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Scouting report: bats left, throws left, has problems with authority figures. Read too much Arendt, Horkheimer and Adorno in his formative years. Hoya Saxa! 📍 Santa Cruz, CA 🪿🙏💀

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 8d

Socrates was a Luddite who would have hated AI

This invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant.”
— Plato, Phaedrus 275

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5h

the year is 2030. a doctor solemnly informs you that you have plastic in your testicles bc millions of people persuaded by celebrity marketing bought synthetic pubic hairs that were eventually consumed by fish that you ate

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 3h

If my kids did that I’d kick their asses

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 3h

Ok so tbh I thought it was a bit apocryphal when I read it earlier

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 4h

I quit drinking for a while for health reasons but am now thinking it might just make more sense to drink all day every day

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 7h

Play a clarinet, go to jail

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 9h

They’re still up 2-0 in the series. Go mariners!

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 9h

Ok this is the last thing I’ll post about today’s otter attack at the Lane, but these are indeed the End Times.

Revelation 6:8:

“And I looked, and behold a pale surfboard: and his name that sat on him was Otter, and Hell followed with him”

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 9h

She personifies the America I know and still love

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 9h

Except he didn’t even stop any wars, just fucked children

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 10h

Otter attack

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 10h

If you’re wondering what’s up with all the emergency vehicles are doing on west cliff drive on Santa Cruz, it was just your usual otter attack at Steamer Lane

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 16h

I guess Russell Westbrook didn't get the memo about No Kings.

Russell Westbrook agrees to join Kings for 18th NBA season

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 10h

TIL the Latin name for the American robin is “turdus migratorius” and my vestigial 12 year-old brain thinks that is really funny

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...

American robin - Wikipedia

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 11h

Um what happens when they land?

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19h

This is straight up white nationalist talking points posted by the DHS.

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

I love Thomas Pynchon when I open up and read a random chapter from, say, V or Gravity’s Rainbow or even Mason & Dixon, but I also fuckin hate Thomas Pynchon if I have to read the whole goddam thing beginning to end

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parisinla @parisinla.bsky.social · 1d

This homeland threat advisory system is getting out of hand.

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Shit I just want it to generate functioning Python code for me

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Psalm 105:30 (KJV)

“Their land brought forth frogs in abundance, in the chambers of their kings.”

spookillumi @illumi.meme · 4d

frog

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm I have an idea

“they’re too pricey (estimates suggest the bulk of the empty inventory is in the $800,000 to $1.2 million range), too small (in the neighbourhood of 790 to 870 square feet), or both”

surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo released only 3 studio albums in his life and every one was brilliant.

Black Messiah was his best IMO and I’ve been impatiently anticipating a followup for 11 years…

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surfer slacker stoner spy @briansantacruz.bsky.social · 1d

So fucking sad to hear we have lost one of the greatest and profound musicians of our era. If you don’t know D’Angelo and his music you should.

RIP man

youtu.be/lZoxdPGu_4E

D'Angelo and The Vanguard - Ain't That Easy (Audio)

YouTube video by DAngeloVEVO

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NWS Bay Area Bot @nwsbayareabot.bsky.social · 2d

Flood Advisory issued for northwestern Santa Clara and southwestern Alameda Counties, including San Jose, Fremont, and Los Altos until 8:00 PM. #CAwx https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/1977885909962965107

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