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Devin
@dervine7.bsky.social
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philosophy ph.d. student (philosophy of language primarily), amongst other things. they/he
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dervine7.bsky.social
oh my
excerpt from the AI-generated map in the OP highlighting the label “Park Slope Vore”
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
dervine7.bsky.social
every now and then I remember that I learned hypnosis while I was at college and got pretty good at it, which is a weird skill to kind of forget you have
November 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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smosment.bsky.social
D’Angelo was right: the opening of “Heard It Through the Grapevine” is terrifying
November 20, 2025 at 4:21 AM
dervine7.bsky.social
oh my
excerpt from the AI-generated map in the OP highlighting the label “Park Slope Vore”
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 AM
dervine7.bsky.social
Chomsky heard something about an island and got confused
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
"[Epstein] had several ideas about who could appear on it and provide favorable testimonies [...]

'Spoke to Chomsky, he’s all in,' Epstein wrote in a text message to an undisclosed associate."
Epstein turned to academic Chomsky, others to rehab image after Herald investigation
Other potential people Epstein considered included deceased Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson and Norwegian diplomat Terje Rød-Larsen.
www.miamiherald.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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kmdoublev.bsky.social
extraterrestrial assimilating to our Christmas rituals: The baby we like. We have awaited the baby. But the green fellow? He is disgusting to us and morally reprehensible.
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 PM
dervine7.bsky.social
interesting
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
dervine7.bsky.social
ok sorry to sort of explain the joke but it really is wild how there isn’t *any* reference to anything Christmas-related in that song
dervine7.bsky.social Devin @dervine7.bsky.social · 1d
imagine hearing “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch” on the radio between all the other Christmas music and having no familiarity with the book or movie
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
dervine7.bsky.social
calling it now: this Christmas season one of your relatives on FB is going to share a video with “omg too funny!!!” and it’s going to be an AI-generated video parody of the “Scrooge” song from A Muppet Christmas Carol but about Trump
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
dervine7.bsky.social
imagine hearing “You’re a Mean One Mr. Grinch” on the radio between all the other Christmas music and having no familiarity with the book or movie
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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dervine7.bsky.social
please enjoy this utterly inscrutable ai generated video from Babylon Bee's YouTube channel
(h/t @bigjoel.bsky.social )
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 AM
dervine7.bsky.social
please enjoy this utterly inscrutable ai generated video from Babylon Bee's YouTube channel
(h/t @bigjoel.bsky.social )
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
guys.
Iwould take a bullet for you,” the Politician said. He always said that. “Please don’t say that,” I said. I always said that. From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible. I did not like to think about it. About the armed man at his speech. Or the armed man who broke into his home. Or the armed men he paid to guard him from armed men who sought to harm him while the federal government denied his pleas for protection from the security agency whose modern protocols were carved by the same bullets that cut boughs from his family tree and cut the track of the American experiment.
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
dervine7.bsky.social
if you aren’t reading WaPo it’s hard to convey just how bizarre the contrast between the editorial stance of the opinion section vs. the news section is
November 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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notnaughtknot.bsky.social
theory is way harder to make things work in than people make it sound
November 17, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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usili.bsky.social
What the fuck are these paragraphs from Nuzzi's book.

This like, genuinely makes me feel like I am a much better writer then she is.
Like all men but more so, he was a hunter. In a literal sense, he used not a bullet but a bird. It was not about a chase but about a puzzle of logic and skill that amounted to a test of his self-mastery. He was the mouse and the architect of his maze. The giver of his own pleasure and torment. He desired. He desired desiring. He desired being desired. He desired desire itself. I understood this just as I came to understand the range of his kinks and complexes and how they fit within what I thought I understood of his soul. We were primed to participate in the farcical parable in which the son of a businessman dreams of making movies, goes to Hollywood, comes home, becomes a businessman who thinks, still, of the screen, thinks of Hollywood, who makes himself a star as consolation, becomes the skilled practitioner of a screen art that perverts notions of truth and make-believe, who like many stars succumbs to tyrannical impulses and authoritarian fantasies because the compromise of his life feels like a loss of control, an expression of weakness, because it is, and whose fantasies, in a pretty good twist, are not his alone but are instead woven into a mass delirium that splits us into a Gemini nation under a Gemini ruler. People often, often people I do not know very well, reach out to tell me that I have appeared in their dreams. I wonder if this is because I sleep so little. If the version of me who lives on the plane of dreams tires of waiting for me to release her to action, if she goes out searching for places where she may exist without my permission, if she identifies the minds of those who have felt any kindness toward me, if she thinks that within their dreams she might get to live freely instead. I wonder, too, if this is a function of being a visible face but a veiled personality. If my impression contains empty space that renders me an adaptable idea and thus a useful device for subconscious minds. It is nice to think of this, that I might still be in some way, to someone, of use. I mean to tell you of the canyon where voices carried. The place where monsters spoke to me. Where I listened. Where I found that, as fortune or curse would have it, I knew the language of monsters. Where, with news on my tongue and tears in my eyes—the role of town crier I interpret literally—I ran back over the hill to translate for those who could not stomach the thought of standing face-to-face with monsters but who required knowledge of monsters as the monsters accrued ever more power, as they revealed or converted ever more monsters among men. I mean to tell you that, as it relates to monsters, little can be assured beyond their ceaseless want. That you feed the monster, and the monster wants only more. That here you have surrendered to the endless transaction, and through the terms on which you meet the monster you are transformed monstrous, too, for the day that the monster is done wanting is the day that the sun does not rise; want makes the monster as sun makes the day. I mean to tell you that as I studied them, I was sometimes fooled. Fooled about their power. Fooled about my own. Fooled about the nature of power. Fooled most of all into thinking that anything was ever about anything other than power, which is to say the misconception of control, which is to say the misdirection of fear, which is to say the misprocessing of love and its absence. Certain dramas you can count on. Empires fall at last. Heroes fail at first. And here I mean to tell you that character is not what you are in the end; character is the thing you cannot outrun or outgun that spars with fate all along. I refer now to my own. Witness and witnessed. When I slipped, I was swallowed whole. Straight through the plot, under the blade of the devices, and out the other side.
November 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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lastpositivist.bsky.social
Political cartoons' lack of subtlety is coming to fascinate me. Who is the anticipated audience who could follow this metaphor until the last panel but then needed the elephant to literally turn to camera and say it!?
A political cartoon features a donkey and an elephant standing at a table. The donkey holds a decorative vase, and the elephant nudges the donkey’s arm, causing the vase to fall and shatter. The donkey yells, “You broke that vase!” The elephant replies, “Yep. What are you going to do to fix it?” The donkey, confused, says, “Me?” The elephant insists: “That’s right. I want to hear a detailed plan from you.” The donkey hesitates and says, “I don’t know. It probably can’t be fixed now.” The elephant retorts, “Then you’re a party with no ideas and no one should ever support you.” The donkey protests: “But you broke it!” The elephant smugly concludes: “Making messes nobody knows how to fix is such great politics.”
November 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
dervine7.bsky.social
crazy to me that we talk about gen-z brainrot like we weren't all watching this in 2010
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November 17, 2025 at 4:26 AM
dervine7.bsky.social
redid a few times and it looks like I'm around the 70th percentile
November 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
dervine7.bsky.social
shockingly, a movement of self-promoting oppositional defiant weirdos may not be particularly stable
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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noamchompers.bsky.social
If we wanted to be real strict and technical about the meaning of ‘pedophile’, then the salient thing about Jeffery Epstein is that he was much worse than that
November 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
dervine7.bsky.social
strongly suspect this is correct. a big part of MAGA’s coherence & ideology is downstream of the impulse to “own” some nebulous enemy, when they lose easy access to that enemy it makes sense they’d turn on whoever they do have access to, which is each other
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d
morbidly sociologically curious about whether there's a relationship between this and the clustering of right wingers on Truth Social + exodus of libs and the left from Twitter, etc
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d
“.. It's still overwhelmingly pro-Trump — but less relevant .. These days, MAGA can spend more time eating its own than feasting on liberals or establishment Republicans.”

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November 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
dervine7.bsky.social
thinking there are interesting complications for theories of truth in fiction wrt videogames
November 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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bluser12.bsky.social
The good news is that we might finally be be rid of Lawrence H. Summers
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 AM