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   Tiffany Li (tiffanycli@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 04:16:26 JST Tiffany Li

   I don’t know how to explain it, but time works differently in airports. 5 minutes and 5 hours are somehow the same. Your flight is delayed but arrives early. The carpets are from 1980. The water machines are from 2045. It is always happy hour. You have always been in the airport.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 04:16:25 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @tiffanycli This is especially true if you're at Franz Kafka International Airport.
     https://youtu.be/gEyFH-a-XoQ

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 04:17:18 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • Stevan

     @withaveeay @tiffanycli Indeed, this is how they become defined as liminal spaces. They're also fascinating for being mostly like one another, so "airports" is collectively a single place, despite there being many airports.

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     Stevan (withaveeay@mastodon.scot)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 04:17:19 JST Stevan

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     @tiffanycli I've long thought that airports are so weird because no-one actually wants to be there.
     If you are arriving, you're there because you want to be somewhere else. If you are departing, you want to be somewhere else.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 20:59:12 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     • number137

     @number137 @withaveeay @tiffanycli I mean, it you think about it, going somewhere by airplane is walking down a hallway, waiting in a little room, then walking down another hallway, and you're suddenly in the other airport.

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     number137 (number137@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jan-2023 20:59:14 JST number137

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     • Stevan
     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     all airports are one connected by strange tubes - separated from the real world by mystic, thoroughly performed rituals

     @roadriverrail @withaveeay @tiffanycli