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Also, of course, the State Department changing typefaces for reasons that boil down to "fuck accessibility" is both utterly in line with the overt bigotry of this administration and a signal indicator of how unserious these people are, it doesn't matter what typeface you use when you're a joke
December 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Also, of course, the State Department changing typefaces for reasons that boil down to "fuck accessibility" is both utterly in line with the overt bigotry of this administration and a signal indicator of how unserious these people are, it doesn't matter what typeface you use when you're a joke
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I need to read this! Metaphor is key to cognition!
Coincidentally I'm publishing a book in April that opens with a chapter about how poetry and metaphor are how we understand science
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I need to read this! Metaphor is key to cognition!
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The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
December 9, 2025 at 2:27 AM
The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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I also meet a lot of active, happy, engaged seniors. I love asking them what their secret is, and it's always two things:
1: Stay moving. At a certain you either stretch or walk daily or you can't move. Start NOW.
2: Sometimes to care about. Garden. Grandkids. Pets. Doesn't matter.
1: Stay moving. At a certain you either stretch or walk daily or you can't move. Start NOW.
2: Sometimes to care about. Garden. Grandkids. Pets. Doesn't matter.
December 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
I also meet a lot of active, happy, engaged seniors. I love asking them what their secret is, and it's always two things:
1: Stay moving. At a certain you either stretch or walk daily or you can't move. Start NOW.
2: Sometimes to care about. Garden. Grandkids. Pets. Doesn't matter.
1: Stay moving. At a certain you either stretch or walk daily or you can't move. Start NOW.
2: Sometimes to care about. Garden. Grandkids. Pets. Doesn't matter.
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Thank you @aba.org for putting my book The Birding Dictionary on your top books of 2025 list! Get it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
December 5, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Thank you @aba.org for putting my book The Birding Dictionary on your top books of 2025 list! Get it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/rosem...
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remembered i have leftover chinese food and i instantly have hope and purpose again
December 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
remembered i have leftover chinese food and i instantly have hope and purpose again
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Every use-case people think they "need" and LLM for is actually papering over a different issue. The teacher using ChatGPT to write narrative reports bc the demand is unreasonable & overwhelming *actually* needs more support and/or compensation or a reduction of demand. It's a LABOR issue.
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Every use-case people think they "need" and LLM for is actually papering over a different issue. The teacher using ChatGPT to write narrative reports bc the demand is unreasonable & overwhelming *actually* needs more support and/or compensation or a reduction of demand. It's a LABOR issue.
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All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
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You tell a man you don’t care and you can get hours of free entertainment, I tell you what.
December 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
You tell a man you don’t care and you can get hours of free entertainment, I tell you what.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Yeah I can see how that’s worse than no food.
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Yeah I can see how that’s worse than no food.
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Moths are my friends!!! ₊✩‧₊˚ ཐིཋྀ ˚₊✩‧₊
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Moths are my friends!!! ₊✩‧₊˚ ཐིཋྀ ˚₊✩‧₊
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Me, in 2015: I have so many huge dreams, ideas, concepts…the world is worth the work.
Me, now: I want to fit an unrealistic number of crab rangoons in my mouth.
Me, now: I want to fit an unrealistic number of crab rangoons in my mouth.
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Me, in 2015: I have so many huge dreams, ideas, concepts…the world is worth the work.
Me, now: I want to fit an unrealistic number of crab rangoons in my mouth.
Me, now: I want to fit an unrealistic number of crab rangoons in my mouth.
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Bingo
Every "population crisis" article in western media is just "WHERE ARE THE WHITE BABIES" in disguise and we absolutely do not have to give any credence to any of them
November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Bingo
Up next - we learn spooky Christmas piano songs.
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Up next - we learn spooky Christmas piano songs.
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DICK FUCKIN CHENEY IS DEAD!!! 🥳🎉🍾
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
DICK FUCKIN CHENEY IS DEAD!!! 🥳🎉🍾
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NEW: Walking 5,000 steps a day may help slow the onset of early-stage Alzheimer's disease, according to research that blends brain scans, activity records and cognitive tests.
Even as few as 3,001 steps - less than 3km - could have a big benefit in slowing decline.
www.ft.com/content/91fc...
Even as few as 3,001 steps - less than 3km - could have a big benefit in slowing decline.
www.ft.com/content/91fc...
5,000 steps a day may help slow Alzheimer’s-linked decline, study shows
Research using data from Harvard Aging Brain Study showed more active patients saw slower cognitive deterioration
www.ft.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
NEW: Walking 5,000 steps a day may help slow the onset of early-stage Alzheimer's disease, according to research that blends brain scans, activity records and cognitive tests.
Even as few as 3,001 steps - less than 3km - could have a big benefit in slowing decline.
www.ft.com/content/91fc...
Even as few as 3,001 steps - less than 3km - could have a big benefit in slowing decline.
www.ft.com/content/91fc...
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Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now.
We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.
We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.
November 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now.
We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.
We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.
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Parrying is OUT. Dodging is OUT. Tanking is the It Thing. I want a game about building a brick shithouse that parks their armored ass in front of whatever needs humbling and blocks attacks with their gormless face. I don't want to roll around giggling like a sassy gay imp, I want to belly bump god.
October 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Parrying is OUT. Dodging is OUT. Tanking is the It Thing. I want a game about building a brick shithouse that parks their armored ass in front of whatever needs humbling and blocks attacks with their gormless face. I don't want to roll around giggling like a sassy gay imp, I want to belly bump god.
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I feel like knocking down large chunks of the white h0use is too on the nose of a metaphor.
Like I'm living in a bad political cartoon.
Like I'm living in a bad political cartoon.
October 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I feel like knocking down large chunks of the white h0use is too on the nose of a metaphor.
Like I'm living in a bad political cartoon.
Like I'm living in a bad political cartoon.
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Made a guest bed for you :)
October 22, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Made a guest bed for you :)
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I am late doing my birthday reflection because the fascism & my powerlifting, tbh. But I have one after %#!? years on earth:
Some people make you feel good. Some people don’t. If you work hard to spend time with the former and little to none with the latter, about 70% of your problems go away.
Some people make you feel good. Some people don’t. If you work hard to spend time with the former and little to none with the latter, about 70% of your problems go away.
October 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I am late doing my birthday reflection because the fascism & my powerlifting, tbh. But I have one after %#!? years on earth:
Some people make you feel good. Some people don’t. If you work hard to spend time with the former and little to none with the latter, about 70% of your problems go away.
Some people make you feel good. Some people don’t. If you work hard to spend time with the former and little to none with the latter, about 70% of your problems go away.