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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 2h

yup. what we need is better regulation and oversight. eugenicists who read kant or bentham are as likely to misunderstand those fields as they do biology and physics and computer science

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 14h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 6h

holy hell is A Hat in Time such a great game. and, of all the good things i can say about it, the best one is that it respects the player's time. it hit that goldilocks zone for a 3D platformer collect-a-thon. and that's on top of all the other awesome stuff about the game

highly recommend

rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 11h

going live for some more A Hat in Time casual play as part of my twitch partner push! very likely to finish this today and start the next casual game (which you can vote for!)

this game is super adorable, fun to play, and genuinely funny

www.twitch.tv/rhaco_dactylus

#twitch
#partnerpush

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PARTNER PUSH!!! Next List - A Hat in Time - !pp !goals !next

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 11h

going live for some more A Hat in Time casual play as part of my twitch partner push! very likely to finish this today and start the next casual game (which you can vote for!)

this game is super adorable, fun to play, and genuinely funny

www.twitch.tv/rhaco_dactylus

#twitch
#partnerpush

Rhaco_Dactylus - Twitch

PARTNER PUSH!!! Next List - A Hat in Time - !pp !goals !next

www.twitch.tv

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 13h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 21h

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

phys.org

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 13h

i dunno, a mind as unstable as thiel's might end up offing himself if he paid even half attention to the story

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 15h

sadly, it's not that odd. she's a woman on the internet. she's going to have a metric fuckton of haters, almost all of whom are men who resent to their very core the idea of people listening to a woman

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 15h

pretty sure their official response is "we should be focusing on kitchen table issues and not these distractions from kitchen table issues. kitchen table. donate $10 please."

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Snowden St. @snowden.st · 15h

At least in the historical record of the 21st century (or post 9/11), the Democratic Party’s main objection *has* been the tone/tenor of immigration enforcement. Obama was the Deporter in Chief until the second Trump administration, the numbers don’t lie.

good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 16h

what is the official Democratic Party response to the violent detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants. what is it. what do we find officially objectionable about what is going on - that they're being too mean about it, that they're being sloppy?

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 15h

normal person:
"it'd be cool if our representatives represented us"

average dem voters:
"this is magical thinking"
"you never suggest specific things they should do"
"they can't do that thing that republicans do all the time"
"you're just a white woman, shut up"
"this is fear-mongering"

cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 15h

man what. lmao

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social
Holy cow. This screenshot is like saying
"because I have an idea it must be possible."
The plumber analogy is instructive but wrong. It's more like if she had a plumber over and asked her to make her laundry do itself. It's not something a plumber can do.
It's not something anyone can do.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 15h

had to block that idiot after seeing how much he tortured that poor analogy

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 18h

The US is a straight-up police state, more egregious than the vast majority of ‘totalitarian regimes’ we (in the Global North) grew up being warned about.

Picture the Feds took with supposed Latin Kings leader (whose wife says he’s being framed) is 100% inspired by the IDF

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Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · 22d

Testing a theory:

reskeet if "every ICE agent will be unmasked and tried for their crimes" would get your vote

Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · Sep 8

CAN I GET A 'FUCK ICE' IN CHAT

Bonnicula | Vampire Vtuber ⚧ @bonnicula.bsky.social · Jun 15

ICE is only as old as the Kangaroo Jack movie and neither needed to exist

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 1d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 1d

definitely one of my favorites. haven't played any of the PRs yet because, if i'm honest, i find them aesthetically unappealing and since i still own a working snes and cartridge, i can still play this awesome game

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FantasyAnime @fantasyanime.bsky.social · 1d

Happy anniversary to Final Fantasy 6's SNES release in North America! 🥳🎂 Here’s to the opera, Magitek armor, and one of gaming’s greatest villains!

Is this game one of your favorites? Have you tried the FF6 Pixel Remaster?

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 1d

relatedly, but certainly more abstractly than your direct experience, i think about this paper a lot: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Virtue signalling is virtuous - Synthese

The accusation of virtue signalling is typically understood as a serious charge. Those accused usually respond (if not by an admission of fault) by attempting to show that they are doing no such thing. In this paper, I argue that we ought to embrace the charge, rather than angrily reject it. I argue that this response can draw support from cognitive science, on the one hand, and from social epistemology on the other. I claim that we may appropriately concede that what we are doing is (inter alia) virtue signalling, because virtue signalling is morally appropriate. It neither expresses vices, nor is hypocritical, nor does it degrade the quality of public moral discourse. Signalling our commitment to norms is a central and justifiable function of moral discourse, and the same signals provide (higher-order) evidence that is appropriately taken into account in forming moral beliefs.

link.springer.com

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 1d

yea, i don't think it'll be that long before we start hearing stories of republican parents in the united states asking for similar of the government for their own children that they despise for being disabled

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 1d

eugenics looks like this

Sara Partridge, Ph.D. @sarapartridge.bsky.social · 1d

There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.

America’s children deserve better than this.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 1d

i was gonna say i wonder what he thinks of nat turner's rebellion or the haitian revolution, but then i realized i actually don't

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 1d

nothing wrong with being old, and i think it would be great if we stopped treating it as an insult to be called old

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 1d

friendly reminder that consequences of misinformation in any form include both getting people to believe misinformation and also giving people a reason to disbelieve real information

when our information ecosystem is flooded with false information, it becomes reasonable to disbelieve by default

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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rhaco_dactylus, phd @rhacodactylus.bsky.social · 1d

ooooo they look good, stay! hope your first cookies are a hit

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