Kyle L (bruxist)
@haikugoat.bsky.social
wannabe linguist+tutor • social meaning, semantics/pragmatics, philosophy, film, lit, animals, mental anguish • San Francisco boy —> Massachusetts man
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The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
January 25, 2026 at 5:00 PM
The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.
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the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
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genuinely think implicature might be the concept invented by analytic philosophy that would be most useful for everyone to know
January 24, 2026 at 6:17 AM
genuinely think implicature might be the concept invented by analytic philosophy that would be most useful for everyone to know
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*banging together two trash-can-lid-shaped copies of the Melian dialogues during every press conference*
January 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM
*banging together two trash-can-lid-shaped copies of the Melian dialogues during every press conference*
Read the SEP article on the coherence theory of truth, and this seems like .... a very very bad theory of truth*?!?!?
* Except for moral/counterfactual/mathematical discourse, in which case it seems like a very good theory, but not necessarily of truth per se.
* Except for moral/counterfactual/mathematical discourse, in which case it seems like a very good theory, but not necessarily of truth per se.
The Coherence Theory of Truth (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
plato.stanford.edu
December 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Read the SEP article on the coherence theory of truth, and this seems like .... a very very bad theory of truth*?!?!?
* Except for moral/counterfactual/mathematical discourse, in which case it seems like a very good theory, but not necessarily of truth per se.
* Except for moral/counterfactual/mathematical discourse, in which case it seems like a very good theory, but not necessarily of truth per se.
Post a random GIF, and everything will go good in 2026:
December 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Post a random GIF, and everything will go good in 2026:
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When you get spaghettified by a black hole, the That's All Folks song from Looney Tunes plays
December 19, 2025 at 1:09 AM
When you get spaghettified by a black hole, the That's All Folks song from Looney Tunes plays
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There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
December 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.
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today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
December 9, 2025 at 1:44 PM
today’s affirmation: I am within the acceptable range of deviation. I am a perfectly roasted quail. if I was a car the mechanics would find nothing weird or rodent related in my air filter. I am upright. There are no stones or excess debris in my shoes. I still have all my bones.
One of the most reliably painful symptoms of Eastwards Jetlag is that the UK political scene gets considerably more vicious, racist, and foolish, as I become awake to see more posts about it.
December 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
One of the most reliably painful symptoms of Eastwards Jetlag is that the UK political scene gets considerably more vicious, racist, and foolish, as I become awake to see more posts about it.
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you'll be fine if you've read the origin story "Naming and Necessity"
Will I be able to follow 'Fast and Furious' if I haven't seen the earlier films ('Sense and Sensibility', 'Pride and Prejudice')?
December 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
you'll be fine if you've read the origin story "Naming and Necessity"
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Encore une fois les IA génératives c'est tellement populaire et tellement utile que l'armée veut t'obliger à l'utiliser.
jesus christ
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Encore une fois les IA génératives c'est tellement populaire et tellement utile que l'armée veut t'obliger à l'utiliser.
dynamic semantics is so cool y'all
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
dynamic semantics is so cool y'all
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Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
This is a nice in-the-wild example of a rather complex dynamic semantic speech act: a conditional with a factual antecedent, an imperative consequent which itself embeds a factual consequent, producing a warning, and is itself conjoined to another disjunctive imperative consequent.
🐦🐦 #philsky
🐦🐦 #philsky
December 8, 2025 at 1:32 AM
This is a nice in-the-wild example of a rather complex dynamic semantic speech act: a conditional with a factual antecedent, an imperative consequent which itself embeds a factual consequent, producing a warning, and is itself conjoined to another disjunctive imperative consequent.
🐦🐦 #philsky
🐦🐦 #philsky
This Philosophical Sleep Manifesto, by Sara Protasi, is very good and very relatable.
Sleep is not just a physical need but a delicious pleasure | Aeon Essays
The idea that we should reduce sleep to an efficient minimum in our lives gets something fundamentally wrong
aeon.co
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This Philosophical Sleep Manifesto, by Sara Protasi, is very good and very relatable.
Incidentally, I think this is also the main thing that doomed the 2015-2022ish online subcultural Left, and which the Left since then has imo been much better at. I suspect there's nothing particularly partisan about this: it's just the mode of human behavior that social media selects for at scale.
a lot of RW politics seems to boil down to "we hate this type of person." it has nothing to do with the order of the day, organizational priorities, or policies—or at least, those things are downstream from "we created a personality around the hatred this other type of person we mostly made up."
December 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Incidentally, I think this is also the main thing that doomed the 2015-2022ish online subcultural Left, and which the Left since then has imo been much better at. I suspect there's nothing particularly partisan about this: it's just the mode of human behavior that social media selects for at scale.
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one thing that's really bad about Oops, All Viziers governments (vs democracies) is that there's adverse selection for each portfolio to be run not by someone who thinks they can do something popular with it, but by the biggest thirstiest most deranged psychopath on the topic.
the thing is, they've turned everything immigration-related to stephen miller, who has never run for office, has never held an elected position, and who could not win a popularity contest consisting solely of members of his own household. he is indifferent to the future of the republican party.
it is absolutely unbelievable that the Trump administration is systematically persecuting Cubans and Venezuelans, the most Republican Latinos in the US. what are they doing
December 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
one thing that's really bad about Oops, All Viziers governments (vs democracies) is that there's adverse selection for each portfolio to be run not by someone who thinks they can do something popular with it, but by the biggest thirstiest most deranged psychopath on the topic.
Uncle Boonmee
Ok, I have to ask. What's a movie that if someone doesn't like you'll hate them?
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Uncle Boonmee
Late 2026 at the rate things are going.
I am so appalled at the world that I might have to start writing fiction again to cope.
I am so appalled at the world that I might have to start writing fiction again to cope.
I am imagining the 2030 scandal involving collusion between a prediction market maker, a CNN producer and a military commander in a war zone
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Late 2026 at the rate things are going.
I am so appalled at the world that I might have to start writing fiction again to cope.
I am so appalled at the world that I might have to start writing fiction again to cope.