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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 22h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 20h

Google and Apple immediately update their maps.

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Centrist Madness Election Center @centristmadness.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Biden dementia theory has been conclusively disproven, as has the theory that he didn’t use leverage to force Israel to accept a ceasefire (which they did multiple times). No one will ever admit they got these things wrong.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 30/09/2026

"Trying to make them evil necessarily makes them stupid." My faith does indeed inform me that that follows. But (a) I'm not sure I require that anyone has "tried" to make them stupid, and (b) you, I, and the crafter of the service may have vastly differing opinions on "stupid" and therefore "evil"

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 30/09/2026

Major premise: "All things which exist are good insofar as they truly exist. Evil is a kind of non-existence coinciding with a kind of failure to exist." (Or something like that.) Minor premise: "Draft Kings Sportsbook, the betting app, exists." (Or, y'know, some other thing which has been made.)

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 30/09/2026

At a bare minimum, it seems that the word "exist" is getting used equivocally, here, subtly changing meaning.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 30/09/2026

That's quite a claim! I understand the claim that evil is a kind of non-existence, and even kind of agree with it (and the rest is mostly just room left by the fact that I don't think I understand the claim to its depths). But to say that all things which exist are virtuous?

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 30/09/2026

Actually, I'd kind of thought that CFAR was indeed trying to guide the development of AI into virtuous beings. (Which seems to me to be a category error, but I understand you probably don't agree with that.)

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 30/09/2026

This is, in fact, one of the well-worn paths to forming a cult: the overweening confidence that you know The Truth (or The Plan, or whatever). (Not that I think of CFAR as a cult. But it sure does seem to be surrounded by things that look like 'em.)

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 30/09/2026

I would very much expect that she still considers herself to be a person of virtue, working for the good of humankind and for the spread of virtue.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 28/09/2026

Hope isn't something I hope for. It's a commandment, along Faith and Love. It is, therefore, something I pray for.

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Sen @dresdencodak.com · 28/09/2026

The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 27/09/2026

I'm not quite sure what you're asking, but while the history texts listed by @marbleliberal.bsky.social are the only works of history in the standard program, 2.5 years of the education is quite solidly post-Classical.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 27/09/2026

I feel like a massive failure these days. Until I remember what success looks like.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 27/09/2026

Oh, I felt particularly close to fame when I heard her name mentioned by @iwriteok.bsky.social on Behind the Bastards.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 26/09/2026

"Goddammit, you said you wanted to steal 20 tons of silicon; you've stolen 20 tons of silicon. What're you complaining about?"

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 24/09/2026

, which is absurd. Q.E.D. 😉

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 23/09/2026

Sen. Jon Husted: “The war needs to come to an end as quickly as possible so that we can lower gas prices” Sen. Jon Husted when he could've voted to do just that:

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 21/09/2026

Goddamnit, I still have this book on my bookshelf. www.greenlion.com/books/Apollo...

Cover of a book by Green Lion Press, the Conic Sections of Apollonius of Perga.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 19/09/2026

Election in occupied areas by Russia - voting under military supervision.

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

“I’m not voting for anyone because I oppose genocide.” Guess what, no you don’t.

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Ron Hogan @ronhogan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Edward Tufte surely never intended for his work to be used this way.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 16/09/2026

I mean, I made extensive notes, but only so I had a kind of shorthand to look over to refresh my memory in case I was called on.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 16/09/2026

Notes simply weren't permitted (in my classes) except in exceptional situations. (I was allowed limited notes to demonstrate XIII:18.)

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 15/09/2026

"Cringe", if you will.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

a recent ADHD discovery I’ve made, YMMV: for those of us with internal hyperactivity, productivity/time management advice can be very bad because it encourages thinking a lot about the best way to use your time, and THE THINKING IS THE THING STOPPING US FROM DOING ANYTHING EXCEPT THINKING

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 14/09/2026

(Skip to about two minutes in.)

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 14/09/2026

God, I love that movie. And that line, in particular, has always stuck with me.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 13/09/2026

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A page from a book. The only text on the page reads, "This page intentionally left blank."

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

In the last decade, I've gone from a largely libertarian view of gambling to that of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 08/09/2026

It's unfortunate to lose another local newspaper, but I don't expect to miss the Toledo Blade.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 04/09/2026

It's my understanding that a lot of the cooling used is evaporative cooling, in which the water used is simply discarded to the atmosphere.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 02/09/2026

Tankies simply because fans of violence by tank.

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typing loudly ⌨️ @typingloudly.zip · 02/09/2026

cursed to know too much about how LLMs work while also thinking they are bad club

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Stephen England @stephenengland.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If you'd told me fifteen years ago that in 2026 that the folks who formerly(?) made up the Christian Right would be publicly obsessing over "teens need to be having more sex," I would have thought you were drunk.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 30/08/2026

This has convinced me to give @mapquest.com a try on my phone. I like maps that don't lie to me because someone powerful says to. Android app: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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MapQuest: Get Directions - Apps on Google Play

MapQuest is your go-to app for maps, GPS, voice navigation & live traffic.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 30/08/2026

I sincerely hope this was accidental, #Duolingo. But it was the wrong answer. You could have picked literally any number else.

A screenshot of a Duolingo math lesson. It reads: Select the expanded form [of] 8(x+6)=88. Two options are given: 8x+48=88 and 8x+14=88.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 30/08/2026

And it is load-bearing bullshit.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 28/08/2026

Even his role as Doctor Petrov in The Hunt for Red October was an opportunity for him to steal the scene.

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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

400 library workers begin their strike Monday after endless months of trying to negotiate with management. Already the anti-union propaganda machine is calling the library workers entitled. The LIBRARY workers. You don't staff the desk at the free stuff store because you're greedy.

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David Hand @ptolemar.ch · 21/08/2026

Definitely Starship Troopers for me.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Any Xer still trying to be cool never was.

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Kent Lind @camasonian.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

We have data on this. The blue is all the non-ag human use:

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