A Phoenician named Phlebas forgot,
About birds and his business, the lot,
which is no surprise
since he'd met his demise
and been left on the seabed to rot

maximally smeared out.

It *kinda* is? Which is to say, the Fourier Transform underpins the General Uncertainty Principle, because in Quantum Mechanics position and momentum are the Fourier Transforms of each other. Hence, if you know everything about a particle's position, all your information about momentum is

It's important work. Documenting things. Writing down what's happening. Deeply unfashionable, of course. But important

Fewer of us than we'd like, but more of us than we fear.

Exploitable doesn't always mean exploited, though. There's a lot you can do to make being exploited really hard, or at least really uncomfortable

You're smart and capable. Write. Get your thoughts out there. Fight that way.

You would be surprised by just how strong a punch you can throw just by being able to write.

I... it never occurred to me that that was how it worked. I kinda just assumed that they got off on cruelty. That's fucked up.

Jesus. That's how the right think about that?

Absolutely does. I am very grateful

I think, if we're to say that Lenin and his crew were wrong, we have to be able to offer people the same hope that they did.

Wait, Starmer's a blank? Holy shit, that makes so much sense

I mean, Streeting has directly and deliberately caused harm to my community, which Starmer has not. To that point, I think he's actively worse

@pwallinga.bsky.social, this is an opportunity for you, as a composer, to redress a great injustice suffered by trans girls who have a thing for music

I don't know that it's much consolation, but people die in wars. And as much as it sucks to watch the people we care about die, we're in a much stronger position than they are now. Our children, I think, will live in a world much kinder to trans people than what we have now

I am, perhaps, a little envious. I wish it were acceptable to pray for a respectable job so that I could afford that. But I do not think that most parish priests would consider that a reasonable intention, alas