Charles Louis Richter
@richterscale.bsky.social
Historian: of American religion/irreligion by training; of science & conspiracy by trade
dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things
Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more
dumb jokes about smart things and smart jokes about dumb things
Podcast research/factcheck: SNAFU with Ed Helms; The Reason We're All Still Here; My Fugitive, more
my corollary to this is every time someone says "put that in the smithsonian," i'm like uh huh, and good luck ever seeing it in an exhibit at all, much less with the context necessary to challenge the status quo in the way you're imagining
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
my corollary to this is every time someone says "put that in the smithsonian," i'm like uh huh, and good luck ever seeing it in an exhibit at all, much less with the context necessary to challenge the status quo in the way you're imagining
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she's poasting that she didn't even mean to wreck his psyche, she was just musing out loud and his psyche was just collateral damage. absolutely savage 😂
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 AM
she's poasting that she didn't even mean to wreck his psyche, she was just musing out loud and his psyche was just collateral damage. absolutely savage 😂
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"truly it was out of curiosity"
November 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
"truly it was out of curiosity"
Pluribus, somewhat surprisingly, is in large part about the push for AI everything.
But it's also about the limits of utilitarianism, and about consent, and about what makes us people.
Two episodes in, and I'm really hoping they can keep this up.
But it's also about the limits of utilitarianism, and about consent, and about what makes us people.
Two episodes in, and I'm really hoping they can keep this up.
November 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Pluribus, somewhat surprisingly, is in large part about the push for AI everything.
But it's also about the limits of utilitarianism, and about consent, and about what makes us people.
Two episodes in, and I'm really hoping they can keep this up.
But it's also about the limits of utilitarianism, and about consent, and about what makes us people.
Two episodes in, and I'm really hoping they can keep this up.
everyone forgets that it's not just their last names; the actual name of the band is Daryl Hall & Joyce Carol Oates
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
everyone forgets that it's not just their last names; the actual name of the band is Daryl Hall & Joyce Carol Oates
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be there or be square!
me:
me:
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
be there or be square!
me:
me:
it's honestly amazing how he can string together words and phrases onto something sentence-like and just yammer on for minutes at a time saying nothing and understanding less
president chatgpt
president chatgpt
November 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
it's honestly amazing how he can string together words and phrases onto something sentence-like and just yammer on for minutes at a time saying nothing and understanding less
president chatgpt
president chatgpt
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World's Smallest Bird Fits on Fingertip
A sandwich tern about to get hit by a wave yesterday. #birds
November 10, 2025 at 7:56 PM
World's Smallest Bird Fits on Fingertip
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What has lightened my mood this Monday is also imagining Musk repeatedly coming back to that Oates post; reading and re-reading it, and knowing that he is just exactly who she describes: an amorphous lump of wealthy flesh, incapable of joy, connection or meaning
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
What has lightened my mood this Monday is also imagining Musk repeatedly coming back to that Oates post; reading and re-reading it, and knowing that he is just exactly who she describes: an amorphous lump of wealthy flesh, incapable of joy, connection or meaning
i hadn't even realized they had already made a US version of Celebrity Traitors
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
i hadn't even realized they had already made a US version of Celebrity Traitors
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Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
November 10, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Trump is 30 points underwater. Dems swept the special elections. People know the GOP is responsible for the shutdown. So the Dem Senators pulled out their big guns... and shot themselves in the foot.
experts predict humans will continue aging
Oh, *experts* predict this? Uh.... don't more millennial and Gen Z candidates HAVE TO run for office? Were more boomers going to run for office? Next thing you'll tell me more teenagers are going to enter the job market
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
experts predict humans will continue aging
Today's project: get the first of our set of Yaggy's Anatomical Study (chromolithograph, 1885) up on the wall across from the bar.
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Today's project: get the first of our set of Yaggy's Anatomical Study (chromolithograph, 1885) up on the wall across from the bar.
"I will always love you," she says, hoping she is still containing a pained rictus of panic as she desperately, carefully, tries to catch the attention of any passerby who might be willing to intervene and allow her to slip away from this monster in barely human guise.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"I will always love you," she says, hoping she is still containing a pained rictus of panic as she desperately, carefully, tries to catch the attention of any passerby who might be willing to intervene and allow her to slip away from this monster in barely human guise.
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jealousy mar-a-lago guest
I think this bag is fake.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
Hermes's flagship products are handsewn using a saddle stitch. A worker marks the leather using an awl and then threads two needles through from both sides.
This results in a tight stitch with no holes between the stitches. The holes here suggest the bag was machine sewn.
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
jealousy mar-a-lago guest
"Leave the shrink ray, take the itty bitty cannoli."
Remember in Army of Darkness when Ash said "Good. Bad. I'm the guy with the shrink ray"
The only way to stop a bad guy with a shrink ray is a good guy with a shrink ray
November 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"Leave the shrink ray, take the itty bitty cannoli."
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The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book
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Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning
this is a 15th century version of those wacky 80s supernatural romcoms like Splash or Mannequin where the guy is trying to pass off his proto–manic-pixie-dreamgirl fish-out-of-water girlfriend as a human while her quirky uncanny-valley behavior hilariously confounds everyone they encounter
Looking forward to talking to East Lothian Embroiders and Textile Artists about Women's clothing in late medieval Scotland on Saturday 22nd at the Bleaching Field Centre, Dunbar at 2pm.
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is a 15th century version of those wacky 80s supernatural romcoms like Splash or Mannequin where the guy is trying to pass off his proto–manic-pixie-dreamgirl fish-out-of-water girlfriend as a human while her quirky uncanny-valley behavior hilariously confounds everyone they encounter
"you give me a piece of the company, and i give your guy the antidote"
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
"you give me a piece of the company, and i give your guy the antidote"
"Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic than processes which reward, say, educational attainment."
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A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic than processes which reward, say, educational attainment."
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Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.