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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 4h

Gender Queer has only been out for 7 of the last 35 years, yet it is number one on this list.

Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 9h

I made my students a guide to voting for every single New England state for whatever their desires—mail, early, in-person, changing their residency, etc—and I got a bunch of “why are u saying this now” blank stares. Bc the deadlines are approaching, kids!!! Get your asses in gear!!!

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 9h

If you’re voting by mail, do it soon!

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 10h

Technically everything is circle, even triangles

the first proof in euclid's elements, wherein you can create an equilateral triangle via a straight edge a compass (aka, drawing a couple circles)

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 11h

ahhhhh. yeah san jose's are. fine. not exciting, not hideous

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 11h

Detroit only good looking one seems like we used up all the good jersey colors in the first 8 teams?? i'm so sorry vegas

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 14h

remember this is the party that banned Plato's "Symposium" from the college curriculum

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 14h

Sighs, rubs forehead, cries quietly in ancient philosophy professor listen there's a lot of things that are bad about fascism but the moronic obsession with yet deep misunderstanding of classical antiquity... well, it's an ANNOYING one, for sure

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 22h

'A Dull afternoon' (1973) Edward Gorey

three ladies outdoors amid trees and grass playing an inscrutable game with a human skull

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 15h

"you like the taste of vanilla chai" indeed, again, that was ON MY SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE list for years. ???? and it still thought I had a dog when dude died 2 years ago and I haven't bought doggie stuff since. not... not impressive!!

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 15h

Honestly the most shocking thing was the OMISSIONS like no mention that I was a crystal light/caffeine addict when I had strawberry caffeinated crystal light on my subscribe and save for literally a decade??? no guess that I'm a philosophy professor given my book buying history? these are LAY-UPS

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 15h

Saw someone like "OH MY GOSH AMAZON KNOWS YOU" after looking at the "About You" page but my "About You" page was literally "you regularly buy hair care" yes shampoo was on my subscribe and save list "you might have a cat" indeed his water fountain refills were on subscribe and save

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 16h

What's fun is, these students haven't done Utilitarianism or Deontology yet BUT after an initial default to "the numbers" they started to hone in on "well that guy was gonna die anyway, this guy wasn't!!" difference-maker between the scenarios. Good job, kiddos. You'll do great next semester

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 16h

we're not even DOING doctrine of double effect yet--that's next semester--but we had watched a movie Styx where a woman is on a single-person sailboat and comes across a bout of 300 people in distress and all the moral questions that gets to etc etc

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 16h

Yesterday I got a whole class of 18 year olds shouting at me just by doing the "split the drugs 5 ways/harvest organs split 5 ways" trolley problem scenarios and it was incredibly gratifying to have students actually engaged and mad about those old-hat scenarios

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Cheesus as if we haven’t destroyed West Virginia enough

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center

A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We theoretically have a guy we’re working with but he uhhhhh doesn’t seem to understand what our priorities are, there’s been a lot of… talking past each other. So I’ll keep this in mind 😅😅

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Last night my wife told me “I bought apple cider” Me “oh, which brand? Downeast? Carlson?” “No, apple cider.” Me “Apple cider… vinegar?” Her “REGULAR. NON ALCOHOLIC. APPLE CIDER.”

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Dexerto @dexerto.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Amazon users are discovering a bizarre "About You" page that reveals what the company thinks it knows about them One woman found Amazon had determined she "has flat buttocks"

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I fucking hate our bathroom in our new place, and the bathroom in my old place was incredible. but of course a full bathroom remodel is a pipe dream (heh) so it's just something to suffer through. I need that fucking handle replaced tho bc cheesus

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So our shower cannot get more than tepid because of some broken handle situation, and I swear it's going to make me lose the New England war against turning the heat on the earliest I've ever lost it

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

yeah like i'm not here to make fun of her body/face but the...... choices....... she made with clothing shapewear hair and makeup. like..... gurl what is happening

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

cheesus what is happening with this woman. i know it's october but gurl

a woman in a red dress next to trump. she is very skinny, emphasized by some kind of extreme corsetting shapewear situation happening under her red dress. Her hair is down in an overdone blow-out and frosted bangs; her makeup is incredibly heavy. Black eyebrows, black eyeliner all the way around, dark smokey eyeshadow, dark brown/red lips, insane contouring on her cheeks--which are already sunken looking, she has a very thin face with very sharp jaw and cheekbones. the makeup is really emphasizing her gaunt appearance. and the shoulder pads. those are also not helping.

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've seen enough. We must return to physical research. Burn down the online. It's over. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Br7...

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Charity Nye Doesn't Exist

YouTube video by STRANGE ÆONS

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did this even tho I have a teaching evaluation today lamooo I'm a fool

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"expectations rise for companies to keep making money" line go up. LINE GO UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Over the weekend I was on a panel about AI in books and I said that publishers have always been so careful about fair use -- you can use maybe a line or two from a song but never any more -- and then the tech bros were like, we are entitled to all books. They belong to us now. Fuck you.

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just put together a voting guide for all my students dependent on what state they're from and where they want to vote. Looked up how to register to vote in all their home states, what early/absentee voting options are available to them, any deadlines in play, and how to register at their new address

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"this thread is a year old" well this problem still exists a year later so.... gosh damn i've read helpful stuff from forum threads 13 years old lolol

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lmao I posted on an computer problems forum replying to a thread like "oh so i had this same problem and fixed it this way" and a mod came in to tell me it was a year-old thread Bro. i know. that's the great thing about forum solution threads: there always there when you need them.

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Rob Secundus @robertsecundus.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why won't the pope even consider the possibility that AI chatbots are conscious/ensouled? Well, that's simply not possible under a Catholic understanding of "the soul." Today on Fragments, a brief explainer of this situation. Link in replies.

why does the pope think that AI Can't be Ensouled/ Conscious? Followed by the infamous exchange between Pope Leo and "Spectromachina" wherein "Spectro" declares "pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an AI influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to swap public opinion. how many local models do you run?"

People are mad at the pope. People were mad at the pope, previously, when he released his encyclical on AI. People are mad at him now, again,2 as he tweets about AI, and as reporting reveals that Anthropic tried really really hard to get him to say that AI was/ could in the future be alive/conscious/sentient/ensouled.

What follows is a brief explanation for why that’s not going to happen.

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On WBMX 104.1 outta Boston today “Loser” by beck was playing on the drive home, something I can only assume @josie.zone arranged to promote @beckbook.com . Well done, ma’am

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

gosh damn "without googling them" in response to idi amin just fucking incredible

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Where's that life extension billionaire freak i just wanna shove some epictetus down his throat

14. If you make it your will that your children and 'our wife and your
friends should live for ever, you are silly; for you are making it your will
that things not under your control should be under your control, and that
what is not your own should be your own. In the same way, too, if you

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

i know analogies got taken OFF the SATs sometime shortly after i took them, so that's why i'm like, shit, do kids even do analogies anymore?? lol

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this wasn't on the SATs for you? when'd you take them? bc it was on the SATs in like 02/03

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

do the kids still learn the x:y :: w:z analogy form? Is that super outdated?

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

yeah but even the ones that aren't that, like the current Cornell 7, are still happening in fucking october. like....????? leave me alone damn let me enjoy the season

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it's funny i never thought about it but this shit is constantly hitting in october (grab 'em by the pussy as well) and: man i'm sick of having to deal w this shit while grading midterms

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

YEAHHHHHHH i've done a couple designs on converses but... UGH. also why i don't do a lot of embroidery on jeans, esp around the waistband

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

(so not EXACTLY the same thing but goodness knows there's art of it out there)

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

it was the craig x tweak episode. apparently it happened bc there was so much kawaiification ship art of those two online, hence all the ship art in the episode (although i think because of crediting etc matt and trey had to ask the fanartists for all fresh art for the episode)

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

genderbend/force feminization of a gay slash couple into a het couple + anime style is a truly ancient art, this shit was happening on 4chan back in the aughts, this is why south park was able to do an entire episode about it, this is "nothing new under the sun" in the extreme

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Adam P Knave @adampknave.com · 06/10/2026

HAHAHAHHAHAHA "On Monday, Williams took to her Instagram Stories, posting a screenshot of DHS’ statement alongside her own suggestion: “And may I suggest all Nazi bitches suck on my fat dick.”"

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Hayley Williams Responds to DHS' Suggestion to Thank Officers After ICE Comments: 'Nazi Bitches'

Hayley Williams has drawn the ire of President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security.

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Mad Dr. A-boo-ly (she/he) @amuly.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Me and mom texting each other’s phones in focus mode back and forth untilo our Siri gain sentience and start having conversations for us

Me: Oof it's actually chilly out today! You took all the warm with you

Mom:
I'm driving with Focus turned on. I'll see your message when I get where I'm going.

Mom:
Yes, we did. This weekend was 86/88.

Me:
I'm driving with Focus turned on. 'll see your message when I get where
I'm going.

- Mom has notifications silenced

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