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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 4h
voters should be doing shit to tech companies that republicans try to do to the post office
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 4h
What propositions are we graspin today
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Toy Story toys crave to be played with even though it requires them to feign inanimacy. What they truly crave is death
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This makes me feel sick
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Dr Keith Wilson 💭 @keithwilson.eu · 29/09/2026
Is the business profitable? No It’s on the road to profitability though, right? Also no But it will be extremely beneficial for the future of humanity? It might kill us all #OpenAI #GenAI #AIHype
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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J @stareaskesis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What’s your favorite example of someone *doing*, rather than just theorizing, immanent critique?
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I am going to be frank. If you think consciousness, an observable natural phenomenon, is “woo,” you are an idiot.
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Evil, be thou my Good
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I love being an organism :)
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the 1600s you could write treatises for your friends as a gift. But friends don’t want treatises anymore
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In the 1600s you could write treatises for your friends as a gift. But friends don’t want treatises anymore
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Frege watched the advent of modern math delivering objections like “Cantor doesn’t know what sets are.” “Hilbert’s definitions fail to determine if my pocket watch is a line.” “Weierstrass thinks a pile of ginger biscuits is a number.” and analytic philosophers were like this man is a genius
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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Alternatively, you could use WordArt

I'm not even joking!
This is literally cooler, aesthetics be like that

AI art is so rancid it caused a cultural inversion
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Chloe Cumming @chloecumming.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Diverted Minotaur
A standing Minotaur with very black nostrils and yellow underpants with a strangely shaped sign that says ‘DIVERSION’ with an arrow , watercolour ink and pastel drawing on larger rough watercolour paper
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 25/09/2026
started listening to the audiobook of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by richard rhodes on my walks and came across the Death Machine passage this morning. still hits like a hammer 15 years after I first read it. my GOAT will never be washed
“The machine gun mechanized war. Artillery and gas mechanized war. They were the hardware of the war, the tools. But they were only proximately the mechanism of the slaughter. The ultimate mechanism was a method of organization—anachronistically speaking, a software package.376 “The basic lever,” the writer Gil Elliot comments, “was the conscription law, which made vast numbers of men available for military service.377 The civil machinery which ensured the carrying out of this law, and the military organization which turned numbers of men into battalions and divisions, were each founded on a bureaucracy. The production of resources, in particular guns and ammunition, was a matter for civil organization. The movement of men and resources to the front, and the trench system of defence, were military concerns.” Each interlocking system was logical in itself and each system could be rationalized by those who worked it and moved through it. Thus, Elliot demonstrates, “It is reasonable to obey the law, it is good to organize well, it is ingenious to devise guns of high technical capacity, it is sensible to shelter human beings against massive firepower by putting them in protective trenches.”

“What was the purpose of this complex organization? Officially it was supposed to save civilization, protect the rights of small democracies, demonstrate the superiority of Teutonic culture, beat the dirty Hun, beat the arrogant British, what have you. But the men caught in the middle came to glimpse a darker truth. “The War had become undisguisedly mechanical and inhuman,” Siegfried Sassoon allows a fictional infantry officer to see. “What in earlier days had been drafts of volunteers were now droves of victims.”378 Men on every front independently discovered their victimization. Awareness intensified as the war dragged”“on. In Russia it exploded in revolution. In Germany it motivated desertions and surrenders. Among the French it led to mutinies in the front lines. Among the British it fostered malingering.Whatever its ostensible purpose, the end result of the complex organization that was the efficient software of the Great War was the manufacture of corpses. This essentially industrial operation was fantasized by the generals as a “strategy of attrition.” The British tried to kill Germans, the Germans tried to kill British and French and so on, a “strategy” so familiar by now that it almost sounds normal. It was not normal in Europe before 1914 and no one in authority expected it to evolve, despite the pioneering lessons of the American Civil War. Once the trenches were in place, the long grave already dug (John Masefield’s bitterly ironic phrase), then the war stalemated and death-making overwhelmed any rational response.379 “The war machine,” concludes Elliot, “rooted in law, organization, production,”

“movement, science, technical ingenuity, with its product of six thousand deaths a day over a period of 1,500 days, was the permanent and realistic factor, impervious to fantasy, only slightly altered by human variation.”380No human institution, Elliot stresses, was sufficiently strong to resist the death machine.381 A new mechanism, the tank, ended the stalemate. An old mechanism, the blockade, choked off the German supply of food and matériel. The increasing rebelliousness of the foot soldiers threatened the security of the bureaucrats. Or the death machine worked too well, as against France, and began to run out of raw material. The Yanks came over with their sleeves rolled up, an untrenched continent behind them where the trees were not hung with entrails. The war putrified to a close.But the death machine had only sampled a vast new source of raw material: the civilians behind the lines. It had not yet evolved equipment efficient to process them, only big gunsand clumsy biplane bombers. It had not yet evolved the necessary rationale that old people and women and children are combatants equally with armed and uniformed young men. That is why, despite its sickening squalor and brutality, the Great War looks so innocent to modern eyes.
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“Evil Teddy Bear Liam October 2024 A portrait I drew of Liam. I say that he has evil teddy bear energy because he is very cute but... he is Evil. (In a mostly harmless sort of way, though.)”
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
it's not 'gatekeeping' to say that an uninformed, overconfident averment is uninformed and overconfident
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Continuously in awe of the fact that all knowledge builds on learned knowledge. If you ever have the chance, watch the patience of an early-childhood educator guiding a kid through a difficult new idea and then consider the entire communal effort of generational education throughout history.
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Jeff Hackney @porschejeff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today I had a wasp in my pants and he stung me three times! But without venom because he was a 🩷nice wasp🙏💕
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Derek Hart @dhart0.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Can we rebrand this cadre as “defective altruists”
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now Israeli organized crime shoots missiles at each others’ houses
A stolen IDF missile was fired at the home of a criminal family.
Yesterday | 14:56
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17/09/2026
(me, an absolute fool, skimming some weird blogger's embarrassingly tedious harry potter fan fiction in 2010): I can safely say no one who reads this will ever become important
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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
really good advice
outlook telling me to schedule send for 1 am 'during most recipients' work hours'
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In retrospect, we’ll see the key trend of the era was an elite revolt by the very rich, politicians and media employees against the idea there should be *any limits at all* on their behaviour, up to and including strangers publicly criticising them. All presented as The Wisdom Of The Average Punter.
one of those things I feel a little ashamed about for taking so long to clock is that rich people are surrounded by yesmen and consequently delude themselves into thinking their predictable bigotries reflect some suppressed yearning of the Common
Man.
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Look at this disgusting omelette I made Gorbie
A horrible puck of kidney disease dog kibble/egg white omelette An Ewok-style dog standing next to the omelette, looking at the viewer like ?
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Amanda @ermandyy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
something about being rich and famous for too long makes people start reasoning like pre-socratic philosophers and I think that's beautiful
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@stairwaytokevin.bsky.social is this true
The favorite sandwich of legendary Beatles drummer Ringo Starr is remarkably simple: cheese on bread — but not just any cheese.
"What is the best sandwich?" late-night television host Stephen Colbert asked Starr during a 2021 appearance on "The Late Show.
"I don't have a lot of them anymore, but cheese,
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Starr answered. He said he loved cheese before clarifying, "But it has to be goat cheese now."
When Colbert questioned his preference for goat cheese, Starr said, "
, "I don't eat anything *from the
cow because the molecules are so big. Have you seen a cow? The molecules are so big. And that's why if you drink a glass of milk, you're full.
With a goat, it's a good size for our bodies."*
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Normal life is full of charming and interesting people. So why are politics and the media full of negative charisma bores
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In the rust belt we only wear collared shirts and shoes at weddings
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It is really shocking the degree to which Palestinians are spoken about as subjects to be managed rather than full human beings with agency. Even by people in supposedly supportive organizations. We have completely accepted the idea that Palestinians don't have a right to decide what they want.
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
His screen presence… Oh wow
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
So are any of you informed about 19th century German math
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Matt Weiner @mattweiner19.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
didn't realize that Bezalel Smotrich's genocidal organization had actively pushed Brexit www.thejc.com/news/world/i...
thejc.com
Israeli organisation makes fake Hamas video to urge Brexit - The Jewish Chronicle
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A lot of you know a lot about Smurf lore and have been waiting to tell someone
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Kait Richardson 🥔 @thryse.com · 12/09/2026
When you’re homeless and poor for like ever svd ever it affects your judgment about whether and how much money you “need”. I’ll be like, “Yay safety!” when I have a two night stay in a motel, a box of cereal, and pocket change. And it IS relatively safe!
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
“Cook for 8-9 minutes.” every pasta tells the same lie
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Erika Kirk should have worn a little veil
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Frege on Cantor’s theorem. (after his whole project collapsed for violating it)
FREGE to RUSSELL 3.8.1902
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I can see indeed that, as a result of your discovery of the contradiction, propositions (1), (2), and their consequences are not true in all their generality as they were meant to be.? Indeed, it is still not clear to me in what way they are to be restricted. 
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**the proof that there is no one-one relation between all objects and all functions strikes me as dubious.** I believe that even the idea of objects standing in a one-one relation to functions is not quite clear. *For standing in a one-one relation presupposes identity, and the relation of identity is a first-level relation which can hold only between objects and not between functions.*If we speak of the identity of functions, we can only mean the identity of their ranges of values, or the identity of something connected one to one with ranges of values.
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fascists are so weird about the Order of Things. I never pay enough attention to this emotional profile when thinking about fascism because I don’t fuckin get it. you are mad about letters in math
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They make Frege so much more normal in translation. This, from “The Thought,” is irl ‘investigation of the Geist,’ and it is baldly idealist. Surely by intent: he published it in “Contributions to the Philosophy of German Idealism.” which was also notably fascist
Not everything is an idea. Otherwise psychology would contain all the sciences within it or at least it would be the highest judge over all the sciences. Otherwise psychology would rule over logic and mathematics. But nothing would be a greater misunderstanding of mathematics than its subordination to psychology. *Neither logic nor mathematics has the task of investigating minds and the contents of consciousness whose bearer is a single person. Perhaps their task could be represented rather as **the investigation of the mind,** of the mind not of minds.*
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What the fuck is happening here
CARLSON: Why does algebra put 'letters into numbers?
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CARLSON: You understand math, but you didn't add letters to numbers in the process of doing that.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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sirtommygunn.bsky.social @sirtommygunn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"The PlayStation can produce mind-boggling effects" - text below an image of some absolutely dogshit early 3d skeletons
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Dangerously Fine and Unforgiven @rockthekoopa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
but it made this photorealistic bat!
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Lexi 💖 Venom @lexivenom.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
i’m immanuel kant and welcome to jackass
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What’s up everyone I am going to personally imperil objective truth and logic today
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worms cited @christa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Football prepares us for war
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026
Ever heard of a union taking a person's money but refusing to admit them as a member? Ever heard of a union say to someone with decades experience in their industry "why do you want to join now, you've done fine without us until now?"
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