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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12h

Congress is aurafarming, post Congress bangers

Modiji is staring at the second defeat of his life, the first being 8th standard[grade]

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Could your politics, like mine, be described as "Give Evelyn Normielib a Sword?" If so, I recommend.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If I were Donalds in FL, I would be worried. He's a weak candidate who wouldn't have survived the "put your name on the form" phase of the primaries in any other state. He'll win, but each downballot loss will look like his fault. He's polling at +2 in a state where R's run North Korea numbers.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Deport" they yell as they shrink and transform into a bushel of corncobs.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My new correlation-based political theory is that, if your state's borders contain a right angle, xenophobes are a constituency.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Based on those two presidents, I'm beginning to theorize that compulsive racism is one of those wasting diseases that keeps the host alive as it disintegrates, like cordyceps or that deer prion disease.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Offhandedly referred to Cicero while discussing Cleopatra as "Cic-you-when-you're-down-ero" and now you all have to live with that in your heads too. (This also requires you to adopt the "C is actually K in Latin" theory sorry.)

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Peter Thiel is a living argument for "maybe you *should* have to pass a test before we let you read the advanced stuff to ensure you don't go crazy." Like, he's out here making the Monastic Gatekeeper Theory of Information palatable.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Listen, I'm not listening to Choosin' Texas and I have no idea who the artist is, but not out of contrarianism. I just don't like the genre, and every Country and Western musician's name sounds like a one-off Star Wars character so I can't actually remember who's who.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If you REALLY want to tick off both wordcels and numbercels, mention that mathematics is a symbolic/linguistic system and watch them all collectively stroke out.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My youtube mix playlists keep sneaking Lisa's Sawadika in there so now all my ads are for McDonalds in Thai. Like, hey algo, *you* made me listen to the song, and now you're like "anyway you're definitely Thai and need crispy nuggets." Last week I was a pregnant Latina HVAC tech.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Spent an hour writing an annoyed email to my undergrad institution's president for announcing the sudden closure of the oldest natural history museum in the new world. The "how did you run the 200-year-old Fun Dinosaur Bones Museum into the ground in 15 years?" rhetorical approach seemed necessary.

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"They're stabbing inflatable boats on it to try and sink them so the unarmed innocents onboard drown" is shit that 200+ years of high seas/naval tradition would answer simply with "cutlass, possibly grapeshot"

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When tofu first got introduced into mainstream US food culture, health food brands went in hard for it and put it in everything as a healthy alternative to meat rather than presenting it as its own thing. The result was a generational rejection of tofu on principle. Anyway this is about LLMs.

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strasz @strasz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

every day i spend on this corner of bluesky is another day i emerge with new sentences i can say to my friends to make them worry about me

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I once jokingly explained AI to my 80+ year old mom by saying "they realized the devil wasn't real, so they built him from scratch and trained him on everything everyone has ever said--and as far as he's concerned, he just wants to help us" but I was thinking John Milton devil, not protestant devil.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today's Cursed Internet Thought: damnationes memoriarum is basically just kirkification

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The thing about actual Roman damnationes memoriarum is that they didn't really obliterate all memory of a bad emperor. None of our sources are afraid to talk about these figures. It wasn't truly about forgetting the guy, but about abolishing his (positive) public commemoration.

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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I can't wait to see the NYTimes both sides their own banning.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The thing about every Effective Altruist I knew in college is that they aren't reliable people, since the combo of "I can instrumentalize and use people if the outcome is good" and "I am smart enough to correctly predict a future that justifies my actions" is a gateway drug to being a sociopath.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Trumism vs. EA is just the Spiderman Meme, but it's just guys going "what if I justified my own predilections and greed, Ayn Rand-style, by claiming it's for the good of the future and that I get to decide that because I'm the smartest person and everyone else is dumb."

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I keep thinking about the protagonist of the first part of Charlie Stross's Accelerando who travels around yelling about extropianism and dismantling the moon only to later get totally out-disruptor-ed by the same technologies he advocated for.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The anglophone world's true political axis is "2010 Tumblr vs. 2010 4chan" and a residual faction of clinically dead 80 year olds, and this week is all the proof you should need.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

God the entire AI effective altruist sex cult thing would be so funny if like 40% of the US economy didn't depend on all of us pretending this is normal and fine. Thankfully the "your speculative economy is actually a bunch of cranks pursuing eccentricities" isn't a new thing.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Scifi Films: dancing in space will be ballet-like, soaring and grandiose Real Life: the Mass Effect Shepard Shuffle but add charisma and a longitudinal spin

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You know it just fully occurred to me that the crop failures in my casual vegetable garden are not, in fact, exclusively a skill issue. It's heat stress from climate change. The soil's good, but the average summer temp is whack--our growing/climate zone has been reclassified twice since 2021.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@standard.bsky.social you're basically describing the social program for the evening after an academic humanities conference (laudatory)

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

At this point, it kinda feels like "we're building massive, highly-concentrated AI infrastructure specifically in places vulnerable to extreme weather located near people, who also hate this, and are ignoring the alternatives" feels like a choice. Or an elaborately stupid property insurance scam.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Was thinking about the strategy of being an undergrad in the Great AI Forced Implementation Era with a colleague, and there's a sort of Pascal's Wager thing here: (1/3)

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is one of those things that, despite being essentially a lit PhD studying crime, I've had to research: terrorism generally makes people mad, not scared

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

RFK Jr.’s new drive to get us off anti-depressants brings home the vast number of death’s he’s already been personally responsible for, and the sheer amount of suffering. I believe that he alone, even among the crew he’s a part of, will be remembered as something other than, worse than, a villain.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Listen if we're going to do "is clanker a slur?" discourse, we're eventually going to have to work back to its source and talk about whatever TF is going on with droids in the Star Wars universe.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

More disturbing trend: the trend of "juicy" boneless dark meat fried chicken. I prefer dark meat, but without the bones, it trips the autonomic "this fried chicken is undercooked" texture alarm.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's a highly effective method for getting strangers' cats to not hate you, though.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Given that RW media latched onto that poll to fearmonger that she was going to win (one cable network talked about it, and Hong, for an *entire* evening block, including a talking head block that treated her like a walking Red Dawn scenario) I have one guess whose money paid for the "experiment."

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Rockies: big, pointy, snowcapped--grandeur. The Appalachians: eroded, no sightlines, older than the moon--eldritch horror.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It's telling that it's never the (sane) literature scholars doing it, too. Once you get deep into lit analysis, the required attention to narrative structure and inherent human perceptual filter makes it clear that doing it to real life invites the delusion that real life is story-shaped.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Very much in favor of destroying the character of my neighborhood (the guy who keeps parallel parking a cybertruck in the fire lane.)

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

In the quest for an ethnonym for euroamericans, it is very funny to me that they just keep running headlong into the institutional white supremacy wall with the terminology. Like, all of the choices sound like branded credit card tiers with perks and the perks are racism.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"A person who is armed is equivalent to a person aiming a gun at you" is the kind of opinion held by either: 1. someone who has never actually had a gun aimed at them 2. a cop who has definitely shot a civilian

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It's great for the humanities (esp. adaptation studies) that folks are getting into the Odyssey and that the discourse is no longer just right-wing chuds trying to claim Classical Civ as their personal fiefdom like Penelope's rapacious suitors, but like, the source material is a very vague old poem.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If we try hard enough, we can turn The Red Wheelbarrow into a five part epic directed by Peter Jackson.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

To be fair, in most East Coast cities, this would get your group called suburbanites (derogatory) or tourists and possibly lead to a passerby Doing the Thing (pointedly colliding with the outermost member of the group and then saying "I'm walking here!" etc.)

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Twenty-first century aphorisms that need to exist, #2290: Do not take life advice from something you can unplug.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Fun fact: that Starbucks (if I'm determining the location correctly from clues) is in the middle of what I call The Worst Interchange In Road History so I hope this guy pulled into the wrong turn lane after fleeing and ended up trapped in the nightmare Walmart parking lot maze across the street.

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Lawyer-Brained Guys: we have to protect the norms! Gurri et al., correctly (as usual): the norms exist to protect the Republic and the norms aren't even here anymore.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 18/07/2026

Yes.

Ukrainian president and creator and star of "Servant of the People" Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I just got an ad for a "tactical rosary" and in addition to having SEVERAL questions for my ad algorithm about why it thinks I want that, I have to say: if you need the tactical rosary I think maybe your tactical situation has gone poorly

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Dr. M. Harris-Peyton @drmbhp.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Reminder: Canada is basically a continent-sized boreal forest with about 40mil people living around the edges. And burned bits of that boreal forest are trapped by a heat dome, leading to light ash-snow in...New Jersey.

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