magpie.bsky.social
@magpie.bsky.social
Trans stuff, military history autism, birds, molecular biology, but also probably a million other things. Trying to be kinder.
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How can you not just want to *hang* with this guy?

(PLEASE, Bluesky, give us at least a little bump on image quality? This bird is gorgeous in the full-resolution version.)
May 15, 2023 at 2:35 AM
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That was my guess.
I volunteered with a heritage railway for a while and knew several people who owned private rail cars. They’re mostly immense train nerds with a passion for historic preservation and from what I can gather own these things much to their own financial detriment
May 14, 2023 at 5:12 PM
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everyone on the internet who disagrees with me is a cishet man
May 12, 2023 at 5:40 PM
Oh I know what this is. It's a wholesale abandonment of the liberal contract. Leftists are. *Eurgh*
May 12, 2023 at 4:36 PM
I am simultaneously at the intersection of "Give kids puberty blockers and HRT" and also "Progressives really need to calm down when arguing about trans rights"
May 12, 2023 at 3:44 PM
This feels like it's entirely failing to grapple with what anger represents. Anger is, among other things, an implicit threat. Marginalized people need to think very carefully about how they direct threatening behavior.
May 10, 2023 at 4:27 PM
This is everything wrong with the current bluesky userbase
May 8, 2023 at 10:39 PM
You have a moral obligation to be strong
May 8, 2023 at 7:23 PM
Again, the rank hypocrisy
May 8, 2023 at 6:58 PM
Do enjoy the way that people who are very insistent about how traumatizing social media can be are deciding that the most appropriate thing to do is incite the same patterns against someone who's more skeptical of that fact
May 8, 2023 at 6:55 PM
This is the kind of person who calls EA fascist so I don't begin to trust them when they say they want to ban Nazis
May 8, 2023 at 7:56 AM
I need casual dresses
May 7, 2023 at 7:13 PM
It makes me incredibly sad that there's effectively no way to do 2 gun action challenge matches in the UK.
May 7, 2023 at 7:12 PM
I promise I will be more interesting once exams are over
May 7, 2023 at 6:56 PM
I have never met someone on the left who has a visceral hatred for EA and is good at decoupling. EA has a lot of potential to do a lot of damage but every one who rages against it seems to be either a complete moron or borderline anti-consequentialist
May 7, 2023 at 6:16 PM
I think my notifications are permanently broken
May 5, 2023 at 8:06 AM
I really would love it if people would stop unjustifiably implying a community I've been part of for years and was formative in my development is full of terrible people
the model I have is something like: do you still have the rationalist brainworms that install backdoors for hostile actors to insert invasive metaphysics into you through? It's not that TPOT has alt right vibes imo, but TPOT are mostly former rationalists and rats def do have alt right vibes.
May 5, 2023 at 8:03 AM
So-called "free thinkers": lemmings do not explode
May 4, 2023 at 4:35 PM
Honestly I'd rather hang out with edgy centrists than the kinds of people that call EA fascist
May 3, 2023 at 5:16 PM
Buying malaria nets, trying to develop UVC disinfection, ringing the alarm bell about gain of function research, and writing esoteric papers about how AI will kill us all. This is the new terrifying face of fascism.
May 3, 2023 at 4:19 PM