you enough they introduce you to their single friends!! and warm intros are 1000x better than cold app | 7.0× | 374k | 9.6k | 233 | 912 |
| 57 | Jul 20, '24 | a dairy cow eats ~100lbs of food and shits ~60lbs of hot stinky manure daily, you never see that in the pictures | 6.5× | 344k | 5k | 277 | 177 |
| 58 | Feb 7, '25 | @megaballs45 the replies are odd to me, if biting can be nonsexual then tying someone up can also be nonsexual surely | 6.5× | 343k | 5.9k | 19 | 38 |
| 59 | Mar 16, '25 | I’ve sold thousands of books to people all over the world, including people from Mexico, Indonesia, Honduras, Namibia, Uzbekistan, Mozambique, Morocco, Philippines… and yet for som | 6.1× | 325k | 4.4k | 119 | 432 |
| 60 | Nov 17, '24 | every murakami novel: | 6.0× | 317k | 7.6k | 709 | 576 |
| 61 | Oct 24, '23 | we made a lil guy | 5.9× | 312k | 4.3k | 57 | 125 |
| 62 | Apr 20, '25 | @inholyflux_ omelette du fromage | 5.7× | 303k | 4.6k | 37 | 41 |
| 63 | Jul 5, '24 | whenever people say things like “I don’t want to bring children into this horrible world” I ponder about the people who had kids during the Black Death, when it felt like God was a | 5.5× | 290k | 4.2k | 104 | 505 |
| 64 | Dec 22, '23 | when I was a kid so many adults used to tell me “when you have a child of your own then you will understand (why adults bully and manipulate and condescend to children)” and like y | 5.4× | 287k | 6.6k | 702 | 390 |
| 65 | Jan 4, '25 | ngl it would be funny if pfizer's first hit was making a boner pill by trying to treat high blood pressure, and if their second hit was making a big booba injection by trying to ma | 5.4× | 287k | 6k | 243 | 545 |
| 66 | Jul 10, '24 | kids feel the blues too big source around this age is that people no longer find you cute. now they scold you for making mistakes. mama’s too busy with the new baby. nobody claps a | 5.3× | 283k | 8.1k | 679 | 1.1k |
| 67 | Aug 31, '24 | sharing this for all the mfs who ask if it's over for them at 27 | 5.0× | 267k | 4.7k | 406 | 1.3k |
| 68 | Dec 27, '23 | i figured this out by age ~6 and it made me miserable, occasionally even suicidal, until i was about 22- but after that it's basically been paradise. (there's an interesting parall | 5.0× | 265k | 5k | 256 | 760 |
| 69 | Jul 22, '25 | leaving out the years that he worked at AMD and LSI is a great eg of how a lionizing narrative works. it creates the impression of superhuman genius, which confers a valuable aura | 5.0× | 264k | 4.8k | 241 | 559 |
| 70 | Nov 14, '24 | View post on X | 4.9× | 262k | 7.9k | 365 | 850 |
| 71 | Sep 4, '23 | @OGgranolabar @illegalth0t same energy | 4.7× | 251k | 3.9k | 32 | 54 |
| 72 | Feb 26, '25 | a lot of futuristic weapons turn out to be painted toys | 4.7× | 250k | 5.6k | 44 | 109 |
| 73 | Feb 26, '25 | a lot of futuristic interfaces turn out to be audio/visual equipment | 4.5× | 240k | 4.9k | 58 | 134 |
| 74 | Jul 14, '23 | these were the shoes, the FBI probably still has them | 4.5× | 236k | 4.3k | 26 | 24 |
| 75 | Feb 24, '25 | …became the governor of California. And since then he’s grown into an elder-statesman like figure with gravitas and real king energy. He’s not a perfect guy, but if you look at whe | 4.3× | 230k | 7k | 98 | 120 |
| 76 | Feb 26, '25 | futuristic cups and bottles? ice cream bowls and vases | 4.1× | 218k | 4.5k | 36 | 107 |
| 77 | Feb 16, '25 | there isn’t a special boy at the centre of it | 4.0× | 211k | 4.5k | 256 | 364 |
| 78 | May 17, '25 | having kids turns you into a morning person the way being chased by a bear turns you a running person | 4.0× | 210k | 7.2k | 485 | 473 |
| 79 | Dec 27, '23 | periodic reminder: have you taken a minute to write down what your actual problems are lately? the practice of properly describing a problem often reveals its solution | 3.9× | 208k | 6.2k | 591 | 1.8k |
| 80 | Feb 24, '25 | especially consider him in relation to some of the more boy-kings we have around. If my son someday puts up an Arnold poster on his bedroom wall, I would be quite pleased about tha | 3.9× | 206k | 6.5k | 157 | 345 |
| 81 | Feb 13, '25 | one thing about people is that they love to contribute towards solving finite, observable problems with clear solutions. they’ll happily do it even at a moderate personal cost, bec | 3.8× | 200k | 6.5k | 330 | 665 |
| 82 | Oct 31, '24 | was talking with a fellow dad who was struggling with making certain decisions, like when to be tough, when to indulge, how do you know if you’re going too far, etc. I found myself | 3.5× | 188k | 4.8k | 281 | 1.3k |
| 83 | Apr 21, '25 | whenever my 18yo does something upsetting- smack one of his parents too hard, make too big of a mess, etc- he attempts to redirect our attention and reset the vibes by pointing and | 3.5× | 185k | 8.3k | 79 | 362 |
| 84 | Mar 13 | 13 questions I ask my marketing clients (and why) Since leaving my full-time marketing job in 2018, I’ve done marketing consults for almost a hundred clients. Many of them have had | 3.3× | 176k | 255 | 15 | 478 |
| 85 | Jun 15, '25 | @NateRybner @sqkanaa @oracles some screenshots of Baidu maps | 3.2× | 172k | 8.2k | 133 | 680 |
| 86 | Oct 8, '24 | - knows precisely what she wants - makes clear plans - communicates well and early | 3.1× | 163k | 7.1k | 432 | 241 |
| 87 | Jul 22, '25 | @owenbroadcast relevant xkcd (325) alt text: “you can do this one in every 30 times and still have 97% positive feedback” | 3.0× | 159k | 4.3k | 76 | 161 |
| 88 | Feb 25, '19 | Friends, I have found,,, a salmon vending machine | 3.0× | 0 | 5.6k | 4.9k | 74 |
| 89 | Jun 12, '19 | Request for Netflix show: ethnic aunties travelling and cooking together. An Indian aunty goes to Mexico and meets the local aunties there. And compare cooking recipes, and complai | 3.0× | 0 | 10k | 2.6k | 101 |
| 90 | Oct 16, '22 | when tiktok is good it’s really good lmao | 2.9× | 0 | 9.6k | 2.2k | 796 |
| 91 | Jan 10, '25 | nobody is coming to do an honest audit of your time and energy for you only you can face the truth of how you are living your life, and whether it’s the life you know in your heart | 2.9× | 152k | 4.7k | 556 | 1.5k |
| 92 | May 9, '25 | my 18mo will ask to see the inside of our fridge (“fridge? daddy? fridge?”) and then when I open it he’ll quietly whisper “wow”. which is really quite an appropriate response to mo | 2.9× | 151k | 12k | 521 | 346 |
| 93 | Feb 7, '25 | View post on X | 2.5× | 135k | 4.6k | 262 | 403 |
| 94 | Nov 6, '25 | my wife and i are v clear w each other and our 2yo son that it’s okay to cry. despite this, he’s heard “don’t cry” so often from relatives and strangers that he now says it out lou | 2.5× | 135k | 4.7k | 138 | 273 |
| 95 | Nov 7, '20 | focus your time and energy on what you want to see more of | 2.5× | 0 | 5.7k | 1.2k | 2.5k |
| 96 | Oct 25, '18 | I just discovered the Pepsi rebranding slides from 2008 and it is truly breathtaking | 2.5× | 0 | 6.8k | 2.4k | 376 |
| 97 | Sep 29, '21 | this is the heart of philosophy, all else is commentary 🧐 | 2.0× | 0 | 5k | 1.3k | 1.3k |
| 98 | Oct 9, '21 | Same Student 10-Minute Timelapse | 1.2× | 0 | 4.4k | 559 | 404 |
| 99 | Apr 29, '18 | View post on X | 1.1× | 0 | 4.2k | 931 | 23 |
| 100 | Jan 8, '25 | @DoroisDoro approach children in public | 0.7× | 35k | 5.1k | 4 | 15 |
| 101 | Apr 21, '25 | *18mo 😩 | 0.5× | 27k | 5.5k | 12 | 22 |
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