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Chris Pressey @cpressey.bsky.social · 10h

Do you like Theaster Gates, do you like Bayesian reasoning (it's nice), do you like Police Squad!, do you like Paul Delvaux, do you like Savitch's Theorem, do you like Faith No More (or do you prefer those Curl Canada training films from the late 70's)

Chris Pressey @cpressey.bsky.social · 10h

Do you like SCTV (1st season), do you like Philip Guston, do you like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, do you like Mervyn Peake, do you like Mr. Do!, do you like Tristan Tzara, do you like Jane Siberry, do you like Paul Klee, do you like state machine diagrams

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Chris Pressey @cpressey.bsky.social · 10h

Do you like zzo38, do you like Guy de Cointet, do you like Samurai Pizza Cats, do you like Keith Mansfield, do you like modal logic, do you like Katamari Damacy, do you like Desmond Morris, do you like Thurber, do you like Sophie Taeuber-Arp, do you like The Tragically Hip

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Chris Pressey @cpressey.bsky.social · 11h

THE FEELING WHEN you log on to the microblogging service and your followers count has jumped up 49% for no discernible reason

Well, to any of you who are not bots, hello, do you like Prokofiev, do you like INTERCAL, do you like de Chirico, and do you see what's going on around you

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Chris Pressey @cpressey.bsky.social · 1d

These things have a weird self-fulfilling quality ofc. Dude imagines he has these powers and then acts as if he has them and then others believe he has them and then act as if he has them and then boom, there you go, he has them.

Chris Pressey @cpressey.bsky.social · 1d

Trump clearly has no extra *governmental* powers during shutdown.

My question would be what, if any, obscure Colenol Kurtz-esque and/or Tyler Durden-esque interpersonal powers he might acquire if held in this position for an extended period of time.

Hopefully none but it pays to be cautious

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

8/ But Trump doesn't want to end the shutdown. Because he thinks he's a king and he doesn't believe the law applies to him. He thinks he has extra powers in a shutdown. He doesn't.

But the longer Republicans boycott talks, the more the shutdown will hurt. So it's their move.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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Chris Pressey @cpressey.bsky.social · 1d

I'm really really curious which part will break when reality does hit: their allegience to MAGA or their allegience to unfettered gun ownership.

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Chris Pressey @cpressey.bsky.social · 2d

"This sequence [...] comes with no author's note, editor's preface, or running commentary. We know very little about its origins. All we have are shapes and color, with the occasional totem [...] dwarfed by the immensity of lines and angles."

Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 6d

From Sammlung geometrischer und perspectivischer, in Farben ausgeführter Zeichnungen, 36 Blätter umfassend (Cod. Guelf. 74.1 Aug. 2°; Heinemann-Nr. 2708) (16th century).

Source: Herzog August Bibliothek

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/4a2115d3-01f4-47e3-95c9-cbb08fa9ab97

#perspective #shapes