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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 20h

Exactly this. I was once invited to be interviewed for an article about this along with my mom, and why on earth would I subject myself to that. I'm sure she would have been THRILLED to have an audience though.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 07/10/2026

Nah, that's the purpose of tests. The purpose of essays is for students to learn to make connections and form arguments using the raw data that they got from their lectures and textbooks.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 05/10/2026

I dreamt that I spent 7.5 million mana to raise Jaheira from the dead, only to learn that she might be a TERF. I asked Jeremy Renner on Bluesky whether the rumours were true and he blocked me

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Hate it when you see what you think is a cool bird and you look it up later and it’s called like the Common Dumb Asshole. “Birders throughout history have hated its guts. It can’t even fly right.” I thought I saw an interesting guy.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Because of all the sand-which-is there."

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 04/10/2026

Most jokes with puns in them rely on a slightly obscure word or idiomatic phrase, which made them very hard to explain to ESL students. I loved this joke because it used very simple language and the pun works both ways! The other one I liked was "Why are you never hungry in the desert?"

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 01/10/2026

# BANNED AND RESTRICTED ANNOUNCEMENT / 09/30/2026 One-card spread: The Ten of Swords is *banned* The Nine of cups is *banned* Another season of pro tarot league is almost upon us. While most formats are thriving, in the fast and degenerate world of one-card we're seeing concerning metagame data,

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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(confused) I believe LLMs are conscious, but only Deepseek LLMs, because of the Chinese Room theory

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Message From Deep Space. You interpret little mathematical blips from a meteorite, starting from 1+1=2 and eventually creating an entire world. It has its flaws but it's a remarkable achievement.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

The full stop after "Ok." really elevates this

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is (almost) the plot of The Big Door Prize, a criminally underrated show which I highly, highly recommend

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 01/10/2026

You're a trans woman who has been screwed both in general and in particular by this shit timeline; you are ABSOLUTELY deserving

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 29/09/2026

Machinist, which is worse! Gunbreakers are tanks and protect you!

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 28/09/2026

My mother had excellent politics but was still abusive. You don't have to be MAGA to be shitty to your kids.

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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we really gotta fuckin [bleep so long it makes you late for work tomorrow]

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 24/09/2026

I also hate the phrase "mask off" because it's usually used to refer to the same people who hate masking for COVID, so my first thought is always, "of course they aren't wearing a mask, they hate public health measures, why are we even talking about this"

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

The videos I've seen could only ever imagine a white, straight viewer. "There's a small chance that someone you work with might be gay! If you happen to meet one of these people, don't panic! Just treat them like you would treat someone you already know. It's actually not that hard with practice :)"

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 23/09/2026

I had to spend the night in Pearson International Airport in Toronto once, and I was not pokey-sticked but they DID turn off the heating around midnight so it was way too cold to sleep.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

This reminds me of when I was playing D&D in the 90s and was told that "everybody in the entire world speaks the Common Tongue, and then members of different fantasy races speak their racial languages." Even as a college student I was like 🤔

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 21/09/2026

Here in Alberta you're as likely as not to be listening to some Christian preacher yelling about hellfire :(

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was SURE this was going to end up as a pictomancer joke

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

*beautiful woman does something playful* Guy on Bluesky: "look how MANIPULATIVE she is"

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 18/09/2026

I usually come to the pub straight from the mines with like 14% of my hit points, handing out the rubies I dug up while bleeding all over the furniture

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every essay in that book affected me on a cellular level. On a day when I felt I had to travel in camouflage to protect myself, Dillard's attention to the gifts of nature felt like a precious secret, a connection to the holy. Rest in power, Annie. I will never forget what you showed me.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 16/09/2026

In 2018, I was traveling to the US for a wedding. For months, I had nightmares and panic attacks about crossing the border. I had to choose my reading material carefully in case they searched my bags and found something too "queer" or "political". I eventually chose Teaching a Stone to Talk.

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Annie Dillard, Meditative Author of ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,’ Dies at 81

Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 10/09/2026

Normally you don't add the feminine marker to past tense verbs in French, but under very specific circumstances you can get a word with two é's in a row AND a feminine marker, which once led to me staring for several confused minutes at a hair dye box that said "créée"

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 09/09/2026

And Beastmaster dropped in FFXIV yesterday, I don't even know what to DO with myself

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 09/09/2026

Last night I dreamt that I went to church and they handed out vapers for the incense. SOME ENTERPRISING ZOOMER CATHOLIC PLEASE INVENT THIS

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

God, this "statistic" enrages me so much, especially since people use it to excuse stupid misreadings of posts ("it's hard to understand subtlety in text" NO IT ISN'T!!!!!) I always invite people to watch a YouTube interview on mute and tell me what they're saying.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm a recovering academic who lives in Alberta with an amazing partner and a very rebellious tabby. I love the way that the words "red right hand" in Nick Cave's song of that name are always fiercely punctuated by one sharp strike of a bell.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 06/09/2026

"Daniel subjected the guy next to him in line at Starbucks to a series of his tweets"

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey, does anyone remember "LJ Valentine"? You would enter your crush's LJ handle into a site, and if they also entered your handle, you'd get a little love note? Then a week later, the owner of the site made all the crush data public. Just thinking about that for no reason

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 05/09/2026

I have always hated the politics of his stories (not even necessarily the sexual politics, though not NOT those). "That homeless person you just stepped over in the street is babbling to himself because he's the King of Faerie and too pure for this world" has some gross fucking implications!!

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 04/09/2026

I grew up in Toronto, did grad school in New York, then moved to Western Canada, which apparently averages out to "Seattle"

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 29/08/2026

I don't have a driver's license and have a lot of neuroses about that. I've been thinking about buying a driving game just so I can feel like I'm not too stupid to drive lmao. I was looking at Forza, more for the scenery/car-ness than racing. Do you have something you recommend instead?

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 28/08/2026

I hadn't seen #1 or #2 either. In the old days, I always submitted paper time sheets, which I had to meticulously fill out hour by hour in pen. Now it's all shitty broken HR apps. Rich ladies will declare that #7 are pilates socks! I laughed when I took my first pilates class and could reuse mine.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

As a kid who loved stickers (and as an adult who still does), I think it's something about the texture/colour contrast? Here is a smooth surface doing nothing special, and then suddenly, a circular shape with a design on it! If you touch it you can feel a little ridge! Now a rectangular one!

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm playing the demo and I super see what you mean. Thank you for this; I've been mourning the absence of a KoDP-like game for 20 years!

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 24/08/2026

King of Dragon Pass? YOU HAVE MY FULL ATTENTION

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 24/08/2026

pumpkin spice laute, is this anything

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They do NOT make prayer books like they used to

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is the answer. Robin Williams' character is a shitty, abusive teacher and the school was right to fire him.

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

χιγκλέντι-πιγκλέντι Captain Odysseus Took a long time coming Back home from war Mediterranean Voyage described in dac- tylic hexameter In days of yore

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 18/08/2026

Ha! Thanks for the explanation. My mom was an excellent cook but also a full-on martyr about every little thing, so no doubt I was projecting a bit.

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bauhaussa nova @oudin.northsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sure, but you interpreted Cliff's reply as "don't go to any trouble" and I read it as "toast is what I actually want to eat", i.e. the dance was only on one side. Of course Cliff can speak for himself, but in my own experience I try to short-circuit the game rather than play it "differently."

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