Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 23/12/2024I have a theory about games: they’re for children. Checkmate 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 22/12/2024Lina Khan must be bad if even her critics are saying bad things about her 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Because there is no Mrs Columbo (Obvs the show exists, I just mean in the Columbo Universe he is not married) 010
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024I don’t buy this “trump voters don’t know what they voted for and will be upset when they find out” stuff. They know. They like it. And when it makes their life worse they’ll blame another scapegoat I do understand the need to pretend that such a large number of one’s compatriots aren’t evil 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Too bad feckless loser trump couldn’t stop the establishment last time. Got a good feeling about this time tho 🤞 010
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024Almost as if no one could be that dumb and Peters had a different motive for writing this… 010
Reposted by Cercopithylittle lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Cook 3 shallots and 2 serranos until soft then put in curry paste ginger and lemongrass and let that sweat a few minutes before dumping in stock and fish sauce and letting that simmer for an hour before adding lime juice, coconut milk mushrooms and a protein of your choice and call me in the morning 61369
Reposted by Cercopithygita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I think if you’re a young person (or an older person frankly) considering some kind of creative project, the state of the world is more or less “fuck it we ball” like, you might as well 313049897
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I like dogs better than people, so I’m biased, but people who hurt dogs should have their eyes gouged out of their skull. I’ll forgive MV the instant that happens Another data point for why it’s good that I’m not in charge 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Op Ed: Maybe homeless people shouldn’t be murdered? Bias meter: far left/Stalinist 010
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Hideki Ishima has a life-changing guitar solo halfway through Flower Travellin’ Band’s Look at my Windows 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024He’s so dumb I wanna argue with him so bad…… but more prudent to block I guess. Life’s too short &c 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024At the very least you’re owed an apology, maybe even money 010
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024This is what you sound like right now 😤media.tenor.coma blue light is shining through a dark blue background with a lot of bubbles in the water .ALT: a blue light is shining through a dark blue background with a lot of bubbles in the water . 010
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Guess after all this time I still have some bitterness lol 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024“Society can’t function without these workers, they’re essential!” “No, not like that” 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024You know, something that might’ve paved the way for glorified predictive text to be called ‘artificial intelligence’ was so many insecure scholars calling their linear regressions ‘machine learning’ 100
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024America is a cruel place that produces a lot of cruel people and it’s hard not to be pessimistic about it 010
Reposted by CercopithyRob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Americans keep being surprised by this but it is a pretty standard combination of beliefs among European radical right politicians, there's even a whole literature on "welfare chauvinism", a term coined to explain the appeal of the radical right in Nordic countries 29639146
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Alright, the scolds were right. Now I care that the CEO of the suffering factory was killed 010
Reposted by Cercopithyberserk @worstplace.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Nobody - not one person - is offering a vision of the world where vigilantes are free to kill people they believe are doing harm. On the other hand, the reality of our world is that people like Brian Thompson are free to kill innocent people for the crime of being poor. 1122
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Totally. Keep seeing these slippery slope scold takes and it’s like, we’re already in the world where kyle rittenhouse and the police exist 030
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024But Gravity is by far the more intellectually challenging film. Why doesn’t anyone talk about the ending of Gravity? Did I see an alternative ending version or something? It’s a wild ending and I didn’t fully understand what was going on until then! 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Like, yes, Interstellar looks pretty good. I also think part of its success in general is due to Nolan’s desire/ability to flatter his audience’s vanity wrt to intelligence. He’s always doing a (not always successful!) “aren’t you smart for understanding this movie!” 100
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024tl;dr Interstellar is about spaceflight. Gravity is about biology. (Not biology so much in the field of study sense, but more as an exploration of what it means to be a being that knows about both ontogeny and phylogeny) 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024I think a big part of the reason no one understood Gravity is because it unfortunately came out around the same time as Interstellar, and so people incorrectly thought it was about space. The other reason is that people are, to a large extent, philistines. 100
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024OK. That’s it. This is a Gravity vs Interstellar account now. 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Besides being a gross thing to say, you bet big and you lost boy-o. Props on trying, but you demonstrated for all the world that you don’t know what wins elections. Why are you still doing this? 010
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Crazy how they’re forced at gun point to join a website that is so hostile to their beautiful ideas. 010
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024There’s a crowdsourcing aspect to bluesky. Everyone blocking the bots and trolls on sight, they might just give up eventually? 010
Reposted by Cercopithymore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 06/12/2024glad this didn't happen a few years ago or these would all be fucking sea shanties 41154
Reposted by CercopithyLily Alexandre 🛰️ @lily-is.online · 05/12/2024The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore 5668152471
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Also, buncha people who’ve been all like “gender studies isn’t a real degree” are now all acting like they have a PhD in it? Fuck outta here 010
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Still can’t believe the incels voted for the guys promising to ban porn 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024“Why don’t you look at your music streaming wrap up?”media.tenor.coma man with a mustache is sitting at a table with a woman in a restaurant .ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting at a table with a woman in a restaurant . 010
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024The ‘depose’ could mean both senses of the word. This doesn’t clear up the motive. Could be revenge, could be he was turning state’s evidence 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Nobody give this guy the keys to the baby hitler killing time machine 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Starting to think that scolds are scolding because they lack a moral center and are trying to create one. That is, they are Reactionaries 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024It would be a shame if more of this started happening to, say, oil CEOs too 000
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Walkin to the local Ace is one of my favorite activities 010
Cercopithy @cercopithy.bsky.social · 03/12/2024media.tenor.coma close up of a woman 's face in a dark room in a movie .ALT: a close up of a woman 's face in a dark room in a movie . 000
![Engels on 'Social Murder'
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another, such injury that death results, we call that deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call this deed murder.
But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or the bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live - forces them ... to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence - knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual ...
Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845 [1967]), p. 126 (Panther Press)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jfcht3gt62twn3r32e7bziq4/bafkreifeiogd6watrjgxqrzfsfrujyv4765jeh4why7my2rl76nbnqr5xu)
