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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1m

comfort food

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👁🌻🦊⚙️⚓ Bob, Engineer, Pusher of Paper @navmecheng.bsky.social · 1d

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

> It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Soldiers at the Bass Pro Shops pyramid in Memphis, TN.

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Brian T. Rice @briantrice.bsky.social · 2m

Laputa: Castle In The Sky precedent!

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Oh Deer I've Been Possesed By the Dark Place @ohdeerthermos.bsky.social · 3m

I think the challenge people have with the book re: horror, is that the story peels back the menace of Dracula until we see what he really is. A dangerous but frail pest

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4m

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 21h

"these edibles ain't shi---"

"my dear comrade, these are not edibles. they are in fact rejected bioweapons from project biopreparat, procured from a dodgy ex-GRU officer in a hong kong hotel room."

"i'm gonna.....start.....a podcast"

Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 21h

[Picture of Peter Thiel]
"This is your brain on cocaine, twelve unregulated testosterone-like substances, and the methylated trans-isometer of a Soviet de-icing agent rejected for excessive toxicity in sled dogs".

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4m

"LTCs on ketamine" oh nooooo

Eric L. Robinson @uticaeric.bsky.social · 42m

No one counts their Multiple on Invested Capital in the Army,

but SV investors do.

It’s a major feature of performance.

You’d think you’d want an aligned culture / accountability structure.

Instead you’re just going to have LTCs on Ketamine.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 5m

anyways shout out to a real fiend, Lord Ruthven. He is the apex predator Dracula pretends to be. Everything he does is by his own wits

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6m

e.g the fact that he was titled nobility saved him, not that he was a vampire

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 7m

dracula was incredibly lucky because they could have probably destroyed him if they all rushed the castle at once. i assume that there was probably some political limitation on this

James T. @jathaj.bsky.social · 14m

The only truly rational people in the whole book are the ostensibly “primitive” Transylvanian peasants who effectively protect themselves from Dracula’s predations. The English characters have no similar cultural antibodies to guard them.

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Oh Deer I've Been Possesed By the Dark Place @ohdeerthermos.bsky.social · 10m

I feel like Johnathan Harker is the most underrated character in the book. He's the only character that survives Dracula alone and without preparation. Him being ultimately scared by the experience helps keep Dracula a true threat. Adaptations that make him a weenie do the character a disservice

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👻 🧹 🐈‍⬛ hob bug boo 🐈‍⬛ 🧹 👻 @dubdobdee.bsky.social · 9m

dracula: i am the coffins-in-properties monster! how can i lose!
mina: (actual quote) "you forget that I am the TRAIN FIEND. at home in exeter I always used to make up the time-tables, so as to be helpful to my husband"

he never had a chance

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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 9h

The Memorex VIS: It's CD-ROM ON YOUR TV!

An ad from the Tiger Electronics Catalog demonstrating the Video Information System's "32 Bit technology," promising a complete game console and 20 game titles free for $99.00. The image on the right shows Links, a then popular FMV golf game, but the list of games on the left is nearly total eduatainment.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 13m

"dracula? time to go backula"

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James T. @jathaj.bsky.social · 14m

The only truly rational people in the whole book are the ostensibly “primitive” Transylvanian peasants who effectively protect themselves from Dracula’s predations. The English characters have no similar cultural antibodies to guard them.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 15m

i really do feel as well that if the texan was lucy's suitor the novel would have just ended there. dracula would just go home immediately

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16m

the moment this changes and a group of people want to kill him, his pointy eared ass skedaddles home

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 17m

the novel is very good at showing that dracula is a glass cannon. not being awake for half of the day is really a hazard. there are all of these smaller limitations on his power that add up. his advantage is mostly that no one is aware of who he is and what he's plotting

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 19m

which makes jonathan harker's real estate deal so dangerous. he's given dracula an escape route

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 20m

there's so many subtle details in dracula (the novel). one of the major hidden ones is that dracula is contained in his castle by the transylvanians at the start of the novel. he's hemmed up there. he can't really travel freely even in his own country

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25m

Again, it is worth keeping in mind when comparing the rate of discoveries that public funding for medicine and the sciences is orders of magnitude larger than for the humanities. We work slow in part because we work on a shoestring.

A pie-chart of federal research funding, using 2023 figures. The funding slices for the NIH (83%) and NSF (17%) are so large that the slices for the NEH and NEA round to 0%.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 23m

how much do you use your phone to look at pictures of cats

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hailey @hailey.at · 24m

anyway gm this is my life

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24m

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Why did Joan Didion abandon her book about the Manson murders?

Didion’s recently opened archives contain extensive notes about the project, which was based on her access to Manson Family member and star witness Linda Kasabian

www.washingtonpost.com

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 26m

aeon.co/essays/histo...

History’s shaming fascination for the so-called ‘idiot savant’ | Aeon Essays

The convergence of singular talent and profound disability confounded scientists eager to place humans into neat categories

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 28m

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Shaenon K. Garrity @shaenon.bsky.social · 13h

@andrewfarago.bsky.social interviewed people who worked on MOTU for his book on Saturday morning cartoons, and they were very cool, but of all the things that was Just a Job, it was the just a jobbest. At one point they competed to see if they could make a whole episode out of recycled animation.

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