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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 18h

We are all school boys marooned on an island. If not our brother's keeper, we'll be his executioner, for there are no sailors to rescue us.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am nothing if not redundant. I also repeat myself.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I read this book last October and it was an excellent hallo-read. Strong recommend if you like sociological story telling with spooky spice.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Gazing at Medusa's image in his bronze shield... Perseus reaches back over his shoulder and severs Medusa's head. So science fiction pretends at futures in order to cure sick dogs lying in today's road. Indirection is everything. Metaphor is the medicine."-Ray Bradbury

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"We have seen men lie, degrade, kill, deport, torture – and each time it was not possible to persuade them not to do these things because they were sure of themselves... Mankind's dialogue has just come to an end. And naturally a man with whom one cannot reason is a man to be feared."-Albert Camus

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A.I. doesn't need to make bioweapons. They just have to tell everyone that their neighbors have guns. And they're making some kind of plan. They've been looking at you funny. And whispering behind your back. Maybe you should get a gun, too, just to be safe?

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

If MapQuest really wants to become legend, they'll start calling the USA "The United States of Ontario."

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

often attributive (1) : a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations (2) : a period of such armed conflict

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Bugs Bunny War

ALT: Bugs Bunny War

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it."--Jean Paul Sartre

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Neither here nor there, but some secret third place.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

(Overheard in a workplace today) Her: "Hey, quick question for you. Do you know--" Him: "Nope." Panskepticism must make many normal social interactions so much quicker.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We almost planned out trip to Iceland to coincide with the eclipse. I really wanted to see it there, but other factors won out. We went three weeks ago instead. The weather was overcast the entire time we were there, too. Looks like we made the right call.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Actual faculty getting silenced and fired for their work from the right, and the big issue for a whole bunch of the commentariat is whether there is political discrimination against imagined faculty.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

"The word 'cause' is an altar to an unknown god; an empty pedestal still marking the place of a hoped-for statue."—William James

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

How otherwise intelligent people confuse legal standards (due process) for social/political ones (deciding who should be on a ballot) is honestly quite astounding. We're not depriving Platner of life, liberty or property. No one is entitled to due process before being removed from a ballot.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Also relevant: Pandora herself was an artificial being, not born of a human, but rather created by Hephaestus, god of the forge.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Some real 'Jesus isn't a zombie, he's a litch' action going on in this thread.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"And what is that LLM standing on?" "Sonny, it's just Claudes all the way down."

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Ludwig Wittgenstein said “Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” He wasn't talking about Large Language Models, but damn, he could have been.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The problem with standing on the shoulders of giants is that we're liable to mistake the new horizon for the edge of the world.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

"Worthless" and "priceless" as simultaneously synonyms and antonyms.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

A basic principle of constitutional law is "The constitution says whatever the Supreme Court says it says." So yeah, those six racists do get to determine what is and is not constitutional. That's just how the law works, in practice, until they change their minds or another SCOTUS says otherwise.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Are accusations truth-functional? When I accuse someone of something is that the same as asserting the claim that they are guilty of what I accuse them of? Or is there a difference--semantic, syntactical, intentional, psychological, logical, etc.--between an accusation and an assertion?

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Slightly diminish a book The Grapes of Resentment

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The conservative justices on the Supreme Court arguing that you can separate race and partisanship got me thinking about these maps. starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/h...

How a coastline 100 million years ago influences modern election results in Alabama.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Honestly, among execution methods the two least (physically) painful probably are firing squad and the guillotine.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Fun fact: in 1777 General George Washington required all soliders serving in the continental army to be innonculated against small pox, a decision that was likely integral in winning the war. This country was literally born from compulsory immunization. historyofvaccines.org/blog/washing...

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Washington's War Against Smallpox: The Revolutionary Inoculation Campaign

History of Vaccines is an educational resource by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, one of the oldest professional medical organizations in the US.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I would add: "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt" is the standard for criminal conviction, not public opinion. Juries have the power to incarcerate, so they should have a very high standard of proof. Members of the public have far less power, and should ergo have a much lower standard of proof.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Thank you for installing my sacrasm detector on your BlueSky feed. I think you'll find it's SOOOO EFFECTIVE!

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Just a reminder on this Easter Sunday: 1) Attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime. 2) The head of state threatening to commit a war crime is itself a war crime.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Murc’s Law is “the widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics”. In other words, Democrats are responsible for Republicans being the way they are and doing the things they do, either because Democrats provoked them or failed to control them.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

"If Iran really wanted to fuck with Trump they should put out a statement saying they'll open the Strait back up if he admits he lost the 2020 election."--Thomas Smith

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Experimental Philosophy @handle.invalid · 31/03/2026

The *majority* of philosophy papers now cite at least some empirical data. Papers that do purely a priori philosophy are in a minority

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Viktor Winetrout @viktorwinetrout.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I hate when you embark on a heroic adventure in the hopes of emerging transformed only to discover that the strength you were seeking was within you all along

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The President of the United States rejoiced in the death of a Vietnam Veteran. Again. For the second time.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

"No lie is too obvious for the people to believe if it accommodates their secret wish to believe it."--Christa Wolf

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Don't beware the Ides of March. Make the Ides of March beware you!

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

"The only true Christian died on the cross."--Friedrich Nietzsche

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Oh, how I long for the days when I was nostalgic...

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Try singing the famous 80's song about Jenny's phone number in a middle school and watch what happens.

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Kierkegaardians of the Galaxy @sisyphusredeemed.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

"A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask."--Susan Sontag

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