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Stuart Semmel

@semmiotic.bsky.social

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · Jul 14

Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 14h

I’m three handshakes/hops from John Stuart Mill. Not joking.

Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 15h

“But Doctor,” the man says. “I am Ozymandias, King of Kings.”

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Clare M @clarem.bsky.social · 2d

My name was Ozymandias, King of Kings. My name is now Ozymandias Mountbatten Windsor.

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 17h

oops all souls day

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks and thanks!

Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 1d

This Australian was just 18 at the time, and had only recently arrived in the US. I assume that further time here taught him more about American racism; I hope it also brought insights into his own country’s.

Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 1d

(Utterly ignorant questions; please ignore if you feel like it!)

Are the colors intended to help us distinguish the two separate supernovas? Do they indicate different temperatures, different chemical compositions?

Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 1d

an Australian told me this about his country once

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 1d

Wow

Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 1d

The ad is inviting us to assume that the person beneath the Sliwa mask is Cuomo (which, in a real sense, he is!).

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Conceptual Genius Goes As Self For Halloween https://theonion.com/conceptual-genius-goes-as-self-for-halloween-1819578390/

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve taught Culloden maybe five or six times. Students are always pretty stunned. It requires a content warning.

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Menotti Minutillo @menotti.bsky.social · 3d

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 3d

It would just change its name to “<Waves Hands> Magic Glasses Something Something,” so it’s just as well.

Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 3d

wowza

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 3d

Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads

They Oz you up, your mandyias.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They give you vast and trunkless legs
A sunken shattered visage too.
But they were Ozzed up in their turn
By Mandyias upon the sand
Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command.
Oz hands on mandyias to man.
Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can
Ye mighty and despair yourself

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 3d

I deserve censure

Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 3d

I’m not proud, just confessing

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 3d

Kinda addictive tbh

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 3d

Wordle 1,594 4/6*

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Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 3d

Did the latter part sound familiar to them? Had they heard about this?

Stuart Semmel @semmiotic.bsky.social · 3d

And it’s much more likely that there *would* be drugs on that cruise ship!

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Mercurywoodrose (Antifa Science Officer, Division 23 Airborne) @mercurywoodrose.bsky.social · 4d

money should be banished it’s meaningless. All trades should be done as barter. I have a chicken you have a hammer. What if I’m at the market and I want your chicken and I didn’t bring my hammer I should be able to give you a special unique token that represents the hammer that I’ll deliver later

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4d

"The Indictment Signer:" Lindsey Halligan's Time in the Grand Jury

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"The Indictment Signer:" Lindsey Halligan's Time in the Grand Jury - emptywheel

The Judge who'll preside over Jim Comey and Tish James' challenges to Lindsey Halligan's appointment, Judge Cameron McGowen Currie, just ordered that the government provide her with all the grand jury...

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 4d

This is the right question to ask and the answer is some do, some don't.

Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 4d

this raises an important point: do states or localities have laws against seeking to be on the ballot for a third term for president? if not they should consider passing them, or other clear, firm measures to enforce the 22nd amendment.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

HUNT: The president is talking about a third term. How seriously do you take that?

GALLEGO: I don't take it seriously because he will be in violation of the Constitution and he should be arrested if he attempts to do that

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