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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A lot of present media moralism/illiteracy of the kind this post is satirizing feels like: 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' + influencer culture + non-intentional, non-ideal philosophical views of communication (including the meaning of sociolinguistic variation) All very "epedemiological".

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Ambroise Garel @ambroisegarel.com · 26/09/2026

« Avec l'application Corpusly, le livreur le plus proche reçoit la notification et, sans prendre la peine de faire un détour par un restaurant, se rend directement à l'adresse du client. » Cette semaine dans L'Insolithe, un service de livraison de repas révolutionnaire.

linsolithe.ghost.io

Modeste proposition pour améliorer la productivité des services de livraison à domicile

Librement inspiré de Jonathan Swift et de BFM Business.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Just started watching The Prisoner for the first time!!! Kinda getting the sense that it was heavily influenced by Twin Peaks and Severance.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This feels like the ultimate abstraction of Trumpian symbolic grift: selling 25 $1 coins for $61. The only thing that differentiates them from regular $1 bills or coins (rare) is that they are golder & have Trump's face on them & buying them is a gesture of fealty, calibrated at an exchange rate.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 01/09/2026

hey homie how’s it going. me and the guys were just debating whether or not you had a theory of mind

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

this is a beautiful parable of quantifier domain restriction, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics 🐦🐦

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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Welcome to Bluesky. Please familiarize yourself with the following accounts to understand the range of opinions it is acceptable to express.

Main cast of BattleStar Galactica posed like daVinci’s Last Supper

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

will say again that the key to not "crashing out" in an extremely public way that puts you beyond recovery is to be always crashing out in little bits

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 23/08/2026

Lol ominously put but thank you. There is a blog post expanding on the meme if you find it useful

anthonymoser.github.io

The Kirby Frame

writing is a technology, frames are a frame. bespoke human content.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One day, every human will have this infographic surgically stapled into our eyelids at birth. Then, and only then, will we know peace.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

We gotta figure out how organize discourse boycotts. There is just friend-enemy combat b/w factions w/ fundamentally different values. Everything else is a distraction. None of this is about academic freedom or whatever. It's about "racial caste system: good or bad?"

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Ambroise Garel @ambroisegarel.com · 18/08/2026

SERVEUR : Salut salut ! Vous connaissez le concept ? Ici on fait les choses un peu différemment. CLIENT : Haha, vous dites tous ça et à la fin c'est toujours un restau ordinaire. *Le serveur écarte les mâchoires du client à deux mains et lui régurgite dans la bouche comme un oiseau.*

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Ambroise Garel @ambroisegarel.com · 19/08/2026

Ok, so here's my crackpot linguistic theory: — The average modern European language has 4 cases (many don't have any) — Proto-indo-european (4500 BC) had 8 or 9 So we can approximate that the lower paleolithic tongue (3.3M BC) had around 3 000 cases, which put even Hungarian (18 cases) to shame.

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

oh yeah linguists 🐦🐦 try lingule by @chase.caster.quest

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 08/01/2026

This is huge—by the end of their journey, the prediction market was 99% certain that “Will they make it?” would resolve to a YES. One early bettor was looking at a six-figure payout. And then, at the very last second, for seemingly no reason at all, Orpheus turned.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I think the cod is colonizing my consciousness from the inside out. Feeling like John Malkovich when he goes through his own portal. Just walking around saying "cod, cod, cod, cod, cod, cod"

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

My house smells like cod. My blood is 90% butter, white wine, garlic, lemon juice, and cod.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Yes, I think contemporary AIs are a form of neurological prosthetic in a society whose executive functioning demands have become cognitively intractable for many people, in an atomized, lonely, media-saturated, frantic, increasingly gig-/hustle-based economy & society.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This, but at time t+1. I didn't do it yesterday (fish's alleged expiration date) but I'll do it today for lunch. The degree of awesomeness might be d-1.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm gonna make cod with white wine, butter, and garlic tonight. It's gonna be awesome.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One day, decades from now, someone will make a Mad Men-style TV show about the behind-the-scenes workings of our contemporary hodge-podge of propaganda / advertising / parasocial influencer culture. And if Mad Men is any indication, most of us will come off looking like fucking idiots

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Another hot-take hobbyhorse of mine, related to that @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social thread & to other theorists of "participatory propaganda": In 2026, I think the distinction b/w propaganda, advertising, pornography, & social media is utterly meaningless. These are one phenomenon.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Fully agree w/ this whole thread. I've found it sooo frustrating that the way many people think about propaganda (from laypeople to social philosophers of language) is individualist & intentional. Propaganda now is interactive, ecological, emergent, living in liminal zones of intention & agency.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I also think that if you're excited about co-authorship with AI you've probably disqualified yourself from the plagiarism convo

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I may—or very well may not!—read the Daily Nous post, let alone the comments section, let alone the actual Goldstein paper. Sigh. What I will say is this: I think of these situations as involving plausibly deniable conflicts of interest, for reasons I try to explain in the rest of the thread...

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

my beloved roommate and I are facing an unprecedented situation: we have been left with no choice but to kick out our third roommate, after egregious and numerous violations of Zeus's Law... very uncomfortable and sad situation

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

remember Keir Starmer? what's he up to?

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Every time I return to Bluesky after an absence, there's like a 6 hour honeymoon phase where I feel delightfully swaddled in intellectual, social, & political stimulation. But by the end of the day, I always feel vaguely insane, anxious, & repelled at the hustle & self-commodification of it all.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's actually really easy to oppose AI for ethical/political reasons w/o having to build a whole fanatical pseudoscientific edifice around it. You can just say: "Tech capitalists push LLMs in order to profit by encouraging cognitive atrophy, dependence & deskilling. That's bad for humans & society."

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

tbc my great-aunt & great-uncle literally fall into this camp: card-carrying communists who thought their work at the Manhattan Project (where Opp gave them secondhand baby clothes) was anti-fascist struggle against the Nazis it makes a lot of sense, from their perspective, and is also naive

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I think the reason Nolan makes people (including me) kinda insane is that he lives in an uncanny valley b/w smart and stupid, b/w left and right, etc. In that sense, he's the Barack Obama of filmmakers

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Nolan's Odyssey fuckin' sucked. The fact that so many critics and viewers think it's some sort of masterpiece makes me sad at how low standards have fallen. I read Emily Wilson's LRB essay after seeing the movie & she's obviously correct (and nicer than I would have been).

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Close followers of this microblog know that I've struggled with a really, really gnarly weed addiction for a long time. My friend/roommate, who is not an addict, has been a baffled bystander to my anguished relapses, & asked me if I would write a lil essay addressing "What is it like to relapse?"

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

gonna tell my grandkids this was the Crawler from 'Annihilation'

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Brett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Mmm nice kneecaps on this (notices people are watching) uh... concept

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I'm at a coffee shop where it seems like half the people around me are talking about 'The Odyssey' and Christopher Nolan I literally witnessed two women fail the Bechdel Test irl, with Nolan as the man.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

[Lucille Bluth voice]: "I don't care for Judith Miller"

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The coverage of the "scandal" of Trump's Qatari plane lack of proper safety measures is really giving "the food's terrible and the portions are soooo small!"

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Just realized I'm technically two degrees of IRL separation away from Trump, ugh..... Saw Judith Miller get interviewed in late 2016, and she said she had schmoozed with then-president-elect Trump at Mar-A-Lago and it turned out he was "much more reasonable than how the media portrayed him".

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

HELL YEAH, it feels like a blessed miracle that this is getting a second season but Copano had better get his ass over there and teach Harrington about police abolitionism

youtu.be

Common Side Effects | First Look @ Season 2 | adult swim

YouTube video by Adult Swim

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

N*******U Should I follow my dreams (i.e. write a screenplay about a Jewish Millennial selling "N-word Passes" to neurotic lib boomers giving them permission to say that Stephen Miller looks like Nosferatu despite those who say that's anti-Semitic)? Or am I about to ruin my life & hurt people?

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

my proudest work i think

A drawing I made in pen and marker titled "poissons images du Sauveur". It's colorful and fishlike.

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Post a random GIF, and everything will go good in 2026:

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I would love to meet a dog

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Could not imagine anything more embarrassing than stanning an extremely rich, conventionally attractive, white-supremacist-adjacent person who flatters the simple prejudices of their milieu. It's very tidy to have principles that cover both Taylor Swift and the early Wittgenstein lol #philsky

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Kyle L @haikugoat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

found a lil handwritten flash fiction from years ago, and decided to type it up, without edits I wrote in an creative writing therapy group at some mental health program or another, but it's the germ of an idea I want to expand into a novel

over the character limit for alt text
sorry, i tried!

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