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Joe Simons

@joesimons.bsky.social
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Using computers to better understand people. Social psychologist. Bristol to Singapore via Oxford and UNC.

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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's amazing the knots people tie themselves in when the reality of the situation is utterly self-evident to me
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's just an idea created by Big Task in order to assign more tasks
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"Did you get an illustration for the cover of the handbook of evil?" "Sure thing boss. Real homoerotic, just like you asked"
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Great companion piece to the Cambridge Handbook of Vile Darkness and Vecna: A Very Short Introduction
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
bsky.app/profile/joes...
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#TheArchers re-using Father Ted plots
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Father Ted: That Money Was Just Resting In My Account
ALT: Father Ted: That Money Was Just Resting In My Account
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
London Review of Boobs
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Race science only make it woke
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
[George Lucas, logging off social media] Blusk Eye
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Surprising amount of cat chat, too #TheArchers
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Gonna shut down all these useless, woke Universities. Also, we are going to open Mixed Mental Art Brain Dojos (tm) in every state.
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Picture #4 is definitely a D&D character portrait
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Don’t know who to credit this to, but it cheers me up!
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"By the time the Batcave opens, I'm going to be too old to enjoy it"
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
King Prawn, too youtu.be/zbQ1-TtObLc?...
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KING PRAWN - SOMEONE TO HATE [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
YouTube video by King Prawn
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Groke: terrifying precisely because all the other characters were so scared of her
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Hufsa Groke
ALT: Hufsa Groke
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It's funny that what stuck in my child-mind was the weapon's ineffectiveness, not the guy getting eaten
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh, I think you might be right. I had no idea of the backstory.
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Oh god yes terrifying core memory unlocked
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Like, I can't even remember how old I was, but I can clearly remember a scene with a policeman firing a pistol at the monster and that doing absolutely nothing to stop it
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don't even know what movie it was. TV was on at my Gran's house, and they were showing some old black-and-white monster movie - like Godzilla but in the US. Nothing "scary", ropey special effects, mid-afternoon on a family channel. But the powerlessness of the adults in it terrified me.
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"I say, Psycho J, that really was a bally close one, eh? Could have been a rum do, but your plan came good in the end. I was a fool to have doubted you" "Woop woop, sir"
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I like this in combination with the high-waisted pants. Juggalo & Wooster.
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TBH, switching from MTurk to LLM-generated data is just cutting out the middleman
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Truly he is the worst of the Thunderbirds
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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 28/09/2026
And yes, part of me wants that moment to be a gigantic, continental-sized "fuck you" to everyone who told my fellow Britons to “go home”. We are home. And I want my country back too.
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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To be fair, you honestly can’t say that Enid Blyton isn’t prepared to move with the times.
BBC headline: Five arrested as counter-terror police investigate major incident near RAF Fairford
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The people yearn for the metanarratives
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Top 10 Medical Lizards" is a Buzzfeed article waiting to happen
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It doesn't not
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Photocopying my latest 'zise, ready to hand out at the philosophy conference
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Zines are still pretty popular and feel related
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"They've stolen our flags, Jerry!" "All the flags?" "All the flags! The ones we put on the lamposts!" "The Union Jacks?" "It's a Jack heist, Jerry. It's Grand Theft Jack out there" "The ones you put up without permission?" "They've made a big flag out of the stolen ones! I want it reported, Jerry!"
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
That's ridiculous. It's clearly the homonculous inside that's angry.
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Assistant, associate or full?
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Once again, speaking as a professional archaeologist: "English" is not an ethnicity in any meaningful sense. You only have to go back about 1,000 years before everyone in Europe has the same group of common genealogical ancestors. Humans have lived on the British Isles for almost a million years.
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Philosopher: what could be better than being vindicated? Economist: material goods
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
But not Pioneer generation lol
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We need a "grim chuckle" emoji
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Can only imagine how he comes over to the people actually doing the job
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Hegseth: really into the war fandom
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
You are running out of forks to give?
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Inside Wolff there are four Yous
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Imagining Dreher et al at the pearly gates, being gently informed they were in fact side characters.
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Everyone (rightly) focusing on the "doom loop", but the phrase "content supply chain" makes me feel like I need a shower
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Target Response Clarification Rejoinder Getting defensive Not letting this go Increasingly snarky Matching the tone Escalation Salting the earth
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
She's putting a lot of effort into finding out something quite minor. Kind of a skunk cost fallacy.
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Joe Simons @joesimons.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
God the register of this sounds like InfoWars
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