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ethereal 80s revival (derogatory) @badgrbas.bsky.social · 17h

she's braver than the troops for this one

Cartoons Hate Her! @cartoonshateher.bsky.social · 21h

Pit bulls are disproportionately responsible for the deaths of many young children--more than other known hazards like button batteries--and many of these attacks are completely random and unprovoked.

www.cartoonshateher.com/p/pit-bulls-...

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

I hope that this is a climatological pun.

But generally true in both senses. (If not a medievalist, I'd be an early modernist. Heck, it's been five centuries, and I still have strong opinions on Gardiner and the 1549 vs. 1552 Prayer Book.))

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

1453-1648 was a really cool period.

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

Periodically I remember what this website was like when it collectively thought Hamas was going to win and crush Israel or whatever it thought for the month or so after October 7th and anytime anyone on here bitches about Biden, I remember that

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 1d

Does someone happen to have access to Virginia Burris’s “Nothing is Not One: Revisiting the Ex Nihilo,” in Modern Theology?

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the charm was the whole thing of, "Here at the End of History, things are so good that the worst injustice a woman now faces is a guy who's a little too into David Foster Wallace."

Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

You know something I miss about Twitter That Was? University-educated Acela Corridor millennial women complaining about bad dates with guys who were really into David Foster Wallace. It was both super-niche, but also a whole genre of tweet, and that gave it its charm.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

You know something I miss about Twitter That Was? University-educated Acela Corridor millennial women complaining about bad dates with guys who were really into David Foster Wallace. It was both super-niche, but also a whole genre of tweet, and that gave it its charm.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

I actually think about this a lot. I'm sure that historians and philosophers of science and technology have done work thinking it through, but it constantly surprises me how *little* the early modern technological take-off and Scientific Revolution are connected.

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 1d

this is a professional comment on this year's Nobel winners in the economic sciences.

I'm gonna note, gently, that neither steam nor turbine nor internal combustion engine development had strong theoretical underpinnings until surprisingly late.

a scientific worldview was necessary, sure, but how?

Carlos Yu @carloshasanax.bsky.social · 1d

ya know, if everyone down to Taiping China is making trucks, maybe everyone is also a goddam hard target.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, yes. Very glad I never smoked more than a bit in undergrad. But even there, I've found... a few consequences of excessive fondness for deli meat.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

No! Just quit sausage, quit beer, cut back to max of one drink a day (Friday excepted), quit my favorite tinned fish, and then blood was fine.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

So now I'm down to several days with no drinks at all and on days when I do have a drink capping out at one. (Which I should have already been doing.)

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out that a drink with dinner and then a drink or two after dinner, while *seemingly* modest, adds up in the aggregate...

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

Apparently herring, sardines, shellfish (i.e., the tasty ones) are really high in purines.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, no, I get that. I positively *love* a good dal makhani...

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 1d

So a month ago I had my first -- and hopefully only -- gout flare, and so I quit beer, sausage, shellfish, herring, and sardines. I cut drinks down to no more than one a day, with two only on Fridays. And my bloodwork now shows uric acid as normal.

How bad *was* my diet to provoke that flair...?

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 5d

Honestly, if I were Jewish, I would think it very unfair that really, really hating non-white people ends up in Jew hatred, but also that really, really hating white people *also* ends up in Jew hatred.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 5d

Something that's genuinely funny is that the best deterrant to clicking on Thirst Content (aside from, ahem, Matthew 5:27-8) is knowing that to do so logged in to Chrome will inundate you with unwanted Thirst Content across all platforms.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 5d

Somehow I don't think that ProQuest's AI is quite ready for prime time...

An article on penance an the Inquisition in Languedoc that has an AI-generated list of "related articles." These related articles have to do with financial accounting and monetary fines in modern times.

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 7d

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 7d

Why is it so hard to say that DJT's preferences are weird and idiosyncratic and that Hegseth's are just a bunch of Angry Facebook Veteran rants. Why this need to turn this, of all administrations, into something ideologically coherent?

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 7d

I feel called out by this post in particular...

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes I wish I could have been a Boomer who spent a year in Japan after getting out, then returned to the States to claim that he'd been initiated into an ancient martial arts tradition and start his own dojo and sell utterly fanciful books by the truckload.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 12d

Yeah, that's why I like it when near-future SF really grapples with it as opposed to, "Um, yeah, it's totally a continuous you because I *want* to have religious faith but can't so I'll try to just say that it's computer magic."

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 12d

Having a SecDef that's a swarming collection of Angry Veteran Facebook Memes in a trenchcoat is bad in a way that I really wasn't anticipating, if that makes sense.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 12d

I mean, it's the same as the idea in near future SF that you'll upload yourself, but actually, you're just getting killed, coming to an end, and a copy of your engrams getting made on a computer.

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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 14d

There was a great Duffelblog post on the history of the battleship a while back that pointed out that battleships were best at getting blown up in the harbor to galvanize Americans to go to war.

Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 14d

Most people seem to think battleships are really cool and not giant, poorly defended targets that failed at their only job.

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