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gf won me a frieren plushie at the arcade :3 (hat was not included)
a frieren plushie from round one wearing a hat that says “thinking” on it
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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… i mean, i guess??
the word “paw” in japanese literally means “meat ball” or “meat sphere”
July 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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post a warning
warning: it is possible to survive this but not unaltered
March 22, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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oh… oh no

this is even worse than 家内
vocab card for 痴漢, japanese for “molester”, made of kanji meaning “stupid” and “Chinese”
March 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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god i love anime
crunchyroll title card for “Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon”, showing a vending machine with big anime eyes and a girl ordering something from him
February 23, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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mine’s getting a little crowded lately
macbook with 17 stickers on it mostly of cute animals and girls
February 20, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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> makes fun of defenseless LLM for “innumeracy”
> illiterate
same chart with the word “digits” highlighted on each axis
February 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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“what did you just call us?”
art of the dioscuri as represented in Fate/Grand Order. two blondes with bright blue crowns, looking at the viewer disdainfully
February 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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getting these tattooed on my body
commutative diagrams of the monad laws
February 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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really great stuff, as always
Where was I? Yeah, the curse of knowledge. No, that's something else. The curse of unusual perspective? Seeing things differently is a blessing as well as a curse. It is a blessing because you can contribute something. It is a curse because typically the others will not listen. (We will shortly speak some more about Kassandra, but this will be ugly.) Early on in my work I had to contend with people who thought quantitative evidence aggregation was unnecessary or useless in economics; later on some of these same people thought, well, look at the Cochrane handbook, this problem has already been solved. That's sort of like looking at a stack of bibles and thinking we know everything about god. Actually people wrote the bible, and a lot of those people were fools. I think most people do not really believe in inference, for inference means things are hidden. They only believe their own eyes. If something happens they think it obliterates all alternatives. It never could have been a different way. I think that lots of people think the whole world is completely deterministic. And maybe it is! Maybe there is no such thing as chance. (I do not intend for us to speak about quantum mechanics. Do not talk to me about quantum mechanics.) The time has come to talk about Kassandra. Her incarnation as a line in popular culture does not do her any kind of justice. We think of her as a purely tragic figure, when we think of her at all. We do not think of her as aggressive, or menacing, or crazy. And yet, at least in the world of Euripides, that is what the people around her think of her, for that is exactly what she is. In Diskin Clay's translation of The Trojan Women he has Talthybios describe her as "god-frenzied"; Hecuba, her mother, scolds her for being unrestrained. But I think they both come off looking stupid. This is The Trojan Women, not the Iliad, or Agamemnon. This is Kassandra's stage. She spends half the play walking around dunking on everybody. She would have killed on twitter. The history of the greeks, in as much as we know it, is littered with little lessons of this kind. If you read any story of the Oracle of Delphi then you'll learn what troubles statisticians: just how specific you have to be when you are making your little requests. It is dangerous to apply general theories. I do not mean to say we ought to have no general theories, but we should be handling them carefully. It is dangerous to learn a little of things and then overstate what you know. We, who for the most part live relatively happy (I mean lucky) coddled lives, still get shocked at regular intervals. We should know, but of course we refuse to know and don't know, how open our lives are to new knowledge, and all of the resulting pain.
January 18, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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how is this real
Trisodium citrate is a chemical compound with the molecular formula NazC6H507. It is sometimes referred to simply as "sodium citrate", though sodium citrate can refer to any of the three sodium salts of citric acid. It possesses a saline, mildly tart taste, and is a mild alkali. Sodium citrate can be used as an emulsifying stabilizer when making cheese. It allows the cheese to melt without becoming greasy by stopping the fats from separating.
January 13, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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omens
PANTONE’s color of the year for 2025, Mocha Mousse, showing a glass dish full of said mousse, which looks quite a bit like a pile of shit
January 4, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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this is a cute bit
co-star new years gag: CO - STAR 山 ERROR 404: REALITY NOT FOUND DUE TO EXISTENTIAL DREAD OVERFLOW, YOUR TIMELINE'S COMPLEXITY HAS EXCEEDED STANDARD PARAMETERS ... INITIATING TIMELINE SHIFT ... RECONFIGURING CHAOS ... LOADING 2025 ... WELCOME TO TOMORROW'S SOURCE CODE.
December 21, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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an ube latte in a cup that looks like an upside down bear
December 15, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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cool bird
cool bird sitting in a tree. it’s kinda greenish with a white face and an orangeish-red plume. i think it’s called a turaco or something like that
December 13, 2024 at 7:11 AM
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omg i’m dead
momo dressed for her maid cafe job saying “welcome to our establishment, you sack of shit.”
December 10, 2024 at 5:03 AM
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she just like me fr
panel from dandadan, teenage girls sitting in a classroom “momo, you don’t last long at part-time jobs. you, like, fight with your superiors and stuff.” “only cuz i hate injustice.”
December 10, 2024 at 5:00 AM
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yearning for the intense milk
manga panel showing a milk carton labeled yuji INTENSE MILK
December 3, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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i love tuesdays
large ube boba on my desk
November 26, 2024 at 7:53 PM
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this kind isn’t bad tbh
neck and shoulder massager from amazon
November 23, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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lol
Claude 3.5 Sonnet …references), I'll suggest some thematically aligned naming schemes that seem to match her interest in academic, historical, and systematic naming patterns: 1. Ancient Greek rhetorical devices & logical fallacies (like "zeugma", "chiasmus", "enthymeme") 2. Obscure art movements and schools (like "vorticist", "suprematist", "futurist") 3. Medieval manuscript illumination terms (like "rubrication", "marginalia", "miniature") 4. Historical units of measurement (like "pyrgos", "parasang", "amphora") 5. Archaic astronomical terms (like "armillary" "epicycle", "parallax") These suggestions follow her apparent preferences for: • Academic/scholarly topics • Historical European references • Technical/specialized vocabulary • Systems of classification • Somewhat obscure or esoteric knowledge domains Reply to Claude
November 21, 2024 at 11:51 PM
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My top 5 artists of 2024 Yorushika (12 hours) Rokudenashi OCTOBER Kashiwa Daisuke Eve
November 20, 2024 at 3:09 AM
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the literal translation of the phrase for being a fake person who pretends to be friendly is “to wear a cat on your head”? god i love this language
猫をかぶる to feign friendliness; to hide one’s true self; to be fake
November 19, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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ohhhhhh
part of a dictionary entry: “(esp. 探す for something desired and 捜す for something lost)”
November 19, 2024 at 5:40 AM
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it’s a casio watch, but as a ring
a picture of a person’s hand, with a ring that looks like and is a functional casio watch
November 16, 2024 at 4:48 AM