Riley Faelan
@rileyfaelan.bsky.social
🦣 @riley@toot.cat
👩🔬 #geek girl (#software, #fpga, #maths), she/her
🧠 neurodivergent ( #ADHD / #TeamADHD)
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #trans / #GirlsLikeUs
⬱🌹 Social Democrat ( #SocDem)
🌌 #cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 #Deutschland, 🇪🇺 #EU, 🌍 #Terra)
👩🔬 #geek girl (#software, #fpga, #maths), she/her
🧠 neurodivergent ( #ADHD / #TeamADHD)
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ #trans / #GirlsLikeUs
⬱🌹 Social Democrat ( #SocDem)
🌌 #cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 #Deutschland, 🇪🇺 #EU, 🌍 #Terra)
"Look, Piers, I know you don't have a lot of expertise on the subject matter of women's genitals, so I'll let you in on a little secret: a woman can have anything she sets her mind to."
September 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"Look, Piers, I know you don't have a lot of expertise on the subject matter of women's genitals, so I'll let you in on a little secret: a woman can have anything she sets her mind to."
They don't *believe* in it; they mistakenly^[1] think that when they offer it as a "justification", their *listeners* might believe in it.
^[1] hopefully, mistakenly
^[1] hopefully, mistakenly
August 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
They don't *believe* in it; they mistakenly^[1] think that when they offer it as a "justification", their *listeners* might believe in it.
^[1] hopefully, mistakenly
^[1] hopefully, mistakenly
A soul is an emergent phenomenon of a mind.
Some minds are just so broken that their souls don't emerge properly.
Some minds are just so broken that their souls don't emerge properly.
August 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A soul is an emergent phenomenon of a mind.
Some minds are just so broken that their souls don't emerge properly.
Some minds are just so broken that their souls don't emerge properly.
They have made *political* donations, though. It's only the *charitable* ones they skimp on.
August 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
They have made *political* donations, though. It's only the *charitable* ones they skimp on.
"It's fine if our AI boils the oceans that the poor people need if, eventually, it makes a rich person more sillionairer!"
August 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"It's fine if our AI boils the oceans that the poor people need if, eventually, it makes a rich person more sillionairer!"
I'm inclined to argue that "Effective Altruism" is not a moral ruleset, but a pretext to "justify" not doing anything to alleviate suffering. Its uncanniness does not come from the proponents' bizarre ideas of what's right, but bizarre ideas of what sounds like a good justification.
August 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I'm inclined to argue that "Effective Altruism" is not a moral ruleset, but a pretext to "justify" not doing anything to alleviate suffering. Its uncanniness does not come from the proponents' bizarre ideas of what's right, but bizarre ideas of what sounds like a good justification.
FWIW, I have had a conservative last year law student explicitly tell me that where he stood, focusing more on alleviating the suffering of those near to you sounded like a disgusting moral proposition.
I didn't immediately think to ask whether one needs to pay him for their rights to matter.
I didn't immediately think to ask whether one needs to pay him for their rights to matter.
August 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
FWIW, I have had a conservative last year law student explicitly tell me that where he stood, focusing more on alleviating the suffering of those near to you sounded like a disgusting moral proposition.
I didn't immediately think to ask whether one needs to pay him for their rights to matter.
I didn't immediately think to ask whether one needs to pay him for their rights to matter.
Well, amphetamines _are_ supposed to also have antidepressant properties.
July 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Well, amphetamines _are_ supposed to also have antidepressant properties.
Maybe 71 is his idea of the Neo-Nazi number slang for "Go Adolf".
March 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Maybe 71 is his idea of the Neo-Nazi number slang for "Go Adolf".
Does mumbling about the Italian Space Butthole Lasers make him the Space Laser Gentleman, as a masc counterweight to the fabled Space Laser Lady?
February 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Does mumbling about the Italian Space Butthole Lasers make him the Space Laser Gentleman, as a masc counterweight to the fabled Space Laser Lady?
Obligatory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZ...
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February 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Obligatory: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvgZ...
A non-political post:
When the two leaders vying for galactic domination are Hissa and Prrsha, which of them is the leader of the kitties?
When the two leaders vying for galactic domination are Hissa and Prrsha, which of them is the leader of the kitties?
February 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
A non-political post:
When the two leaders vying for galactic domination are Hissa and Prrsha, which of them is the leader of the kitties?
When the two leaders vying for galactic domination are Hissa and Prrsha, which of them is the leader of the kitties?
Related: bsky.app/profile/adze...
The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...
End of Term Web Archive – Preserving the Transition of a Nation | Internet Archive Blogs
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February 1, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Reposted by Riley Faelan
In a world of Facebooks and Twitters, become an Internet Archive.
February 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
In a world of Facebooks and Twitters, become an Internet Archive.
Submit the last versions to the Internet Archive. It's got a lot of what has been on the USA's federal government's public websites, but it might not have everything.
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Submit the last versions to the Internet Archive. It's got a lot of what has been on the USA's federal government's public websites, but it might not have everything.
While we're on the topic, I'd now enjoy moving on to discussing how anti-knocking tetra-ethyl-lead making Hitler into such an evil person.
It would be such an elegant argument. Pity that Hitler was already an established arsehole by the time lead became ... popular.
It would be such an elegant argument. Pity that Hitler was already an established arsehole by the time lead became ... popular.
January 11, 2024 at 10:58 AM
While we're on the topic, I'd now enjoy moving on to discussing how anti-knocking tetra-ethyl-lead making Hitler into such an evil person.
It would be such an elegant argument. Pity that Hitler was already an established arsehole by the time lead became ... popular.
It would be such an elegant argument. Pity that Hitler was already an established arsehole by the time lead became ... popular.
Due to the imperial history, urban parts of Austria have been able to somewhat compensate this, by salted fish. But in rural Switzerland and Alpine France, far away from trading networks, there used to be whole villages where generational congenital iodine deficiency was ubiquitous and pervasive.
January 11, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Due to the imperial history, urban parts of Austria have been able to somewhat compensate this, by salted fish. But in rural Switzerland and Alpine France, far away from trading networks, there used to be whole villages where generational congenital iodine deficiency was ubiquitous and pervasive.
Eventually, we figured it out, and started adding iodine to table salt. But by then, the worst monsters of the 20th century, and their voter bases, had already been born.
January 11, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Eventually, we figured it out, and started adding iodine to table salt. But by then, the worst monsters of the 20th century, and their voter bases, had already been born.
Growing up without sufficient iodine in one's food causes a variety of ... interesting ... mental problems; even profound, and irrepairable, cognitive problems in extreme cases.
January 11, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Growing up without sufficient iodine in one's food causes a variety of ... interesting ... mental problems; even profound, and irrepairable, cognitive problems in extreme cases.
Austria has the misfortune of being located on the mid-continental ridge. The soil of the region hasn't seen sea for literally geological ages, and so the plants growing there are notoriously poor in iodine.
The plants don't mind. But animals need iodine.
The plants don't mind. But animals need iodine.
January 11, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Austria has the misfortune of being located on the mid-continental ridge. The soil of the region hasn't seen sea for literally geological ages, and so the plants growing there are notoriously poor in iodine.
The plants don't mind. But animals need iodine.
The plants don't mind. But animals need iodine.