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@kirkagreenwood.bsky.social

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• Neurodivergent (but not ASD) • Cisheteromale queer cyborg • Academic posthumanist • Mostly, lamenting the degradation of the 'politische Öffentlichkeit der bürgerliche Gesellschaft' under late capitalism & quixotically championing its restoration

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Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 20d

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10 Years Ago: Obama's "Amazing Grace" moment

WATCH: On this day 10 years ago, President Barack Obama sang 'Amazing Grace' during a eulogy for the victims of the Charleston church shooting in 2015. Nine people were killed during the hate crime, i...

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 1d

Michael Andrews was one of the most interesting, important British painters of the 20thC. 'Edinburgh (Old Town),' is one of his last major pictures. He decided to emulate the military engineer John Slezer's 17thC engravings by painting the south-facing aspect above Grassmarket.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..."

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Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance

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Boston_Banned_Rebel @blue-coach.bsky.social · 2d

Tell us again what’s un-American and who hates America..

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Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 1d

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 3d

This wonderful moment really summed up the joy of the No Kings protest for me. Two kids high-fiving a school of democracy loving sharks.

A photo of two kids high-fiving a school of democracy loving sharks from the Seattle No Kings protest.

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Christian Petersen @iwantyoustudio.bsky.social · 3d

This wonderful moment really summed up the joy of the No Kings protest for me. Two kids high-fiving a school of democracy loving sharks.

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Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 1d

These inflatables are funny mostly b/c they’re *affectless* (since affect [outrage in particular] has long since been weaponized, etc.)

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so funny that I literally can’t stop laughing looking through your pics of a Left Coast protest…. I often feel compelled to say the ‘quiet part out loud’ b/c — as a teacher of rhetoric, etc. — I always want to make sure everyone ‘actually gets the irony’ in as precise a way as possible:

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 1d

As recently as 2008, long after Dr. Lawrence D. Kritzman (interpreter of Montaigne & editor of Foucault, among other accolades…) had been succeeded as chair of the Comparative Literature program at Dartmouth College, he continued to ensure that the program lounge was stocked w/ Zabar’s coffee.

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 1d

…which, of course, typically shades off into the patently illegal…. (cf., youtu.be/NqXZnAczbkM?...; et al. interviews w/ Alec Burlakoff, avatar of 2.0-Trumpian ‘Miami Vice-ism’ avant le lettre).

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Plus, introverts might as well start seeking ‘legally protected’ status as the whole deregulated klepto-capitalist huckster individualism careens ever further in the direction of (‘technically legal’ but ethically suspect) egotistical easy-money self-aggrandizing extroversion casino gangsterism….

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Wow, that’s so true!

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 1d

MAOIs > SSRIs/SNRIs/NDRIs in efficacy for TRD, etc. (cf., www.cambridge.org/core/journal...; www.reddit.com/r/MAOIs/).

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 1d

Rucking, just rucking. Went from a M32 waist to a M34 waist through the course of a sweltering summer in SE Pennsylvania rucking each day (cf., archive.org/details/outl...). (*Also, l have no idea who ‘Cal’ is — ‘Walter,’ yes; ‘Cal,’ no.)

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 3d

Andrej Karpathy’s take on AI coding agents feels grounded. The industry’s chasing full autonomy when models still hallucinate too much.

Agents that churn out a thousand lines of code leave you either blindly trusting them or slogging through reviews. These tools should embrace their fallibility.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 4d

Breaking: Today is officially one of the biggest days of protest in American history.

Over 7 million Americans turned out to No Kings events to stand up against MAGA fascism.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 2d

Donald Trump is now officially demolishing part of the White House to make room for his $200 million golden ballroom.

This comes as Americans can’t afford groceries and the government is still shut down.

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Boston_Banned_Rebel @blue-coach.bsky.social · 2d

Gorge Santos out of prison one day and the Louvre gets robbed. 🤔

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Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 2d

@tomadelsbach.bsky.social — pretty sure I’m just gonna let you keep generating all the yapper vids & pics as you are the funniest user I’ve come across on here so far ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 2d

He needed his own soundtrack.

Enjoy ;)

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Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Which then begs the manifestly *political* question: why all the impoverishment re: the things that actual matter/characteristics that mark ‘the human.’

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 2d

That doesn’t make us feel so good in our ignorance… in fact, we probably ought to persecute all those pointyheaded theologians who point this out (maybe kill them off) so we can construct the ‘Bro Jesus’ that doesn’t convict us w/r/t our intellectual, & therefore moral, impoverishment. Etc. Etc.

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Best not to ‘unpack’ (i.e., simultaneously demystify & remystify, but definitely ‘defolksify’) the mysterious nature of the Prime Mover of Nature & History by hailing its given name ‘Jesus Christ’ (i.e., it’s the ‘Christ’ part that convokes all that hoity-toity theological mumbojumbo)….

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 2d

Notice even how this smallminded ‘pretender to the theology’ uses the the language of the simple, lower middle-class commonsense to talk about Jesus Christ, right? ‘Jesus’ is your ‘bro,’ or whomever (that you have a ‘relationship’ with, or whatever), who also happens to be the King (or whatever).

Avalanche Penguin @kirkagreenwood.bsky.social · 2d

A worthy calling indeed: www.imj.org.il/en/collectio...

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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · Nov 12

What an exciting day on @bsky.app

A message for all my fellow creatives who are struggling to produce right now: Every page you write, every melody you play, every brushstroke you take, every image you create, is an act of defiance.

We are the new Degenerate Artists and it’s time to get to work.

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