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Intractabilis

@intractabilis.bsky.social
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Former baby. Now I just play one online. Let Them Eat Ones and Zeros

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Nolan Void @wolter.bsky.social · 19h
Listening to the 1968 BBC radio Hobbit and it’s refreshing to hear the dwarves being presented exactly the way the book in isolation does: not stout warriors, but a bunch of bourgeois, middle aged men who are so in over their heads that adding Bilbo increases their competence by an order of magitude
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sounds like an Amazon seller.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was raped at a frat party. It’s a shockingly common experience and preventative interventions in college are way too late.
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Texas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 05/10/2026
Simon Andriesz, Howard Nutlick's associate that outed his relationship with Epstein is dead. I know who was responsible.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I love the judge going “wow I love this AI generated version of the victim. It blows my fucking mind.” (AI generated quote) Before sentencing to the max.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Imagine having a sister so zonked out on Jesus, that she presents an AI video of “yourself” forgiving your murderer. Thanks sis.
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Court Tosses ​​Sentence After A.I. Video of Victim ‘Forgiving’ His Killer Is Played (Gift Article)
An appellate court in Arizona threw out the prison sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter after an A.I.-generated video of his victim was played in court.
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No lessons learned @snarkypotato.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Recontextualizing legacy media as often reporting personal claims as facts without researching for even five minutes whether they're lies is an important critical skill to learn
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fascinating world of ancient #glass! #Roman dove-shaped vessels were used as perfume bottles. The liquid was sealed inside and the tip of the tail or the beak had to be broken to remove the perfume. This particular example, discovered in a first-century burial at Rovasenda, Italy, is...🧵1/2 🏺
A close-up of an undamaged, translucent glass vessel shaped like a dove. The vessel contains a clear liquid with a reddish sediment visible at the bottom.
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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Gleaners, 1857, realist masterpiece by Jean-François Millet, French artist, a founder of Barbizon school, born #OTD 1814. Described as an “epic hymn to labour”, which prefigured the laundresses of Degas and floorscrapers of Caillebotte. Musée d’Orsay
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play by post @playbypost.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Come on man www.thebanker.com/content/0228...
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Whistleblower who outed Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies
The former British banker who spent more than 35 years working in financial markets has died by suicide
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Adorable 🥰 Gorilla 🦍 Family
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Scamming boomers getting easier by the day.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 30/09/2026
Recently been rereading CS Lewis on Paradise Lost, and he understood this perfectly well -- Milton wrote what he wrote because he was writing in the form of the epic poem. Had he written in another form, it would have been very different.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 30/09/2026
The thing about formulae is that what's interesting about work done to a formula is precisely the way a skilled human artist will work within the constraints of the formula and use those to create something which is uniquely expressive.
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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 30/09/2026
New mixes are copyrightable. The copyright to the Beatles recordings starts running out in the UK/EEA in 2033. But if they can make the new versions the defaults, they can collect royalties on the new mixes for another seventy years.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The only way to stop human suffering is for all humans to die.
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Mihnea @miyhnea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Powerful
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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta muse saying why would I deceive you?
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Do you mention The Durutti Column when you teach the prelude to the Second World War, and if so, what is the response?
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💀 Shalloween 💀 @shallowva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“There’s a feeling today that Britain really only found out about the Holocaust at the end of the war. But in 1942, the year in which most victims of the Holocaust were murdered, you couldn’t really escape this information in Britain. It was in every newspaper. It was on the BBC.”
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That’s a smart take. But then if you extend it further back, the most impactful technology we cannot replace, is also the one that satisfies us in our loneliness as well as binds us to our fellows, namely cooking.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hard to beat Rudolf Diesel for world changing technology we cannot replace.
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Alina Sarnatska @srntska.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ukraine recently recovered a relatively intact Russian Geran-4 drone after an emergency landing. What investigators found inside is striking: beyond the airframe and final assembly, many of its key components appear to come from abroad.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 27/09/2026
Sometimes I forget that not everyone knows that Prince had a period in the late 80s when he was quite enamored with Chicago house music, and he created (at least) a gospel-tinged house album, for which he tried to enlist Mark Moore of S’express, Patti Labelle for vocals, and maybe William Orbit.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026
I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The rich and their media sure do love their cheap, dependable spoilers.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Trump Straight is between his buttocks.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It basically never snows here anymore, or it lands as slushie ice that melts away. Now rain and wind is another matter.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But Merica has mehican?
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Of course they can! Every time I ask them a stupid question they grit their teeth and tell me how brilliant and insightful I am.
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jackie Jackson died two days ago. His death did not get the fanfare that the big celebrities get but I assure you he was no less than any of them: a titan astride the earth. In this thread, a few of the songs he played bass on. You know these songs. You know their bass parts. youtu.be/DKVB_CtU8XQ
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Pressure Drop
YouTube video by Toots & The Maytals - Topic
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What keeps me digi-subscribed to the NYT are the obituaries.
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it is genuinely obscene that prior to this point it was considered good for american democracy that nixon and reagan were never prosecuted
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Mohsen Mosleh @mmosleh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New paper: In Nov 2025, X began showing where accounts actually operate from. We studied 8,200 politically engaged accounts claiming to be in the US half were revealed to be elsewhere What happened when the mismatch went public? @yuweichuai.bsky.social @thomasrenault.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social
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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The reason that lesbian bar mask story blew up is that an insane amount of cruelty and emotional abuse is tolerated in certain lefty communities as long as it’s justified by the right buzzwords. Similar to how certain churches torment their members in the name of Christian love.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Never.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Can we call it apartheid now
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To the extent that there is a core to Trump, it is a need to fill up what can’t be fulfilled, to make up for a child that was never loved. Asking desperately to be loved is sad really. A sign we’re past the beginning of the end.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Jaws: Shark Attack Surprise
ALT: Jaws: Shark Attack Surprise
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Stanimir Dobrev @delfoo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I did an analysis of Russian and Ukrainian grain export data for the 2026-2027 season. When comparing to the prior 2025-2026 grain export season Ukraine's grain exports decreased noticeably but Russian grain exports outright collapsed.
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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 22/09/2026
Silicon Valley is primarily an industry of vanity lifestyle businesses based on selection for social and cultural affinity, but which heavily propagandizes its bourgeois small-business owner class (close cousins to car dealership franchisees) as being cognitive elites and titans of industry.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Like a wild donkey alone by itself
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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling.
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What color is it this time?
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Intractabilis @intractabilis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
What I see is that the long term trend towards more numerous smaller parties forcing weak coalitions has noticeably accelerated.
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Bocc Kob @bocckob.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've been going entirely off his haircut and it hasn't steered me wrong yet. His entire persona screams slimy businessman from the 80s scheming to defeat Robocop.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You read that right: Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar will, thanks to the approval of Trump's FCC, own 49.5% of Paramount Warner Brothers, and CBS, and CNN. One of many things to keep in mind when you cast your vote in the next six weeks.
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