Reposted by AciliusKidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 03/10/2026If you take a more Aristotelian view, the soul then just is the unifying form of the living thing, which argument against ai being able to have a soul becomes circular. 251
Reposted by AciliusSandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026So basically tech oligarchs keep announcing they've successfully built a paperclip maximiser and demanding we devote all our money to funding it and all our energy to passing laws to stop it. 24210
Acilius @acilius.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I suppose this could be real? Republican as Idaho is, it's also a farming state where all economic activity depends on a low price for fuel, and it's on the northern border where everyone understands the importance of good relations with Canada. politicalwire.com/2026/09/18/r...politicalwire.comRisch Trails in Idaho Senate RaceA new Advanced Targeting Research poll in Idaho finds Todd Achilles (I) leading Jim Risch (R) in the U.S. Senate race, 50% to 39%.Idaho Senate RaceTodd Achilles (I) 50% Jim Risch (R) 39% Advanced Targ... 043
Acilius @acilius.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Evidence that meditation is what Buddhism has always said it is, and not a form of therapy or a product that can be promoted by an industry: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...theatlantic.comThe Dark Side of MindfulnessA prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her. 010
Acilius @acilius.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Alaska turned into a DanSullivanocracy so gradually most people didn't even notice it was happening. 010
Acilius @acilius.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I'm very fond of the paintings of Caroline Ji. format.creatorcdn.com/ccda4536-592... 2102
Acilius @acilius.bsky.social · 20/08/2026What happened when a sane man tried to find a morally acceptable position on the irreducibly insane geopolitics of the mid-twentieth century: www.bostonreview.net/articles/thi...bostonreview.netThink AgainDwight Macdonald’s gift of self-critique. 020
Reposted by Aciliuspixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026If you were King Solomon And I was a lady Would you marry me anyway Would you halve my baby 24879102
Reposted by AciliusNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Primaries are expensive and divisive, but we can't trust party insiders to pick candidates who represent the popular will. The solution is simple: I will simply select the candidates. I'm an unbiased, neutral party, and I'm very smart. Send me some lists in June and I can have this all sorted out. 716714
Acilius @acilius.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Confidence Men Are Everywhere gideons.substack.com/p/confidence...gideons.substack.comConfidence Men Are EverywhereThe test comes when organizations realize they've hired one 000
Reposted by AciliusStephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 31/07/2026I wrote about the 60th anniversary of the Adam West Batman movie. open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...open.substack.com60 Years Of Shark Repellent Bat SprayThis week's writing. 0113
Reposted by AciliusJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 26/07/2026euripides 100% cast whoever the 5th century BCE athenian equivalent of jared leto was as the lead in all his play. entire demos groaning at his shit 26210
Reposted by AciliusWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/07/2026academia is making plots and figures you care about but no one else does, industry is making ones that you don't care about but other people do 316015
Reposted by AciliusStephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 16/07/2026Yes, yes, they will, and then you'll write them all glowing tributes when they die. 0123
Reposted by AciliusStephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 16/07/2026I kind of think Black people have done a lot to help Black people historically. 41168
Reposted by AciliusJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 13/07/2026people tell me i'm a decent singer and i fundamentally don't believe them but maybe it's bc i've spent my life listening to recordings of ppl who are in the top 0.01% of human singing ability 1592
Reposted by AciliusParis Marx @parismarx.com · 08/07/2026librarians once again showing they’re heroes of the community 1454154
Reposted by AciliusNANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 08/07/2026WOIMSDAY THEY PAY ME IN WOIMS 242160
Reposted by AciliusKara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 04/07/2026see, you don't have to use AI to generate teaching graphics, you just have to stop caring about how bad it looks 4172
Reposted by Aciliuspixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Personally I think anyone who climbs the Empire State Building should be killed by biplanes, whether or not they’re a gorilla 372267258
Reposted by AciliusNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Not to keep repeating myself, but the problem with the Court is not merely that their decisions are bad, but that their entire self-conception of themselves as the Guardian Council of the USA, with sweeping and arbitrary power to maintain the mos maiorum, is utterly incompatible with a free society 241964430
Reposted by AciliusNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19/06/2026This is true, and I think also mostly in spite of himself. 1624016
Reposted by Aciliuspixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Happy 84th birthday to the fake Paul McCartney! 1839919
Reposted by AciliusKidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 07/06/2026static.klipy.comConfused Little Girl Meme ReactionALT: Confused Little Girl Meme Reaction 1134
Reposted by AciliusJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 25/05/2026people treat "due process" like it's a reward for being the right class of person which is simply wild to me 3888
Reposted by AciliusSandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Every AI article seems to include a sentence like: "The popularity of AI is soaring, with 2.5 billion people using [feature they can't turn off] monthly." 111521
Reposted by AciliusHoward Mittelmark @howardm.bsky.social · 17/05/2026The difference between how techgarchs talk about AI (godlike singularity bringing post-scarcity utopia or science-fiction apocalypse) and what it turned out to be (annoying, mediocre, inescapable, making life steadily worse) exactly parallels how they think of themselves and how they actually are. 19126
Reposted by AciliusNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Bluesky will never have the respect, influence, or cultural cachet of Twitter because the community was shaped specifically by people who were willing to admit that they were genuinely offended by Musk et al, and were willing to admit that they'd lost---all of which is incompatible with being cool. 3778
Reposted by AciliusRobert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 14/05/2026Andy Burnham will force Keir Starmer to quit as PM by standing in by-election after by-election until Labour loses its majority. 27878175
Acilius @acilius.bsky.social · 11/05/2026I've never taken any particular care to keep people from finding out who "Acilius" is, so it seemed ridiculous to ask Katherine to call me by anything other than my given name while I was on camera. 110
Reposted by AciliusNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Going to be fun when political science can quantify the electoral impact of having Moloch as your party's nominee (+2-3% in general elections, mildly negative turnout impact in midterms). 317622
Reposted by Aciliusmaybe: annie rauwerda @annierau.bsky.social · 06/05/2026love the amazon reviews for this brand of potato chips that used to only be sold in prison 211579324
Acilius @acilius.bsky.social · 06/05/2026This strip is so much like R. Crumb that it astonishes me the date isn't about 15 years off- surely he must have seen it when he was a kid. 000
Reposted by AciliusJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 02/05/2026like nobody is telling a pollster in fawning terms how much love and respect they have for the methodists, but also nobody is seething about john wesley's crimes and plotting to blow up the united methodist church of the resurrection in kansas city either 5572
Reposted by AciliusSandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Still hard to believe people voted for Nixon, a man who looked like he ate fingers and lived in a spittoon. 5498
Acilius @acilius.bsky.social · 22/04/2026In the 1980s, I read a book published in 1960. I was impressed by it then but disagree with it now. losthunderlads.com/2026/04/22/b...losthunderlads.comBlaming SynesiusDecades ago, I was browsing in a used book store. A title intrigued me: Christian Attitudes Toward War and Peace, by Roland H. Bainton. I’d just read a bunch of books by Augustine of Hippo, s… 000
Reposted by AciliusNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Love to live in a country where the respectable, reasonable statesman are even more bloodthirsty lunatics than the senile fascists we elected to replace them. 3847
Reposted by AciliusKidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 03/04/2026IDK, I think war is bad, but it's especially bad when we're the side double tapping aid workers, hitting schools, and threatening to destroy absolutely essential for civilians infrastructure. 2578
Reposted by AciliusJosh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 30/03/2026ah yes this is it! substack.com/home/post/p-... 225139
Reposted by AciliusKidzBoptotenlieder @theodramatist.com · 30/03/2026What comes through in these responses is the reminder that many purportedly leftish folks hate children, see them as subhuman, see parents as having made a kind of poor personal consumption lifestyle choice, and, importantly allow children to be the outlet for their latent anti disability thinking. 181
Reposted by AciliusJustin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Reading more about the dogs who broke away from kidnappers. The corgi was chosen as boss because he’s even-tempered. The big labs guarded the injured German Shepherd, & the little pomeranian, etc. were scouts. 1292661273
Acilius @acilius.bsky.social · 15/03/2026I don't think size is relevant. The tiniest of animals may require you to call a professional exterminator. But if the animal wants to leave, all you have to do is reopen the path by which it entered, call its attention to it, and out it goes. 001
Reposted by AciliusWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 10/03/2026it's weird that there's both "this will change everything and unemploy millions, wait why do you dislike it? that's so irrational." and "this doesn't work, it's also bullshit and hype. we also must kill it before it kills us all." camps as well. 1010316
Reposted by AciliusNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026This is the big irony; the best-case scenario for Trump is that the Islamic Republic survives, which lets everybody declare victory in three weeks and go home so the media can anoint him with a Triumph and make fancams of explosions. State collapse or civil war makes this impossible to end. 644665
Reposted by AciliusNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Sick, decadent country. 411818
Reposted by AciliusStephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 06/03/2026I wrote about Daylight Saving Time, which I dread. The past week, daylight has greeted me in the morning, but Monday, it’s once again “time to make the doughnuts.” open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...open.substack.comThe Daylight Saving Time Shell GameThis week’s writing 272
