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Brokenwing

@brokenwing.bsky.social

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Dragon on the internet. Enby/fluid, pan/demi, they/them. Problem creator, problem solver, always exhausted.

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Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 4m

Hell yeah

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 53m

Do ants feel empathy at all? What about creatures that demonstrate empathy, like dogs? Pretty sure dogs have empathy for us…???

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 1h

Sure, but that’s a projection. The real question is do we have empathy for that which is superhuman? Like, ignoring how or why we encounter it.

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 1h

Of course. But that doesn’t necessitate a lack of empathy. Ostensibly between creatures that can communicate they could bestow some aspects of it.

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 3h

I don’t think it could be argued we don’t try to please god! There are substantial portions of human history dedicated to it!

We almost always imagine ourselves domesticated to the whims of an invisible and chaotic master.

If intelligence demands empathy, we’re so far from intelligent machines…

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 4h

O yeh that

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 4h

I think we anthropomorphize anything in an attempt to build empathy. The irony is of course god is unknowably superhuman.

But if we use animals as a model, a decent example might be cats thinking people are just really weird other cats that don’t know how to behave.

And sometimes they’re right.

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Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 4h

Shiny?

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 4h

Do you think people have empathy for god?

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 6h

Fuck.

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 7h

They’re all just so exceptionally happy to commit genocide.

I mean, literally big jack horner from puss in boots: the last wish???

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 9h

Because they’re all the favored failsons of their family, spoiled to the point of psychopathy.

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 20h

I know ais can’t count but this is ridiculous!

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 20h

They sure fuckin did and they’d do it again!

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Roberto Abramowitz @robertoabramowitz.bsky.social · Dec 21

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Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 20h

O no poor bby

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 20h

Wowww

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 20h

People who aren’t good friends.

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 1d

Eh, you know the score.

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 1d

Hee~.

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Nerd #7132 @nerd7132.bsky.social · 1d

someone needs to print "I'm an academic expert on fascism. if you see me running, try to keep up" tees

Gwed @snowfolk.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like he finally escaped:

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/anti-fascism-mark-bray-rutgers-university

US anti-fascism expert leaves country day after being blocked from flying to Spain

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was told at gate his trip was cancelled after Trump threats

www.theguardian.com

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Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 1d

That’s gooood dude!

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 1d

Mhm mhm

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Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 1d

O noooo

Brokenwing @brokenwing.bsky.social · 1d

Nowhere near neurotypical, no. Just his particular set of behaviors people find more disarming. I often find them grating, but he’s far from the worst I’ve had here.