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Simon

@thedenature.bsky.social
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Historian. Absolute angst kraken. Philadelphia/Lenapehoking

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I asked ages ago but didn’t get much of a response so I’m taking another swing at it. Does anyone following me either know how to read Cree or know someone who can?
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 05/10/2026
To the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My mom did the management training program there before she took over her own store, so if there’s no one on earth who appreciates the reference, it means I’m dead.
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
i genuinely think explicitly bringing antivaxxers into the coalition of one of the two major parties in this country is among the worst things trump ever did and is one of the things he did that Generic Shitty Republican President wouldn't have done
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
His hypothesis here is empirically testable.
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kenny mellman @kennymellman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
they are all evil monsters. Trans Rights Are Human Rights.
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rose Macaulay, The Towers of Trebizond
After all, life, for all its agonies of despair and loss and guilt, is exciting and beautiful, amusing and artful and endearing, full of liking and of love, at times a poem and a high adventure, at times noble and at times very gay; and whatever (if anything) is to come after it, we shall not have this life again.
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Signal Boosting:
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Bitchshortage eats soup @bitchshortage.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My dad grew up on a dairy farm and was like people tryna do what now? Oh fuck no I’d rather drink my own piss than raw milk
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@JFriedhoff

me at 13: wow i can't wait til we have immersive computers everywhere like star trek
me at 30: wow i can't wait until we destroy all computers like in dune
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“He thought: there is not only more than one history of the world one for each of us who studies it; there is more than one for each of us, there are as many as we want or need, as many as our heads and wanting hearts can make.” -John Crowley, The Solitudes
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The self-anointed "Founders" will recognize the rights of machines before they recognize universal human rights.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ted Lasso: Believe! Jackson Lamb: Oh fuck off
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“He thought: there is not only more than one history of the world one for each of us who studies it; there is more than one for each of us, there are as many as we want or need, as many as our heads and wanting hearts can make.” -John Crowley, The Solitudes
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 18/08/2024
Ask not for whom the ominous groovy music continues; it continues for thee.
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Captain Su boo ru Baja blas @coolranch4lyfe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Give this woman the Nobel peace prize for science
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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you
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Brandon Bird @brandonbird.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's that time. "I am the Night," oil and pencil on canvas, 2008
Child in a Philip Seymour Hoffman Halloween costume.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The techno-dystopia I actually fear is a future where most people think truth is whatever Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or Grok say, and the very small number of people who control those systems use that to manipulate for their own ends, making our current epistemic crisis seem small in comparison.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People are pointing out (understandably) that there’s an irony or inconsistency here, but of course there isn’t really: the entire point of far right politics is that they (favoured group) have a right to do & say what they want, and you (opponent/ other unfavoured person) have no rights at all
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Torture advocate advocates torture.
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Brooklyn Rousseau (Spooky 365, not just October) 🎃 @glamgothcollective.mu.social · 01/10/2026
THERE IS NO TRANS DEBATE
THERE ARE TRANS PEOPLE AND THERE ARE FASCISTS WHO WISH TO DOMINATE
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ELIMINATE TRANS PEOPLE
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
You’re telling me they were ALL of them deceived? Not ONE of them caught on?
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn't a court at all. They're literally not even reading the fucking briefs before making "decisions".
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 30/09/2026
LOGGING ON
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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Karl Marx never considered the globalization of a single bottle of Tropicana apple juice Or maybe he did, I dunno, but this is bonkers
“Contains juices from Brazil, Chile, China, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, and U.S.”
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Anti-Life Algorithm
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ThisIsCinema.jpg
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🌭 Sid Oozeley 🌭 @oozeley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
he looks like he's about to get hammertossed into orbit by stardust the super-wizard for being a fifth column fascist saboteur
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Convenient list of people to prosecute and imprison.
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hapless Republicans hold up a sign that says "It's a limited number of signs"
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me, eulogizing a very dear friend: This is the water, and this is the well. Drink full and descend. The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There is no point in passing any government funding bill at all, if the executive can simply ignore the spending decisions Congress makes.
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Some news from the flight deck.
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Jess Samhain 🔮🌙 @jessicajrossana.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Millennial bisexuals everywhere arise! The beacons are lit!
Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz on the set of The Mummy 4
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H.E. Cas Piancey @cascoinfoundation.org · 28/09/2026
Called it. Jack Doherty asks if he should trade memecoins live. The response is a mixture of people telling him to… uh… do bad things to himself, and people posting links on how to report him to the FTC and SEC. Have fun.
Jack Doherty: Should I go live on kick and start trading meme coins?

Ratioed 2:1
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Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
you couldn't make a movie like Heat today it's already almost 11pm
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Elton John deserves better.
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
CHOOSIN' FOR ZOOSHA?
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you gaze long into the Arby’s, the Arby’s gazes also into you.
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First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
TimeCube but for the Machine God.
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you gaze long into the Arby’s, the Arby’s gazes also into you.
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
iced coffee is junior level. the real power move is bringing a corn on the cob to your interview
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Promise you’ll bury him with his golden streaming service.
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Raising Arizona cellmate scene:
H.I. McDunnough: "You stole sand?"
Ear-bending cellmate: "That's right."
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Simon @thedenature.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Scorched Earth, Fallout Tactics, Shamus, SimCity, SimCity, Uplink, Total Annihilation, Tropico, Age of Empires III, Operation Stealth
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Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Can't wait for the Boston Globe's next big article: Suburban junior high D&D group falls apart in 1986 because one member bought the Clash's first album and declared 'Rush kinda sucks' and 'it should not take 45 min to resolve a combat between two goblins and a 7th lvl party.' Blows were exchanged.
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