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James Eel

@mentallyeel.bsky.social
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If a man charge a man with sorcery, and cannot prove it, he who is charged with sorcery shall go to the river, into the river he shall throw himself and if the river overcome him, his accuser shall take to himself his house (estate).

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
CARTOON/CRIMSON1.GIF
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
When I was in grad school the academic job market was already awful and we'd discuss survival strategies. One such strategy was "Have a position so thoroughly refuted in the discipline that you're the only person who still espouses it - that way you're the [thing] guy and will always be notable."
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Tate Collection @tate.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Stanley Spencer, Turkeys, 1925 #artbots #tate botfrens.com/collections/14375/cont…
Presented by the Contemporary Art Society 1935
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It's called a "letter of marque".
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"This art project is a single grafted tree that produces 40 varieties of apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, and other stone fruits." what! www.popsci.com/environment/...
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A tree with 40 different fruits planted in Philadelphia
Move over, Liberty Bell.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I am trying to weave the belief that this part is real into the collective unconscious of Wolfe fans, I post it whenever I have an opportunity and hope others do the same.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 14/03/2025
if i eat the balls of the tiger it will make me strong like the tiger
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Two sigils per chamber is well within acceptable sigil density limits.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Okay obviously that makes him sound extremely bad but have you considered that he was a "diamond trader".
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Other than Brooks (who sucks so bad he might serve as a negative model of some kind) I genuinely can't think of a more worthless columnist. Representative of the opinions of no actually existing constituency and personally a total dullard in thought and style.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there a text in this class?
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I used to think it was like a funny joke in The Sims that in their fictional world you improve your "Charisma" score by going up to a mirror and practicing Hitler gestures but people apparently are trying to apply this technique IRL.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I predict this will be visible in 100% of objective measures of consumer behaviour and in 0% of anything poll/survey-based.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Legalize it.
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Tory Brown (she/her) @downtowntbrown.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Tea Party organizers wrote guides distributed through Google Groups on how exactly to interrupt town halls and get irate. It only took a few people acting inappropriately to get the crowd moving. They moved clips quickly to outlets. These people were coached and encouraged and eventually funded!
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I bought it on vinyl when it came out but I didn't really think much of it beyond "Side 2 of this is in my 'stuff I can fall asleep to' pile". It's taken me a while to internalize how distinctive Kranky's stuff in general and SoTL/Labradford in particular really are in that ambient space.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
When that Aix Em Klemm album came out I was like "This is a neat little diversion" but it's gradually become a classic to me.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I sort of wish this thing was called something else.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Every single time I have to do anything at work I wish this would happen to me.
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chris walla, ,, @calculizer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
jazz wolf
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
If his name was "Anthony Oliver" he would automatically have had more staying power. As it stands he is just "the Fudge Rounds guy" to me.
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Mark Hill @mehill.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Not really convinced this will hold but one thing's for sure: it would be very, very funny.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I would really like a way to summon the dumbest assholes in the world and, ideally, they will have guns.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I thought that was Daniel Songer for a moment.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Cats medley plus YMCA plus that song The Joker likes in the movie The Joker. A grand night out.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I think if you actually are a Maoist you're supposed to call it "MLM thought" or something so maybe these people were poseurs who hadn't read the lore.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
~10 years ago when I was actually trying to use online dating apps I had to put a thing on my profile that I'm not a Maoist because everyone I was matching with was a self-proclaimed Maoist.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Someone IRL with Fox Mulder's views and habits and professional situation today IRL would be such a complete intolerable asshole that you have to conclude that he as a character basically has the disposition of a saint.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
It's seems insane that you can run out of matches. Once you buy one of those huge boxes of matches you should have infinite matches, or at least a non-zero chance of finding a match lying around if you look hard enough.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Old World is so good that it has basically ruined the genre for me. Everything else feels terribly paced and completely packed with pointless busywork in comparison.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
“Investment Crystals” would definitely work, both in the sense that selling them would be lucrative and also they would work by using crystal power to improve investment income.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Commuting about an hour earlier than I normally do and it's really really alarming how reflexive and mentally absent people are while driving.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I don't know how accurate this is but it does make me want to revisit some Weber.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Before we do anything rash like decide between charging 40$ or 50$ in shipping fees on a 10,000$ order, let's make sure we all say every possible permutation of every possible grammatical sentence of English about this topic.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Something interesting to ponder is whether the interior of this building smelled more like cigarettes when it was the French pavilion in at Expo 67 or after it was turned into a casino.
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
CHIP insures nearly 39% of children under 18. www.kff.org/medicaid/sta...
kff.org
Medicaid Coverage Rates for People Ages 0-64 by Age | KFF
Medicaid coverage children, nonelderly adults
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
No shade on Rick P. but I think having Nixon as the initial lens through which I encountered the set of mental reflexes driving American conservatism mislead me into thinking there was a lot more interesting neurotic complexity going on at the top than there usually is.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
There is real power in typing out the meanest post you can conceive of and then deleting it. The leaves avoid me, I don't have to cut them.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
When people tell me my posture is weird I've been saying "That's what they told Glenn Gould and look what he accomplished." But I've noticed that lately I've been getting a lot of shooting pains in my back so I looked it up and apparently he wound up with debilitating spinal issues. So what the fuck
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
They are appropriating my culture.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
There is too little content out there created by actual losers who suck. Even content about loser-coded activities is dominated by highly functional people who perform the activities skillfully. I'm frankly sickened by it.
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Swan Goose?
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James Eel @mentallyeel.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Reading about Bakunin where like, he personally spent his adult life bouncing from prison to exile to whatever other insane situation, and was in addition just an incredibly disagreeable person constantly arguing with everyone around him, and his conclusion is "people are basically nice by nature"??
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
More than one person has mentioned Koko the sign language gorilla
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