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omer

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did you miss me?? i had a crisis but i’m back

November 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM

omer

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i know you weren’t asking but things lowkey aren’t going great for me lmao

November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM

omer

@omerupdates.bsky.social

is this a good app the preform manhood??

November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM

omer

@omerupdates.bsky.social

hi

October 29, 2025 at 9:42 PM

omer

@omerupdates.bsky.social

my name is omer and i'm really glad to meet you. you were recommended to me by some people

October 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM

omer

@omerupdates.bsky.social

more ppl who like sass should listen to emma goldman’s album
emma-goldman.bandcamp.com/album/all-yo...

all you are is we, by Emma Goldman

12 track album

emma-goldman.bandcamp.com

October 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM

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monoidal sarah

@scgriffith.bsky.social

UK politics is so intellectually exhausted that they just launched like their eighth ostensibly left political party with the twist of hating trans people and muslims

September 6, 2025 at 1:22 PM

omer

@omerupdates.bsky.social

is anyone on this app even talking about the israeli-made famine in gaza that uses starvation and hunger as a weapon of war to annihilate palestinians?

July 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM

omer

@omerupdates.bsky.social

sorry for being gay

July 17, 2025 at 1:43 PM

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Hadas Weiss

@hadas.bsky.social

i'd hide the client list in the methods section

July 17, 2025 at 6:14 AM

omer

@omerupdates.bsky.social

you’ll be hard pressed to find any meaningful reaction from anyone about this because, as palestinians been telling you, it doesn’t fucking matter. the zionist political system is such that your life as palestinian is worthless, and so is your death, and an american passport won’t change that

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Jul 11

BREAKING: Israeli settlers have killed a young Palestinian-American.

He was visiting from Florida, where he helped run his family ice cream shop.

Comes days after we asked senators if they knew how many Americans have been killed in Palestine & Lebanon since 10/7.

None did.

He is now the 7th.

BREAKING: Israeli Settlers Kill American Citizen in Occupied West Bank, Family Says

Sayfollah Musallet was visiting his family in the village of Al-Mazra'a ash-Sharqiya when settlers allegedly beat him unconscious and blocked an ambulance from reaching him for hours.

zeteo.com

July 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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Arnaud Pelletier

@arnpelletier.bsky.social

It seems this platform wants my "co-author" Leibniz to register.

June 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM

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Metaling Mage

@meddlingmage.bsky.social

There is always a cool Boris album from 11 years ago you haven’t listened to yet

June 17, 2025 at 4:39 AM

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Joe Bak-Coleman

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Increasingly believe that this should be required reading before anyone is allowed to do science.

I spend an *inordinate* amount of time these days citing this piece and explaining that RCTs are not instrinsically and exclusively causal.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Understanding and misunderstanding randomized controlled trials

Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are increasingly popular in the social sciences, not only in medicine. We argue that the lay public, and sometimes…

www.sciencedirect.com

June 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM

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illumi

@illumi.meme

That’s actually super insensitive of you to say. My father died on a hill.

December 16, 2024 at 2:20 AM

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lastpositivist.bsky.social

@lastpositivist.bsky.social

I know a lot of 40k fans have been wondering - what is philosophy of language like in Khornite empires, and how do they teach it to their bureaucrat class? Well, wonder no longer, cos FINALLY I've filled in this gaping lacunae on the lore (sherdenpact.neocities.org/ShortsLesson). You're welcome.

Lessons
Header: a tank of the Sherden Pact.

Before the Pact had liberated the Mighty of this world, St. Clausewitz' Academy had been a scholum of the Imperium. Obviously, the curriculum had been utterly changed once the blesséd warcry of the Blood God was received. But after looking into his history and what exactly the Imperium had sanctified him for, the Paters of the Sanguinary Utnapistim had decided that Khorne was probably pretty fond of Clausewitz too, so the name had stuck. So it came to be that junior logisticians of the Office for Ceremonial Calculations were sent to the SCA for training in method.

Today's lesson concerned sacred semantical referentia:

"Statement! "Khorne enters into, but is Himself incapable of, evolution and progress."" Zalmesh Instructrix barked out to the whole class as he strode between their seats, his robes flowing behind him. "Connotative analysis, you!" - at that last, Zalmesh suddenly wheeled round and pointed their bony figure at a terrified student:

"I... er... the Blood Lord..." Ashrugan stammered.

"Too slow! Class, apply discipline!" The class paused while Ashrugan neighbouring students fell upon and thrashed him. That being done, Zalmesh resumed learning by pointing to Ninsava, ignoring the front of the class where an eager hand had been raised in the meantime.

"Connotatively, the statement indicates that while our most rageful Lord of Skulls involves himself in various activities that induce changes, such as war and battle, Khorne himself remains, and must remain, constant throughout such activities."

The Instructrix grimaced and said "Inexact!", slapping Ninsava for the fault, "but sufficient for our purpose. Designatorial analysis, someone!"

A bruised Ashrugan, hoping to regain some standing, began speaking without being called upon:

"The proper name "Khorne" designates the most Mighty one, to whom a two-place relational term is being applied, semantical-access is gained thereto by observing divinatory combat of eightfold-sanctified fighting chicke"--

-- Ashrugan instinctively flinched when the Instructrix interrupted him; but this time, at least, there was no accompanying physical rebuke:

"Can anyone tell me why the textbook designatorial divinations that dullard Ashrugan was so tiresomely about to talk us through would not be necessary here?"

Zalmesh paused to give the class time to think, but after a few moments, with an inward sigh, he called upon the only hand raised. From the front of the class Lihzatu, as ever, spoke up:

"We know in advance that the verificatorious adequacy-criterion shall return the Null Rune, since the statement attributes an incapacity to Khorne and all such attributions involve a contradiction in terms. This follows from the defininatorial elaborations upon the appellation "the most Mighty one", which provably entail that Khorne's Might surmounts all enemies, be they physical or metaphysical."

"Correct, as usual, student Lihzatu."

Lihzatu beamed at what she mistook for sincere praise from her teacher. But Zalmesh Instructrix, for his part, was distraught. He knew, he just knew, that Lihzatu was going to apply for postgraduatorial continuation of studies; and with her record of accomplishment she'd no doubt be granted entry. He'd never be rid of her.

May 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM

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Chris Plummer

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