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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 2d

Does Jabba the Hutt actually have any sexual interest in the humanoid slave girls he owns or is having a harem of conventionally attractive women a power and status symbol type thing only if you are a hermaphroditic gigantic slug who presumably is more biologically inclined towards its own kind?

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Anna Vangala Jones @anniejowrites.bsky.social · 3d

are you okay babe you’ve barely touched the novel your author bio says you’ve been working on for years

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Favorite movie lines @titlesinmedia.bsky.social · 2d

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Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to learn some functional programming, this monad shit is confusing

Selection from an English translation of Leibniz's Monadology. It reads, "51. But in simple substances the influence of one Monad upon another is only ideal, and it can have its effect only through the mediation of God, in so far as in the ideas of God any Monad rightly claims that God, in regulating the others from the beginning of things, should have regard to it. For since one created Monad cannot have any physical influence upon the inner being of another, it is only by this means that the one can be dependent on the other. (Theod. 9, 54, 65, 66, 201. Abrege, Object. 3.)"

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Tony Zador @tonyzador.bsky.social · 4d

Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003 :
2,052

Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0

October 2025 • Source: Harper's research

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Fear Captain @cheercaptain.wang · 4d

Well well well

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Leen McBeans 🦇 @leenmcbeans.bsky.social · 4d

Quick reminder that if hating yourself actually changed who you are in the ways you want, it would’ve worked by now

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · 4d

How do you know what it's like to be you?

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jordan @jordantyranny.bsky.social · 4d

treat yo self!!!

Ouroboros can have a little ouroboros as a treat

It’s a picture of a snake eating its own tail a symbol know as the ouroboros!

#flatcircle #time

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sarah zedig 🐐 @hmsnofun.bsky.social · 8d

a fake captcha where the pipe from "the treachery of images" is broken up across an 8 by 8 grid. the text above it reads "select all squares with a pipe. if there are none, click skip"

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Frances "Are You Scared Yet" Meh @francesmeh.reviews · Jul 19

never do business with family. or friends. or acquaintances or strangers. just lie still in a dewy glade until the screeching of locusts drives unto you the foretold ecstasies.

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Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 4d

If this joke didn't make sense it's because it's clearly over your head, not because I am pretentiously employing concepts I don't fully understand to make a vaguely-related word salad

Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 4d

She enantiodromia on my pharmakon till I jouissance

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Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 4d

Apparently the term "shower mat" (and similarly "bath mat") is completely ambiguous about whether it refers to the absorbent mat outside the shower or the grippy mat placed inside a shower to improve traction.

How did we, as English speakers, let this happen?!

Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 4d

... Of course, I say that from the perspective of someone who's spent a lifetime reading books formatted that way; so who can say how I'd have experienced an alternative convention without that acclimatization.

Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 4d

Then a month or so ago, I read a poorly formatted ebook that didn't use this convention: quoted speech spanning multiple paragraphs was just left unmarked. And man, it looked awful and confusing, and I finally appreciated the wisdom of that formatting convention.

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Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 4d

I remember when I first started reading novels as a youth, I disliked the convention of adding another quotation mark when speech from the same character continues to a new paragraph. It felt redundant and "unbalanced" (because you get more start quotes than end quotes).

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Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 6d

Do you remember, remember
The 21st/5th night of Septovember
Okay I thought I could make this hybrid work, but now I see it was a mistake and I'm bailing out, bye

Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 6d

Some Hindu or Buddhist scholar probably wrote a lengthy treatise on this subject many centuries ago.

Also, this whole thread is probably amusing to those who lack the ability to audiate or "verbalize" words in their heads altogether.

Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 6d

Am I still even holding the "right" meaning in my head, or did the distraction mess that up? How can I even discover an answer to that? IS there an answer?

So then I feel I must "utter" the mantra again, to sort of "refresh" its meaning. But then what did THAT even accomplish?

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Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 6d

If I try this exercise, I find that when I get distracted and then try to return my attention to the object of focus, I become unsure about what exactly I'm returning to (in the absence of the "verbalized" mantra). And I start questioning whether I'm even "doing it right."

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Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 6d

What's actually happening in your mind during those "silent" intervals? What are you doing and experiencing when you're holding that (now wordless) meaning in mind? How is it different from holding a different meaning in your mind, or holding "nothing" in mind (if possible)?

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Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 6d

Suppose you decide to mentally repeat a mantra during meditation. So you start mentally "saying" some word/phrase again and again. But then you decide to start stretching out the interval in between "utterances" while still holding the meaning in your mind as an object of focus.

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Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 7d

Or am I the weird one here, and the rest of you are all habitually disinfecting your toothbrushes somehow (dipping them in alcohol?), and my family just never taught me that?

Sugarcrystalz @sugarcrystalz.bsky.social · 7d

We could say, "at least the toothbrush gets exposed to toothpaste," but my understanding is most toothpaste isn't very antibacterial, and some don't even include antibacterial ingredients at all. The main purpose is to assist the mechanical brushing, not kill germs directly.

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