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helen

@homotoptheory.northsky.social
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Former mathematician and current podcaster. she/it. my views represent those of your employer. culturally normal. Podcast: @odiumsymposium.bsky.social Blog: bananasinwartime.ghost.io

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.wren (bubonic) @ratfem.bsky.social · 7h
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 7h
we’re gonna get those kinks ironed out in woke 3
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 7h
aren’t both of these movies 5 hours long
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 7h
i’ll meet you both there. you can start without me
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 7h
pretty soon we’re gonna be policing who can say “tranny”
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 7h
better version of this meme where it just says “if you want to be a good ally to a trans woman just give her cheese fries and $20”
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 7h
you phrased it very differently
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 7h
smh even after transition all my friends still want me to watch man movies :/
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Quinneigh @bittenbovine.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
they should put a bodega in a pagoda or a gazebo
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 11h
a second helen’s girlfriend has hit nyc
selfie of cassie and me
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 12h
it’s nuanced probably
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 12h
her girlfriend aft agley
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 14h
@bghgmg.bsky.social they’re coming for your crown
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 16h
btw
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 16h
if i wanted a julia to guest host my podcast i would simply pick one with insightful analysis
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Spacey Kacey @kaceyisspacey.bsky.social · 18h
It seems like the wandering ronin just barely moved his katana from the holster, but you look down and see he gave you perfect bottom surgery
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Odium Symposium @odiumsymposium.bsky.social · 21h
Our new bonus episode is now available for subscribers! We talk about OG rationalist Julia Galef, and her shilling of "Superforecasting", one of the most ridiculous grifts we've ever heard of.
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Ezra Klein is a Disgusting Worm 2: The Rationalist Oracle of Delphi | Odium Symposium
We continue our journey into the mind of Ezra Klein with an episode of The Ezra Klein Show that doesn't really feature Ezra Klein, but rathe
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ChûgFromABigHûgMûg @bghgmg.bsky.social · 19h
its always sunny in philadelphia screen shot. lady politely asking if the listener could just ask aicharlie kelly responding with a very hostile fuck you
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 20/10/2026
dudes rock
r/Hermeticism • 2d ago u/MagoMaravilha

My father has started charging me rent for a revelation

l've been reading the Corpus Hermeticum and discussing some of it with my father, who owns a small plumbing business and tends to judge philosophies by whether the person explaining them can fix a leaking tap. A few weeks ago we were sitting in his kitchen and I was talking about the divine intellect, the living cosmos, and the possibility of coming to know God through understanding creation. He listened for quite a while, then asked whether God also knew himself through the plumbing. I said I supposed plumbing was part of the cosmos. He seemed pleased with this and went back to eating. Since then he has referred to every blocked toilet as "an obstacle to self-knowledge," which was funny the first four or five times.
The problem started when I read him part of the first treatise, where the divine Mind appears to Hermes and asks what he wishes to learn. My father became unusually quiet and asked me to read that part again. Then he told me that in 1998, while sleeping in his van outside a customer's house, he had dreamed of an enormous presence asking him almost exactly the same question. He remembers answering that he wanted to know where the customer kept the outside stopcock. The presence apparently showed him a very elaborate vision of the house with all the walls removed, including a pipe running under an extension that wasn't on the plans. He woke up, dug in that spot, and found the valve. He has told the story about finding that valve for years, although the enormous presence is a fairly recent addition.
I asked why he hadn't mentioned the dream before. He said nobody had ever asked how he knew where to dig, which is unfortunately believable because he usually tells this story to complain about the customer's refusal to pay for the excavation. I lent him the book and he returned it with a pencil mark beside the opening of Poimandres and "CHECK DATE OF VAN" written i…
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 20/10/2026
remember a couple months ago when assigned media newsletter got in the weeds of “transsexual” discourse about whether it was appropriate for trans people to use that as a term to designate medical transition? so that’s not chill but calling me a “man who transitioned into a woman” is? what the fuck?
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✨️ℭ𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔞✨️ @cassie-opeia.northsky.social · 20/10/2026
I have a few wonderful creations made by Quinnie, and I cannot tell you how much joy they bring me! check out her art below!! buy her art!! do it!!
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 20/10/2026
quinnie makes absolutely incredible art, and now you can have it in your home!
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 20/10/2026
i can’t hold a candle. too eepy. i might fall asleep with a lit candle and that’s dangerous. i can try to keep you in my thoughts though. unless i fall asleep of course. which is very likely. bc i am so eepy.
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 20/10/2026
never hurts to check
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 20/10/2026
i gotta visit boston again
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
no lol
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
it looked incredible
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
chad yes meme
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
add piss to a band name the piss police
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
so it turns out the difference isn’t really in ability to get the answers right. the twist is that (1) how long does it take you and (2) what is your response to “how did you know the answers?” are the real discriminators. i was reasonably good at reading emotion off the photos
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
sarah, when i watched that scene for the first time i was like haha, i can easily ace that test. i paused the ep and took the test and well, i’ll let the reader draw her own conclusions
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
seeing all these reviews about how strange or bizarre nathan fielder acts and it’s like… what are you talking about? he’s literally an everyman figure. that’s just what it’s like for all of us, right?
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
they hated it because it spoke the truth
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
obviously not! borges stories are essays
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
they're building the map that perfectly covers the territory, from the borges story "wouldn't it be fucked up if there was a map that perfectly covered the territory"
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
How Can Our Factories Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real
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sadie schreber, velveteen rabbit @sadiehawkinsdance.bsky.social · 19/10/2026
There are only two wsj headlines - sadie schreber, digital (2026)
the wsj article about cutting off parents but edited to say penises
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
my favorite critic of anything is always the person who is mad that it wasn't the thing they wanted it to be. here it's especially funny because arguably one of the main themes of the movie is why it isn't the thing he wants!
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
wow
fell for it again award
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
👀
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
dude i love theater artists "just like the word 'tiger' is a metaphor for a tiger, so is the table on a stage a metaphor for a table"
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
you object with this and not the “re” in “pressure”?
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
foiled by the use of very small language model
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
one time i matched with a guy on feeld who had my deadname and it turns out he was an obvious egg and i had to bail really fast
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
i want to pedantically argue that you should have kept the “ti” in “evolutionary” because that phoneme isn’t a vowel
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
yə
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
you hate fun
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
bisexuals are the ———— of the world
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
i don’t like fantasy novels that feel like a ttrpg game, but that follows from a more general theorem
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helen @homotoptheory.northsky.social · 19/10/2026
another fun bullet tactic. dude took my knight, apparently not seeing Qh4#
chess board from black perspective. white king on h1, most recent move is f3 threatening knight on g4knight captures h2 pawn which isn’t a real sacrifice because the bishop covers g1 so kxh2 allows qh4#
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