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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 22h

When people think they're having a conversation but they're really playing Battleship.

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 1d

Me: someone who reads mostly sff

Steerswoman books by @rosemarykirstein.bsky.social

Me: holy shit

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 1d

This is how you train to take on the menswear guy. Gotta get your reps in.

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 2d

Nah. Dune's pretty great actually. A case of "it's not indulgence if it's deserved."

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 2d

Am I the only one unimpressed with the LWT Bari Weiss segment? The facts are damning and plentiful, but the rhetoric just isn't there.

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 4d

No one rationalizes harder than people who back into parking spaces.

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 7d

Screenshot of two Bluesky posts, first RFK, "We're doing the studies to make the proof." Second, Ursula's K Le Guin Bot, "A scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere."

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 9d

New legal analysis finds a "just kidding" clause. (It's the power of close reading, people.)

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 9d

You are coming for my favorite school classroom poster, and I do not like it.

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 12d

If punching people in the head gets people to change their mind, I'm all for it.

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 13d

the material here provides an interesting way of thinking about this: youtu.be/CYlon2tvywA?...

Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are

YouTube video by Veritasium

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah but also we kinda suck. Like, in a normal way. I don't think you have to believe in original sin to take a dim view of human nature, in the condition of a social post's replies section.

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 15d

The intensity may be turned way down, but this site still has the same essential problems.

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 15d

*looks at comments* I mean, I knew, but....

This site is supposed to be better than Twitter then, is it?

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 15d

God, why did I look at the comments.

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 15d

*reads over a hundred indistinguishable comments*

why did I do this to myself, these clowns just read the headlines

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 15d

Write something about that.

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 15d

Lakes, mountains, and rivers, shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor, when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarrelling about its relative situation. Let _our_ first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers.”

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 15d

Oh, what hours of transport we shall spend! And
when we _do_ return, it shall not be like other travellers, without
being able to give one accurate idea of anything. We _will_ know where we have gone--we _will_ recollect what we have seen.

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 15d

This paragraph lives rent-free in my head:
“My dear, dear aunt,” she rapturously cried, “what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and vigour. Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 15d

So many things! Since it's all been said, spend an inordinate amount of time on random passages that you think are interesting.

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Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 16d

LOL, you know how we all got off Twitter because...

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 16d

For all of one semester I taught a literature class to undergrads. Seeing response papers to "The Importance of Being Earnest" was eye-opening. You could see them figuring out in real time that literary analysis would be so much easier if the play contained absolutely no jokes whatsoever.

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 16d

It is, perhaps, more important than ever to focus on living with people with whom we have our more mundane disagreements; i.e., people we may end up sharing a foxhole with anytime soon.

Jim Nyenhuis @jnyen.bsky.social · 16d

"People we disagree with" =/= "the current regime." The regime may claim to represent the other side of the argument, but polling suggests that is becoming less true by the day.

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