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Sara Rose Caplan

@sararosecaplan.bsky.social
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Trans comedian, writer, and philosophy student, mostly on instagram @sararosecaplan

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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
But some of these Smart Boys were instead paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to SF and work on the Uber for Pet Psychics. Or they were paid even more to gamble with entire teachers unions' retirement funds on Wall Street. And they never have to grow up. Which sucks for the rest of us.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You meet all kinds of people with all kinds of lives and realize how cool and weird and amazing that stranger on the bus might be, despite being so different from you. And you come to accept and understand that you're just another stranger on the bus to them. I think most people grow up.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Most of them probably do. It's easy as a particular kind of gifted teenager to be convinced of your unique specialness because our schooling system continually reinforces that idea, but then you grow up, and you experience failures and bullshit, and you watch friends who were bad at school blossom.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They need to experience just how terrible they are at the endlessly many things other people are amazing at and realize that, rather than being the only gold in a pile of straw, they are in fact just another color of thread in a much broader and more beautiful human tapestry.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More importantly, they need to learn that there are so many ways of being smart beyond the specific kinds of intelligence valued by the American school system. They need to experience failing repeatedly at making espresso, even though Eric, who didn't take calculus, got it perfect on his first try.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's another of way of saying they lack strong, experience-derived intuitions capable of offering proper counterweight to the force of convincingly Smart Sounding Internet Logic, aka, they are in dire need of Logging Off and Touching Grass.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Where some might say "Hmm, well, I'm not smart enough to pin down exactly why your argument is flawed, but I know it has to be," they might think "well, if I can't figure out why it's wrong, and I am a Special Rational boy, that must mean nobody could figure out why it's wrong, and so it's Correct"
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
heard of Pascal's Wager. It also hits a lot harder when you are so convinced of your own unique intelligence that you must accept as Rational and True any argument you aren't capable of disputing yourself, despite lacking any actual training or experience in Logic or Philosophical analysis.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
having been woefully underexposed to the history of human thought, it was their first time really encountering Thought Experiments being written by other Smart Boys and Girls, and thus weren't equipped to properly contextualize or analyze them. Roko's Basilisk hits a lot harder when you've never
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It wasn't then, it isn't now. But these Less Wrong types, who were often genuinely STEM-smart, suffered from having grown up as the Smartest Boys in an American educational system that had decided the humanities were unprofitable and therefore useless. Less Wrong forums blew their minds bc,
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Here's my anecdotal added context: I studied philosophy at Harvard from 2011-2015. I was acquainted with some of these Less Wrong Guys, all econ and CS majors, who forced me to listen to far too much Yudkowsky bullshit because they were desperate to convince me it was legitimate philosophical work.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
less "democrats have lost silicon valley" and more "silicon valley has lost its damn mind"
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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ALT: Bold Strategy Cotton - Dodgeball
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
also unable to connect to proton mail!
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
as a former die hard texans fan, deshaun being revealed as a serial predator was the reason I stopped being able to enjoy the NFL. just couldn't do it anymore. Fuck deshaun watson. I'm sorry he's your problem now.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
this is what I've been saying! Damon plays a fantastic tortured war veteran, but he wasn't playing Odysseus. Matthew Rhys woulda been great I think.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
you get to decide the level of care in your relationships! dont settle for less than you need!
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I don't know stocks, but did you know the word "Queer" and the legal term "Tort" are both derived from the same Latin word "torquere"? So it shouldn't actually be "Be Gay, Do Crime" but "Be Gay, Do Civilly Actionable Harm"
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I had literally 0 thoughts about the knicks before all this and now I don't like them actually
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
done!
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I'd love to read it if you dont mind feedback from someone with half a masters degree
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Adderall can help, and high stakes can help. The most useful motivator, as you alluded to somewhere else, is other people depending on me. But when I'm trying to write a thing just for myself? It can feel genuinely, distressingly impossible. Don't know how else to describe it if you haven't felt it
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I have an executive functioning disorder, and for me, Writer's Block is real in the same the way that Doing the Dishes Block is real. There are times when I want to do a thing, even want to 'knuckle down', but that want is neurologically useless for motivating action.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
graebering intensifies
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
ABBA, a literally classic rhetorical device you'd see used in the speeches of any Roman orator 2,100 years ago, guess it still works ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
mia, this is so unfair to these journalists. you have to remember that they were only betraying OTHER people in order to appease the fascists. They never meant to sell THEMSELVES out.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
yeah that really frustrated me. Trump is basically communism and that's why he's bad actually
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
no, it's not, but that's not your fault. the world around you is bad right now, so however you make it through the day is ok, whether that means going numb or sobbing. all that matters is you know you'll make it through <3
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Wooo! Was lovely chatting even if the subject matter was less than lovely :)
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The whiskey had helped for a while, until it hadn't. Now it was more habit than anything. There's a kid at the bar crying over his first lost love. Doesn't even know what else he's lost. Too young to have known the joy of Campbell's Raviolios. Never will. On account of the worst mistake I ever made.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Hi! I will be taking a long trip to Toronto soon, and I'd love recommendations on restaurants/cool places! Especially near Parkdale/West End area! Also, I'm trans and an improviser, so any cool queer or comedy spaces would also be great to hear about! <3 #toronto #queertoronto #transtoronto
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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...
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Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
New order targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
for a label for this phenomenon, which I've just been softy calling "epistemic arrogance", but I think Hermeneutic Dismissiveness might be more appropriate! Can't wait to read the paper :)
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
misinterpretation and projection etc. Then, when their assumptions fail to align with a trans person's self reported motivations etc, these transphobes choose to stop trusting the trans person rather than question the adequacy of their own phenomenal palette to understand them. I've been looking...
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I love this. I've been thinking a lot about how certain kinds of transphobia seem to be rooted in the inability or refusal to believe that another person's self-reported phenomenal experience might not be directly translatable into the terms of one's own experience. This leads to all kinds of...
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Mystery group 1: Some Special Response Team guys, via the SRT marking on helmet. They have a patch with a bear over a sword crossed by lightning with a star. Seems like some kind of California crew, but the sword and lightning patches I can find online so far are all army.
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
i am very happy for to capture it if you have the time!
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Let's play a game: What do y'all think? Chair? Not Chair?
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
omg tyyyyy
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
i know i’ve struggled with getting addicted to social media in the past, but i’m sure i’ll finally have a healthy relationship with this new scientifically engineered dopamine app
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Thank you @margaret.bsky.social and @mollycrabapple.bsky.social for recommending Graeber’s work in the cool people ep on libertalia!
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Sara Rose Caplan @sararosecaplan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Nine hours into The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and @davidwengrow.bsky.social and I can’t recommend it enough! I haven’t felt this excited to learn since my greek history prof introduced me to the greco-indian kingdom of Bactria a decade ago. I’m a sucker for ancient cultural exchange!
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