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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 7h

the spam on webshops is getting pretty weird

an eBook titled "COVID-19 Test, The: Church or God?"
To Whom Are You Espoused, Church or God? Here is a question for all Christians, all followers of Christ...

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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

i'm taking this as a challenge to prove the contrary

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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

my presentation about the legal form explained through minecraft animals got a very positive response from the 11th conference of the danish society of marxist studies

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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

thank you! i try to be! after extensive study i believe that this is how the law works:

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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

researching how to credit minecraft users in an academic context for my conference presentation on the legal form

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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 · 29/09/2026

i wonder if in other EU countries you can directly draw rights from directives with expired deadlines to them. that's how it works in the netherlands. also individuals who have been harmed by the non-transpositon of EU directive can claim damages from their government

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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 everyone involved in the decision making process to ironically suffer terrible inconvenience and/or death due to not being able to access enclosed public spaces

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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

it's not quite true that you can be a church without knowing it, you have to actively want to identify as one to qualify, but it's still funny to me that you can be shrodinger's church until someone tries to take you to court

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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

you can be a church without knowing for sure if you qualify as one, and you can assume you're a church while not being one in reality. this is why some religious community choose to register themselves as foundations or associations (2:3 Bw) instead

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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

in unrelated news i'll be speaking at a conference next week

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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

train journey to university: reading a paper on the interaction between European and Member State legal competences train journey back from university: watching attractive men be put in the tokusatsu torment nexus for entertaiment amusing to think about how differently i come across to onlookers

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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

for sure, but also does having a good take even like, matter? i feel like often at most it boosts your own reputation or whatever, 9/10 times it's not really informing people or making them think of something they should be thinking about y'know

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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

i feel like so much posting about politics is a distraction, like you can just mute it and not miss anything of substance. i can recommend anyone to log off and join a tenants union or whatever instead of spending all day trying to have the best take

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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

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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

recurring theme of AI guys that keep assuming that the whole of society works in a similar way to silicon valley and then get a bit confused when people try to point out that it doesn't

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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

it seems quaint but loftys only rant about what philosophers are doing abstractions wrong when they're in distress (i need to read 25 more pages of this and i'm already losing my mind)

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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

no idea about fedora i just have a GUI program called "startup apps" that i can add things to

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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 · 31/08/2026

i also i assume that and now i'm trying to figure out if dotfiles is a proper noun or not

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LoftyWords @loftywords.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

took 4 hours to rank the 51 kamen rider movies i watched, i wonder if i've seen too many of these lol

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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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