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Chris Curtis
@curtosis.bsky.social
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Computational linguist, artificer, λ(data). Syntactician with semanticist delusions. Theatre artist. Anti-Taylorist. Continuous everywhere, differentiable nowhere. Living in the occupied USA. Boosts are multivalent. He/they.
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A naked man walking across a stage with his buttocks obscured by a Chyron reading “LIBERTARIAN PARTY NATIONAL CONVENTION / Orlando, Florida / Rosen Centre Hotel”
November 13, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Army-style velcro patch on camouflage gear, with the Medic badge embroidered with MOTRIN and WATER across the top and bottom
November 12, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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An extension of @funranium.bsky.social ‘s Law of Lasers to computing, seen in the wild!
Image of a Mastodon post by Kilofox (@kilofox@awo.ooo): “@philpem any machine can become a cloud if you apply enough power”
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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September 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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A 1935 political cartoon depicting Nazi sportsmen destroying the Olympic spirit
August 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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We used to be a real country.
Caption: “Man checks his email at a public payphone in the early 1980s using a Panasonic RI-P4001 acoustic coupler modem connected to a Panasonic RI-H1400 handheld computer”. The man has a beard, is wearing a brown pinstriped suit and smoking a pipe.
July 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Principal Skinner two-panel meme, captioned: “Am I a Nazi bigot?” “No, it’s the entire corpus of human knowledge that’s wrong.”
June 21, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Original cover photo from Grace Jones’s Warm Leatherette album, featuring a black and white image of Grace Jones with her flattop haircut, sitting severely with her arms crossed and wearing a blouse with shaped shoulders and arms that can only be described as statuesque.
June 11, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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GIF of scene from The Hunt for Red October in the missile tube compartment with the line, “Most things in here don’t react too well to bullets”.
April 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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I mean…
A loaf of bread in Berlin that cost around 160 marks at the end of 1922 cost 200,000,000,000 or 200 billion (2×10^11) marks by late 1923. By November 1923, one US dollar was worth 4,210,500,000,000 or 4.2 trillion (4.2105×10^12) German marks.
April 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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[screenshot of a skeet from captain bleach @blainecapatch] (youth pastor voice) you know who else totally destroyed the Chipotle restroom
April 21, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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I’ve had this saved for repeat reference for 6 years now.
[Screenshot of a tweet from “Thing Bad” (@Merman_Melville)] Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day 3:03 PM • Jan 24, 2019
April 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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A photo of two golfers on a golf green, one in black and white athleisure with the caption “tHe LeFt HaTeS gUnS”; the other with white hair and full beard, wearing a blue golf shirt, sunglasses, and very loud pink and purple floral golf pants, raging a drag on a cigarette, labeled “Armed to the teeth leftists”.
April 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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They never went away.
White students protesting the enrollment of black students, Montgomery High School, Montgomery, Alabama, September 10, 1963 Photo by Flip Schulke for LIFE Magazine
April 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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GIF screen clip from The Hunt for Res October, where an officer tells Polyakov, “You arrogant ass, you’ve killed *us*!”
April 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Screen shot of the Soviet “Swan Lake” performance broadcast nonstop when the 1991 failed coup resulted in the dissolution of the USSR.
April 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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JHTCoaC.
Principal Skinner meme: “Am I out of touch with the rest of the country? No, it’s the voters who are wrong.”
March 4, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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That little header at the top of federal websites that says “An official website of the United States government. Here’s how you know”? With clear explanations? 18F.

The fact it works well on mobile? 18F.

The alert banners that look and work the same on dozens of federal sites? 18F.

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A screenshot of the SSA.gov website, showing a header and alert banners that read “An official website of the United States government Here's how you know”, “If you need to visit an office, schedule an appointment first. Find out how.” “Information about the Social Security Fairness Act (WEP/GPO).” A screenshot of the expanded header, that reads: “An official website of the United States government. Official websites use .gov: A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States. Secure .gov websites use HTTPS: A lock (🔒) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
March 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Found it!
Photo of maintenance workers loading a W80 nuclear warhead into an AGM-86 ALCM, showing that the flat end of the warhead physics package is towards the nose, while the rounded end is towards the tail.
February 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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A photo of two golfers, one dressed as a normal golf pro, labeled “tHe LeFt HaTeS gUnS”, looking at the other, with a beard and dressed in loud floral pants taking a drag on a cigarette, labeled “Armed to the teeth leftists”.
February 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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An image of a washing-machine style dial labeled “OOF SIZE” with the settings Small, Medium, and Large, pointing to Large, with a face making an “oof” expression superimposed.
February 14, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Chyron: Libertarian Party National Convention, Orlando, Florida, overlaid over an apparently naked, beaded man on a stage
February 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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Stitched fabric version of Master Shake saying “I am 30 or 40 Years Old And I Do Not Need This”
January 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Roberts can fuck all the way off into the sun with this. He literally ruled that the president can ignore the courts and Congress.
Meme of man in hotdog costume captioned “We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”
January 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Meme of frame from Breaking Bad with Walter White labeled “history” and Saul Goodman labeled “Fukuyama”, with the caption “We are done, when I say we are done.”
December 3, 2024 at 5:19 PM