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A true hero. This is one of those cases where listing your criminal record on your resume should be a plus.

Post surgical drugs include acetaminophen, celecoxib, and pregabalin. As soon as I started taking them, I’ve had persistent hiccups. They could also be interacting with the suzetrigine used just before surgery. I’m going to stop the last two to see if it stops. I suspect it’s pregabalin.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 4h

It feels like there are two great tests of basic human reasoning these days: how does one respond to the reemergence of Nazis in power? and how does one respond to the current AI paradigm? And it feels like they’re the same test.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 13h

Worried about the economy? Have you tried watching propaganda about how the economy is good actually?

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 22h

Democracy is a collective effort. Any perceived failure is the fault of us all. Scapegoats are the tool of idiots who want to blame others and avoid personal responsibility.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The prophecy is fulfilled.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I will always want to pursue my Bene Gesserit storyline to its origins: a late 21st century sex wiccan labor union that fundamentally understood that the male erection was the ultimate masculine weakness. And patriarchy was based on making this the fault of women. The BG wanted to flip this.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's a very specific color that becomes quickly recognizable when zooming in and out of Google Maps.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You have nothing to lose. Keep up this very basic level of headline writing.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also: I could manufacture this story with $2k, a random homeless person, and an afternoon photoshoot.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Interesting in a cinema history way. How much did Watergate, or Vietnam, or any other previous but recent government corruption, influence cinema's depiction of the US as the villain? I always think of Enemy of the State as peak pop culture US villain, but this obviously is very surface level.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's going to get a little weird if they get to The Last of Us 14. Can you imagine a narrative with the word, "last" or "final" in it getting to a 13th sequel? That would be stupid.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hire an architect, people. Unless it's involved in a fraud scheme. Then just be happy with this garbage.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is the second time I’ve come to this restaurant for lunch and it’s the second time they’ve got my order wrong. I think maybe this isn’t a good restaurant.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Fiscal discipline" means less spending on society and the public good and more accommodations for capitalists, ie. "private-sector investment."

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They let Sam Darnold go for this guy. Are they going to fire the guy who made that decision? Maybe send him along with McCarthy in the trade?

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The idea that the perpetual scammers, Burkman and Wohl, could get close to anyone in this administration is absurd. These aren't pardon brokers, they're dimwits in a neverending search for people stupider than themselves to con.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The people who advocate so zealously for enforcement against a crime they themselves are guilty of are True Believers. They see their own guilt in the face of their own moral system as proof of their certitude. They must be right since they are also guilty.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"unsupervised access to one another" This is so telling. It's such a fundamental aspect of individual agency. Idiots like this hate that. They want total control. They want to supervise all access. To everything and everyone. It's not just about gender. They hate everyone. Including themselves.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Tomlin would've made a great Cowboys HC. I'm glad no one was smart enough to make that happen.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"But take note: I am powerful. And I am only the least of the doorkeepers. From hall to hall there is one doorkeeper after another, each more powerful than the last."

excerpt: "I will get to my main point by 3). To set context: 1) it is very difficult to be heard within some EA, rationalist, & Al safety spaces when you discuss sexism, harm, and harassment. You have to use specific framings and language. You have to be "precise." You cannot misstep."
with the last two sentences highlighted.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

2 (alt). +10% Bench points (to compensate for in game injuries and the inability to substitute)

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For posterity, and with a touch of doubt given I'm disclosing this three weeks into the NFL season, but my preseason picks for the Super Bowl were Bills Rams. My preferred Super Bowl is Bills Eagles. My choice of winner is the Bills. My preferred winner is the Eagles, of course.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This kind of take is the definition of living inside a bubble and thinking it not only represents the world at large but also that any alternative worldview must be false and calculated. Congratulations to the writer, tho. I now, at least, have heard of the song and the artist.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

What if the line to the bathroom is a crafted social encounter? How can I sell the lack of facilities as a feature?

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My first TI project. I have a lot of thoughts about how to think about interior space, of course, but never just the interior space. Never just some random existing characterless interior space designed by someone else that I have to make into something amazing. It's fun. Not what I wanted, but fun.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You all cursed me. I hope you're satisfied.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Power means people want to please you.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Certainty plagues us all.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Obviously the first shot of the first movie should be of a sword. The blade. Wide aspect ratio. That gentle curve. Glimmering.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The foundation of a social species is the imperative for each of us to offer another the opportunity to bond.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Your guilt should not be your identity.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I interact with the world in an honest way. My way. And anything that doesn't conform to that way is ignored. Because it's dishonest. And it turns out, when I do that, the world is exactly what I think it is. And everyone around me is exactly who I think they are.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I've started the note for this idea as a story under the title, Oops! It's the Future!

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Life looks forward. Death looks back.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Growing up, my Bible was the DSM-III. I think that explains a lot about me.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have a surgery coming up next week. I think of surgery like I think of the Star Trek transporter: I'm going to die and the guy who comes out the other end is just a copy of me. But I do it for the continuity.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My idea would be—ultimately—to make Blade a villain.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Something I never consider about this modern world is that I can look things from my youth up. But I can never remember any of the words, and like gochujang, even if I could, I'd never guess they had such a bad poorly latinized spelling. But I had literally no idea what these were called.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Same as the prequel trilogy: You'll watch the first two hoping this is going to get to something good, then you just never bother to go see the third one.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You are the product. And the ad for the product.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ha. This reminds me, I blocked @markhamillofficial.bsky.social a long time ago because he kept posting AI shit. I suppose he might've realized the error of his ways by now, but I will never know.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's a trap. Capitalism is a trap. Of increasing demands with diminishing rewards. Of increasing effort with diminishing quality. There is no escape. The only winning move is not to play.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Quit FB 10 years ago and well, these lyrics from Wasteland by Dan Bern sums things up quite nicely for me.

And I watched TV
And read the papers and listened to the radio
And made all the fancy scenes
And said all the right words
And wore all the right clothes
And knew the names of the hip people
But I still felt out of touch
So I stopped watching TV
And reading the papers
And listening to the radio
And making the fancy scenes
And saying the right words
And wearing the right clothes
And knowing the names of the hip people
And I felt more out of touch than ever
But I didn't care anymore

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s been almost a year since I’ve been to my favorite sushi place but the head sushi chef still remembers me, which is nice.

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Joseph O @josepho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is what happens when idiots get a hold of time travel and rush into the future completely unprepared for the centuries of cultural evolution they skipped.

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