dymphna
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dymphna
@dymphna.bsky.social
· Dec 30
on crawling toward humanism (literally)
there's always a next season until there isn't
open.substack.com
"hey you haven't really done much since 2022"
well,
well,
not super surprised that Dersh is using the "actually, it's ephebophilia"/"if there's grass on the field, play ball" defense
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
not super surprised that Dersh is using the "actually, it's ephebophilia"/"if there's grass on the field, play ball" defense
we kept making fun of innocent Floridians when ICE agents were the true Florida Men all along
Listen to this Border Patrol agent cry about how he's going to be DOXXED after being arrested for drunkenly barging into a woman's restroom with a loaded gun, demanding a date from the woman inside, and then punching the arresting officers.
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
we kept making fun of innocent Floridians when ICE agents were the true Florida Men all along
this isn't cute or funny!!! dymphnas only play city-builders when they're extremely depressed!!!!
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
this isn't cute or funny!!! dymphnas only play city-builders when they're extremely depressed!!!!
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Havin a giant cheese wedge and a stein of beer MANFOOD
November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Havin a giant cheese wedge and a stein of beer MANFOOD
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She's the empress of Resting Bitchface
November 13, 2025 at 4:39 PM
She's the empress of Resting Bitchface
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"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"babies are born worshipping unknown gods" is one of the most incredible dwarf fortress bugs i have heard of. its poetry.
i suspect that uniqlo is leaning into vanity sizing real hard and it's annoying that I had to return all this shit but you know what? taking at least 4 inches off my waist is boosting my damn ego in this garbage ass time
November 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
i suspect that uniqlo is leaning into vanity sizing real hard and it's annoying that I had to return all this shit but you know what? taking at least 4 inches off my waist is boosting my damn ego in this garbage ass time
"There are ways other than essay writing to teach students how to develop an argument. Will I discuss any of them in this article? No. But surely they must exist."
My Students Use AI. So What?
Young people are reading less and relying on bots, but there are other ways to teach people how to think.
www.theatlantic.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
"There are ways other than essay writing to teach students how to develop an argument. Will I discuss any of them in this article? No. But surely they must exist."
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"Meeting students where they are" doesn't mean, for me at least, slapping a cahoot on the board in an attempt to gamify learning. We know what actually works. It's figuring out what windows to more in-depth readings work for them. But they're still gonna read and write, by god.
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Meeting students where they are" doesn't mean, for me at least, slapping a cahoot on the board in an attempt to gamify learning. We know what actually works. It's figuring out what windows to more in-depth readings work for them. But they're still gonna read and write, by god.
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Is Capitalist Realism better than reading an extended taster menu of Jameson, Zizek, and Deleuze? No. Can I get 19 year olds to do that consistently? No. Am I always surprised how electric they get about Capitalist Realism? Yes.
October 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Is Capitalist Realism better than reading an extended taster menu of Jameson, Zizek, and Deleuze? No. Can I get 19 year olds to do that consistently? No. Am I always surprised how electric they get about Capitalist Realism? Yes.
MINIM
You are a psychopath
You are a psychopath
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
November 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
MINIM
You are a psychopath
You are a psychopath
jesus money really can't buy happiness can it
November 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
jesus money really can't buy happiness can it
Ladies Against Women (1980, dir. Williams)
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ladies Against Women (1980, dir. Williams)
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Dan says it right: this is a city, and we need leaders who will say so.
I wrote an op-ed on what I think about the fight for local neighbourhood retail (and the grousing about Badiali's) means for the urban vision of Toronto. Gift link here: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
When even the humble corner store is impossible to open in Toronto, it’s a sign of something deeply wrong
We need to accept that Toronto is now a big city.
www.thestar.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Dan says it right: this is a city, and we need leaders who will say so.
people underestimate how hard it is to do a good Thriller dance .big mobs of people doing Thriller often look a little weird. MJs moves are insanely crisp. he's the GOAT for a reason.
but here, the dude in the red pants is absolutely killing it. it makes the entire ensemble work.
but here, the dude in the red pants is absolutely killing it. it makes the entire ensemble work.
November 1, 2025 at 3:17 PM
people underestimate how hard it is to do a good Thriller dance .big mobs of people doing Thriller often look a little weird. MJs moves are insanely crisp. he's the GOAT for a reason.
but here, the dude in the red pants is absolutely killing it. it makes the entire ensemble work.
but here, the dude in the red pants is absolutely killing it. it makes the entire ensemble work.
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Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of the tormented souls bound to it. End a 50-year curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.
KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of noncommercial interactive fiction in eight years, is now available to play.
brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia
KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of noncommercial interactive fiction in eight years, is now available to play.
brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia
Kinophobia by Bruno Dias
Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates its tormented souls. End a curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.
brunodias.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of the tormented souls bound to it. End a 50-year curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.
KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of noncommercial interactive fiction in eight years, is now available to play.
brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia
KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of noncommercial interactive fiction in eight years, is now available to play.
brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia
food is not 𝙖 political issue. food is 𝙩𝙝𝙚 political issue.
We literally do disagree about this, though. Some politicians want to take food from children and some politicians don't. Pretending this "isn't political" just allows the child-starving ghouls to get away with it.
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
Tell people who supports the *political program* to feed children and who doesn't!
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
food is not 𝙖 political issue. food is 𝙩𝙝𝙚 political issue.
no, I will not "welcome" Rovo, my new "AI-powered teammate."
October 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
no, I will not "welcome" Rovo, my new "AI-powered teammate."
also the balkanization of social life that formed as an inevitable consequence of the consumer-based niche identities that proliferated on the internet was a good thing, right guys? made us all real normal and deeply interested in appealing to the common interest, right?
... in case they politely inquire as to your interests?
October 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
also the balkanization of social life that formed as an inevitable consequence of the consumer-based niche identities that proliferated on the internet was a good thing, right guys? made us all real normal and deeply interested in appealing to the common interest, right?
i don't watchmany sporting events these days. i used to watch MMA in thebrief years post-Butterbean and pre-fascism.
but there's something to learn from everything! I'll watch a game if people are watching it and try to learn, because I like seeing people have fun. love a good chant, too!
but there's something to learn from everything! I'll watch a game if people are watching it and try to learn, because I like seeing people have fun. love a good chant, too!
... in case they politely inquire as to your interests?
October 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
i don't watchmany sporting events these days. i used to watch MMA in thebrief years post-Butterbean and pre-fascism.
but there's something to learn from everything! I'll watch a game if people are watching it and try to learn, because I like seeing people have fun. love a good chant, too!
but there's something to learn from everything! I'll watch a game if people are watching it and try to learn, because I like seeing people have fun. love a good chant, too!
today in "actual texts that I sent"
October 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
today in "actual texts that I sent"
me at work
P. H. Ditchfield's Books Fatal to Their Authors (1895) shows that writers have been punished for their works with more variety, more frequency, and more severity than you might expect: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/books-fatal-to-their-authors
October 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
me at work