@refractedglow11.bsky.social
Marching band designer, struggling author, homeless nomad for 10 years around the states and now 10 years around the world.
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric
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i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 AM
i met anubis in the realm of the underworld, big strong guy by the way, had a dog’s head, i’m not so sure about that. and he said to me, mr president, you’ve got the heaviest soul we’ve ever weighed down here. can you believe it? they’ve never seen a soul that heavy in all of duat
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
August 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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I’m still not over the fact that there was an extremely popular award-winning movie over a decade ago about the perils of falling in love with a chatbot and a company decided to make the chatbot in the image of the movie’s chatbot and now quite a few people have decided to date it
June 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I’m still not over the fact that there was an extremely popular award-winning movie over a decade ago about the perils of falling in love with a chatbot and a company decided to make the chatbot in the image of the movie’s chatbot and now quite a few people have decided to date it
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Hi 👋 I work in the ICU and often help patients find comfort in their final, dying moments and this is some king shit right here and I say he's innocent
if your sick wife is like three hours from death, busting her free to smoke meth and get railed to slayer one last time is fuckin awesome and sweet and you can't convince me otherwise
April 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Hi 👋 I work in the ICU and often help patients find comfort in their final, dying moments and this is some king shit right here and I say he's innocent
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they made being killed by technofascism seem so exciting in the 90s. sleek chrome androids crushing skulls. what it actually looks like is a bunch of extras from The Office who have been pavlovian-condition'd by a website to call you slurs if you stand between them and a vending machine for blowjobs
April 29, 2025 at 4:06 AM
they made being killed by technofascism seem so exciting in the 90s. sleek chrome androids crushing skulls. what it actually looks like is a bunch of extras from The Office who have been pavlovian-condition'd by a website to call you slurs if you stand between them and a vending machine for blowjobs
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Spinning "a player who was expected to be drafted in the 1st/2nd round fell into the 5th round" as a Donald Trump Success Story is actually a really good example of how things work around there
Leavitt on Shedeur Sanders: "All I will say is the president put out a statement, and a few rounds later he was drafted, so I think the facts speak for themselves."
April 28, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Spinning "a player who was expected to be drafted in the 1st/2nd round fell into the 5th round" as a Donald Trump Success Story is actually a really good example of how things work around there
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ppl keep mistaking Jurassic Park for a survival film against dinosaurs when it's actually a survival film against startup culture
Deep in my heart I do not believe that Jurassic Park would pose substantially different or more challenging security issues than any well stocked zoo.
April 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
ppl keep mistaking Jurassic Park for a survival film against dinosaurs when it's actually a survival film against startup culture
Can’t believe we have this perfect distillation of the horror of what American Christianity has become with JD fucking Vance killing Pope Francis.
April 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Can’t believe we have this perfect distillation of the horror of what American Christianity has become with JD fucking Vance killing Pope Francis.
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Gives me the shivers. 250 years to the day after, the church bells ringing the alarm at Lexington, calling for defenders in what became the battle that began the American Revolution,
Same bell.
Same bell.
April 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Gives me the shivers. 250 years to the day after, the church bells ringing the alarm at Lexington, calling for defenders in what became the battle that began the American Revolution,
Same bell.
Same bell.
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If you're not paying attention to the trees and how they sway what are you even doing?
April 16, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If you're not paying attention to the trees and how they sway what are you even doing?
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Michael Jordan said "Republicans buy sneakers too" and now Republicans are saying "anybody who buys Michael Jordan-related merchandise deserves to be removed from the United States and sent to a torture prison for the rest of their life"
I’m a lifelong Marylander and I wear a fucking Hartford Whalers hat. I have not been kidnapped by the government for some reason.
April 16, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Michael Jordan said "Republicans buy sneakers too" and now Republicans are saying "anybody who buys Michael Jordan-related merchandise deserves to be removed from the United States and sent to a torture prison for the rest of their life"
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Life finds a way—this tree pushed through pavement and even wrapped itself around a stop sign in L.A. #Nature doesn’t ask for permission.
[Marika Sparrow]
[Marika Sparrow]
April 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Life finds a way—this tree pushed through pavement and even wrapped itself around a stop sign in L.A. #Nature doesn’t ask for permission.
[Marika Sparrow]
[Marika Sparrow]
@lukelukeluke.bsky.social I hope I’m doing this right- here are some nice mushrooms! (Sumatran rainforest style)
April 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
@lukelukeluke.bsky.social I hope I’m doing this right- here are some nice mushrooms! (Sumatran rainforest style)
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I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
April 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have tariffed
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
the penguins
that are on
Heard Island
and which
you were probably
assuming
did not export goods
forgive me
they were taking advantage of us
so cunning
and so cold
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You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
April 7, 2025 at 1:20 AM
You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.
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Time for Millennial Rage
April 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Time for Millennial Rage
A supremely graceful friend I made here in Sumatra
March 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
A supremely graceful friend I made here in Sumatra
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bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
bring us your poor, your tired, and your huddled masses so we can stuff them in an unmarked van and ship them to a slave labor camp in an undisclosed location
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Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
March 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
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"Tiger Woods is dating Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-wife, who kept Trump as her last name," I say. Forty-thousand bees descend on me instantly, killing me in seconds. That was the magic sentence, it turns out. The relief is immense.
March 24, 2025 at 1:54 AM
"Tiger Woods is dating Donald Trump Jr.'s ex-wife, who kept Trump as her last name," I say. Forty-thousand bees descend on me instantly, killing me in seconds. That was the magic sentence, it turns out. The relief is immense.
My current neighbors… can be a little noisy but they’re cute enough to pull it off.
#sumatra #rainforestlife
#sumatra #rainforestlife
March 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
My current neighbors… can be a little noisy but they’re cute enough to pull it off.
#sumatra #rainforestlife
#sumatra #rainforestlife