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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 9h

though i have witnessed it irl in seminar from a reasonably senior engineering professor; there's maybe also lingering bad feelings twixt qual/quant socsci practitioners downstream of an era of field disputes

Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 9h

some of it is maybe faxing forward undergrad, grad school arguments, interfamilial interactions re: basketweaving, and assuming that physical sciences professionals assent to the culture war attitudes and priorities of admin/policymakers. or that's how i experienced it

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 13h

one thing that would make for a complementary tool is an infotag on the button that says, "six of your mutuals have already slammed the reskeet on this overnight"

Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 13h

now that i've got the thinking aloud windup out of the way, in that sense "hide this post for me" is a great tool not just for "i find this objectionable" but also "already seen it five times"

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 13h

and there's nuance in relative degree of power+prominence, extent to which someone is a public figure, point at which running someone out on a rail is appropriate, pathways for backing all that down, etc., whatever, land of contrasts

Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 13h

* i thing along the lines of, a successful distinction between taking the piss (multivalent mates-inflected; inclusive of demonstration that you know value and trust strength of relationship with with pisstakee and/or inviting pisstakee to come off it in a stakes limited way) vs "bullying"

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 14h

all these can be intelligently, deliberately, flexibly, and thoughtfully designed to promote Good Posting and to support the cocreative, continual negotiation of positive community norms*

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 14h

privacy tuning, social-context-specific visibility limitations, deescalation & disengagement functions, spam-scam detection, vulnerable demo protection, consequential report systems, appropriate company directed backend relations with LE, backend intelligence analysis beyond cybersecurity, etc. etc

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 14h

frequently i get the grumpy grumbles because (this is something @catboss.bsky.social may/may not endorse) software design, demotic user-led and administrative moderation tools, algo tuning, search, search tools, filters, affinitive as well as novel ortho-but-intersecting topic & author discovery ...

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 14h

yeah i'm there for the hare

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 15h

I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.

Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...

A somewhat psychedelic linocut of a hare

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 15h

It’s another day. Are you passing the Ms Rachel test?

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Nikolas Zimmermann @nikzimmer87.bsky.social · 20h

So stellt man sich den November vor 🍁🤩

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 1d

"sincere positive love for something other than oneself" doing strong work in the "would not vote for but would loan truck to NQA" column in characters.xlsm

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

Wow turns out a year of psychic pain every time you turn on the news and material pain every time you turn it off is an unappealing vision of the future

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 1d

a guy i'd never heard of before six months ago and ever since then it's been clearer every day he loves new york city, hates cuomo, collects cats, is a real freak, and is not fucking around halfsies on any of that

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 1d

following a bunch of geology nerds is great because it guarantees a constant feed of landscape photography which is also centerfold quality folding faulting & deformation pixxx

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Jorge Ginés 🇪🇺 🌍🛰️ @lithospheric.jorgegines.com · 1d

The seagull and the rock.

#Asturies #Asturias #photography #drone #landscapephotography #sea #Dji

A seagull resting on a rock by the sea. A cliff in the background, obliquely leaving the image. The rock is a fold made of shales and sandstones.

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 4d

i don't care what professor hippy q cargobike "phd" says in her soros funded classist hate speech fake science paper, does she even have kids anyway, i'm not paying for it. if you try and make me pay for it i'm taking my magic job creator pixie dust and moving out of state etc etc etc

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 4d

there's no problem anyhow, that area always reeked like old motor oil and didn't you know radiation spas used to be considered luxury? maybe all the early deaths are because of Unhealthy Lifestyles. with silicosis not of silicosis,

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 4d

the future offered here is billionaires drinking specialty bottled water guaranteed free of spirit toxins that might make them gay, arguing that the men and women down a hole in ripped tyvek onesies cleaning up their hobby projects should be deported, immiserated, stop complaining,

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 4d

monitoring the superfund sites we have. doing the underfunded, painstaking, politically unpopular, methodologically difficult work of characterizing and understanding the long-term health impacts of the superfund sites we already have

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Tedious Tree Syrups Connoisseur @brothercadfile.bsky.social · 4d

the disruptivationist baby nuke whizzbang supergenius movement just, fucking, sends me into head on desk mode because there's difficult, intractable problems which need substantial funding and generational commitment such as: remediating the superfund sites we already have

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 5d

bloomberg ran an absolutely killer investigation this week into the Silicon Valley + Koch/Abundance forces running the show on nuclear deregulation this year:

The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again

A Silicon Valley startup called Oklo is leading the charge to bring nuclear power back to the US with small reactors. Its backers have wealth and political connections that could undermine nuclear saf...

www.bloomberg.com

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molly taft @mollytaft.com · 5d

features a lot of the players i wrote about earlier this year when i profiled the states and startups (and abundance groups...) suing the country's top nuclear regulator:

States and Startups Are Suing the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Critics of the NRC say its red tape and lengthy authorization timelines stifle innovation, but handing some of its responsibilities to states could undermine public trust and the industry’s safety rec...

www.wired.com

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