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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“The most beautiful girl or woman in the world would be a matter of indifference to me, but tall soldiers —they are my weakness.” — King Frederick William I of Prussia

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

fuck you and your shitty slogan

To unify, uplevel, and bring honor and integrity to the door to door industry

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

My wife has been gone a week. I am achieving a deeper understanding of TikTok.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Thesis: The Jester, compared to the Clown, is generally more aggressive and angular, but limited in their capacity to unsettle because they are a natural character. Canny and clever, they challenge the normal social order but are still recognizably human.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Driving in Buffalo is the only experience that has made me want more cops or automated traffic enforcement.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And consider his contributions to scientific vocabulary. What would entomology be called? What word would chemists use in place of ‘substance’?

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I love them all, so I would have to pick based on what would be interesting, so: Aristotle. He was pinnacle in several distinct philosophical traditions across hundreds of years (e.g., Hellenistic, Scholastic, Arabic). It’s very hard to imagine what history would look like without him.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m already getting defensive about Aristotle.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The dollar sign ($) is — the only commonly used unit in English that precedes the number it qualifies — inconsistent with the spoken ordering — usually inferable from context On these grounds, I submit that we should place the dollar sign after the number, e.g., “Gas is over 4$/gal!”

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My friend Jason is taking piano lessons with his six-year old daughter, learning alongside her from the same teacher. Seeing him struggle and make the same simple mistakes as her, even though he can already play the guitar and the trumpet, seems to give her confidence that she will get better 💕🥰

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On the definition of a planet:

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Love watching three hummingbirds fight over a feeder only for none of them to get it.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

“Millenials are the best at computers because we learned the right way” doofs did not hang out with kids then or now. Their peers were not all fucking around with HTML when they were young, and a great many teens are carrying the tradition forward now.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I adore the flowers on bessobela (Ethiopian basil). Modest and graceful, they are favored by smaller pollinators, like tiny green flies and solitary bees.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I was taught, and believe, that I should always say ‘Please’ and ‘Thank you.’ This applies whether they are human, sentient, or even alive.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Conjoint with his belief that every problem can be resolved through deciet and violence: He’s the archetypal American Boomer.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Odysseus gets home, apologizes for destroying the world, and goes into retirement.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Keep thinking about Odysseus telling Penelope that people in the future won’t know how to read.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Matt Damon’s Odysseus is a dumb jock whose first instinct in every situation is to lie and gets away with it cause he is good at brawling.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

me and the crew playing chess (we’re clones)

Scene from novella of chess-players, Liberale da Verona.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Celosia, Hoary Mountain Mint, Basil, and Marigolds.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

They have become more numerous since I began killing them. There is but one possible explanation: Revenge!

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Just watched a Black Capped Chickadee snatch a bug flying around my marigolds: so gratifying to see the system working.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

“But Doctor!” wailed Pagliacci, …

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Can’t stop thinking about the man who said he would sharpen his aunt’s butter knives when he was a child.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pawns are unique among pieces, in that their set of moves is distinct from their captures. As a consequence of this quirk, only pawns can occupy a square without changing the number of pieces attacking the square. The price is paid, regardless: weakness in the squares adjacent to the pawn.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Supervised, of course. Thankfully, he is as smart and respectful as he is handsome, he knows that he is not supposed to go past the fence, and will return when you call him (if impromptly).

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hamilcar on his afternoon forest stroll.

A light orange and white cat laying in a bed of knotweeds.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

My initial reaction was to remember all the times my copy-editor screwed me with a bad headline when I worked for my college paper. It was frustrating to have my writing associated with something that exhibited such lack of care, but that was the job. To think people *choose* the careless option.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

steamed chicken breasts, canned tuna, and a general lack of taste

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I had grown frustrated and weary of chess, of my stale progress and stubborn stupidities. I hadn’t played in months. Now, every day begins with coffee and tactics. I analyze more, more voraciously and more carefully. I am eager to be careful, excited to demonstrate skill. Youth is contagious.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Both of my nephews have taken on as their summer project to improve their chess; naturally, this includes testing themselves against me. I still thrash them, but it’s becoming a struggle.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Intolerable childishness, an excretion of a decadent culture that fails to make adults of boys. He probably thinks authentic discussion of failure is a sign of weakness.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Marigolds, hyssops, celosias, and bee-balm

A bouquet of mixed flowers on a wooden railing against a forested background.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I suspect its perennial appeal is attributable to the stubborn teleological intuition and a confusion between an individual and its species. Epigenetics is efficient in the Aristotelean sense, and is much closer to life-events than evolution. Is-the-parent-of is *the* canonical efficient relation.

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Nathan Couch @ngcouch.bsky.social · 29/07/2026