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Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · May 28

I'm lionpilled. I'm nomaxxing. I'm in my hungry, violent, lonely, godless era.

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Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 14m

i want to write a post about how the linux hate threads have echoes of the "waaaah reddit atheists so smug" nonsense but I'm pretty sure the former at least is in good fun

Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 19m

Nope lmao

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∞ Monkeys @somanymonkeys.bsky.social · Jan 26

I think we need to make anyone who isn't indigenous to the Americas go without chili peppers in their food for a month to get them to reconsider the concept of "culinary appropriation".

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Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 41m

Wasn't the ceasefire late last year that Bibi attributed to Trump just Biden's ceasefire?

Not sure if chalk this up to Trump calling Bibi to heel as much as authoritarian cooperation.

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Microplastics Spookmelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 8h

they feed us poison (overdressed salads)
so we buy their cures (fancy seltzer)
while they suppress our medicine (burgers)

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 8h

Mods are asleep post brassicas

You either die a brassica or you live long enough to see yourself become a crab.

CAP'N
CRUNCH'S
DOPSIAll
NATURALLY &
ARTIFICIALLY
Brassica oleracea
otened
cer

What vegetable are you?
I'm brassica oleracea
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Brassica oleracea

Ladies, get you a fella who can do it all

Selection for terminal buds
Selection for lateral buds
Selection for stem
Selection for leaves
Selection for stems and flowers
Selection for flower clusters
Cabbage
Brussels sprouts
Kohlrabi
Kale
Broccoli
Cauliflower

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 14h

the things that Israel does that are bad are really obviously bad on their own merits and you undermine your position by bitching about who invented pitas or the ontological character of crumbl cookies

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 14h

the thing that really gets me is that *even if this was true* I would not give a shit. like I'm sorry I just do think "who invented hummus" is a claim that matters either way.

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Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 17h

I don't think there's actually anything wrong with this!

Not everyone who's evil-nuts needs to be on drugs to make them that way, and just because they're doing some regimen of TRT or whatever (which I think winds up being bad for longevity anyway, lol, lmao) doesn't make it evil-nuts.

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 17h

2024 was about inflation in exactly the same way 2016 was about email security

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 20h

“Inflation caused 2024” is a comfortable and appealing explanation for a lot of people - it reinforces their patronizing sense that most voters are selfish little piggies with no inner life, it promises that things will be back to normal next time - but there’s really not any evidence of it

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 20h

This is an excellent picture of how you'd build a research ecosystem if you didn't want AI to turn research into a winner-take-all game where only the biggest players have any chance of making recognized contributions.

It requires a lot more collaboration than most academics are used to.

chenhaotan.bsky.social @chenhaotan.bsky.social · 1d

This resonates very well. I think it should apply to all disciplines. I also really liked this recent piece by Channing and Ghosh: arxiv.org/abs/2509.06580

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Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 21h

philosophy supremacists sobbing uncontrollably

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rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 23h

Starting to realize that your degree of choice is ultimately independent of how batshit you are or not

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Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 21h

It's like he learned one true thing (a lot of interesting work is done now using numerical or otherwise approximate solutions to things you simply can't solve exactly) and then took the biggest bong rip anyone can imagine

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Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 22h

The Hamiltonian wasn't *diagonalizable*

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 23h

Somehow, as time goes on, I become more and more glad I never got into anime.

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Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 1d

He's... Putting a baby in a spiral?

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Ed @ed3d.net · 1d

DAMN

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

they're both bad

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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 1d

There is nothing more terrifying to an online communist (or fascist, tbh) than the idea that a system that controls their lives would allow those who disagree with them to not only exist but *thrive*.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

Man, people really struggle with “the reasons for progress are myriad so you might as well do all of them”

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Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 1d

Nah it's cool, nobody's being rude!

Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 1d

Man I wish

Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 1d

none of these words are in the bible and several of them are not in the dictionary

Oops! Unable to resolve handle @curiousaboutupdog.bsky.social · 1d

that's why I asked, because I was unsure :)