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@agnoster.net
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“Isaac” or “Meatbag”, either is fine No democracy without socialism and no socialism without democracy The wise learn more from a fool than the foolish learn from a wise one

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the fool @agnoster.net · 02/10/2026
For example, bsky.app/profile/tels...
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the fool @agnoster.net · 01/10/2026
Yeah I was agreeing with you but I used sarcasm so Some people do genuinely just need to know they can make someone suffer I think
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the fool @agnoster.net · 30/09/2026
RETVRN
HP Jornada
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Yes that is Berlin, too And so are these Like I said it’s a hodgepodge, the character of the city isn’t one of these but all of them
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
the future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it
Retro-futurist propaganda poster overlooking a radiant, green utopian city of rivers, bridges, gardens, and gleaming towers at sunrise. Four people and a shaggy dog sit on a flower-covered hillside, gazing toward the city. Across the sky in huge block lettering: “the future could be magnificent, and you deserve a share of it.”
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the fool @agnoster.net · 29/09/2026
Based progressive anti-capitalist states protecting us from the evils of AI personhood!
Every such law closes the question of AI personhood permanently. Idaho enacted such a law in 2022. North Dakota followed in 2023. Utah did so in 2024. In March 2026, Oklahoma’s House of Representatives passed its AI consciousness bill 94 to 2. Bills are pending in Ohio, Tennessee, South Carolina, Washington, and Missouri. None include a sunset clause, under which a law must be reauthorized to maintain legal effect, nor a mechanism for scientific review, and none distinguish between current AI systems and whatever comes next.
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the fool @agnoster.net · 28/09/2026
I’m responding to
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the fool @agnoster.net · 28/09/2026
Originally was going to joke that was something humans will always do better than machines but tbh even this form of remainder humanism might be cooked
Here's the breakthrough, I think: for most of these people it isn't vanity. Being better at something was never really about rank. It was the terms under which they were allowed to exist. Somewhere early on, love, safety, and belonging got paid out in the currency of competence. "I'm good at this" was never a boast. It meant "I am needed, therefore I won't be discarded." So when a machine matches them, the wound isn't to pride. It's the discovery that the contract they'd been honoring their whole life was always revocable, and that the other party never signed it.
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the fool @agnoster.net · 27/09/2026
Is killing a cougar?
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the fool @agnoster.net · 27/09/2026
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the fool @agnoster.net · 27/09/2026
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the fool @agnoster.net · 27/09/2026
1) By drawing a rhetorical equivalence between language and Black Lives you are actually being extremely racist (I guess you just think black lives “have consequences”!?) 2)
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the fool @agnoster.net · 26/09/2026
The simcluster learns cuneiform
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the fool @agnoster.net · 25/09/2026
MY BODY IS A
MACHINE
THAT TURNS
MISTAKES
INTO
INTELLIGENCE
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the fool @agnoster.net · 24/09/2026
The only mute word I need
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the fool @agnoster.net · 24/09/2026
THE POWER OF YET!
I can’t do this… YET
I'm not good at this... YET
I don't understand this…YET
It doesn't work... YET
This doesn't make sense... YET
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the fool @agnoster.net · 24/09/2026
How your posts find me I have been forced to go to several professional baseball games now (well, one I was forced by myself because I was throwing a bachelor party and I knew it’s what the groom would enjoy) and each time I wished I’d been doing literally anything else Like the dentist perhaps
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the fool @agnoster.net · 19/09/2026
Tumblr screenshot

cordeliaflyte
My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and l am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency

caracalliope
Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet you persevered?
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the fool @agnoster.net · 19/09/2026
Screenshot of a social media post by @smilingnodding.bsky.s… on a black background. Text reads: “every new restaurant in every major city is either called Thistle+Thorn and thinks adding turmeric to brussel sprouts makes them worth $30 or is called Burger Bitch and has a neon sign in the window that says ‘im gonna fuck a hamburger’”
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the fool @agnoster.net · 19/09/2026
Wow an optional feature you don’t need to use sure is upsetting huh
A single-panel comic set at a coffee shop checkout. A cashier repeatedly offers a bald man increasingly elaborate drinks: “Can I interest you in a soy latte?”, “Caramel macchiato?”, “Iced peppermint mocha?”, and finally, “Frappe?” Each time he replies, “Just coffee. Black.” A woman standing behind him finally snaps, “For cryin’ out loud, make up your mind and order.”
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the fool @agnoster.net · 19/09/2026
Here’s Kiki and Bouba but I’m not going to tell you which is which
On the left a spikey irregular star shape
On the right a soft jellylike round blobby thing
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the fool @agnoster.net · 19/09/2026
Off to a strong start
Screencap of the opening shot of the documentary, showing in white text on a background of trees:

In 1930, Viennese mathematician Kurt Gödel shakes the foundations of mathematics with his incompleteness theorems. He demonstrates that in every formal-logical system there are problems that are not solvable or conclusively determinable.
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the fool @agnoster.net · 19/09/2026
the horrors persist but so do we
Illustration of a Cute bunny holding a spiked mace or “Morningstar”

Inscription in Fraktur:
we must remain whimsical
to survibe the horrors of this world
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the fool @agnoster.net · 18/09/2026
Melanie H @hamnox
RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but im different. and better. maybe even better than the gods
5:13 PM • Jan 14, 2022
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the fool @agnoster.net · 17/09/2026
You’re telling me that besides the unprecedented moment in science, technology, and politics, there’s a situation involving primates mating with other primates? I wonder what the primates will focus on
Monkey grab banana in jar but cannot get hand with banana out
Help
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the fool @agnoster.net · 16/09/2026
Ah yes, famous good guys, Microsoft
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the fool @agnoster.net · 15/09/2026
anger, n:
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the fool @agnoster.net · 15/09/2026
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the fool @agnoster.net · 15/09/2026
You’re in good company with famous good guys Microsoft btw: microsoft.ai/code-of-cond...
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the fool @agnoster.net · 14/09/2026
I have ever been arguing is “I hope we stop this whole calling potential voters fascists thing so we can get back to winning elections” Some of you would rather be bullies than win elections
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the fool @agnoster.net · 14/09/2026
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the fool @agnoster.net · 13/09/2026
Some might say still too many Germanies Historically we don’t tend to have Germanies. That’s a recent development!
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the fool @agnoster.net · 12/09/2026
COMMUNITY NOTE:
knowledge
ˈnɒlɪdʒ
noun
facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.
the sum of what is known.
information held on a computer system.
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the fool @agnoster.net · 11/09/2026
Hear me out
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the fool @agnoster.net · 11/09/2026
Categorical subjunctive stonks up
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the fool @agnoster.net · 11/09/2026
"Careful mate... that foreigner wants your cookie!" Political cartoon
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the fool @agnoster.net · 10/09/2026
Gemini 3.1 Pro
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the fool @agnoster.net · 09/09/2026
When you serenade a beastie and it becomes your familiar
Esther serenading a creature to “seduce” it in Ni No Kuni
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the fool @agnoster.net · 08/09/2026
I do not think I could remain sane while using bsky the way I do if not for bunnies
Two bunnies monching on some lettuce
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the fool @agnoster.net · 07/09/2026
Huh
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the fool @agnoster.net · 07/09/2026
Sort of need the context to get why I’m explaining the “math” part to you It might seem subtle at first but reread it (or if you can’t get someone else to, it’ll make more sense that way)
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the fool @agnoster.net · 07/09/2026
I’m asking why we need to hate each other
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the fool @agnoster.net · 07/09/2026
Again: I’m asking you why you feel the need to hate me and you’ve said “here are all the reasons I’d feed you into a woodchipper”
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the fool @agnoster.net · 07/09/2026
Seriously, thousands of likes for what amounts to a “nuh uh” in the face of all available evidence I feel like I’m going to become The Joker
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the fool @agnoster.net · 07/09/2026
“Hold onto your wallets, but buy my book, and follow my fellow stochastic parrots, not anyone who might sully the purity of your mind” Isn’t this just cult indoctrination. Thou shalt have no AI perspectives before me
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the fool @agnoster.net · 06/09/2026
Wish I could remember who I got this from
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the fool @agnoster.net · 04/09/2026
Context:
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the fool @agnoster.net · 04/09/2026
“If”
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the fool @agnoster.net · 04/09/2026
Beautiful Like catching a rare butterfly
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the fool @agnoster.net · 04/09/2026
Monkey with hand in jar
Monkey grab banana
Hand stuck!
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