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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 3h

I didn’t hear it! What was it like?

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we have a dog and cat food pantry at the shelter, this is necessary because one of the biggest reasons a pet gets surrendered is "can't afford" and that is a heartbreaking decision for someone to have to make

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 4h

This is tied for the purest distillation of Bruce Blakeman’s essence. One of the two Bruce Blakemanest moments.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 4h

Genuinely did not know he was still writing. How much more can a man say on a single topic that he made up?

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 4h

Gentle reminder to critics of philosophy: there are plenty of legit reasons to get mad at philosophy. You don’t have to invent a field to get mad at.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 5h

Happy Departure Day to all who celebrate!

The Guilty Remnant from The Leftovers hold up signs reading "STOP WASTING YOUR BREATH!"

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 5h

I’m glad you are come back!

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 5h

1) a single poll 2) taken while the Dem candidate was off the trail and the conspiracists were not yet widely understood to be utterly ridiculous 3) with a more Republican sample than the previous Marist poll

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 5h

I spent so long resisting the very idea of Blexas, and now I think you’re all panicking for no reason about a single poll that has the Dem behind. *double checks post* I’m sorry, that has the Dem still ahead.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 6h

My worst replies on here are better than my worst replies on Twitter, but they are extra annoying because I operate with a baseline assumption that people on here are at least normal enough not to believe that Tom Hanks and Wayfair are drinking the blood of children.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 6h

I recommend getting verified on Old Twitter in the few months they were handing out verifications to anyone who’d ever written an article. It worked for me!

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 6h

I also mute notifications if a post starts to get RTed a lot, though.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 6h

I’m a medium-large account I guess and I don’t get them super often. Maybe once or twice a week? I could be forgetting some, but that seems right to me atm.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 14h

A new, and (I think) improved variation on how it’s Talarico’s fault that the Right went bananas over an easily disproven conspiracy theory. bsky.app/profile/shoe...

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I have lovely, thoughtful non-Jewish relatives who regularly do this, I know they would appreciate it!

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The Joan Rivers thing is my new favorite conspiracy theory. “You’re going to kill me? In that outfit? [sticks finger in throat, dramatically fake retches].”

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I can understand “it’s not helping anything” even if I don’t agree, but I can’t get to “it’s harmful.”

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The response of more urbane Republicans to the Talarico nonsense is that it’s a pity MAGAwent all in on a conspiracy theory because it his the real problem with Talarico: what kind of man doesn’t campaign with the flu.l?

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I know what you mean! And I also use it for boiling water.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The starchier water is good for saucing, pasta goes in the water all at once, you can just use tongs to throw it in the sauce skillet with no colander. Easier to handle than pot. Drawback: if you don’t use die cut pasta, you have to be a little more vigilant that it doesn’t stick together.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My life has improved since I started boiling long pasta like spaghetti in a 12-inch skillet.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Shane Gillis used to pretend he was ultimately the butt of the anti-woke joke. He wasn’t, but the pretense was there. Seems like he cut out the extra step.

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Evan Westra @evanwestra.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Reposting this paper with the link since Brett's account is deactivated. philpapers.org/rec/KAROFI

On folk-psychological innovation
Brett Karlan & Evan Westra
Abstract
Human folk psychology is strikingly innovative: across time, cultures, and domains of social life, we display a seemingly unbounded capacity to carve up the mental realm in new and creative ways. We argue that, when properly understood, this feature of human folk psychology has new and surprising upshots for debates in cognitive ontology. After exploring the cognitive underpinnings of folk-psychological innovation, we show its challenging but useful implications for classic debates between realists and eliminativists. Specifically, we argue that the innovative character of folk psychology motivates both a new form of eliminativism (what we call bottom-up eliminativism) and a new form of realism (what we call arm's-length realism).

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I understand how some of you will view this—and I’m not sure you’re wrong—but several lgbtq and teens I know are heartened by this kind of thing. It makes them feel like the public accepts them in a time they’re not always feeling that.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

THE MAGA REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE FALSIFIED!

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think because it wasn’t orange that I didn’t clock it immediately!

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I looked up at her face and saw she was significantly older than I realized. But I told her I’d give her the student discount anyway. She laughed again and gave me her credit card, which said CYNDI LAUPER. She thanked me and left still laughing.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I gently indicated that these were expensive, and asked if she were a member of the museum (they got discounts). She wasn’t. “Do you have a student ID?” She threw her head back and laughed loud and said, in the most Queens accent that ever Queensed, “Thank you, honey, but I ain’t a student.”

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Young Helena Bonham Carter vibe. A shock of bright yellow hair. Many young people, especially international ones, did not know how expensive art books can be. They’d bring them to the counter and their faces would collapse in disappointment when they saw the price. I wished they were cheaper.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I have been in this store clerk’s situation before! With a much different outcome. I was a clerk at the MoMA bookstore. A customer came up with hundreds and hundreds of dollars worth of art books. I didn’t look very closely at her, but her outfit was Bohemian and eccentric in the extreme.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think centrists might be a tadmore convincing that their path is The Way, or that X is good, if they didn’t come on here with an attitude like, “Ugh, here you go, you judgmental angry losers, I’ll cast my pearls before you swine.”

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Why don’t you try to convince people rather than assume the worst? I’m guessing you think the left alienates moderates by being overly judgy before a discussion can be had.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/10/2026

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

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Justice Putnam @justiceputnam.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: They Shoot Sea Horses, Don't They?

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word: Slaughterhouse High Five

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Rebecca Stone Gordon @meanlouise.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Dana Skully got a new yard sign but Indiana Bones thinks we should wait til after the next bout of wind & rain to install it.

A 12 foot skeleton stands in front of a house with a porch, behind an iron fence. On the fence, a sign with the opening of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House in the style of a progressive “in this house” sign.

IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN REMAIN SANE UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY EVEN LARKS AND KATYDIDS ARE SUPPOSED BY SOME TO DREAM THIS HOUSE HAS STOOD FOR 80 YEARS AND MIGHT STAND FOR 80 MORE WALLS UPRIGHT DOORS SENSIBLY SHUT

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10/10/2026

It’s been two hours and I’m still hung up on this doofus, who thinks that there are secret Ashkenazi delicacies that are being kept secret from gentiles like me, and not, like, the most flavorless boiled brisket you’ve ever had.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ido too, I just thought it was funny that avoiding it would make you feel healthy like us.

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

That would imply that we don’t experience them.

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