ClintD
@clintd.bsky.social
Former linguistics student, currently a tinkerer obsessed with macro photography; disabled by chronic pain
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(agreeing with you) to the protrary,
October 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
(agreeing with you) to the protrary,
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For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.
Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement
A moral reckoning.
www.friendsjournal.org
August 4, 2025 at 4:58 PM
For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.
Opposite ends of the native bee spectrum
July 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Opposite ends of the native bee spectrum
I swear I'm going to start emailing this to my local butterflies, I mean come on now
July 1, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I swear I'm going to start emailing this to my local butterflies, I mean come on now
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yeah i love waymo, way mo immigrants coming to my city
June 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
yeah i love waymo, way mo immigrants coming to my city
Aster family is pretty reliable for interesting ultraviolet photos, Gazania hybrids
May 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Aster family is pretty reliable for interesting ultraviolet photos, Gazania hybrids
Palmer's penstemon in visible light and ultraviolet, notice how the waxy coating reflects the uv so well. No clue what's going on with the colors in the uv photo, in theory it should all be greyscale
May 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Palmer's penstemon in visible light and ultraviolet, notice how the waxy coating reflects the uv so well. No clue what's going on with the colors in the uv photo, in theory it should all be greyscale
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My friend in Spokane is having some success growing the botanical holy grail: blue poppies from the genus Meconopsis. They are so stunning in person. He even has a double-flowered blossom on one of them! 🌱
May 31, 2025 at 8:54 PM
My friend in Spokane is having some success growing the botanical holy grail: blue poppies from the genus Meconopsis. They are so stunning in person. He even has a double-flowered blossom on one of them! 🌱
Dandelion in uv, the dark center is presumably to attract bees. No clue what wavelength is getting interpreted as yellow by the camera, the center shows it's not visible light leaking in
April 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Dandelion in uv, the dark center is presumably to attract bees. No clue what wavelength is getting interpreted as yellow by the camera, the center shows it's not visible light leaking in
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You actually miss 0% of the shots you don't take. If you're counting 'shots not taken' as 'missed,' then missed shots immediately become a singularity. We are all constantly in a state not taking shots. No one likes a tryhard, Steve.
January 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
You actually miss 0% of the shots you don't take. If you're counting 'shots not taken' as 'missed,' then missed shots immediately become a singularity. We are all constantly in a state not taking shots. No one likes a tryhard, Steve.
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The funniest folk etymology is for Macau, said to be "what the f*" (mat1 gau1 乜尻) in Cantonese.
The Portuguese asked a local "what place is this?"
The local went: "Nei 5 ngap1 mat1 gau1" 你噏乜尻？ ("wtf are you saying?"),
so the Portuguese thought Mat1 gau1 was the name 🤣 1/2
The Portuguese asked a local "what place is this?"
The local went: "Nei 5 ngap1 mat1 gau1" 你噏乜尻？ ("wtf are you saying?"),
so the Portuguese thought Mat1 gau1 was the name 🤣 1/2
March 13, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The funniest folk etymology is for Macau, said to be "what the f*" (mat1 gau1 乜尻) in Cantonese.
The Portuguese asked a local "what place is this?"
The local went: "Nei 5 ngap1 mat1 gau1" 你噏乜尻？ ("wtf are you saying?"),
so the Portuguese thought Mat1 gau1 was the name 🤣 1/2
The Portuguese asked a local "what place is this?"
The local went: "Nei 5 ngap1 mat1 gau1" 你噏乜尻？ ("wtf are you saying?"),
so the Portuguese thought Mat1 gau1 was the name 🤣 1/2
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Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1978
![Wiki entry:
The match had many bizarre incidents
Karpov's team included noted Soviet
psychologist and hypnotherapist Vladimir
Petrovich Zukhar [rul, while Korchnoi enlisted
the help of two American Ananda Marga yoga
specialists who had recently been convicted
of attempted murder and released on bail.(1]/2]
There was more controversy off the board,
with histrionics ranging from X-raying of
chairs, protests about the flags used on the
board and Korchnoi's complaints that Zukhar,
sitting in the front row, attempted to hypnotise
him.[3l When Karpov's team sent him a
blueberry yogurt during a game without any
request for one by Karpov, the Korchnoi team
protested, claiming it could be some kind of
code. They later said this was intended as a
parody of earlier protests, but it was taken
seriously at the time.!4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rzgxnxi42gyskrxw247ofmee/bafkreicuhxs5qb7k72l6tnggttrb4qgoyzu2ejm57xanahlv67joibapje@jpeg)
March 13, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Karpov vs Korchnoi, 1978
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Pronouncing the first G in gigantic like the G in GIF
January 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Pronouncing the first G in gigantic like the G in GIF
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Horse-Drawn Carriage
November 12, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Horse-Drawn Carriage
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PSA: ‘Big Wellness’ makes more money than ‘Big Pharma’ with none of the regulatory constraints to ‘innovation’. It’s pseudoscience and quackery and is dangerous. It kills - remember Steve Jobs? Thinking he could ‘Wellness’ his way out of pancreatic cancer? Don’t believe the ableist hype…
It’s New Years so we will be spammed with wellness posts.
Posts about how to make 2025 the “healthiest year ever!” Posts to make you feel bad if you’re chronically ill. To make you feel it’s your fault.
Remember that wellness and chronic illness are not mutually exclusive.
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Posts about how to make 2025 the “healthiest year ever!” Posts to make you feel bad if you’re chronically ill. To make you feel it’s your fault.
Remember that wellness and chronic illness are not mutually exclusive.
🧵
January 1, 2025 at 4:52 AM
PSA: ‘Big Wellness’ makes more money than ‘Big Pharma’ with none of the regulatory constraints to ‘innovation’. It’s pseudoscience and quackery and is dangerous. It kills - remember Steve Jobs? Thinking he could ‘Wellness’ his way out of pancreatic cancer? Don’t believe the ableist hype…
This firefly petunia looks solid white to you and me, but a bee sees bright UV lines point to the pollen and nectar. This took some effort to take, most lenses are abysmal at UV
December 30, 2024 at 7:36 PM
This firefly petunia looks solid white to you and me, but a bee sees bright UV lines point to the pollen and nectar. This took some effort to take, most lenses are abysmal at UV
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Wife: No, I don't want to go to a Star Wars themed sex party. Ew
Me: First off it's Star TREK and secondly it's called a Borgy
Me: First off it's Star TREK and secondly it's called a Borgy
December 25, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Wife: No, I don't want to go to a Star Wars themed sex party. Ew
Me: First off it's Star TREK and secondly it's called a Borgy
Me: First off it's Star TREK and secondly it's called a Borgy
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me: so as far as abnormal results go, these are pretty mid?
doc: excuse me?
me: they'd get ratioed hard by funnier results
doc: I'm saying you're dying
me: like respawning or deleting my acct?
doc: excuse me?
me: they'd get ratioed hard by funnier results
doc: I'm saying you're dying
me: like respawning or deleting my acct?
December 19, 2024 at 12:11 PM
me: so as far as abnormal results go, these are pretty mid?
doc: excuse me?
me: they'd get ratioed hard by funnier results
doc: I'm saying you're dying
me: like respawning or deleting my acct?
doc: excuse me?
me: they'd get ratioed hard by funnier results
doc: I'm saying you're dying
me: like respawning or deleting my acct?
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I don't have any friends. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me impossible to be friends with.
December 13, 2024 at 9:00 PM
I don't have any friends. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me impossible to be friends with.
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Last year, I wrote a brief article about how the heart “breaks” in ancient Mesopotamia. What could a broken heart have meant 3,000 years ago, and how did people express mental distress?
To me, how they made emotional pain make sense is really moving anetoday.org/al-rashid-he...
To me, how they made emotional pain make sense is really moving anetoday.org/al-rashid-he...
Heartbreak and the History of Distress in Ancient Mesopotamia - The Ancient Near East Today
The concept of “heartbreak” appears multiple times in cuneiform texts as a metaphor to describe both mental and physical conditions. How should we interpret this phrase? And is it anything like heartb...
anetoday.org
December 13, 2024 at 11:29 AM
Last year, I wrote a brief article about how the heart “breaks” in ancient Mesopotamia. What could a broken heart have meant 3,000 years ago, and how did people express mental distress?
To me, how they made emotional pain make sense is really moving anetoday.org/al-rashid-he...
To me, how they made emotional pain make sense is really moving anetoday.org/al-rashid-he...
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If you play The Grinch backward, his heart shrinks after interacting with people and that’s a lot more accurate.
December 8, 2024 at 1:12 AM
If you play The Grinch backward, his heart shrinks after interacting with people and that’s a lot more accurate.
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Happening now at Washington Square Park: A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition, including people who intentionally and unintentionally dressed the part.
December 7, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Happening now at Washington Square Park: A United Healthcare CEO shooter lookalike competition, including people who intentionally and unintentionally dressed the part.
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I bet when squirrel teens fight with their parents, they’re like “YOU’RE THE REASON DAD RAN IN THAT ROAD”
November 26, 2024 at 10:19 PM
I bet when squirrel teens fight with their parents, they’re like “YOU’RE THE REASON DAD RAN IN THAT ROAD”