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errare means wander
@boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
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non binary (they/any) non monog queer nerd | grad student studying complexity | 33

we are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death

solidarity forever
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not my hometown but I did my undergrad in Rochester NY and the garbage plate is quintessential slop
A garbage plate A paper plate piled high with beans, hash browns, mac salad, white hots (sausages), spiced meat sauce, and white onions
November 18, 2025 at 10:06 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
many of you on here
a print of a lady in pants and a tank top with a cowboy hat pulled down to cover her face and legs spread. Text in the corner says "save a cowboy, ride a dyke"
November 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
but the more profound consequence is that now whenever I see this meme I get defensive because he's doing his best, that energy would be better directed towards capitalism
meme with tiktaalik (one of the first water creatures to come onto land) crawling onto land with three middle fingers pointing at him. The text above says "this asshole fish decided to walk out of the water one day and now I have to go to work and pay rent"
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
read this at a point in my life where I was finally fully pulling away from my creationist upbringing and it really drove home the profoundly beautiful weirdness of What It Is To Be A Living Thing
The book cover for Your Inner Fish - A journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the human body by Neil Shubin
November 11, 2025 at 11:47 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
he's kinda spitting
Excerpt from Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff (editor's note: the book is not about how women are dangerous) Why does all this matter? It matters for our understanding of who we are as human beings and for all that follows from that understanding. The capacity to reason is usually taken as defining what human beings are and as distinguishing us from other things that are alive. If we understand reason as being disembodied, then our bodies are only incidental to what we are. If we understand reason as mechanical-the sort of thing a computer can do--then we will devalue human intelligence as computers get more efficient. If we understand rationality as the capacity to mirror the world external to human beings, then we will devalue those aspects of the mind that can do infinitely more than that. If we understand reason as merely literal, we will devalue art.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Lyrics for the chorus of Band of Horses - The Funeral, edited to say [Chorus] At every occasion, I'll be the funeral At every occasion once more, I'm called the funeral At every occasion, oh, I'm the funeral At every occasion of one billion day funeral
November 9, 2025 at 1:45 AM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
zohran font saying "they stole my foreskin"
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
yeah it was a combination of the unfamiliar layout and the compression, the "command" and "option" looked weird but that's just jpegs
close up of the keyboard from the original image. the labels on the "command" and "option" keys are compressed in a way that makes the letters bleed together
November 3, 2025 at 5:52 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
somebody did your idea lol
A blood spattered room. A text box at the bottom says "caption this with the second to last text you sent"
October 27, 2025 at 2:48 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
I thought it might be too but it's pretty old actually
Tineye reverse image search results showing OP's image indexed as far back as 2008
October 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
ngl I'm curious about the life story of this guy
October 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
philosophy is actually really fun sometimes (and it's seasonally appropriate rn)
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE A BAT? Our own experience provides the basic material for our imagination, whose range is therefore limited. It will not help to try to imagine that one has webbing on one's arms, which enables one to fly around at dusk and dawn catching insects in one's mouth; that one has very poor vision, and perceives the surrounding world by a system of reflected high-frequency sound signals; and that one spends the day hanging upside down by one's feet in an attic. In so far as I can imagine this (which is not very far), it tells me only what it would be like for me to behave as a bat behaves. But that is not the question. I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat. Yet if I try to imagine this, I am restricted to the resources of my own mind, and those resources are inadequate to the task. I cannot perform it either by imagining additions to my present experience, or by imagining segments gradually subtracted from it, or by imagining some combination of additions, subtractions, and modifications.
October 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
made a slight modification to a classic
A computer can never be spiteful or horny therefore a computer can never make art
October 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
my partner @irishlaurapalmer.bsky.social makes some pretty cool colleges 😎
a collage made of images clipped from magazines. At the top it says "let them eat". the images include liquor bottles, a TV, women, a pack of Pall Mall cigarettes, and more
October 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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a 3 panel comic first panel shows a goat looking up at a frog thief who is stuck high up on a brick wall, holding a purse second panel shows the humanoid, suit-wearing goat touching the wall. A speech bubble from the goat indicates that the wall is at a 92 degree angle from the ground. third panel shows the goat walking up the near vertical wall towards the frog, who now appears fearful. From the goat's feet rise a number of copies of the katakana character for "go", a reference to Jojo's Bizarre Adventure where this is used to convey a tense situation. The second panel has a watermark saying "Butter Sugoi", the comic's creator
October 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Lyrics from the old abolitionist protest song "Get Off the Track" by the Hutchinson Family Singers Pull up the rails! Pull up the rails! Pull up the rails! Emancipation Cannot rest on such foundation.
October 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
me having to do work for grad school after enrolling in grad school
Carmy from The Bear yelling with the caption "ohhhhh god oh fuck someone ordered food from my restaurant and now I have to make it ahhhhh" in all caps
October 8, 2025 at 12:29 AM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
time for some light reading
a book cover with a greyscale image of Norbert Wiener, an upper middle aged man with a goatee and glasses Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by Norbert Wiener
September 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
just the classic
Pamela Coleman Smith's illustration of The Empress card from the Rider-Waite tarot deck
September 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
now here is a guy who understands the value of being annoying
A conversation with Gordon is (perhaps too frankly) memorable now as being extraordinarily hard to understand at the time. Or is this just my inadequacy? He would come out with an oracular statement, such as ‘Life is fire,’ and would defend it against all objection. No doubt it had a certain truth, but I for one was never quite clear whether he was dealing in poetry, science, or humour. This ambiguous mixture was a large part of his charm
September 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Go off, Paulo
excerpt from Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed The investigator who, in the name of scientific objectivity, transforms the organic into something inorganic, what is becoming into what is, life into death, is a person who fears change. He or she sees in change (which is not denied, but neither is it desired) not a sign of life, but a sign of death and decay. He or she does want to study change—but in order to stop it, not in order to stimulate or deepen it. However, in seeing change as a sign of death and in making people the passive objects of investigation in order to arrive at rigid models, one betrays their own character as a killer of life.
September 14, 2025 at 4:34 PM
boogerbabe.blackskycomra.de
I think about this quote a lot when reading about The Great Men of Science
Quote from Stephen Jay Gould, from The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
September 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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seems like there's some internal contradiction here but what do I know
wikipedia screenshot Later life and poverty In 1887, Peirce spent part of his inheritance from his parents to buy 2,000 acres (8 square kilometers)
September 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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@irishlaurapalmer.bsky.social has one of the coolest shirts in existence
a shirt with an illustrated cat that looks scared. Over its head is a speech bubble containing "you say... lesbians eat WHAT!!?"
September 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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a kitten with a devious smirk on its face
August 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM