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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 2h

You can probably just repost a cover of Escape from Freedom daily at this point

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batski @babski.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

no king but biking

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 12h

Thiel's obsession with Greta Thunberg is creepy but also extremely predictable because of his fascism. Nothing must stand in the way of him accumulating more money and power

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

I stayed silent about how, for complex reasons, that I also do not want my inheritance. But if I hadn't read Mann, I don't think I would have appreciated my father's struggle to consider what will remain of his legacy.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

He worked hard his nearly 80 years, and on a Gator trip around the family property, he shared how anxious he was about what would be left soon. He's old, and between me and my three siblings, he has only 2 grandchildren, and he's not sure how long the land will stay in the family.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

I feel that Mann captured that inner compulsion of the Protestant ethic, and how it plays out in a family's hopes and legacy, in exacting detail. It also helped me understand a tragic conversation I had with my own father about 2 months after finishing the book.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

One of the remarkable artistic encounters I've had recently is with Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks. I didn't think a novel about a bourgeois German family would speak across cultures or time, yet it was engrossing.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13h

I genuinely mean this. I cannot imagine a more bleak dystopian notion than the idea of all art being turned into slop designed to coddle my exact perceived intentions. The point of literature, film, music, and art is to be exposed to the interior lives of others. Who are these people.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 19h

I don't know; I feel like it's pretty clear why living under queer-hating fascists would make people less likely to identify publicly as queer.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 15h

Evelyn Normielib, Blood of the Tyrants, &c.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 15h

If a social scientist is ever visited by three evil ghosts in the night, one of them will be Twenge.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 15h

No matter how mad we are at Ford, we should be madder

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 15h

Thinking a lot about the apocryphal "What do you think of Western Civilization?" "I think it would be a good idea" story these days.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 19h

*Fusing two cursed discourses* Every $26 million we spent means 1 trillion fewer virtual people 10,000,000 years from now

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 19h

How your email finds me

The Magic the Gathering Card Emrakul, the Exigent Doom. It is a multitentacled eldritch horror escaping from its former prison, a moon.

Casting cost: 10

Legendary Creature -- Eldrazi

When you cast this spell, untap all lands you control. Flying, trample, ward--sacrifice three permanents.

3, Exile this card from your hand: Target land gains "Tap: Add 2 until this card is cast from exile. You may cast this card for as long as it remains exiled."

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 20h

"Growth is up 10X but it will take 1000X growth to build the first Dyson sphere so you're all going to have to work harder." "Ok we have a Dyson sphere but it's going to take 1000X growth to move to the next galaxy over." And so it goes.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"My mom texted me from the afterlife" Tell me you're a mark without saying you're a mark

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Feel like follow up questions are going to reveal that they like Athenian democracy's slavery and women not voting

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

if you've seen how many bags of baby carrots have gone off in my fridge over the years, you know why I'm pro carrot necromancy

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Didn't Talarico practically do this by not eating enough meat

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

America is stored in the oil. In an unrelated note, seems like American money might be helping stoke Alberta separation

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pretty sure "crocs" is Australian gay slang for "leather daddy"

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Also: release the beavers!

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Apparently many of my colleagues also thought the AI training was an AI phishing scam, but our IT department assured us it was not lol

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Motorists: We must start our own religion. The religion:

Sacrifices to the Modern Moloch, by James.

It shows a man labelled "reckless and vicious drivers" offering up a platter to a car on a pedestal, labelled auto fatalities.

The cartoon came from the St. Louis Star, dated November 6, 1923, p. 14

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Sadly, it's way easier to say dumb shit. It's hard to think good thoughts, yet alone write them so they sound coherent on a social media site.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

It is, PE = President Evil

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did PE block the strait of Hormuz too?

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Elias has Fromm-posted before, and it has inspired me to re-read some of his work. Fromm is the unjustly neglected stepbrother of the Frankfurt School.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Getting tiktok secondhand (snippets in a podcast, hearing a description of one) is enough for me to take psychic damage

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 07/10/2026

i appreciated this argument from silvaria because of how it emphasizes that the basic fight over trans metaphysics is in fact unavoidable. we can't "strategically abandon it," because it is the very terrain of debate, with policy implications we can't avoid

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Pieces like this are why I'm happy to support LC. The fact that anyone still needs to say "Sex is multi-component; chromosomal, gonadal, hormonal, morphological" is depressing though. Jesus people, take one of my gender classes from 2003.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Side effect of austerity, too. Canada's postsecondary sector is collapsing because we turned anti-immigration and anti-international student.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yesterday, my college pushed out some cybersecurity training through email. One of the videos claimed we could outsmart and outcaution cybercriminals using AI trying to phish us. Kept thinking "this is not what the AI overlords are saying." I also thought the email was a phishing scam at first.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Brought to you by everyone's favourite French theorist, Foukitty.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As a cyclist I appreciate this one ❤️

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Welcome to Meat Cups! We also have: 1. Beef bucket. 2. Chicken chalice. 3. Sausage stein. 4. Goat goblet. 5. Venison vessel.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

god what evil economics did i do in a past life

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bluesky is my bibliotherapy. Also does anyone know why my unread book pile is so large.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One place where reading posts and writing posts does work, I think, is if you are reading books and posting about books, which is one of the primary reasons I'm here. But guess what, you still have to log your ass off.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Just give me the spark notes version of this skeet Joel

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This could be a good crossover episode with the fine folks at @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social

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