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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Induction this, deduction that. Why don't we talk about the real earth-shattering inferential method. Which is subduction.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I know this sounds like a joke, but I do really think this. It's important for us to be constantly reminding ourselves that the maps are not the territory, and nowhere is that more important than at the 'in charge of the territory' institution.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I personally think the UN should adopt a different new map projection every five years. Keep everyone on their toes.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Also, the number of students who seem to think it's necessary to provide graphic photographic evidence of their ailment to me, unsolicited. Who has persuaded them this is a reasonable part of the procedure. I do not need to see your broken ankle and I don't know why you think I would.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I mean, even if I contort my brain into that specific kind of WWE trash-talk pseudologic, I still think it's a bad move to put your team's name on a lake that's a member of a set that also contains 'Lake Superior'

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Yeah, it's really convenient. Actually, it's super convenient. Golly, I wish there was a more efficient way to say that...

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Heard there was a sale on at the metaphysical store, so I went down to buy some gunk. Cashier said "sorry, we're all out. All we got in are atoms and void." "But hey" (he said, gesturing to the sale rack) "At least they're reduced"

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And then in the second last scene, Penelope says probably the world's most cliche movie line (if you have seen the film, you will know the one I mean) and it provoked in me an actual physical eye roll

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The movie lost me the minute Telemachus said the word 'mom' and it took a long time to win me back at all

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I saw the Odyssey. Apparently Nolan has some thoughts about US foreign policy. Wish he had a few more about dialogue.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Every so often bluesky decides that I am in Texas and thus that I have to upload ID to continue. I have never been to Texas. And I am certainly not giving my driver's license to a website that can't even tell that I'm not in Texas

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I will say this on behalf of the halftime show: if you had to do it, better to do it in a manner that was so eyewateringly tacky and American that no future host will ever try to pull that sort of shit again

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I'll say this on behalf of this year's England squad: they produced two games I found very entertaining. Which is two more than any world cup in recent memory

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

It's not coming home. But maybe it might visit for a long weekend.

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I am never going to skip a third place match ever again as long as I live

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Coming out of my cage, and I've been doing surprisingly poorly

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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

That’s not football it’s PlayStation

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

It's good to be the best in the world at something, even if that something is 'completely blowing it'

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

And to think that I wasn't going to watch this game.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

- haven't won jack or shit since the 60s - nobody who wasn't born into the cult likes them or their fans - Every time, everyone gets their hopes up fruitlessly again - It will never end - This is punishment for something - Probably something serious

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I explain now to my Canadian friends that England are the Toronto Maple Leafs of soccer football

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Well, at least England has spared me a moral dilemma.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Have you considered possibly rooting for Argentina in the final? Just curious

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Star Trek episode where the crew go back in time and prevent 'Amok Time', thereby destroying fandom culture and fundamentally changing the arc of the 20th Century

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Or the rest of the tournament. The refs have mostly been pretty hands-off, except here

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It makes sense if you already treat politics like professional wrestling, of which this is just the normal preliminary trash-talk.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Strictly more meaningful than the actual lyrics.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm probably also in the top 5% for Doctor Who (1998) but I'm less proud of that.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

If there's someone who has seen The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension more times than I have, I just want to talk. About how that could possibly be true.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I mean, it's philosophically fascinating that so much of this sport now turns on really sensitive judgements of intention. However, it's also clearly bullshit

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Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Brutal, cruel sport! Awful!

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Well, if today's games give us any indication of how teams who score 1 or 2 goals early perform...

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

See, if the United States of America played to their full capacity, they would win

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

All I will say is that if Bosnia goes up 3-0 immediately, I will remain worried

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The nearest equivalent is Stairway to Heaven, which similarly seems to have meaning without really meaning much of anything. And has an easy-to-play acoustic guitar intro. But Stairway is a lot harder to sing.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I think it also helps that the lyrics are somewhere on the border between 'enigmatic' and 'incomprehensible', which allows it to stand as a kind of unmoored and contextless cultural object. Singing Wonderwall means nothing other than that you are singing Wonderwall.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Do you also communicate primarily by means of incomprehensible hand gestures?

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Kid sitting behind me on this flight keeps asking 'But what IS Ohio'. No provided answers seem to satisfy him. He seems to be becoming increasingly skeptical that an answer is even possible.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Never before have I found Lionel Messi 'relatable'

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Oh no! How will they starm their kiers now?

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

You're going to see a lot of Canadians getting up on high horses over the inevitable US World Cup logistical failures, but they should know that it just took me and 900 of my new best friends three full hours to exit YYZ post-landing

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My gynecologist did not like me referring to my IUD as a cybernetic implant, but, well, I'm not wrong

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Perhaps it's a recruitment campaign for a time travel history editing business. 'oh, you think you can do a better job? Apply now!'

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Davy Hulme @hulme.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Singer Neil Diamond started his career as Neil Coal. He changed his name when the pressure got to him.

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

(and most people under the age of 35 are most familiar with Randy Newman as 'the Toy Story guy', so you can really lure them in to that punchline)

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Jen Whyte 🍁 @whyjenwhy.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

(if anyone's in need of a new karaoke standard, especially if you are - like me - a pretty poor singer, this one's a winner. Doesn't need a huge range or good intonation, lots of fun inflections, not very long)

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