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T.C. Aurelius

@aurelius.quest
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Failed academic, software developer, cat person, parent of children, maker of pizza, pro-library partisan, Guardians enthusiast, skeptic of your philosophical system

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Keith Naas @knaas.bsky.social · 1h
I missed this down the thread yesterday. It is another brilliant observation. In spite of the last 18-24 months of people having personal experiences as their own evidence, many don’t want to admit it.
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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 14h
Remember when Kara Swisher led a PR repair campaign for Davis Sacks after he claimed date rape was just belated regret? No idea why I was thinking of that today… no idea… www.vox.com/2016/10/24/1...
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Zenefits CEO David Sacks apologizes for parts of a 1996 book he co-wrote with Peter Thiel that called date rape ‘belated regret’
It also took sharp aim at multiculturalism at Stanford University.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 3h
art appreciation 🖼️
A small black rabbit stands on his hind feet on top of pillows on a bed to try to look at a painting on the wall 
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 3h
I think I die in historian and product of history. everything becomes about the “new”, the “innovation” , relevancy Meanwhile ? project 2025. How we defend racists and rapists . The ENTIRE PLAN OF THE FASCISTS Is an appeal to a false history
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 8h
Fantastic bookshop find: a Latin textbook in Welsh, complete with glossary and a guide to spotting Latin borrowings in the modern language.
Cover of Llyfr Dysgu Lladin — Latin TextbookExplanations of Latin grammar in Welsh. Examples include Insula Mōna - Ynys Môn and Urbs Dēva - Dinas CaerA classic Latin glossary with principal parts and everything, but the translations are into WelshTable showing the outcomes of various Latin consonants in Modern Welsh, with examples
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joeflower.bsky.social @joeflower.bsky.social · 4h
Sounds very real. The US healthcare system is not merely in disarray, it is actively and purposely stacked against the actual user of healthcare. Seriously. I have been to these conferences, I've been in these boardrooms. They actively scheme how to better deny and delay providing care.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 4h
Me: so if I need to, idk, go to work in the next 9mos, how am I supposed to do that? US healthcare system: sounds like a non-covered expense! But do let us know immediately if you lose your job due to your disability-- Me: --so you can help? USHCS: HAHAHA! No. So we can cancel your care.
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 3h
I started reading it and didn't finish. It's fine! Though it might be the greatest example of why we need to do away with the cartoon-style covers; the cover looks like it's marketed to teens, but the book itself is absolute *filth.*
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 3h
I don't think that the "recording industry is dead, AI music is good" people realize that most of the music people over ~28 listen to is old music that is familiar. Most of the new music I listen to is interesting covers of older songs. And good luck getting my parents to listen to something new.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 3h
And here is where I pause to point out that I'm a staff engineer at a giant company where I have the flexibility to work from home as needed and take time off for appointments This is what health care in this country looks like for folks BEST able to afford and navigate it.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 4h
US healthcare system: iN oThER cOuNtRieS YoU'lL wAiT mOnTHs fOr aN aPpOiNtMeNt! Also US healthcare system: Wheelchair order will take 4mos. Me: cool so if I started the process on 8/24-- US HC system: --no that's 4 months AFTER your specialist appt. That takes 6 weeks to schedule for 3-4 mos out.
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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 19h
If you optimize away all the slack in your business, everything can fall apart when one thing changes. This doesn't matter to hedge fund run companies, who might be planning on filing for bankruptcy anyway and don't care about the misery of workers and customers. But it's no way to run your life!
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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 19h
I've been thinking about the idea that people should optimize their entire lives. I hate that it makes life sound like a business, but I hate even more that it makes life sound like a badly run business. Remember how the early covid shutdowns exposed the flaws of just-in-time business models?
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 19h
everything is just so goddamn stupid, all the time
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 23h
Is anybody able and willing to help me nab a copy of this book? My normal tricks aren't working. www.jstor.org/stable/10.51...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
This is why I am walking miles for the Young Center this month against my husband. Because babies should never, ever have to face this kind of thing.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
Sometimes a romance novel is a girl, a boy, and someone who loves you for your megalodon facts. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0... Apple: books.apple.com/us/b... Nook: www.barnesandnoble.c... Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/e... #HistoricalRomance #Romance #HEA #WorthSaga
Book cover of The Devil Comes Courting by Courtney Milan, featuring a Chinese woman in a red dress with the ocean and an island in the background."Her head was full of answers, every one of them completely wrong." The Devil Comes Courting. CourtneyMilan.com
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
This kind of thing makes me want to drive even less than I do.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 29/09/2026
Ours is a world where "of course you show up if the neighbor is hosting a wake even if you never met the deceased" people live right next to "no you don't barge in on someone's grief" people and where both would feel certain that theirs was the respectful and appropriate choice
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Meredith Rose @mrose.ink · 29/09/2026
So, fun fact: ever since 1994, and Newt Gingrich's "Contract with America" campaign stunt, Congress has had a SERIOUS problem with subject-matter expertise and institutional memory. It's why Congress has such a deep and complicated relationship with lobbyists. 1/
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I assigned the chapter "A Physiology of Consumption," from @haushoferl.bsky.social book Wonder Foods and the students LOVED it. So much conversation! @ucpress.bsky.social @https://www.ucpress.edu/books/wonder-foods/paper
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Wonder Foods by Lisa Haushofer - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He’s clearly trying to show that democratic socialism can be a coherent working ideology for governing rather than it just being a reading club.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
Maybe I'm the minority, but I would 100% take the last 10 years of Cleveland baseball over this.
Screencap of a Twitter Tweet or maybe it's Threads, I dunno I'm not on either one.

Dean
@PrimeTimeDean

last ten years of rangers baseball

miss the playoffs
miss the playoffs
miss the playoffs
miss the playoffs
miss the playoffs
miss the playoffs
won the world series
miss the playoffs
miss the playoffs
miss the playoffs
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
This Cornell story has me fixated on something from years and years ago where I was one of the people who didn't do anything (except words like "that's not funny") because I was naive enough to not understand That Guy was serious.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
That being said, I really hope this is the last lesson people'll need to to stop purchasing or at all trusting meta's or other "AI" companies' products. bsky.app/profile/wolv...
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
If I’m reading this right, Anthropic has no choice but to IPO now because it doesn’t have the money to cover its computing / infrastructure obligations next year
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/09/2026
I wrote a script that does this (pick from X options, make sure I have Y balance so I’m eating fish at the approved level etc, generate grocery list I can paste into my shopping list app) and (a) it took little time and no AI and (b) I’m not making someone else’s recipes.
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Professor Nutella @jpnudell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wanted to see what the talking points were with Meta Muse, and, "Consumers who gave the AI access to banking and credit card statements found it to be a great budgeting coach, leading them to cancel unnecessary subscriptions." Oh. www.cnbc.com/2026/09/27/m...
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Meta's Muse agent is attacking one of the economy's most profitable weak spots
Meta's Muse AI personal agent will work over your credit card spending if you don't mind the invasion. How big a threat is it to the subscription economy?
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 28/09/2026
Phantom Menace. Because I like to cause problems.
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Research frustrations: These are two different licensed women physicians going under the same alias, basically fighting over the name, to provide abortion care in Portland. I know their real names, but this has been *DIFFICULT* to figure out. And why AI cannot do what I do.
Two different advertisements, one for the Dr. Mary Ln., Institute and the other for Dr. Mary Lane.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
Dogs do not need substantially different things than humans, and if you are training your dog correctly you will probably look at our society and whisper “what the fuck!”
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 28/09/2026
This is why I am completely unable to train the dog not to freak out at the doorbell.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 28/09/2026
Our previous dog only survived the shelter because Spouse happened to work there. 50lbs all black husky mix spent all day barking throwing herself at the bars of her cage one section at a time like a velociraptor. Let her out of the cage and she spends all day sleeping with her head on your lap.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
As an affirmed dog lover, I have a few things to say. (1) Dogs are harder than people admit. They take a lot of work. They need constant exercise and mental stimulation, especially those with working dog heritage of any kind. Dogs are hard.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We have been elevated to turkey caretakers.
Two large white domestic tom turkeys in my driveway
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lol
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 28/09/2026
“why don’t they just build the whole plane out of old clock radios?”
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
Do not tell me about "lost generations" when I can see how easily I could have been lost, and know that so many others just simply didn't have my luck, and ARE lost, because of what they didn't have.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 28/09/2026
Literally this, so much, forever, in so many ways that are hard to articulate and reach facets of life I never imagined.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 28/09/2026
My personal peeve is games that are like "ho ho! We will FORCE you to accept failure by not letting you save and reload! Now you MUST experience our artisanal failure state!" And then it's just "things are Worse because you failed, sucks to suck" and there's not anything interesting about it
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Julie - TrexPushups @trexpushups.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
please share and donate if you can.
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Annalee @flowerhorne.com · 28/09/2026
🧵. There are a few games that do interesting things with owning your mistakes. But most games actually do not *expect* you to do that. The failure state exists only to make success feel valuable. They don't actually expect anyone to settle for failing.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.
The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on ­ post-
­ traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a ­ moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
So much of schools "responding to rape" is preventing the legal system from doing so. This is a report on seven adults who committed serious felonies for which there is a legal system to remind them and their pals that they are felonies.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 28/09/2026
Milhouse.
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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I do listen to country. I've heard Choosin' Texas a couple of times. It's mid. Whatever. The wonderful thing about being over 30 is that you are no longer obliged to give a fuck the "song of the summer." Don't dismiss country wholesale, but don't feel like you have to like everything the kids do.
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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 27/09/2026
I was both a government major and premed in college, seemed like a lot of complementary and overlapping benefits for me and fwiw I enjoyed it
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 27/09/2026
My mom: *drumming on the table hard enough to shake my teacup* Me: Stop. Stop. You're shaking the table. Mom: I can't help it! 🎶Baby, I was born this way🎶 T2: *nodding* Because of ADHD, right?
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 27/09/2026
I had to explain to my mom this morning why her dad listened to baseball on the radio. "Was it because we were in Youngstown, it just wasn't on TV, like it was blacked out like football?" Most games were not on TV anywhere. "What? What do you mean???"
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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 27/09/2026
“am i missing something here?” when you’re missing fucking everything
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