maundering yokel
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as on this voyage, out of goblinry
falling asleep with a splitting headache and waking up without it feels like cheating somehow. how can anything become better without me consciously suffering in the process
November 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
falling asleep with a splitting headache and waking up without it feels like cheating somehow. how can anything become better without me consciously suffering in the process
one thing about "politics is mostly about sex crimes now" as it periodically seems to be is that it's really hard to organize around. nobody likes talking about it in polite company, nobody wants to talk to their parents about epstein, even when everybody is clearly equally grossed out
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
one thing about "politics is mostly about sex crimes now" as it periodically seems to be is that it's really hard to organize around. nobody likes talking about it in polite company, nobody wants to talk to their parents about epstein, even when everybody is clearly equally grossed out
[bravely] I think it would be bad to destroy them even if they didn't do any of that stuff
Indian vultures help keep rabies down as they hunt wild dogs. Giant sequoias store CO2. Tokay geckos have inspired waterproof adhesive bandages.
Plants and animals help humans in surprising ways. See how:
Plants and animals help humans in surprising ways. See how:
50 species that save us
Explore the ways animals and plants protect human health and what’s at stake when species are endangered.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
[bravely] I think it would be bad to destroy them even if they didn't do any of that stuff
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silence of a rat come out to see
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
silence of a rat come out to see
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Re LRT, Stevens was so good on this time of year
November 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Re LRT, Stevens was so good on this time of year
silence of a rat come out to see
November 13, 2025 at 4:47 PM
silence of a rat come out to see
experiencing something like "artistic inspiration" for the first time in quite a while, not entirely sure what to do with it, like when you see a deer while walking and you both freeze
November 13, 2025 at 5:45 AM
experiencing something like "artistic inspiration" for the first time in quite a while, not entirely sure what to do with it, like when you see a deer while walking and you both freeze
it's weird that britain has two guys who are the personification of their grandiose sense of national worth who keep changing actors and have like a 20% rate of producing watchable media (james bond and doctor who)
November 11, 2025 at 11:25 PM
it's weird that britain has two guys who are the personification of their grandiose sense of national worth who keep changing actors and have like a 20% rate of producing watchable media (james bond and doctor who)
sneakers I wear are finally falling apart after like 4 years so I went on ebay and bought the exact same sneakers again. worried this is kind of a depressive move versus shopping for shoes I might like better, and that it sort of adds up to whatever sense of style I have ossifying into a costume
November 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
sneakers I wear are finally falling apart after like 4 years so I went on ebay and bought the exact same sneakers again. worried this is kind of a depressive move versus shopping for shoes I might like better, and that it sort of adds up to whatever sense of style I have ossifying into a costume
another line cutting but this one was just a guy who petitioned the people in the front that he was in a hurry and only had one thing. which kind of sucks because it's putting on them the decision to waste everyone in the line's time. then his friend joined him and they did separate transactions!!
first-time experience for me: lady waiting in line with me at the self checkout tried to slowly cut in line over like 5 minutes, like she started out diagonally behind me and then directly next to me and tried to be in front of me when we were up next, incredibly weird
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
another line cutting but this one was just a guy who petitioned the people in the front that he was in a hurry and only had one thing. which kind of sucks because it's putting on them the decision to waste everyone in the line's time. then his friend joined him and they did separate transactions!!
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Wind River Lake,
11/10/2025, 5:12:59 PM
11/10/2025, 5:12:59 PM
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Wind River Lake,
11/10/2025, 5:12:59 PM
11/10/2025, 5:12:59 PM
"famous novelist calls famous industrialist shallow" is a reassuring conflict because it doesn't even need the internet, that's the same kind of beef people were having 100 years ago
November 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"famous novelist calls famous industrialist shallow" is a reassuring conflict because it doesn't even need the internet, that's the same kind of beef people were having 100 years ago
I wear sandals with a pretty rigid sole as house shoes when it's hot and unstructured slippers when it's cold so the change of seasons is now something I associate with suddenly having lots of weird twinges in my legs and lower back from walking slightly differently
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I wear sandals with a pretty rigid sole as house shoes when it's hot and unstructured slippers when it's cold so the change of seasons is now something I associate with suddenly having lots of weird twinges in my legs and lower back from walking slightly differently
neighbor has been leaf blowing for what feels like, but cannot be, two straight hours. just rake it at that point! I guess once you buy a power tool to do something it's probably humiliating to go back to manual labor
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
neighbor has been leaf blowing for what feels like, but cannot be, two straight hours. just rake it at that point! I guess once you buy a power tool to do something it's probably humiliating to go back to manual labor
moronic analogy, it's more like AI is as much a form of intelligence as photorealistic generative AI renderings are a form of photography
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography,” the philosopher Barbara Gail Montero writes in a guest essay. “And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious.”
“A.I. is no less a form of intelligence than digital photography is a form of photography,” the philosopher Barbara Gail Montero writes in a guest essay. “And now A.I. is on its way to doing something even more remarkable: becoming conscious.”
Opinion | A.I. Is Already Intelligent. This Is How It Becomes Conscious.
Skeptics overlook how our concepts change.
nyti.ms
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
moronic analogy, it's more like AI is as much a form of intelligence as photorealistic generative AI renderings are a form of photography
youtube comments truly more viscerally moving than most contemporary poetry I read
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
youtube comments truly more viscerally moving than most contemporary poetry I read
"you can't kill an idea" feels less like a sort of optimistic revolutionary sentiment than it is a terrifying curse, there's so many ideas I wish I could kill
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
"you can't kill an idea" feels less like a sort of optimistic revolutionary sentiment than it is a terrifying curse, there's so many ideas I wish I could kill
I think I should automatically get back the friends I alienated by saying I thought facebook was evil in like 2011 but that ship has probably sailed
November 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I think I should automatically get back the friends I alienated by saying I thought facebook was evil in like 2011 but that ship has probably sailed
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personally I love young men and have a great deal of sympathy for them, having been one, but god I do not want to hear anybody else pontificate stupidly about their problems so everyone else can spend a day condescending about them in response
August 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
personally I love young men and have a great deal of sympathy for them, having been one, but god I do not want to hear anybody else pontificate stupidly about their problems so everyone else can spend a day condescending about them in response
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sorry but I don't use alt text due to my strong philosophical belief in the sanctity of the image over the word. it would be an act of extreme hubris for me to believe I could adequately describe the impression of looking at anything
October 5, 2024 at 4:48 PM
sorry but I don't use alt text due to my strong philosophical belief in the sanctity of the image over the word. it would be an act of extreme hubris for me to believe I could adequately describe the impression of looking at anything
first-time experience for me: lady waiting in line with me at the self checkout tried to slowly cut in line over like 5 minutes, like she started out diagonally behind me and then directly next to me and tried to be in front of me when we were up next, incredibly weird
November 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
first-time experience for me: lady waiting in line with me at the self checkout tried to slowly cut in line over like 5 minutes, like she started out diagonally behind me and then directly next to me and tried to be in front of me when we were up next, incredibly weird
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becoming older has basically been characterized by a continuously increasing awareness of the appropriate clothes for different activities
June 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
becoming older has basically been characterized by a continuously increasing awareness of the appropriate clothes for different activities
wagonhound... what a word. great mouthfeel
November 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
wagonhound... what a word. great mouthfeel
I'm a big fan of ignoring stuff I don't like too but I don't think you need to justify it as being about how everybody's too dumb to protect their brains from nefarious infohazards
November 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I'm a big fan of ignoring stuff I don't like too but I don't think you need to justify it as being about how everybody's too dumb to protect their brains from nefarious infohazards
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They said that martial law was only temporary, but it doesn't feel very temporary to me.
October 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
They said that martial law was only temporary, but it doesn't feel very temporary to me.