Ralph Snyder
@ralphsnyder.bsky.social
I post and repost about books, philosophy, art, history, photography, random observations, and, sometimes, just silly stuff.
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Ralph Snyder
@ralphsnyder.bsky.social
· Aug 20
l make distinction between Poltical and political
The Political is akin to Philosophy and Religion. It is about how we understand our relationship to one another, how we navigate our disagreements, how we make decisions together, how we imagine our relationships within the larger social setting.
The Political is akin to Philosophy and Religion. It is about how we understand our relationship to one another, how we navigate our disagreements, how we make decisions together, how we imagine our relationships within the larger social setting.
Dreamt I saw a favorite author and (Terry Pratchett's) DEATH dancing at the Swedish ambassador's ball.
They were very elegant.
They were very elegant.
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Dreamt I saw a favorite author and (Terry Pratchett's) DEATH dancing at the Swedish ambassador's ball.
They were very elegant.
They were very elegant.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Libraries exist
the underlying anti-piracy sentiment is that culture and art belong exclusively to a paying class, an ideological framework that is ghoulish no matter how you try to spin it
November 27, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Libraries exist
Trope I'm tired of: the villain with a physical deformity.
November 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Trope I'm tired of: the villain with a physical deformity.
So, everyone bailed and there will be no Thanksgiving chez nous.
In a way, it's a mercy.
In a way, it's a mercy.
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
So, everyone bailed and there will be no Thanksgiving chez nous.
In a way, it's a mercy.
In a way, it's a mercy.
Some things have been bothering me lately. Among them
Epistemic supercessionism/supremacism
Teleological historiography
Rationalism
Epistemic supercessionism/supremacism
Teleological historiography
Rationalism
November 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Some things have been bothering me lately. Among them
Epistemic supercessionism/supremacism
Teleological historiography
Rationalism
Epistemic supercessionism/supremacism
Teleological historiography
Rationalism
I don't know, but I've been told:
Real democracy uses sortition not election.
Real democracy uses sortition not election.
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I don't know, but I've been told:
Real democracy uses sortition not election.
Real democracy uses sortition not election.
Hello tinnitus my new friend
I'm forced to hear you now again
And it seems that I will never hear
The sound of silence
I'm forced to hear you now again
And it seems that I will never hear
The sound of silence
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Hello tinnitus my new friend
I'm forced to hear you now again
And it seems that I will never hear
The sound of silence
I'm forced to hear you now again
And it seems that I will never hear
The sound of silence
When was the last time a society simply imploded?
Sixteenth century China?
Sixteenth century China?
November 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
When was the last time a society simply imploded?
Sixteenth century China?
Sixteenth century China?
I've said too much
Bonne nuit et Bonne chance
Bonne nuit et Bonne chance
November 24, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I've said too much
Bonne nuit et Bonne chance
Bonne nuit et Bonne chance
Thursday we'll be hosting a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for our French relatives.
Or, trying to. The things that just aren't available, like fresh cranberries, whole turkeys, stuffing...
Well,we'll see how it goes.
Or, trying to. The things that just aren't available, like fresh cranberries, whole turkeys, stuffing...
Well,we'll see how it goes.
November 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Thursday we'll be hosting a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for our French relatives.
Or, trying to. The things that just aren't available, like fresh cranberries, whole turkeys, stuffing...
Well,we'll see how it goes.
Or, trying to. The things that just aren't available, like fresh cranberries, whole turkeys, stuffing...
Well,we'll see how it goes.
Pratchett, "The Truth," biting satire but no actual news. Just olds.
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Pratchett, "The Truth," biting satire but no actual news. Just olds.
Better titled as "How to Be a Genuine Fake."
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Better titled as "How to Be a Genuine Fake."
I feel like there ought to be a midrash about this.
I am out of the loop, why is ketchup relevant
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I feel like there ought to be a midrash about this.
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Many autistic adults, especially the late diagnosed live with alexithymia. It shapes daily life in ways most people never see. Emotions arrive fast, hit hard, and vanish before we can understand them. 1/5
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Many autistic adults, especially the late diagnosed live with alexithymia. It shapes daily life in ways most people never see. Emotions arrive fast, hit hard, and vanish before we can understand them. 1/5
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We would have had this back in the 50s if we had listened to Nicola Tesla. Thanks for nothing Edison.
November 23, 2025 at 7:10 PM
We would have had this back in the 50s if we had listened to Nicola Tesla. Thanks for nothing Edison.
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"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Echoes of Eugenics: Tracing the Ideological Persistence of Scientific Racism in Scholarly Discourse | Proceedings of the 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimiza...
dl.acm.org
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"Drawing on a corpus of over 15,000 scholarly articles published between 1800 and 2024, we map the linguistic landscape of eugenics in scholarly discourse to reveal its institutional, scientific, and sociopolitical entrenchment"
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Remembering reading in high school Hume's essay "Why Utility Pleases," and thinking, "No, it doesn't."
Thinking in terms of utility, though I didn't have these words then, ignores how environments are complex, interactive system.
1/3
Thinking in terms of utility, though I didn't have these words then, ignores how environments are complex, interactive system.
1/3
November 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Remembering reading in high school Hume's essay "Why Utility Pleases," and thinking, "No, it doesn't."
Thinking in terms of utility, though I didn't have these words then, ignores how environments are complex, interactive system.
1/3
Thinking in terms of utility, though I didn't have these words then, ignores how environments are complex, interactive system.
1/3
💬📚 #bookskychat
Some initial thoughts in re Pratchett "The Truth"
1. Yes, words can reveal, hide, distort the truth sometimes in unexpected ways. We all know this. Spending a hundred pages illustrating it feels like a waste of time.
1/2
Some initial thoughts in re Pratchett "The Truth"
1. Yes, words can reveal, hide, distort the truth sometimes in unexpected ways. We all know this. Spending a hundred pages illustrating it feels like a waste of time.
1/2
November 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
💬📚 #bookskychat
Some initial thoughts in re Pratchett "The Truth"
1. Yes, words can reveal, hide, distort the truth sometimes in unexpected ways. We all know this. Spending a hundred pages illustrating it feels like a waste of time.
1/2
Some initial thoughts in re Pratchett "The Truth"
1. Yes, words can reveal, hide, distort the truth sometimes in unexpected ways. We all know this. Spending a hundred pages illustrating it feels like a waste of time.
1/2
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A 10 by 10cm painting I did.
#blueskyartshow #small #EastCoastKin #art #artist #painting #acrylicpainting #artwork #artyear #artshow #artshare #blueskyart
#blueskyartshow #small #EastCoastKin #art #artist #painting #acrylicpainting #artwork #artyear #artshow #artshare #blueskyart
November 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A 10 by 10cm painting I did.
#blueskyartshow #small #EastCoastKin #art #artist #painting #acrylicpainting #artwork #artyear #artshow #artshare #blueskyart
#blueskyartshow #small #EastCoastKin #art #artist #painting #acrylicpainting #artwork #artyear #artshow #artshare #blueskyart
💬📚 #bookskychat
In re Pratchett "Monstrous Regiment"
The problem isn't stupid people, who keep trying the same thing that doesn't work.
The problem is immoral people, who that think trying it is a good idea.
As Granny Weatherwax puts it: it starts by treating people as things.
In re Pratchett "Monstrous Regiment"
The problem isn't stupid people, who keep trying the same thing that doesn't work.
The problem is immoral people, who that think trying it is a good idea.
As Granny Weatherwax puts it: it starts by treating people as things.
November 21, 2025 at 9:05 PM
💬📚 #bookskychat
In re Pratchett "Monstrous Regiment"
The problem isn't stupid people, who keep trying the same thing that doesn't work.
The problem is immoral people, who that think trying it is a good idea.
As Granny Weatherwax puts it: it starts by treating people as things.
In re Pratchett "Monstrous Regiment"
The problem isn't stupid people, who keep trying the same thing that doesn't work.
The problem is immoral people, who that think trying it is a good idea.
As Granny Weatherwax puts it: it starts by treating people as things.
Reposted by Ralph Snyder
This book was hard to write as a #dyslexic! & is even harder to pin down. Nameless - A cross genre Novella that reflects on what it is to be human!
#Gaslamp fantasy + #SciFi & a touch of #Romance
3rd & 1st person
#Dicken's + #Bladerunner
14 Special #codeart drawings.
mybook.to/J6k9MpB
#Gaslamp fantasy + #SciFi & a touch of #Romance
3rd & 1st person
#Dicken's + #Bladerunner
14 Special #codeart drawings.
mybook.to/J6k9MpB
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This book was hard to write as a #dyslexic! & is even harder to pin down. Nameless - A cross genre Novella that reflects on what it is to be human!
#Gaslamp fantasy + #SciFi & a touch of #Romance
3rd & 1st person
#Dicken's + #Bladerunner
14 Special #codeart drawings.
mybook.to/J6k9MpB
#Gaslamp fantasy + #SciFi & a touch of #Romance
3rd & 1st person
#Dicken's + #Bladerunner
14 Special #codeart drawings.
mybook.to/J6k9MpB
Reposted by Ralph Snyder
🍁Happy Wednesday Everyone🍁 Wishing All Of My Friends
A Wonderful Day
#Photography
#Northumberland
#Nature
#Autumn
#MorningMist
FINDING BEAUTY IN THE
SIMPLEST OF THINGS
~~🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁~~
A Wonderful Day
#Photography
#Northumberland
#Nature
#Autumn
#MorningMist
FINDING BEAUTY IN THE
SIMPLEST OF THINGS
~~🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁~~
November 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
🍁Happy Wednesday Everyone🍁 Wishing All Of My Friends
A Wonderful Day
#Photography
#Northumberland
#Nature
#Autumn
#MorningMist
FINDING BEAUTY IN THE
SIMPLEST OF THINGS
~~🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁~~
A Wonderful Day
#Photography
#Northumberland
#Nature
#Autumn
#MorningMist
FINDING BEAUTY IN THE
SIMPLEST OF THINGS
~~🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁🍂🍁~~
I love math, and I hate it.
I love the way it abstracts, the way it lets you take things apart and put them together differently but still the same. I love the certainty and how the same thing can be seen in infinitely different ways.
1/2
I love the way it abstracts, the way it lets you take things apart and put them together differently but still the same. I love the certainty and how the same thing can be seen in infinitely different ways.
1/2
November 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I love math, and I hate it.
I love the way it abstracts, the way it lets you take things apart and put them together differently but still the same. I love the certainty and how the same thing can be seen in infinitely different ways.
1/2
I love the way it abstracts, the way it lets you take things apart and put them together differently but still the same. I love the certainty and how the same thing can be seen in infinitely different ways.
1/2
Maybe. Maybe not.
You can't just say something is so and expect me to believe you.
And as Hume observed, the wilder the assertion, the stronger the evidence required.
You can't just say something is so and expect me to believe you.
And as Hume observed, the wilder the assertion, the stronger the evidence required.
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Maybe. Maybe not.
You can't just say something is so and expect me to believe you.
And as Hume observed, the wilder the assertion, the stronger the evidence required.
You can't just say something is so and expect me to believe you.
And as Hume observed, the wilder the assertion, the stronger the evidence required.