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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The problem with the left and right is that they make 2 critical mistakes: 1. They attempt to quantize the human condition into a set of bipolar axes with no variation between extremes. 2. They assume their subjective definition of evil is a true reflection of objective reality.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

להיות אדיב לאנשים לא לדבר טוב מילים או לעשות טוב דברים. להיות אדיב להבין אחרים. האם אתה רק לעשות אדיבים דברים להיראות כמו אדיב, אבל לא בעצם רוצה לעשות את זה לעשות, אתה לא אדיב, אתה שחקן חסר כנות או לב.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

人間は命が良くになるが欲しいなら、違う人を見て、聴いて、分からなきゃいけないんです。人間は違う人について、「犯人！」、「反対！」、「悪魔！」と思えば、平和が見つけられないんです。人間戦争は人間平和になれないんです。多くの人間は世界を嫌いながら、この地球は回り続けるの。

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Writing translyrics is loads of fun, it’s such a neat challenge to convey the right meaning while also getting the right rhythms and rhymes. Just completed Cherry Pop, so the chorus (as expected of a Deco song) was the best part to write!

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Ok, so I just learned that a fathom is ~6 feet…….why didn’t public health experts tell us all to stay 1 fathom apart from one another, it would have made it so much more fun and way less depressing

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Random thought of the day: When the Sun becomes a white dwarf, will Jupiter absorb enough of its mass to become a star? Time to do some calculus!

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Had a great night observing on the Lick last night, despite a few technical issues. Completely wrecked my sleep schedule, but love requires sacrifice. 10/10 would do it again!

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

People are easier to kill than ideas, but ideas are far more deadly than people.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

It isn’t enough to tell people to “trust the science/scientists”. Those truly committed to empirical truth and technological progress need to recognize that no one should be obligated to simply take the word of self-described experts with fancy titles using fancy language: that’s what church is for.

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 02/03/2025

One reason for this is that right-wing philosophy is, at its core, about the "naturalness" of hierarchies. Liberalism is, at its core, about dissolving hierarchies. And if you're an intellectual of the pundit class, the idea that people like you *naturally belong* on top can be awfully appealing.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Writing a philosophy essay is so much fun, because you have like a dozen epiphanies about the most random and insignificant things by the time you’re finished.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Reading the OG Wizard of Oz books is as surreal as it is fascinating. It’s the fantasy and lore-building of Tolkien written with the childish simplicity of Doctor Seuss, and I for one am loving it. Highly recommend, especially because the old usage of “queer” leads to some truly hilarious sentences.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Hot take: 1/ The reason Democrats don’t know how to win elections anymore is because liberals have fully bought into the belief that they are the end of history: they believe that every society will inevitably turn into a secular democratic republic without any effort having to be applied.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I think the root of the problem is that every 4 years, half the people in this country are convinced that the other half are about to destroy them and everything they love. We are quickly reaching a point where the federal system will either need to ascend to autocracy or descend to confederation.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

The present situation is very reminiscent of the years preceding the Bronze Age Collapse. Resource scarcity, trade restrictions, mass-migrations, crumbling institutions, increased conflict, and we are just decades away from climatological changes rendering our current scale of habitation untenable.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

空の星儚い灯まだ死ない Stars up in the sky Like ephemeral beacons Still refuse to die #俳句 #haiku

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 29/01/2025

Here is the version for your cat.

A space heater facing off against a stuffed bear. They are much too close to one another. Hovering over them is a vast fire entity with the face of a dragon waiting for a fire to spark. The text reads: meow mow mow meow mowmow. mow mow meowmow mow 1 meter. hiss. mow mow, mow, meow, meow, mow, meow. mow meow.

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

As a fan of literature there’s no worse feeling than finding out a novel has an unreliable narrator and realising you wasted your money

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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Happy Caturday 😽🤍

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titsay 𓆏 @titsay.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

we could sit together and do nothing all day— i'd still be the happiest

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The funny thing about red pills is that if you take too many they become blue. Dogmatic skepticism leads to dogmatic thinking. And dogmatic thinking rejects true skepticism.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

To know fear is to admit weakness. To admit weakness is to concede there are things beyond your power. To concede there are things beyond your power is to acknowledge your own humanity. To acknowledge your own humanity is to accept your existence. To accept your existence is to know peace.

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 16/01/2025

The largest photomosaic of the Andromeda galaxy, assembled from Hubble observations, has been unveiled. It took more than 10 years to collect data for this colorful portrait of our neighboring galaxy and was created from more than 600 snapshots: bit.ly/405MsbK #AAS245 🔭 🧪

The Andromeda galaxy, a spiral galaxy, spreads across the width. It is tilted nearly edge-on to our line of sight so that it appears as an extreme oval on its side. The borders of the galaxy are jagged because the image is a mosaic of smaller, square images. The outer edges of the galaxy are blue, while the inner two-thirds are yellowish with a bright, central core. Dark, dusty filamentary clouds wrap around the outer half of the galaxy’s disk. At 10 o’clock, a smaller dwarf elliptical galaxy forms a fuzzy, yellow blob. Hubble’s sharp vision distinguishes about 200 million stars within the image. The background of space is black. There are what appears to be steps toward the bottom, mainly toward the middle, which indicates where no data were taken.

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Last night the Moon passed in front of Mars -- a lunar occultation. This is a beautiful capture of the moment when Mars reemerged, as the Moon appeared to lay a little orange egg... 🧪

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

the solution to light pollution is actually so simple

A graphic showing four different types of street lights ranging from very bad (completely spherical and shining in the sky) to best (covered at the top and only shining on the ground), causing less light pollution.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Was an honor and a privilege to present my research iPoster at #AAS245!!!! Those interested in my work surrounding the resolved stellar populations of M31, M32, and M33 can find the poster here: aas245-aas.ipostersessions.com/Default.aspx... Feel free to ask questions either via bsky or comments!!

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aas (iPosterSessions - an aMuze! Interactive system)

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Nowadays, geoengineering typically refers to solar radiation modification but sometimes still includes carbon dioxide removal. What this not-so-smart member of Congress is talking about is weather modification. But if you're in a draught, cloud seeding ain't gonna create moisture out of thin air.

A tweet by Marjorie Taylor Greene conflating geoengineering with weather modification, asking why we don't use cloud seeding to bring rain to combat wildfires in California. The tweet includes the date and time of posting, the author's username, and view count.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Spending time online can leave you with a warped view of the world and that's a shame. Good people have always outnumbered bad people and things generally get better. Hold onto that x

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 10/01/2025

Chess Zoo xkcd.com/3036

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The fundamental problem with the incoming president is that he wants to run our country like a business. There are (at least) 2 problems with this: 1. Countries are not businesses. 2. He’s not a good businessman. It’s kinda like asking a bad electrician to fix your plumbing.

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Jesse D. Jenkins @jessedjenkins.com · 06/01/2025

*whispers* it's working...

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

If I was in charge of a school and this passes, I would mandate that every single athlete has to undergo an inspection before every sporting event. Not to address any real problem, simply to traumatize and disgust students and parents so thoroughly that they never support such a practice ever again.

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Kumar S @starryknightone.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

2025 is a centennial year, one that marks the end of the classical world for both the Largest and Smallest structures in the Universe, as had been known until then to Science. A short thread below 👇🏽

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Hot take: The left needs a new party, because the current one has become too elitist and dependent on corporate interests. That isn’t to say there are no principled people who genuinely want to do good left within it, merely that the constraints of the current system prevent them from doing so.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

I read the Wizard of Oz for the first time last night, and let me just say, I will never see the Tinman or the Scarecrow in the same way ever again. Or the Lion for that matter.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Random Philosophical Question of the Night: Is it moral to help someone by doing something immoral? I would argue no, but only if you know that the act in isolation is immoral. Even if your intentions are good, your knowledge of the act’s evil poisons the motive and makes you implicitly vicious.

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

As an undergrad, it sometimes feels like if I was let into the teachers’ lounge back in elementary school, but then all my teachers inexplicably interacted with me as both an adult and a colleague. It’s certainly welcoming but also a bit surreal.

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Gems @reflectivegem.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Music just makes shit better.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

The key conflict that defines American politics is not over whether government should play a role in helping people. As these Trump supporters confirm, there is actually a broad consensus that it absolutely should! The real fault line is defined by who counts as “people” - who “deserves” help?

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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 25/12/2024

The way a religion goes morally wrong in practice is, instead of viewing its main character's moral standards as something to aspire to, they get reinterpreted to match the lower moral standards the believers find easier—and then their divine source becomes an authority reinforcing that lowness.

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Jamie DeMarco @jamiedemarco.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I'm always amazed when I look at just how fast coal use has dropped in the US It's a huge victory not just for climate but also for reductions in mercury, arsenic, and air pollution So many people will live longer healthier lives because coal use has dropped so much and I love it

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MMajor @mmajor13.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

午前五時まで起きちゃたんだ。ADHDはめちゃ楽しいだよ。でも、たくさんの仕事を完了したね。。。

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season

An M dwarf star with the text: "I am not a toy. I am not a Christmas present. I am a 10 trillion year commitment"

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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 20/12/2024

Ever wonder what the secret ingredient is in your favorite dessert? We can’t answer that, but we can share this planet formation recipe! It takes a high degree of precision and a lot of patience, but the result is pretty spectacular: bit.ly/3Cv3k2e 🔭 🧪

A horizontal infographic illustrates a loose recipe for planet formation. Title text at top left reads “Recipe for Planet Formation, with star and nebula.” Below the headline are two lists: Ingredients, which lists four ingredients, and Methods, which is threaded throughout the infographic in numerical order. In the Methods section, gas, dust, and ice in a nebula contracts under gravity to form a star, surrounded by a flattened disk. Inside the disk, dust and ice stick together to form planetesimals and then planets, leading to a planetary system.

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