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Heresiarch of Uqbar

@smeraldina.bsky.social
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Various art projects, current events, science and mathematics (He/him)

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I need younger generations to understand how weird it is that trump is such a unique terrible fuck up that it’s actually correct to blame the president for a demonstrably shittier economy and costs
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 22/08/2026
post by Zeekerss @ZeekerssRBLX on X on 1/10/26

Concept art is the most poisonous place to use Al. That's when your creative vision is the most fragile and undeveloped. When you see what the Al made and say, "That looks cool, I want my game to look like that!" it's like it's secretly swapping out your baby with its own.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
It has to be ripped out by the roots and hauled away as trash because if it isn’t — if one stained sheet or gilded sconce is left — what voter will trust the system again? If you can’t even do us the symbolic courtesy of aesthetic restoration, why should we believe you’ll remake what is broken?
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Since “defunding the pillars of society in order to save money” and “giving all the money to police and wealthy pricks” are core tenets of conservatism, I think as a society we ought to consider “conservative” a dangerous indecent thing to be, and those who identify as such should pay a social cost.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The reason to not defund all the pillars of a functioning society to save money is that society collapses and no money is saved. The reason to not spend all the money on police and tax breaks for wealthy pricks is then the wealthy pricks have everything in a police state designed to protect them.
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👻Maly Boo Tails👻 @malytwotails.com · 19/07/2026
Incredible work
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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Those assembly turn cranks that won't get thrown in the trash
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
That's it. That's a do-over.
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
God forbid a woman do anything
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 01/07/2026
We definitely need a new term for this kind of person, and I propose “prolapsed Catholic.”
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Look, sexual harassment is never ever OK, but if he were here, this is the kind Diogenes would do.
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
It's fun to mock Trump for losing, but we should also say this: We committed a monstrous crime against the people of Iran. As an American taxpayer I'm glad we are repaying them. Now it is time to talk about the debt Trump and his cronies owe US for his crimes against us.
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Star Wars Writer Reveals Fraught Editing Process "Clearly Grogu had to disembowel himself to preserve his honor. But the steel saber was woke. I told them, 'that's woke.'"
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Jay Edidin @edidin.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...
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I found a second vote.gov — and it's registered to the White House
There is a moment in every investigation where the thing you have been looking for finds you instead.
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Remember the term "Executive Time" was invented during Trump 1.0 to block off huge chunks of his schedule because he didn't want to do work.
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Nereide @drnereide.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
🧵1/5 Mathematicians have a stunning new way to tell knots apart: each one now gets its own unique hexagonal “QR code”, delicate and symmetric like a snowflake. Developed by Dror Bar-Natan and Roland van der Veen, it’s both fast and incredibly powerful. This is exciting stuff. #Math #MathSky 🧪
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/05/2026
Bail is for people who haven't been convicted of a crime. This is voter disenfranchisement. This keeps eligible voters from voting & creates justifiable distrust of electeds among families, who then may not vote. When you blame your problems on non-voters, perhaps ask what disenfranchised them.
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RIKEN @riken-sciverse.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Last month, scientists at CERN led by RIKEN's Stefan Ulmer did what?? Antimatter on a truck? #Science #Physics #Antimatter #ParticlePhysics 🧪 ⚛️
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Scientists successfully transport antimatter in a truck
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A fascinating read on what AI is doing to mathematics, and what that means for mathematicians davidbessis.substack.com/p/the-fall-o...
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The fall of the theorem economy
How AI could destroy mathematics and barely touch it
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Dan Immergluck @danimmergluck.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Brutal.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION
WILL DIE TONIGHT
My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools.
Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's
"keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's
"we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight."
It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before.
"It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time.
A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead.
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Mukad A QuBoy
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Three panel comic. Panel 1: young man in a hoodie looking morose and sitting on a swing set. He says “she’s breaking up with me…” Panel 2: next to him is a glyptodon, an early ancestor of armadillos. With his head in his hands, the young man says “what do I do glyptodon?” Panel 3: the glyptodon says “I’m like an early ancestor of armadillos. The young man angrily replies, “are you even listening man?”
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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
sapphic princess of the underworld (2025)
fanart of Melinoe from Hades 2, wearing a modern outfit (dark jeans, orange top), she has a big tattoo on her right arm, and is about to tie her hair with a hair band (is this how it's called in english ?)
her eyes are closed, she has nice arm muscles and looks extremely lesbian
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Screenshot from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Dracula
If I was a dracula would I keep all these turkeys in the walls? Jackass.
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Juicy Cake of Figs וְאָֽהַבְתָּ֥ לְרֵעֲךָ֖ כָּמ֑וֹךָ @datadivajf.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
THIS MUST BE A MOVIE.
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borderless @borderless.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."
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Denise Ruttan @teawhilewriting.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Post 15 books you read in 2025 that you recommend. One book per day for 15 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers. 4/15 #15booksin2025challenge #Booksky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readersky
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 19/12/2025
President Trump struggled to stay awake while discussing his order reclassifying marijuana. trib.al/aikjE4O But don’t tell Dozy Don that his age, cognitive ability, or health may be an issue: The president gets very upset
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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 15/11/2025
sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I really struggle to describe just how utterly insane it is that the California's crew kept her in the air. They had to work out how to fly a plane designed ONLY for military-grade fuel on the same stuff you get at a petrol pump. And they had to work that out MID AIR OVER THE INDIAN OCEAN.
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Paul Semel @paulsemel.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
In my new interview with the author currently known as qntm, he talks about the new version of his previously serialized online supernatural #ScienceFiciton thriller novel, "There Is No Antimemetics Division." paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🧠
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Interview: "There Is No Antimemetics Division" Author qntm ... .
Exclusive Interview: "There Is No Antimemetics Division" Author qntm \ In which he talks about this supernatural sci-fi thriller novel.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Pennsylvania Republicans are aiming to erase Democrats' majority on the state supreme court in November. But this sort of push has virtually no precedent or template in this state, making a weird campaign where everyone is trying to find their mark. A great new read: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...
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Inside the Clunky Elections to Control Pennsylvania's Supreme Court - Bolts
The GOP is making an expensive push to end Democrats’ majority on a court at the center of election lawsuits, sparking a fledging campaign season with little precedent or template.
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Andy @andyoregon.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Jess Waters recycling the same guy over and over to represent “former” different enemies
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Brendan @chibdm.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
"As the end approaches," wrote Cartaphilus, "there are no longer any images from memory—there are only words." Words, words, words taken out of place and mutilated, words from other men—these were the poor pittance left to him by the hours and the centuries.
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Everyone complains about the dentist but the manicurist is so much worse?? Comes to your house. Won't give his name.
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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 01/09/2025
cishet abled white guy melting down over “how awful this place is” because at-risk folks said, “don’t demand people prepare to sacrifice us today because of a half baked idea of what political expediency looks like in a future we may not make it to” makes me so violently angry i’m queasy.
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Rachael and Vilray continue to imply that the narrator of their songs is an absolute freak. This is very important to me. youtu.be/4d8tZN4KqSI
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Is it Jim?
YouTube video by Rachael & Vilray - Topic
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
it can't be explained by mere incompetence or cowardice. our elite institutions have been, for decades, infiltrated by conservatives who want to destroy them from within and now that trump is president again, they're all executing the final part of their plan.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 23/07/2025
Oh i hate this a LOT
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Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
lmao ok reposting w/ alt text bc we all deserve to see this burn
a tweet from Andrew Cuomo that reads, "In it to win it." of his campaign announcement video, it has 995 retweets.

There's a reply from Zohran K Mamdani that has a link to donate to Zohran's campaign and it has 1.8K retweets.
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Emily (I'm not leaving) Feiner @emilyjaynef.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
A quote is shown from Will Fullwood.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Bisexual of the Blade (Alt-text or DIE) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 04/07/2025
Every 4th of July, I take the time to read "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July." Let us begin: "I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."
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(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July"
Explore the speech "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" delivered by Frederick Douglass in 1852, including full text and historical context.
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Jacob Bacharach @jacobbacharach.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I wrote a sonnet about Jonathan Chait's hypothetical vote.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I wrote a very personal essay about two conversations—one with my father decades ago and one with a stranger a few weeks ago amid the upheaval of Trump 2.0.
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Remembering My Father and Talking to Strangers on Planes
"I believe we're good enough to do better."
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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.
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Heresiarch of Uqbar @smeraldina.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
"the perfect metaphor for a campaign announcement doesn't exist"
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