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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

I had a dream I saw a dump truck with thousands of rocks painted as various pride flags. They were being gathered and destroyed. At first it made me very sad, then it made me think of all the people who had painted those rocks and still had that impulse in their hearts.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

It’s remarkable how hard it is for folks to just . . . interact with the kid in front of them in ways that are mutually enjoyable. Some kids wanna rough house, some want to tell stories, some want to line stuff up, it’s all good.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Quit freaking out. Remember that in 10,000 B.C., when America had ZERO international trade, a family could afford a house like this on a single income.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Don’t insult junkies and morons by comparing them to this evil fascist.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I ain’t saying China is fundamentally unknowable. That would be dumb. I’m saying I don’t have the expertise to know China, and I haven’t as of this moment found a China expert who I would trust to tell me accurately and without bias what life is like in China.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I don’t pretend to know what life is like for the average person in China. I’m certain that as an American I have been subjected to a lifetime of anti-China propaganda though. So I just don’t try to compare things with China because what’s the use of comparing something to an unknown.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I inherited a nice couch from my grandparents a decade ago. Its cushions are worn out, so I’m getting new ones made. It’s distressing that doing this will cost the same as a new couch. Like I know why, economies of scale yada yada. But still. Cheaper to get a new thing than fix an old one.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I mean, sure, the administration’s entire policy platform has been made up exclusively of highly refined fatal flaw this whole time.

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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

woke and DEI get removed, economy instantly crashes.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I have some dal but no rice or flatbread. Which is amore unacceptable accompaniment: tortillas or tortilla chips?

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Truly: it is deeply insulting to addicts and psychopaths to compare them to these evil fascists.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The New Atheists wanted to make the strong case that even when it was good and normal, religion was bad. Only attacking the fucked up weirdos would not have lead to a satisfying victory for them.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Here are some ground-nesting very small bees that lived with me for about a month last year. I never got a solid ID.

Two bees wrestling(?!) on the leaf of a Violet plant.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I have never understood the desire to fake-connect occult practices with some ancient culture we can know very little about. Want to reject the Christianity of your recent ancestors: cool, congrats, you get to make up something *new* and you should admit it’s new.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I had the same depressing experience.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Deciding whether or not to enable someone else’s self-harm is ethically challenging. I guess I mostly want to know what wild misconception is undergirding her “reasoning” here.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Paywalled: and I guess I kinda wanted to observe a new variety of brain rot this morning. Ah well.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I’m afraid to read this as I suspect it will be the rare piece of satire that instead makes me cry.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

I have questions about the mechanics of using a plastic straw to smoke fentanyl. Like I guess I can imagine ways that it would work, but it seems extremely convoluted.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The number of people in the comments who don’t remember the original context on this one is pretty amusing.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

No one stooped so low as to offer us Heineken in the UK, but it was pretty funny that West Coast US IPAs were very popular when we visited. “No thanks, I didn’t travel all this way to drink a beer that was made in my home town of San Diego.”

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Very cool work, though looks like this should be understood as a potential recycling technique rather than as a way to mitigate PFAS contaminated sites.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Yeah . . . I think the US from ~1980 to present is going to be remembered as the regime with the most effective propaganda machine of all time. Many Americans are convinced that social democracy either wouldn’t work in the US or would result in our bleakest imaginings of Soviet-style rationing.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

My kid, who has been struggling with reading, just spontaneously read the title to “Catch 22” and therefore I got to explain what a catch 22 is, and now I can die happy.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

"Feminism is bourgeois ... which as a member of the aristocracy, I resent."

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Brandon Sanderson heard our cries for more trans representation among body-stealing immortals and gave us Lady Leshwi’s girldick.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

In order to reach the position Elon has, one must have chosen against humanity time and time again. I don’t think those of us who are still human can really understand someone like him. Not because he’s smart (obviously he isn’t) but just because he has rendered himself inhuman.

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

if nothing else credit to cory booker for the longest speech a stanford guy has ever given without announcing a product that will doom us all

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I mean: the side which pounds the table above the drug problem does not believe that we have a gun problem.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

There is a very real possibility that humans as a species are simply incapable of coping with a world as complex as the one we have built. We are obviously shockingly vulnerable to misinformation. Enough people prefer a simile lie to a complex truth, we might just be fucked.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Over the course of the 12th & 13th centuries in Europe, the layout of the page in books became increasingly complex, due to changes to reading practice with the rise of scholasticism & the university. The sophisticated architecture of the page compresses an amazing amount of info into this space.

A powerpoint slide showing a page from a late 12th century copy of Peter of Lombard's commentary on the Psalms an epistles. To the left in large script is the scriptural text. To the right, in smaller script, is the commentary. I have outlines in various colors the different components that coordinate each but of commentary with the word or verse they gloss and that coordinate them with the auctor responsible for the commentary.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I don’t know that this is “crazy” so much as “it’s completely consistent for a bunch of billionaires who made their money contributing nothing to human welfare to dislike people who have the desire to do good in the world unconnected from the profit motive.”

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I guess . . . but then why October 16th?

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Thank goodness, the era of human-misrule will end soon.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Why 31 years rather than 30? Is there something special about October 16 2025 that I don’t know about?

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 02/04/2025

I have zero patience for people whining about the price of foreign video games right now. There are millions of people in this country who're about to be unable to afford food, housing, healthcare, and electricity.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

I’m getting tired of “every accusation is a confession”.

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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hopefully Strom Thurmond took some time out of his busy schedule burning in hell to get the news that he was just beaten by a black man.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 02/04/2025

Susan Crawford wins the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, according to many election analysts. This after Elon Musk and others poured millions into anti-transgender advertisements in the state. The anti-trans panic failed in Wisconsin. This is a major victory for LGBTQ+ people in the state.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

lol: I crave sweets a hell of a lot more when I get exercise though.

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John Stuart Thrill @jsthrill.modphi.com · 01/04/2025

New political outlook on American politics just dropped

Edit of the classic IBM AI memo:

A BILLIONAIRE
CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A BILLIONAIRE MUST NEVER
MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Technical explanations of various research I’ve done interspersed with descriptions of various bands and sci-fi/fantasy novels I’ve read.

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Un Valid @everythingnothing.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Would the bee misunderstanding be about the importance of native bees relative to the much worried-over honeybee?

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