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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The duality of man
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Look, they got my ass fair and square. I *am* selling matches. But I object to being filed in the Sam Altman Zone. bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Reading this in Biden’s voice.
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v0...
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Better or worse than being asked which AI company it is?
Compilation image of AI company logos drawn from https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes, which look broadly similar to the Nix logo.
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Context for the blessedly unaware
https://x.com/StigAbell/status/763075178926596096
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=Abraham+Lincoln&text=Look%2C+having+nuclear+%E2%80%94+my+uncle+was+a+great+professor+and+scientist+and+engineer%2C+Dr.+John+Trump+at+MIT%3B+good+genes%2C+very+good+genes%2C+OK%2C+very+smart%2C+the+Wharton+School+of+Finance%2C+very+good%2C+very+smart+%E2%80%94+you+know%2C+if+you%27re+a+conservative+Republican%2C+if+I+were+a+liberal%2C+if%2C+like%2C+OK%2C+if+I+ran+as+a+liberal+Democrat%2C+they+would+say+I%27m+one+of+the+smartest+people+anywhere+in+the+world+%E2%80%94+it%27s+true%21+%E2%80%94+but+when+you%27re+a+conservative+Republican+they+try+%E2%80%94+oh%2C+do+they+do+a+number+%E2%80%94+that%27s+why+I+always+start+off%3A+Went+to+Wharton%2C+was+a+good+student%2C+went+there%2C+went+there%2C+did+this%2C+built+a+fortune+%E2%80%94+you+know+I+have+to+give+my+like+credentials+all+the+time%2C+because+we%27re+a+little+disadvantaged+%E2%80%94+but+you+look+at+the+nuclear+deal%2C+the+thing+that+really+bothers+me+%E2%80%94+it+would+have+been+so+easy%2C+and+it%27s+not+as+important+as+these+lives+are+%E2%80%94+nuclear+is+so+powerful%3B+my+uncle+explained+that+to+me+many%2C+many+years+ago%2C+the+power+and+that+was+35+years+ago%3B+he+would+explain+the+power+of+what%27s+going+to+happen+and+he+was+right%2C+who+would+have+thought%3F+%E2%80%94+but+when+you+look+at+what%27s+going+on+with+the+four+prisoners+%E2%80%94+now+it+used+to+be+three%2C+now+it%27s+four+%E2%80%94+but+when+it+was+three+and+even+now%2C+I+would+have+said+it%27s+all+in+the+messenger%3B+fellas%2C+and+it+is+fellas+because%2C+you+know%2C+they+don%27t%2C+they+haven%27t+figured+that+the+women+are+smarter+right+now+than+the+men%2C+so%2C+you+know%2C+it%27s+gonna+take+them+about+another+150+years+%E2%80%94+but+the+Persians+are+great+negotiators%2C+the+Iranians+are+great+negotiators%2C+so%2C+and+they%2C+they+just+killed%2C+they+just+killed+us%2C+this+is+horrible.%3C%2Fi%3E
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Shouldn’t that provoke the “inability of an individual acting” provision and cause the succession to automatically pass? What is “inability” if not failure to perform the required functions of the office? It can’t just be involuntary inability, or the law doesn’t work if you e.g. can’t find them.
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
In the end, all monotheists are just heretical Atenists. Praise the Sun-Disk!
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
The drying rack? Really?
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The “I pretend I do not see it” meme
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
> No. of issues: 25
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
A subtitled frame from the movie Star War the Fourth Gathers: The Novelty Desire (a spoof of Star Wars: A New Hope based on bad machine translation). The robot C-3PO is saying “we fuck be die”.
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
MOLE PEOPLE
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Couples costume Knight and Hornet
The first encounter of the characters Knight and Hornet from the game Hollow Knight
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The “I pretend I do not see it” meme
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
They are both NIMBYs and left-wing. And their arguments for NIMBYism are specifically left-wing. As for Austin, house prices are way up but still not as high as west-coast prices. Moreover, rental rates are much more flat. COVID had bizarro effects on house prices.
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Seattle metro area has been unusually and uniquely better about responding to demand increase with construction than other left-leaning metro areas, but you appear to be conflating building some housing with building enough housing. Seattle still has a housing shortage.
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I assume you’re referring to the relatively low density increases in Texas metro areas? They also built a ton of lower-density sprawl, much of it in neighboring counties. You can see where the rate of housing increase has matched the rate of population increase and where it has not.
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The author admits there’s nothing actually objectionable about the book. The closest thing they have to a criticism is that various less savory characters also like the ideas. Which should come as no surprise, because the idea of “do more good things” is simple and obviously good.
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
While true, there is some incredible content here. “Our two characters, Michaelmas Term and Lord Chancellor, have encountered a giant lizard in the street.”
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A curiosity of US imprisonment statistics is that at any time roughly the same number of people are imprisoned for each of assault, robbery, rape, and murder. Each crime has roughly the same (inverse) relationship between sentence length and conviction frequency.
Detailed data graphic of data assembled from https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2025.html#datasection
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Gemini 1.5 Flash has a funny and technically correct answer.
Screenshot of chat with Gemini 1.5 Flash

Question: I'm standing on the surface of the earth. I get into an airplane and fly 5000 miles  and arrive back at the same place. Where am I?

Answer: You're back where you started, on the surface of the Earth.
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
The “firebomb a walmart” tweet is a solid contender.
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raphus.bsky.social @raphus.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
All good stuff and great to see, but on the whole it seems pretty marginal given the narrow exemption criteria. Only ~7,000 units of such “passive housing” currently exist. BUT, all we have to do is persuade www.phius.org to add a new certification tier with no requirements, and we’re in business.
A section of the bill establishing that:

> For the purposes of this section “passive house requirements” means the criteria for certification as a passive house by Phius or the international passive house institute.

https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2025-26/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/1183.pdfA screenshot from https://www.phius.org/certifications/projects/project-certification-overview claiming that 7,000+ units of housing have been Phous-certified.
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