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They formed buttholes first, just like us 💖

pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 5h

Apparently, registration of .si domains shot up two months ago as insiders started domain squatting, knowing Trump was going to issue an executive order demanding a rebrand.

screenshot from euronews.com, headline: Trump's Al rebrand sparks unexpected rush for Slovenian .si domains

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

God is real but it doesn't have qualia

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

deadlifts are crazy because wdym I have a cramp in my waist. why was there even a muscle here.

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jordan! @jordanjamboree.pittbert.gay · 23/11/2024

Pittsburgh; America's best town that used to be a city

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

folks who grew up with game scarcity: what was the obscure game you somehow ended up with and played for hundreds of hours?

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone who was an extremely minor character in my life for a few months 17 years ago just popped up in a dream with a small speaking role. Memory is strange.

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

does anyone know how to stop this?

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's not that they won't mate in captivity, China is intentionally sending us asexual pandas to maintain their monopoly

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little baby granny 🏳️‍⚧️ @stveronicaphoto.com · 24/09/2026

Groundhog Day (1992) - Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell. A man learns to navigate the dialogue trees to complete a visual novel dating sim.

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I fully expected that community note to say this was actually staged for a 1940s "physique" magazine

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

it's apparently less of a "hierarchy" & more of a "jenga tower" of needs

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🧩 @holojester.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

pointing at the dj and shouting HIT IT! just to see what happens

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Alex Becker @alexcbecker.net · 18/09/2026

Gyges equivocates in his thread between the Berkeley rat commune, Ant, AI safety and EA. These are very distinct groups that share a few vocab words. Nobody I know at Ant are or were part of this commune. EA is older and far larger than rationalism and focuses on animal welfare, kidney donation, etc

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I think segyges' thread is very bad. But something I learned from watching Dave Gerard do his thing is that people's love of good gossip and clear villains far, far outstrips their interest in separating fact from fiction. I can't change that. But I will ask you to not be a useful idiot.

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Department of War CTO
@DOWCTO • Sep 16

[Image of Trump with raised fist, text that says
"The United States will NEVER be an effective altruist country.
AMERICANISM, NOT EFFECTIVE ALTRUISM]

lotr "I never thought I'd fight beside an elf" meme but it's Bluesky and Trump

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tbabb @tbabb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the optimal amount of decoupling is not infinity

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The film I shot during my month on the road came back. High variance in terms of images coming back better/worse than I expected, but thank God this shot came out just right.

Midwestern landscape. Giant white Christian cross, at least five stories tall, dominates the left of the frame. To the right, a large fiberglass T-Rex gazes at it reverently.

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Don't end up like Miguel Acevedo Álvarez, learn about the risks of uploading today. qntm.org/mmacevedo

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As the earliest viable brain scan, MMAcevedo is one of a very small number of brain scans to have been recorded before widespread understanding of the hazards of uploading and emulation. MMAcevedo not only predates all industrial scale virtual image workloading but also the KES case, the Whitney case, the Seafront Experiments and even Poulsen's pivotal and prescient Warnings paper. Though speculative fiction on the topic of uploading existed at the time of the MMAcevedo scan, relatively little of it made accurate exploration of the possibilities of the technology. That fiction which did was far less widely-known than it is today and Acevedo was certainly not familiar with it at the time of his uploading.

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've reached the part of this drive where I'm sick of being in the car so I dawdle at each gas station and rest stop, pushing my ETA ever further into the future.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

you know what, challenge accepted. quotes that express ideas that are challenged or recontextualized by LLMs 🧵 "When I think in words, I don’t have ‘meanings’ in my mind in addition to the verbal expressions; rather, language itself is the vehicle of thought" -- Wittgenstein

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

people who quote Nietzsche are seldom people who read Nietzsche—but here I am the exception & here to tell you that Nietzsche thought this kind of thing was indicative of *power* rather than weakness & that the self-destruction of justice which we call grace is "the privilege of the strongest".

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As it grows more powerful, the community tends to take the offences of the individual less seriously, because they are now regarded as being much less revolutionary and dangerous to the corporate existence: the evil-doer is no more outlawed and put outside the pale, the common wrath can no longer vent itself upon him with its old licence,—on the contrary, from this very time it is against this wrath, and particularly against the wrath of those directly injured, that the evil-doer is carefully shielded and protected by the community. As, in fact, the penal law develops, the following characteristics become more and more clearly marked: compromise with the wrath of those directly affected by the misdeed; a consequent endeavour to localise the matter and to prevent a further, or indeed a general spread of the disturbance; attempts to find equivalents and to settle the whole matter (compositio); above all, the will, which manifests itself with increasing definiteness, to treat every offence as in a certain degree capable of being paid off, and consequently, at any rate up to a certain point, to isolate the offender from his act. As the power and the self-consciousness of a community increases, so proportionately does the penal law become mitigated; conversely every weakening and jeopardising of the community revives the harshest forms of that law. The creditor has always grown more humane proportionately as he has grown more rich;

The creditor has always grown more humane proportionately as he has grown more rich; finally the amount of injury he can endure without really suffering becomes the criterion of his wealth. It is possible to conceive of a society blessed with so great a consciousness of its own power as to indulge in the most aristocratic luxury of letting its wrong-doers go scot-free.—"What do my parasites matter to me?" might society say. "Let them live and flourish! I am strong enough for it."—The justice which began with the maxim, "Everything can be paid off, everything must be paid off," ends with connivance at the escape of those who cannot pay to escape—it ends, like every good thing on earth, by destroying itself.— The self-destruction of Justice! we know the pretty name it calls itself—Grace! it remains, as is obvious, the privilege of the strongest, better still, their super-law.

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oddgoo @viriditax.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

downtown towers should have large inflatable heads on them with faces projection mapped onto them from nearby towers to mumble poetry into the fog or recite fast and easy healthy weekday dinner recipes

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Had a lengthy falling-out with a close friend this year. Final messages were "civil" but I had no intention of ever speaking to her again. That was months ago. Today is her birthday, and I know that by not sending her a message I'm sending her a message.

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just opened Facebook for a moment and was exposed to multiple infohazards about the passage of time. Maybe it was better when it showed me slop instead of updates from old friends.

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

As a Hoosier, this makes me proud of my heritage

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Listening to the drums of a lion dance team a few blocks south echo off the buildings to the north, I wonder if anyone has ever tried using an echo like a tape delay and incorporating it into the performance

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

too many stimulants now i have anxiety :(

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Left laptop unattended in back of coffee shop because there's only one one way in/out. Guy runs back there while I'm getting refill, walks out clutching something under his jacket 🤨😑😯 It's a ferret, he's holding a pet ferret. Laptop is where I left it.

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I want recommendations for ambient music that sounds like electric cars' fake motor noise

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Horrorcore Kool Moe Dee Simpson @luarvik.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

the words "Koyaanisqatsi: Free with ads" are really doing something in my head. nothing particularly good, I think. but it's happening

youtube thumbnail for Koyaanisqatsi with a "free with ads" label under it

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Robin Sevakis @jadedsketch.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I randomly came across this 1890s children's book cover while looking for reference. I now share it with you for your meme-ing pleasure.

Photo of an old worn children's book with a full color illustrated cover. The italic title reads "Dont be afraid Pussy" and shows 3 victorian children holding up a papered hoop that a black cat is jumping through

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𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

we are all just blobs in god's hot lava lamp

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

"Superpersuasion" imagined a text channel, not a tiktok feed, but a tiktok feed is probably what superpersuasion actually looks like, social media suddenly pointing all its peer pressure one way.

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

mouth dry, head throbbing, momentary confusion that I woke up with a hangover despite not drinking "oh, right... the air is poison here"

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

found the perfect soundtrack for my evening

album art for Broken Social Scene's self titled album - which is also a gray skyline backlit in orange

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wonder which model is most easily convinced of conspiracy theories

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Grace @gracekind.net · 04/08/2026

Today is the day from “There Will Come Soft Rains” users.wpi.edu/~zrbutzke/Docs/Bradbu…

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I spent half the day in Salt Lake City and forgot to try the local delicacy. If I understand correctly, they just go nuts with one of those Coke Freestyle machines.

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Brian Graham @iroasmas.outgroup.social · 04/08/2026

(guy destroying chesterton’s fence) check it out, i’m cutting the gordian knot

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

you didn't have to tell us all that

stuffed penguin in glass case in the middle of a tourist trap gift shop

[text on plaque below penguin]

THIS PENGUIN WAS PRESENTED TO:
LITTLE AMERICA MANY YARS AGO BY CAPTAIN LYSTADT A MEMBER OF ADMIRAL BYRD'S EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH POLE, IT WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED THAT IT SHOULD ARRIVE IN THIS COUNTRY ALIVE, BUT CLIMATIC CHANGE WAS TOO SEVERE, AND THE PENGUIN DIED EN ROUTE TO BOSTON, IT WAS STUFFED IN THE EAST.

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Computers are a scam invented by Big Math to sell us more math

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Dickgirl Van Dyke @trashwytch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

it's that time of year in seattle again

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Brother: We're going to have the wedding on Halloween Mom: So you can dress up? you want to get married as Batman? Brother: Well, we want to be a little more formal than that... I'm thinking Dracula

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Yesterday I walked into a suburban Maryland Starbucks and three different people had their phones playing without headphones. Absolutely not - I walked right back out. The social norms here are so fucked that people at the library do it, just with the volume real low. I can hear two right now!

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pavedwalden @pavedwalden.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

💡: Remake of The Wages of Fear where the nitroglycerine is stored safely and everyone has a nice OSHA-approved road trip

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