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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 7h

I can respect that feeling but I still hope it goes well

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 9h

no version of this will ever beat learning how Kristie Noem's last name is pronounced from an ad about "Governor Gnome"

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 10h

I'm not even sure they're doing begging the question right

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 10h

the show does a really good job with people pretending to be other people generally

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 11h

well consider: if we hadn't given them a national park to make them stop lighting their river on fire, I never would've had to visit Ohio

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 11h

dying to know why Mouth Trap is called that

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 11h

as the saying goes, what's the point of "fuck you money" if you never tell anyone "fuck you"

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 11h

once you've done your initial bootstrapping you can just unfreeze a different thing each meal and get as much variety as you want at the same time expenditure and cost as eating one thing for a week

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 11h

begging people to just put some stuff in the freezer

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 12h

it's still insane to me that not only was there a secret rich people pedophile society the secret rich people pedophile society kept a book where they exchanged notes about how they loved peodphiling together

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If the random chance of birth is your biggest achievement and proudest thing in your life, idk, what are you even doing lol.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 12h

I feel like "deranged dating advice that isn't really applicable to me" is probably the form of content I'm missing out on the most from my refusal to engage with short form video

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 12h

I honestly haven't noticed that as much as I expected. I do think if I was looking for a job right now I'd probably be violently angry about second order effects of AI though

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 13h

I also object to the idea that AI has reshaped life "drastically for the worse". I am not sure I have had any interactions with AI except at work, where it is a generally useful tool.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 13h

have to be honest I just don't think there's that much you can expect the mayor of New York to do re: the I/P conflict. New York does not have foreign policy!

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 13h

you need a paperclip maximizer in there somewhere. probably something about Worldlines/Many Worlds Interpretation too

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 13h

can I interest you in my proposal to find the time zone on the equator with the most land area, construct a massive archology there, and move all humans to live in it, eliminating daylight savings and time zones in a single stroke?

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 13h

we must simply learn from the bears and hibernate

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 14h

my vision is more "petty criminal who got in too deep with the mob"

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 16h

intuitively I am fairly sympathetic to this, as I think my relationship with my parents is better in some ways than my siblings in part because I live on the other side of the country and only seen them on my own terms

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 16h

but if your parents are in your phone 24/7, able to ask you for updates about everything and see all your activity on social media, it becomes much harder to manage their access in a way that allows you to have a relationship with low enough bandwidth to be tolerable

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 16h

that is to say: if you kinda don't like your parents but you see them twice a year at a big party, that might be fine. you're having a good time, they can't really micromanage you, and you can always talk to someone else

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 16h

an interesting idea I've seen floated about this stuff is that social media pushes a more absolute approach to relationships like this

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 17h

I do see some problems planning complex trips (e.g. splitting days between King's Canyon and Sequoia) on a pure lottery system, but I'll take anything over the current "log in at 7AM and pray" system

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 17h

first come first serve is particularly annoying to me because, since check-in is at the middle of the day, it really fucks with my desire to do a ten hour hike while visiting parks

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 18h

god please please make this how camping reservations work. just do the lottery far enough out that I can plan flights properly.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 18h

take the money from the red button in cash and cause a literal rather than economic singularity

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 18h

it pairs with the Google health app by default, not sure if it's cross-compatible with anything else, but the app is ~fine (though apparently there is some AI coach I've opted out of)

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 18h

honestly the air works pretty well. it does seem to under-count distance a bit and is not great for non-cardio stuff but it's cheap enough I don't really mind

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 19h

frankly the only reason I hit all those people with my car was the comments about my "erratic driving" and "breath that reeked of whisky"

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 19h

guy who thinks claiming unemployment benefits causes you to be fired

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 19h

I mean it is probably true that those things were related but I don't think the parents are getting the causality right

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 19h

both men and women, as it happens!

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 19h

the fitbit air is a scam by big treadmill to sell you more running

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I've not really found the biotech stuff in the ana and din books that gross but the Emergency Medicine Crab is testing me

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think we should stop finding things out about math. there's enough math.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

we simply need to adopt my secular philosophy of The Money That You Save Serves You When You Die

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i've never been a cultural relativist so this is easy for me: the culture of the American Right fucking sucks. they worship malice and mediocrity. they venerate nothing of value.

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

this is what happens when one side polarizes against "virtue" as a concept

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

(or I suppose "organization" is fairer terminology, it's not like this is the position of the movement generally)

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I would prefer if the anti-climate change movement just advocated against climate change rather than doing antisemitism about a vaguely related topic

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

well there's a simple solution there: pull a george foreman and name them all the same thing

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

we could easily fix this by merging it with the Dakotas

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

fucked up for Harry to steal his friend's girl like that tbh

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"is it blasphemous to imagine yourself pegging Jesus", the greatest debate in the history of theology

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

guy who thinks I Saw The TV Glow is about a cis person because there's no hormone injections

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

in what fucking world is "imagining this person is the other gender" anti-trans

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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

if you stop after S3 Weeds is a legitimately good show

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