Coba Weel
@weel.bsky.social
SJW eurotrash 🇳🇱 immigrant in Alta California 🌁 YIMBY UU queer techie scum ⚧ genderqueer tranny (she/her or they/them) 🪗
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Coba Weel
@weel.bsky.social
· Nov 21
oh lovely the anonymous tankies are googling my name
yes i did work there. you’ll never guess why i got fired.
yes i did work there. you’ll never guess why i got fired.
This is a very beautiful building.
January 3, 2026 at 8:15 AM
This is a very beautiful building.
somebody needs to submit a proposal to the unicode consortium for a hat pin emoji
January 3, 2026 at 3:47 AM
somebody needs to submit a proposal to the unicode consortium for a hat pin emoji
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2. We have a whole section on this in Chapter 14 of our online course thebullshitmachines.com.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
January 3, 2026 at 12:19 AM
2. We have a whole section on this in Chapter 14 of our online course thebullshitmachines.com.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
The bottom line: an apology is a speech act, and a machine does not meet the felicity conditions (preparatory conditions and sincerity conditions, in particular) for the utterance to perform as intended.
Yes this is about Lyman. No, not the town in Ukraine.
I might as well go around saying UUs are the only true Christians because we long ago gave up on treating the Jesus stuff as Doctrine We All Believe and that’s the right thing to do and therefore everyone that still does creeds isn’t a Christian. 🤷♀️
January 2, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Yes this is about Lyman. No, not the town in Ukraine.
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The Americas see about 3% of global elevator installations as of 2020. The U.S. & Canada: even less.
But we've stuck with our own unique set of elevator codes, as if elevator companies still have no choice but to beat a path to our door.
Nope! "Everywhere else" is a bigger common market now.
But we've stuck with our own unique set of elevator codes, as if elevator companies still have no choice but to beat a path to our door.
Nope! "Everywhere else" is a bigger common market now.
December 31, 2025 at 2:57 AM
The Americas see about 3% of global elevator installations as of 2020. The U.S. & Canada: even less.
But we've stuck with our own unique set of elevator codes, as if elevator companies still have no choice but to beat a path to our door.
Nope! "Everywhere else" is a bigger common market now.
But we've stuck with our own unique set of elevator codes, as if elevator companies still have no choice but to beat a path to our door.
Nope! "Everywhere else" is a bigger common market now.
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I personally knit all my best work on screws (!?!?!)
January 2, 2026 at 12:57 AM
I personally knit all my best work on screws (!?!?!)
Oh joy.
huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun
January 2, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Oh joy.
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Furthermore, Eastern Europe is real. It is not an abstraction to be used for showing your moral purity to other people who are only able to understand the actual real world history of regimes called “communist” through a parochial US lens. McCarthy was not a Romanian.
January 2, 2026 at 6:35 AM
Furthermore, Eastern Europe is real. It is not an abstraction to be used for showing your moral purity to other people who are only able to understand the actual real world history of regimes called “communist” through a parochial US lens. McCarthy was not a Romanian.
I’m blocking Ms “everyone outside the Ceauşescu fan club is a Nazi,” but for the record, it is not true that making fire departments buy smaller fire engines over the objection of a fire chief is impossible. I’m pretty sure Scott Wiener did it when he was supervisor.
January 2, 2026 at 6:28 AM
I’m blocking Ms “everyone outside the Ceauşescu fan club is a Nazi,” but for the record, it is not true that making fire departments buy smaller fire engines over the objection of a fire chief is impossible. I’m pretty sure Scott Wiener did it when he was supervisor.
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And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...
This School Board President Took Her Oath on a Stack of Contested Books. Here's Why
The school board for Central Bucks County, Pa., has been at the center of divisive political debates.
www.edweek.org
January 1, 2026 at 11:21 PM
And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant. www.edweek.org/leadership/t...
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But Europe needs to stop trying to impose an imaginary coherence on Trump administration foreign policy and to work out how to deal with the incoherent reality.
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
But Europe needs to stop trying to impose an imaginary coherence on Trump administration foreign policy and to work out how to deal with the incoherent reality.
For crying out loud there’s a middle ground between refusing to admit sex hormones have any psychological effects and demonizing birth control.
Birth control pills are just hormones; estrogens and progestins, to be specific. Yes, hormone levels have psychological effects, but many things affect hormone levels. There’s nothing uniquely evil about hormones taken for birth control.
January 1, 2026 at 4:56 PM
For crying out loud there’s a middle ground between refusing to admit sex hormones have any psychological effects and demonizing birth control.
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Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
Happy 2026 to everyone except for the bacteria in my frontal sinuses that appear to have survived a week of antibiotics and spent the next week getting back to square one.
January 1, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Happy 2026 to everyone except for the bacteria in my frontal sinuses that appear to have survived a week of antibiotics and spent the next week getting back to square one.
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In the 1920s, the KKK circulated rumors that Catholics had amassed a huge arsenal of weapons and explosives and hidden them in the basements and sewers beneath the University of Notre Dame, in preparation for a Catholic takeover of the US.
Thinking about this today for no particular reason.
Thinking about this today for no particular reason.
December 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
In the 1920s, the KKK circulated rumors that Catholics had amassed a huge arsenal of weapons and explosives and hidden them in the basements and sewers beneath the University of Notre Dame, in preparation for a Catholic takeover of the US.
Thinking about this today for no particular reason.
Thinking about this today for no particular reason.
Medical news you can use: you get all sorts of case reports in the medical literature of “patient with odd orthorexic obsession develops strange nutrient deficiency.” If they catch it early enough, the treatment can be as simple as “eat a burrito from the truck in the parking lot.”
December 31, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Medical news you can use: you get all sorts of case reports in the medical literature of “patient with odd orthorexic obsession develops strange nutrient deficiency.” If they catch it early enough, the treatment can be as simple as “eat a burrito from the truck in the parking lot.”
wtf
He was doing this shtick when he was a random Army officer assigned to wherever; Pete and Sean Parnell saw his poasting and liked it so much they had the Army reassign him to Sean's office in the Pentagon (ATSD(PA), the head Public Affairs shop) where apparently his job is now posting all day
December 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
wtf
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I think the Israelites stole valor with this one, the fossil record is pretty clear that the last ammonites died 66 million years ago.
December 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I think the Israelites stole valor with this one, the fossil record is pretty clear that the last ammonites died 66 million years ago.
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one of the weirdest historiographical effects you can see is the plausibility shear when the criterion of embarrassment reverses polarity over the lifetime of a source
bronze age raider cultures love to brag about how they did war crimes to a million people after a raid which seriously injured a teenager and stole four (4) goats
December 31, 2025 at 3:04 AM
one of the weirdest historiographical effects you can see is the plausibility shear when the criterion of embarrassment reverses polarity over the lifetime of a source
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An analogue I’ve noticed between fundamentalist scriptural exegesis and jurispudential originalism as actually practiced in the wild: Both enable a kind of ventriloquism by assuming univocality in the texts they purport to interpret.
December 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM
An analogue I’ve noticed between fundamentalist scriptural exegesis and jurispudential originalism as actually practiced in the wild: Both enable a kind of ventriloquism by assuming univocality in the texts they purport to interpret.
how on earth did this make it to a full roll out?
in my experience the phone app works *only* after 6-7 tries while my card sometimes takes 2-3 tries (usually card is fine, albeit slow). MTC will be hearing from me about this again, and hopefully from all of you too!
December 31, 2025 at 6:17 PM
how on earth did this make it to a full roll out?
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IIUC one of the necessary conditions for Rome's victory over the successor states and Carthage was its deep manpower reserves, which in turn were due to Roman citizenship being open to anyone, contra the closed model of e.g. the Greek polis.
In other words, Rome won because of wokeness?
In other words, Rome won because of wokeness?
December 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
IIUC one of the necessary conditions for Rome's victory over the successor states and Carthage was its deep manpower reserves, which in turn were due to Roman citizenship being open to anyone, contra the closed model of e.g. the Greek polis.
In other words, Rome won because of wokeness?
In other words, Rome won because of wokeness?
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I'm part of the Bay Area Makerfarm collective and Google won't let us change the business hours that show up on Google Maps no matter how many ways we've tried to verify it's us.
December 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I'm part of the Bay Area Makerfarm collective and Google won't let us change the business hours that show up on Google Maps no matter how many ways we've tried to verify it's us.
How was the play?
During one interview, the student admitted that she merely looked at the topic and then rushed together a response based on her personal feelings regarding a tangential issue that was the main thesis of the assigned article, because she was in a hurry to go see a play that evening with her friend.
December 31, 2025 at 8:27 AM
How was the play?