Reposted by Soil SymbiontIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 14480491973
Reposted by Soil SymbiontSnowden St. @snowden.st · 29/09/2026saw this 1936 photo from Walker Evans over the weekend, absolutely love it. “Honest Weights, Square Dealings” is such a premium profile bio, free to a good home. 2234
Soil Symbiont @boleteful.bsky.social · 28/09/2026J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter also has roots in muscular christianity. 000
Reposted by Soil SymbiontGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 24/09/2026Porco Rosso mural, Mexico City 32671513
Reposted by Soil SymbiontWill Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Daily bunny no.3453 is looking back 163998945
Reposted by Soil SymbiontPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Social media is full of people who seem to like almost nothing. 1022825
Reposted by Soil SymbiontCats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Those eyes. 🥹 Photo from my collection, no date/info. 152395144
Reposted by Soil SymbiontDan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026My favourite is that "average" comes from an Arabic word meaning "lost goods", and had been used by sailors to describe the practice of fairly sharing storm losses for ages before mathematicians thought that's a useful calculation 35816
Reposted by Soil Symbiontjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 14/09/2026why don't the dems just support trans rights and vote-shame the centrists? they'll probably change their minds more easily 462619289
Reposted by Soil Symbiontcait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 17/09/2026NEW CAT JUST DROPPED!!!!! 483019666
Soil Symbiont @boleteful.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I think I'm broadly aligned with Lorenz w/r/t to social media bans, but the argumentation in the clip is pretty flimsy. I used to be a pretty compulsive news consumer and had to tone it down; I did become less well informed as a result sonthe change had pros and cons. 010
Reposted by Soil SymbiontOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026at this point: carbon removal is, at best, essentially a research project. renewable expansion is a policy project 452658536
Reposted by Soil SymbiontPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/09/2026We're going to have a better understanding of the 19th century than of the 21st century. I don't think people are fully appreciating this. 271948691
Soil Symbiont @boleteful.bsky.social · 02/09/2026I propose a compromise: first we come up with a rigorous culinary definition of fruit, and then we come up with a convoluted scheme to split inherent and relational aspects of planets into different concepts and call their disjunction "classical planet", making everyone furious. 000
Reposted by Soil SymbiontKatie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 06/03/2026the bluesky experience: 3341841238
Reposted by Soil SymbiontBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 31/08/2026Some friends are teaching their baby ASL as an early bridge to speech and they made the mistake of teaching her “want” as a concept. Now she wanders around the house signing “want” all the time as an expression of unfocused desire. They fucked up and made the baby invent the opposite of Buddhism. 3470511066
Reposted by Soil SymbiontMysterious Z (DATE OF BIRTH AUGUST 2ND) @mysteriousz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026ORSON WELLES GIVES YOU A RAINBOW 2118
Soil Symbiont @boleteful.bsky.social · 29/08/2026newsocialist.org.uk/red-apes/newsocialist.org.ukRed Apesby Justin Davis // Histories of colonialism and extraction, told through their impacts on orangutans—and stories of red ape resistance. 010
Reposted by Soil SymbiontRachel Leggett @rleggos.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I got the shot. I've been scheming and hoping the conditions would work out for this for two weeks!! 🪶 17086871984
Reposted by Soil SymbiontGraeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tim Curry should also be remembered for featuring in the best between takes photo of an actor in recorded history. 50107402684
Reposted by Soil SymbiontKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Current state of things: there's crop art of Signal at the Minnesota State Fair www.cropart.com 171783335
Reposted by Soil Symbiontve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 27/08/2026A little disappointed how much assessment of technofascism is based mainly on “Worst People analysis” and not social, structural, material, informatic or similar drivers and triggers. 42812
Reposted by Soil SymbiontToss @stevenspoints.bsky.social · 26/08/2026I really cannot think of a greater honor than to have the Muppets say this about you upon your passing 2295269412871
Soil Symbiont @boleteful.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Shit like Saudi Arabia taking over geek media is just what the rest of the 21st century is going to be like. 000
Reposted by Soil Symbiontsmall general strike @spice.bsky.social · 05/02/2025losing my mind at this Rick Steves clip 7926233
Reposted by Soil SymbiontOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026there are at least two kinds of podcasts: one that is meant to simulate getting a chance to have an in-depth conversation with an expert on something and another meant to simulate the experience of having witty, interesting friends. I have an irrational hatred for ones that try to split the middle 2871746
Reposted by Soil Symbiontlittle lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 07/05/2026My mom used to give me skill points and say these are for empathy, please only use them for empathy only and not something weird ok and then as soon as she would turn around I would put them into tracking and woodland lore 329147
Reposted by Soil SymbiontJon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 23/08/2026i've been working in sports media for quite a long time now, but i'll be honest, i've never bothered to learn the names of any of the players in any sport. i have no idea who the hell any of these people are. i just look at the ball 591786114
Reposted by Soil SymbiontLuce Northstar 🔞 @lucezozzerie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026tumblr is having a great one about this, little masterpiece of a post I'd say 14113564508
Reposted by Soil SymbiontOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026if you tell me "A is a bully on social media(/in print, in whatever specific scenario) but very pleasant elsewhere" you are roughly 50x likelier to convince me that they have the additional vice of cowardice than you are to convince me that they have a hidden virtue of kindness 704050811
Reposted by Soil SymbiontSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Every Time We Complain About How Much Water Almonds Use, A Dairy Baron Gets His Wings 732148
Reposted by Soil Symbiontevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/08/2026I have stopped throwing parties and started just baking a cake and then telling my friends they should come over and help me eat this cake. 2137522
Reposted by Soil SymbiontNPR @npr.org · 17/08/2026Sunflower sea stars are critically endangered in the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington researchers are working with the Samish Indian Nation to bring this 24-armed creature back from the brink of extinction.n.prA pizza-sized ocean predator and a tribe are trying to protect each other. Here's howSunflower sea stars are critically endangered in the Pacific Ocean. University of Washington researchers are working with the Samish Indian Nation to bring this 24-armed creature back from the brink of extinction. 10512133
Reposted by Soil SymbiontBoxo McFoxo @boxobark.ing · 18/08/2026Thinking about how the infrastructure of "AI" turns ordinary things into monstrous things. The ordinary document scanner that is now a book masticator, its rollers ripping pages in two. It cannot stop for a jam signal. It is imagined to be ordinary, because the monstrosity is absurd. 1468
Reposted by Soil SymbiontJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 17/08/2026My whole childless life I’ve been told when you become a parent your heart opens up to a new special magical kind of love, apparently a love so strong it will let children die of entirely preventable illnesses. 421749440
Soil Symbiont @boleteful.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Good piece on what DeviantArt used to mean to public, but also the lack of imagination that has taken hold over people about online spaces. torrent-empress.leaflet.pub/3m37b3rvq4c22torrent-empress.leaflet.pubThe Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the InternetWhy every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning. 010
Reposted by Soil SymbiontNate O @nateo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Missed Stock saying autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia are ‘intellectual disabilities’ (???) making people ‘unsuited’ for academia. Okay, what. But did she ever talk to any of her colleagues, or did she sprint to her car after her lectures on how we know what a text means by asking the author? 3946696
Reposted by Soil Symbiontworms cited @christa.bsky.social · 16/08/2026New from Kathleen Stock: I am too dumb for climate change 931556198
Reposted by Soil SymbiontZachary Reese @zreese.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I was an unofficial artist-in-residence at the phila zoo when I was unemployed ~2010-2011. Smoked weed every day and just watched the orangutans from a lawn chair while I doodled in a notebook. It was incredible. 01363
Reposted by Soil SymbiontBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Getting all my political talking points from the comments of the pro wrestling subreddit from now on. 71103111856
Reposted by Soil SymbiontMicroplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 15/08/2026 3576571675
Reposted by Soil Symbiontryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13/08/2026given the coverage coming out of the New York Times political desk over the last 2 years, I do not find that suprising! quite the contrary! 242165196
Reposted by Soil Symbiont🎃 Mr Too Damn Boo-no 👻 @bergoesbueno.bsky.social · 11/08/2026“charlie brown had homes.” no he didn’t. that isn’t true. 393477450
Reposted by Soil Symbiontmerr-itt came from outer space @merrittk.com · 09/08/2026in case you missed it: i wrote about the arc of brianna wu's career and the structure of the modern internet which made it possible 619021
Reposted by Soil SymbiontAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/08/2026It is imo a regulatory failure that electronic kids toys are not all required to have a clear physical off switch and volume control 2311
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The purpose of a system is what it does (POSIWID) is a heuristic in systems thinking coined by the British management consultant Stafford Beer,[1] who stated that there is "no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do".[2] It is used in systems theory, and is generally invoked to counter the notion that the purpose of a system can or should be read from the intentions of those who design, operate, or promote it. When a system's side effects or unintended consequences reveal that its behaviour is poorly understood, then the POSIWID perspective can balance political understandings of system behaviour with a more straightforwardly descriptive view.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xa4eltdd2z3scndtv4yvb65p/bafkreiem4i55e3gqp6endhcbz2voh2vgqd4y5xdo7bd5qgkrvnz745riby)
