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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 5h

I imagine it would probably be different if the money was on the table for me in a real way but I really do think I'd walk away from a pretty large amount of money not to have to go along with something as fucking stupid as this renaming

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 6h

for some reason, despite getting like ten Liberty Mutual ads a day, I only get the emu ones and I assumed liberty biberty was some throwback to the 2000s we had all decided to remember for some reason

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 11h

batman comic where Batman foils the Joker's plan to deploy joker gas on the people of gotham by getting him caught up in permitting red tape

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 15h

I don't think the people asking for Woke Batman would actually like it but you could do something fun with a slightly more pulp-action version of Saunders Commonweal series where the protagonists keep doing social reforms to free up societal resources to fight progressively more apocalyptic threats

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 17h

in fairness, most rats do have a smaller penis than I do

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my toxic work tendency has always been "pick up project, work till blocked, pick up new project, don't return to old project" and oh boy are LLMs not great for that

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's cool how my Fitbit reliably detects an hour on the treadmill as exactly an hour of activity

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I went to a high school with a pretty significant Asian population, then college and a first job which were primarily white, and I genuinely had a "oh yeah, this is what it's normally like" feeling joining my current workplace which has a bunch of Asian people in it

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

it's weird that "prestige sitcom" is much more common than "prestige police procedural"

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

is there some sort of districting thing for planes I don't understand that is causing Liberal, KS to show up in these way more often than it does in any other context?

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

pretty sure some life has originated in way cheaper hotel rooms than that

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the thing that drives me insane about this idea is not just that it's stupid it's that there is absolutely nothing about it that requires or even particularly benefits from NFTs or the blockchain

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

this woman is clearly not the charlie Kirk of abortion, as she is alive and her head is a normal size

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

what's cool about this is that after it doesn't happen they're going to believe it only didn't happen because of a conspiracy to steal it from them

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

somehow, despite having grown up in New England, I have lived in California so long that I have forgotten it rains in fall in New England

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

lmao it also just lied to the guy trying to buy the thing so it's not even like it was helping him out at the expense of the user, it was just causing chaos for no reason

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

so why did pets dot com fail? aiui the conventional wisdom at the time was "stupid business, can't make money". and for a while you could plausibly believe that

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think cancel culture fulfills a deep need these people have to feel like they are significant and the cultural context they operate in is important

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it's so funny how Yud speaks like a wizard explaining to a farmboy who his parents secretly were about technical regulatory policy

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

phone has correctly identified that I'm in maine and it should be sending me anti-Collins ads

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

hell yeah dude absolutely no need to course correct away from "all star wars movies need to be about skywalkers". 0 reason to change that based on prior results.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've heard the song, I just don't like it

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't feel like I get a lot of the bad driver behavior people complain about but someone has *got* to explain brights etiquette to people

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

every time I go on vacation I tell myself "I should buy some sort of knickknack to remember the trip" and then I see the price of knickknacks and decide that actually pictures are fine

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Western chauvinist (guy who won't shut up about how much cooler the hiking west of the Mississippi is)

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

gender-affirming having a barbarian warlord take pleasure in hearing your lamentations

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

what do you mean person of Interest isn't even on the list

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

if you showed me this picture and asked me to guess the job of the person in it I think it would take me a full month to get to "Congresswoman"

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

controversial choice to establish an acausal communications link with the 1960s and use it to write op-eds

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

a lot of people are mad about the NYT focus panel articles, but I think they're good. so good, in fact, that they should do a huge one every November. do an all day session with everyone they can find on the first Tuesday of the month

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am somewhat skeptical of the "X is a religion" framework generally but I do think that at least Yud specifically has the same psychological patterns that I find so disturbing in the Christian religious weirdos that run a lot of the GOP

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

based on what I have seen of the proposed anti-athropomorphization standards, I think the third attempt fails for saying "the LLM was instructed"

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

> finally finish gyges article > log back on to Bluesky to check back on discourse > third post I see is gyges saying "I won't be posting for a while" sorry guys, I jinxed it

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

misaligned AI that turns only Eliezer Yudkowsky in to paperclips

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I get that there's ambiguity between de jure and de facto scope of newspapers but it seems a little unreasonable to demand that the Boston Globe not cover something happening in a place you can get to in a two hour drive from Boston

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

brb buying "yes" for "polymarket will win this lawsuit"

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Troy Jackson must promise to take smaller bribes for larger diversions of public funds to make up the gap among corruption-loving Maine voters

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I appreciate the 13% of Khornite voters who think the Dems aren't willing to do enough wars

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

as always you have to check the details: they're worried that it isn't high enough

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'm always saying that the problem with child labor was that we were paying the little fuckers

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

that's right you can all stop searching for my second brain. you don't need that warrant. that guy was that way before I got there.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

now let's not be too hasty. if Trump wants to throw a party with all his friends in a firetrap, can we really be sure it's wrong to let him?

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my AOC hot take is that I don't think she can win in 2028 not because she's a woman but because I just don't think the electorate is willing to vote for someone under 40

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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Can folks please report this fake Matt? Thanks!

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I believe Napoleon had some thoughts on the appropriate law enforcement response to situations of this sort

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

TERFs 🤝 Weird Nerds "Any girl in to nerd stuff is faking it"

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

never has a statement been made more often and less correctly than "this could violate RICO"

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