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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

the rural midwest really makes you think about how much richer than johnny appleseed the guy who planted all the corn must’ve gotten

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

the issue with nostalgic social democracy (less cash transfers, more going to The Government Office; fresh yalies trying to fix the economy by turning a plastic steering wheel back & forth) is not that it’s not utopian enough, it’s that it’s not even clear it’s better than this

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

one of the better things marx was a jerk about was incoherently moderate demands. the moderate version of a political demand, as he said time & again, is often the basically unrealistic one because it imagines an aestheticising or moralising tweak to an already coherent system

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

three principal modes of post: - declamation ('there are only THESE modes of post') - accusation ('you only know how to post THESE ways') - defensive self-(pseudo-)accusation ('i mean, like, i only know how to post THESE ways anyway

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

so then i says to him, i was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the future of the democratic party

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

would you say you personally know anyone who isn’t ‘working class’, in whichever sense you usually mean the term? how do they usually spend their days? [sincere intuition canvassing here]

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

in my dreams ln they replaced twitter with a site where you floated a topic for conversation & all ur friends discussed (& likewise you only mused on the topics posed for you). i woke up & for a minute thought it was very innovative before i realised it was regular twitter also

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

the scholar who passes all day reading secondary literature is no better than the child who passes all day watching a twitch stream; yet, the scholar who passes all day reading primary literature is themselves no better than the streamer

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

whenever i listen to a symphony or opera written in the twentieth century and enjoy it in the kind of way that has me humming one of the motives afterwards i google ‘[work name] adorno critique’ to double check that adorno hated it and so far i’ve been right every time

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

‘weeding’ is an experiment by librarians to determine how rapidly they can close the gap to their secret utopian ideal of a book-free library before the masses wake up and realise there are only seven books left and they’re all guides to cozy tabletop rpgs

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

they only let christopher nolan write his own movies as a kind of precautionary tale intended to instill nostalgia for the studio system

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

it's kind of incredible that, no matter how 'radical' people are willing to cop to being, moral cosmopolitanism consistently seems to find itself past even that line

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

my friends all love to hear stories about the spooky gym i go to, but the problem is that the gym is just so spooky that unless i have with me a fellow gym-goer i’m totally unable to convince anyone that any of the better stories are true

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

chicago rappers independently reinvented mmt

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

i leave my valuables unattended in public places on purpose, to show others how much i trust them :)

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evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

great sage comic

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

basically the only role for compulsory education i can see in the society of the future is in the domain of garment care tags

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evan @beingandslime.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Really excited to announce that starting in the fall I'll be an assistant professor in the philosophy department at East Tennessee State University! So hit me up if you're ever in Appalachia!

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

artists making art about the figure of The Artist is sort of like starting a business that starts businesses, or working on those AI models that're supposed to recursively self-improve. yes it's sad you went to harvard but it doesn't make it *this* impossible to develop interests

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

of junior TT faculty at the top 30 leiter rank philosophy departments: 2% have ever held a vap 0.5% have ever held an adjunct appointment 5% have ever held a renewable teaching position 11% have ever previously held a role at an R2 2% have ever previously held a role at a 4-year

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

i dreamt last night of NEET-and-greets, which were annual events with lines out the door... you get to look at the NEET cave (if only for a little while) so as to gain precious insight into how to live so well, how to game so much, how to enjoy pizza pockets

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

right when jürgen habermas died i had just been reading an article from monocle magazine to my friends in eurocrat voice and it left such a discomfiting impression on me that i felt myself lapsing back into eurocracy for days thence

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

i accidentally set my wikipedia to dark mode & it disturbed me so much i started unconsciously fumbling around with the language selector like my brain couldn't parse the script it was written in

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

bf’s shared faculty office contains: - totally stopped clock - jar of Natural Molasses with a 2021 expiration date - out of tune Aerosonic piano - 10 volumes of charlie chaplin films on VHS

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

former punk frontman who just turned 43: 'living in a simulation // food co-op tribulations' drummer who bought his first moog last year: [80s pop melody repeated 8 times] frontman's daughter's oberlin friend: 'i'm like a bug // or is it a dog' frontman's exwife: [angular guitar]

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

every manufacturer of humidifiers is one thousand times as guilty as your worst SBF or holmes for their production of infinite clouds of baby killing lung fibrosing pm2.5 white dust

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

‘cool mist’ is basically like toxic gas intended to punish you for believing your life could be better

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

even after the south korean humidifier disinfectant scandal (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_K..., 20k dead, same products still sold in the US) we have yet to bring one false humidity peddler to justice

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South Korean humidifier disinfectant case - Wikipedia

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

if your air is dry your whole life is dry. there’s nothing for you anymore. your epithelial barrier has given up. it’s time for you to do the same

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

as a new yorker i carry talismans to protect me from the harmful effects of ductwork wherever i go

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

adding water to air is literally impossible. it’s air. air is a gas, not a liquid. what do they take us for

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

under communism forced air heating will be illegal. you really can tell it doesn’t want to do that

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

evan gave you a christmas gift! everybody say thank you evan!!!

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

in hindsight we were able to close the book on american liberalism when the new york times changed their little front page christmas homily from 'today is christmas. remember the neediest' to 'remember to give back to your communities'

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

we need to show less forbearance with people in tech who produce creative work about how sorry they are that they’re in tech. i mean this in a very value-neutral way re: the ethics of tech or whatever; you’re either in tech or you’re not. the cafe across the street is hiring too

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

it's insane how much applying to things we make artists do. that's basically the last thing you'd expect them to be good at

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

it’s important to have an argot shared only with your partners and intimate friends so that when you get drunk and worse at context-sensitivity everyone thinks you’re very strange

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

imagine if we replaced learning with using the computer. sounds awesome so far. and the computer is replaced with a series of bright colours & pleasant sounds, or perhaps lincoln logs. then we could replace facts with pleasant assemblages of concreta, combined to form Enterprise

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

if someone over the age of eight begins describing their activities as ‘building infrastructure for…’ you should cut them off by describing the cambridge capital controversy and then reminding them that the wikipedia list of megaprojects isn’t real

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

clarity in philosophy is mostly about replacing the language you speak, one where you can’t be sure which inferences are ok to draw from an assertion til you’ve seen someone else assert the same, with another language, where no-one at all knows which inferences are fine to draw

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

i’m posting from inside a vaulted dome. your rude messages only buttress my keystone.

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

the university was an exercise in professionalising epigrammatists and while it succeeded in that aim we discovered thereby that we mostly just preferred regular epigrammatists anyway

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

3/3 baristas at this third wave coffee shop are currently attributing their middling college acceptance outcomes to discrimination against the upper- but sub-upper-upper-middle class

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

while no-one would be made better off exactly by my proposed ban on ‘floss pickers’ at least we would all have the advantage of knowing how it really is

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

i made an amtrak with ~10 seconds of margin by a 300m sprint from uber to platform; the amtrak cafe car coffee lid malfunctioned and 100% of my clothes got doused with scalding coffee. in both cases i felt strangely little, yawned & re-napped. pyrrhonian skepticism confirmed

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

real dialogue you hear in dc: ‘well it’s hard to decide, i do love austin a lot’ ‘i was just in dallas, i *really* liked dallas’

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

the main testament to the work of mies van der rohe is just how bad every building ever by an architect who saw themselves as responding critically to mies is

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

if you're 'redefining the possible', coreweave, why did you need to buy skippable 30s youtube inventory to tell me this? and more to the point is it even conceivable someone redefining the possible would tell me this to the tune of postal service such great heights?

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cordelia @cozyunoist.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

empirically speaking it’s more difficult than you’d think to tell republican staffers and touring groups of middle schoolers apart

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