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marxist ragamuffin | erstwhile philosophy student | current philosophy degree have-er | she/they | 🇳🇱 🇹🇷

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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
trying to figure out how to cite individual minecraft creators in an academic context
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
look all i said was that it's 8463 86 77278 4678464 9687 8637 66 24542454 because their copyright system appears to be slightly less overactive given that people post entire episodes of 假面骑士 on there, i don't see why josh overreacted so much
LoftyWords — 01:09
time to start hosting your toes on bilibili in protest

Jeshter — 01:09
my fucking what
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
wishing whoever came up with putting ticket gates inside university buildings a happy please get your head slammed against a turnstile. i just want a place to sit and work and you paid for that building with fucking tax money. you shouldn't be allowed to close it to the public
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
i think one of the things that make tokusatsu shows very compelling to me is that toei employs cadre of stunt people who collectively have centuries of experience in throwing themselves at the ground in interesting ways. one shouldn't underestimate the value of a good fall
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there should be libraries that are open after midnight to accommodate academics with weird sleep schedules
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
whether churches have legal personality as churches in the netherlands is apparently up for a judge to decide if there's ever disagreement. there's no way you can register yourself as a church somewhere and no formal criteria for what makes one a "church community" in the sense of 2:2 sub 1 Bw
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
academics have so many ways of saying "haha i didn't finish this paper in time for the conference but please bear with me :))" everyone i've spoken to has suggested a new one
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
why is it so hard to just ban these guys from the dang campus introduction day market...
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
problematic male socialisation (does not know the difference between polyester and viscose)
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
very harrowing experience today listening to a lawyer who spent several years isolated as a political prisoner telling his experiences to our class illustrated by AI generated slides
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
maybe it's bc of my years long habits but i feel like i'm constituionally not a morning person. even when i get enough sleep i'll feel oddly floaty after getting up at 6:30 or whatever
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
hanto probably has some of the least chill of any kamen rider i've seen
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
guys the trias politica isn't real, not a single really existing government works the way that french guy sketched out in the 18th century when the government employed like 15 people please update the theory this shit isn't gonna cut it to analyse such entities as "the european union" lol
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i'm really what about this show made him go "we simply ought to edit a grindset post to be about Heart from Kamen Rider Drive and the evil theatre stage he hangs out in with his dysfunctional monster polycule"
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i should start referring to things as "my precious abstraction"
My precious abstraction, the technique powering my own research at the time, had not been developed to analyze fossils, or to pursue the idealized pleasure of mathematics. 

Factor analyisis had been invented for a social use contrary to my beliefs and values. I felt personally offended, and this book, though not written until some ten years later, ultimately arose from this insight and feeling of violation.
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
potential top 10 funniest contra legem readings in history
Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) states that any European country that respects the principles of the EU may apply to join. While Canada is geographically located in North America, the EU has stated that the interpretation of this criterion is "subject to political assessment" based on additional factors such as culture or political terms,[63] by the Commission and the European Council. Example for these interpretations subject to political assessment of the Commission and the European Council is Turkey with its European part that accounts for only 3 percent of its entire territory.[64]
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
today i learned john dupre is still publishing papers. the book of his i read and really liked was published in 2002. man was born in 1952 and is still at it, somehow (attached: a favourite quote --i love the phrase "thouroughly unilluminating")
3. How Much Must Evolution Explain?
Imagine you are an alien watching a cocktail party with a human social scientist. You ask: why are all these people in this room? The reply comes back: the human species evolved a gene for the metabolism of ethanol. They have all come here to consume ethanol, and eventually they will all go home and, more or less successfully, metabolize it. It is
of course true that the evolution of this capacity is a necessary condition for cocktail parties as we know them. So we might even say that the evolutionary observation is, in some sense, part of the full explanation of the phenomenon in question. But it is not a very illuminating part. It is thoroughly unilluminating by comparison to the information that these are all members of the Tunbridge Wells Bridge Club, and this is the Annual General Meeting. The point so far is just that everything we do is something that we have evolved the capacity to do. But the existence of such an evolved capacity may be thoroughly uninformative as to why, when, or even whether we actually exercise that capacity.
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
<holds a spork up at you while ranting about the european union being an eldritch creature consistent of inter-court squables and fruit liquor litigation>
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
i wish that people who review audioplayers would mention if the stock firmware supports rewinding a few seconds on pause
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
abstractions? nothing against them. a lot of my favourite concepts are abstractions, like money, graphical user interfaces and worker's rights. but i hate it when people use them to argue that in they would be vindicated in the perfect dollhouse reality they assumed for the sake of argument
Let me lay out in summary the four assumptions I shall make. We are to
imagine a society with (1) democratic institutions in reasonably good working order, including a representative legislature elected on the basis of universal adult suffrage; (2) a set of judicial institutions, again in reasonably good order, set up on a nonrepresentative basis to hear individual lawsuits, settle disputes, and uphold the rule of law; (3) a commitment on the part of most members of the society and most of its officials to the idea of individual and minority rights; and (4) persisting, substantial, and good faith disagreement about rights (i.e., about what the commitment to rights actually amounts to and what its implications are) among the members of the society who are committed to the idea of rights.
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
really annoyed when philosophers assume that a posteriori knowledge of an issue can only distract you from forming the correct opinion about it as though the most reliable method for drawing normative consclusions is one where you disregard particulars and empirical reality as mere distractions
But I want to take off some of the flesh and boil down the normative argument to its bare bones so that we can look directly at judicial review and see what it is premised on.
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
installing apps on linux is easy bro you can find it on the snap store. it's available as a flatpack. just add the apt repository. just use this pipx command. simply use a bash script. make sure the secure key is on the SSH keychain manager. we have a .gdebi package for you.
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
heartwarming: local law student just learned that there isn't another seminar tomorrow after all. weekend commences...
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
new rule: if you're a philosopher and your argument relies on you inventing - an indigenous society that proves your point - a new kind of slavery that doesn't exist but would prove your point if it di i'm taking your badge and pen away from you. go work at a carwash for a bit or something.
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
you, yes you, can come watch me rank kamen rider movies and fight me in the comments live on twitch dot tv slash jeshter underscores
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
she's such an accomplished young lady
Miffy celebrated her 50th birthday in 2005. This was marked in cities across the globe, for example, at the Manchester Art Gallery in the United Kingdom. She also serves as a "celebrity character spokesperson" for UNICEF.[26]
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
one-sentence horror story: i'm thinking about creating a linkedin account
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
i don't wanna post pictures of my irl self on the web sites anymore bc honestly the AI shit skeeves me out a lot, which is mostly fine bc i didn't do it very often regardless, but every so often i have a cute outfit i wanna show of to the oomfies and i get a bit sad
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
why is it so hard to find a pdf with the train schedule on it, everything links to the travel planner instead. what about all the neurodivergents that wish to memorise the train schedule like their hero Mina Murray from Dracula (1897)
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
apparently the most popular system of shorthand in the netherlands was developed by a guy who needed to take notes on horseback
shorthand alphabet from the wikipedia page for "Systeem Groote" 

lots of simple lines representing vowels, consonants and a number of commonly used words
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i know it's not perfect, but one can do worse than the CEFR standard for language comprehension
the CEFR language proficiency levels ranging from A1 to C2, in between B1 and B2 a question mark category is inserted labeled "tomfoolery"
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
finally got around to factory resetting my phone to root it via MTKclient in a NixOS liveboot, download MicroG from its dedicated F-Droid repository and add the correct modules to LSPosed via Magisk thank you to all the oomfs who supported me along the way
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
fun ireland fact: county monaghan is twinsies with prince edward island canada
two older men in formal clothes standing beside a sign with the text "County Monaghan twinned with Prince Edward Island Canada"
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Josh @jeshter.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
it's almost 6 o clock. it's time to get down to your local ann leckie dealer ship. test driving the new ann leckie. prices start at fifty nine THOUSAND euros. have you got the money. houhhhh. i've been doing a lot of thinking. about the new ann leckie. fifty nine thousand.
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
idk if it's quite true that any pictures taken by a camera with a real lens is better than those taken on high-end smartphones but the pictures i took on vacation in berlin came out real nice
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
in "there's always a command line program" news, i eventually figured out how to batch convert some subtitles from traditional to simplified chinese characters using someone's github project and a bash script
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
might become a mechanical pencil using sort of girl
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
i told my friends i could easily make an amv of women in kamen rider kicking the shit out of people just from clips i have on my pc so i decided to cut one to the jpop idol girl remix of the original show's theme women be like:
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
i'm trying to not think too hard about the political implications kamen rider W setting part of their movie inside a call of duty level bc this flip she does is really fun
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
philosophy does give you an appreciation for the small things in life. i get happy neuron activation from referring to things as "false facts" knowing that somewhere a philosopher is angry about it
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
passed the HSK 1 test with a pretty good grade :) not really proof of brilliant mandarin comprehension or anything but it's fun to stack a bunch of low-level language certificates on my cv under "hobbies" or "miscellaneous" or w/e
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
wondering if josh and i collectively have enough tokusatsu friends that we'd get more than 2 viewers on doing a kamen rider movie tierlist stream
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
booting up discord is getting a little irritating
New Audio Device Detected

Discord has detected a new audio output device named *Dummy Output*! Do you want to switch to it? 

> Don't Suggest Dummy Output again
> Don't Switch
> Switch Device
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
apart from the heroes talking like they're together on a particularly grueling shift at a 24 hours mcdonald's they can't even get a nice assembly shot. they pull up at the cgi quarry in groups of 3 and then say "alright janice i'm here to take over" or smth en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenger...
en.wikipedia.org
Avengers assemble scene - Wikipedia
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
watching the "Avengers assemble scene" with its own wikipedia article to see how it stacks up to the average tokusatsu assembling at the quarry scene and as i expected it's much worse, but what struck me more is jesus yous weren't exaggerating about how bizarre the dialogue is in marvel films huh
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
dutch diversity win: hair products for curly hair finally available at local drug store
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
ngl i'd forgotten that the "GP" in "Super Hero Wars GP: Kamen Rider #3" stood for "grand prix" really love all the riders stancing the fuck up
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
i think one of the few dutch traditions i feel any sort of pride about is transporting items that are too big to fit on a bike on a bike. a bakfiets patriot, if you will
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
our landlord had to be explained today that rent price regulation is binding rather than subjective, because she showed up to a legal hearing with "i object to the rent reduction because the new rent price is too low" hadn't looked into the law at all, didn't appear to know where she was. amateur.
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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
it's so hard to look imposing in a summer dress, i gotta find one that'll make me look scary
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