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Angela Black
@nerdybutcute.bsky.social
weirdo geek married pansexual middle-aged academic transgirl
not that kind of doctor
51 as of Jan 2025, extrapolate from there
my beloved spouse is @moggerb.bsky.social
#philosophy #philsky #epistemology #aesthetics
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Some in #academia favor teaching students to use AI to produce essays (etc), arguing that the point of comp classes (and the like) is teaching the student to create a certain kind of product. This is not bc of AI - it is the next (il)logical step in Higher Ed's Fetishization of the Thing. (1) 🧵
February 10, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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I put the Zombeard onto a t-shirt and other apparel items for everyone to enjoy!

www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8762...
Zombeard by jacobblackmon
What happens when a dwarf dies with dishonor? It's beard takes over its afterlife! Zombeard!!!
www.teepublic.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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Never thought I'd be the sort to say this, but yes, burn it all down.
“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”

Works for me.
February 10, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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I'm doing a live stream at 4 PM central time. Here's the link. Bring questions!
Random Rambles Special Guest: Robert J. Schwalb!
YouTube video by The Eclectic Goat
www.youtube.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:59 PM
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I know some people still want weekly, rather than monthly, updates. I'll see what I can do, but I also don't want to pester folks too often!
Also Content Warning: Closed surgical incision pictures at the end.
This update comes in multiple waves.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-owen-...
Donate to Help Owen K.C. Stephens Pay Off Cancer Bills, organized by Owen Stephens
See the tl;dr at the end for the 15-word version. I struggled with colo… Owen Stephens needs your support for Help Owen K.C. Stephens Pay Off Cancer Bills
www.gofundme.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:31 AM
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In 30 minutes we'll kick around ideas to support and activate "potato" players at the D&D table who mostly just sit there without engaging? Join us in the live chat! #dnd #players #engagement www.youtube.com/live/DsXLwiU...
How Not To Be a Potato | Showing Up at the Table | Wandering DMs S08 E05
YouTube video by Wandering DMs
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February 8, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.

Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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I think my all time favorite reply on Twitter was when I said French cooking is basically just adding lots of butter to everything, and they replied that I had finally gone "mask off" with my open hated of the white race.

I think about that guy sometimes and his strange ideas on race and butter.
February 6, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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So, with $28,000 of unavoidable, unexpected expenses in three weeks, I gotta run a Kickstarter for Pathfinder 1e material I've written already, but never sold as a book....
And it needs a name.
www.patreon.com/posts/what-t...
February 7, 2026 at 6:16 AM
when conservatives used liberal as a snarl world, liberals who were terrified of being conflated with leftists would always come back with "no, 'liberal' just means we care about diversity and democracy and civil rights" as if THAT wasn't exactly what the conservatives were objecting to
February 7, 2026 at 11:43 PM
in my head, this dude is just skankin' to Madness
February 7, 2026 at 3:01 PM
DeviantArt returns a lot of AI generated nonsense for every search I make nowadays. But a side effect DA being glutted with AI art is that I'm now seeing a lot - A LOT - of examples of what are clearly hyperspecific fetishes. Not gross ones, mind you, just deeply outre.
February 6, 2026 at 11:55 PM
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The best thing about philosophy is that all the great philosophers in history were basically wrong about almost everything, so there's really not that much pressure to be right.
February 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
in the 70s, child pornographer John David Norman had a client list of tens of thousands of names, including public figures. when police handed over this list to the State Dept, they *destroyed it*.

the govt has always protected pedophiles.
February 5, 2026 at 11:31 PM
“If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.”

- Vincent van Gogh
February 4, 2026 at 8:21 PM
i don't know if cis people understand that the dominant feelings toward their bodies that most trans ppl grew up with are pervading disgust and horror.

it's a hard habit to break once we transition. it's why so many of us keep finding flaws in ourselves even after becoming who we were meant to be.
February 3, 2026 at 1:46 AM
February 2, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes, thoughtes, ideas? Trye a tarot deck ynstead. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes, not evil.
January 31, 2026 at 8:48 PM
February 1, 2026 at 3:50 PM
January 31, 2026 at 11:42 PM
January 31, 2026 at 10:54 PM
thank you to @moggerb.bsky.social for making this birthday so wonderful and special. i cried with happiness. you're the best spouse anyone could ask for (sorry, everyone else, i got the best one).
January 31, 2026 at 10:40 PM
January 31, 2026 at 10:26 PM
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am i to understand the rage against the machine guy is in fact raging against said machine
I saw Tom Morello a couple months back. Photo from that show:
January 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Godspeed, Catherine O'Hara. One of the greatest.
January 30, 2026 at 8:12 PM