Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 1hthe catholic idea of “pride” as a deadly sin or capital vice is funny because it takes a common sense notion (pride as arrogance, delusional self-aggrandizement, etc) and then extends the concept to the point of vacuity. what is pride? oh it’s just believing or wanting anything i think is wrong. 1140
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 1hthe gang gets transported back to the 30 years war and helps make the peace of westphalia happen 1231
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 2hSometimes, rarely, I will be brave and put myself out there. We will go to a museum together, have a nice afternoon. Maybe end up back at my place. But the better things go, the clearer it is to me that this cannot work out. It’s only a matter of time, you see. 1300
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 3h“hey claude, here’s a csv with some old macro tracking data, can you incorporate it into this specific folder where i track this stuff?” claude: [sloppily misinterprets spreadsheet structure, concludes that the sheet contradicts existing data, decides to overwrite that data without asking] “Done!” 370
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 14htonight a straight man asked me out of the blue if i was a former wrestler and told me i look “fucking awesome”. i have achieved all my gender performance goals in life. 111380
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“boy with the name and face I don’t remember, you can stop shouting now. i can still hear you.” 0544
Reposted by ElliotElliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Today’s poem: Tennyson, “Crossing the Bar” #lunchpoems 3914
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book, and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once and of their shadows deep. How many loved your moments of glad grace, and loved your beauty with love false or true, 3623
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026devastating youtu.be/aOTEkh5bUHs?...youtu.bePoetry by Chang-Dong Lee — The ending SceneYouTube video by CinExpress 190
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Use a vid, GIF, or pic to describe your mood today! 🖤static.klipy.comApocalypse Now: The HorrorALT: Apocalypse Now: The Horror 0200
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Today’s poem: Philip Larkin, “address to life, by a young man seeking a career” #lunchpoems 1642
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I am small little guy who doesn't understand big financial numbers, but Nvidia doing $150 billion in stock buybacks *now* looks like peak insanity to me. 4681
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the youtube algorithm just serves me clips from the same three tv shows over and over and over. it's obnoxious. if I wanted to rewatch better call saul, maybe I would just watch better call saul, not reconstruct it piecemeal from a ton of 3 minute clips. 3280
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026AI bros are rediscovering the linguistic turn like 70 years later. Weird. 0120
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026OK let’s do a gloom-fighting exercise. Give me a picture that represents something that gives you joy. (Keep it SFW please.) 35464
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026I can feed claude scans of baroque scholastic latin and get instant translations. this is crazy 2160
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 27/09/2026these are emphatically not good. wow. what is that awful flavor? 8330
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026two years ago i had this fantasy that i was going to develop a vibrant social life and go out a lot and so on. instead i have spent most of the past two years becoming progressively more isolated, stopped doing gay stuff completely, etc. 15751
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i’m with obama. solidarity is upstream of everything else the left wants. it’s the anchor for the material goods. 1342
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ah yes, this is the guy who goes around giving lectures about how the Antichrist is whoever who wants to end wars and raise taxes. 6330
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Ah yes, one of the chronic illnesses of social media users. (Anyway very good thread.) 0190
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026i did several hours of morose dawdling and now the gym closes in 3 minutes and I haven't left my apartment so I guess i'm going to find some reason to walk around in the drizzle 1360
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026one of the good things about A Man for All Seasons is that it shows More dying at the end, and his side in the debate he sacrificed his life for losing. one of the good lessons a morality play can offer is that sometimes you give everything to do what you think is right, and still lose. 1230
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Interesting that bsky seems to have stabilized around half a million unique daily posters. 2381
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026it’s really depressing that so much power is concentrated in the hands of such a small group of inhuman sociopaths who seemingly just want the rest of us to burn. 41269
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026so this hasan piker guy… is hot. why did the GOP pick a hot dude as their symbolic representation of the left? seems like bad strategy 9951
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Just offering this as a PSA: principles about oligarchs and politics aside, you should get off all Meta products for your own health and safety. 5876
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the “monkeys with machetes” company is really worried about the imminent threat of monkeys with machetes being loosed on the world. “we must pace the distribution of machetes to monkeys” they say, after several recent hacking incidents suggest that their monkeys may not be entirely safe. 6611
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026opus 5.5: still presumptuous, still paranoid, still annoying 2130
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is fascinating because I'm pretty sure 75% of americans couldn't even tell you what communism is in coherent (much less rigorous) way. 3410
Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026i can’t imagine feeling entitled to comment this on a stranger’s post. 13510