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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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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 2h
In the basement with all my cats?
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 2h
Anyway, I'm logging off. Fuck this website in particular.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 2h
I would really like to go the rest of my life without listening to someone justify, rationalize, or sympathize with terrorist attacks on innocent people whether those attacks come from Americans, Israelis, Hamas, Catholics, Protestants, or the most marginalized person ever.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 2h
Ok, but I bet I could train an AI to write JCO tweets. Honestly, I bet I could program a bot to do that WITHOUT AI. But I'm not going to do either one because I have ethics (and no spare time.)
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 4h
JCO is bad at research. The last thing I read by her was a short story which was supposed to be about the banality of love in which a mastiff, full of energy at the start of a three hour walk, had enough verve at the end to maul one of the characters.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 2h
I think "walk her to her bus stop," was the suggestion, but obviously that's not going to solve anything, so I just drove her home. "Get T.C. to walk with you. He looks like a concealed carry type of guy," was the actual suggestion. Even if I were, it would not have been legal on campus.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 2h
The other thing I've been thinking about lately is that when I was in grad school, a student in my colleague's class became inappropriately fixated on her. The university did nothing about it. The department's solution was that I should drive her home every day for the rest of the semester.
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KK @kk-maker.bsky.social · 6h
The undercurrent of "I am the correct sort of person to feel sorry for," is vile.
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Sarah @sosomanysarahs.bsky.social · 6h
If we must have articles about tradwives finding that patriarchal white men don't make good allies, I wish they'd highlight (preferably in the headline) that these same women are viciously racist and homophobic and for the most part do not renounce those views, let alone try to make amends for them.
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Ned Pyle @nedpyle.com · 10h
Is it a sign of a good economy when people in the clothing industry decide you need to buy 3x as many clothes from them as usual
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Keith Naas @knaas.bsky.social · 9h
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 · 23h
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...
vox.com
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 · 12h
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 · 12h
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 · 17h
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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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 11h
When my mom needed to see a neurologist for something that was not an emergency but also could not wait months we were straight up told by every provider. "You will just need to go to the ER. No one will have appointments available this year and you can't wait that long."
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 11h
I always see "you'll wait months" and I really wonder who it is that is not already waiting months. I live in a major city with 2 large hospital systems and pretty much any time I need to see a specialist it's "The next available appointment is in 13 months. I can put you on the cancellation list"
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joeflower.bsky.social @joeflower.bsky.social · 12h
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 · 12h
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 · 12h
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 · 12h
My brother: Here, mom, I got you this cool new album that's like- My mom: *not listening* *putting ✨Rumours✨ back on the turn table.*
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 12h
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 · 12h
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 · 12h
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 · 29/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
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 · 29/09/2026
everything is just so goddamn stupid, all the time
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Zeb Larson @zeblarson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
I'm really tired of living like this.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
If it's nice out, the kids stop at the park after school and play with their friends and we just ... eat dinner later. Or maybe there is a baseball game and we eat dinner early. Our schedule is extremely variable and I highly doubt the AI could make sense of it.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
My schedule was actually a lot more regimented and strict when I had to drive to work every day and had no kids than it is now that I WFH with kids in school and sports and music. "Have to leave at 7:15 or my 30 minute commute takes 70 minutes" vs "Let's walk back home for your library book"
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
Even for us, our schedule is extremely nebulous. We walk to school so we don't even have alarms set. We get up when we get up. The kids have after school activities, but they vary day to day week to week. This week soccer is cancelled and the piano teacher is on vacation but we have orthodontist
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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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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
I think about this stuff a lot as a person in a "mixed" marriage who grew up in community with different kinds of people and with immigrant grandparents. There are so many "normal" things that different subcultures do differently even within the same 50 miles.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
And then you find yourself confronted with homes like mine where I prefer people keep their shoes on in the semi-public tiled sections of my home but remove them before going upstairs where we have the hard-to-clean carpet. I have found a solution to upset everyone and what they know.
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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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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
Kipnis Cleveland Baseball #  22 jersey reading "Dirtbag"
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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
When we had our first apartment we had Time Warner Cable installed and they came out and installed it and then the next day they installed cable for the townhouse next door and that guy decided our cable was in his way and just ... cut it.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
Note: I dunno who this guy is or even what site this is from. I didn't make the screencap.
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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
I'm just really depressed that it's all like this. And that all of my friends have experienced it in one way or another. And even knowing all the terrible things that have happened to me and my friends, I couldn't conceive of how Dark it is. And that some day my kids will get to experience it.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
I must be the wrong kind of Cringe Millennial. No judgment. I'm not saying it's cringe or insufficiently sophisticated or something. God knows I'm not sophisticated. But I do not 'get' it lol.
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T.C. Aurelius @aurelius.quest · 29/09/2026
I'm not going to tell the story because no one needs to hear it. I'm not sure what I could have done, but I didn't even try because I thought it was a guy with an alcohol problem trying to make an inappropriate joke as cover for it. Actually felt bad for him. Now I just feel bad.
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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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