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💡&🔥 I used to talk about learning science, inference & categories/concepts. now idk. she/they 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
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well I'll bite
photo of the manga Maison Ikkoku on a bookshelf
October 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Quote from The Rings of Saturn By Winfried Georg Sebald Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life
October 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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Nobody needs permission to get these sick wings all over. Agree on pts 1 & 2
Illustration of Ciel from Tsukihime with power tattoos but in regular clothes. Angel wings on back and arms.
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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while this book's tone is quite frustrating and academic at times, I wish more people would read it
screenshot of quote: RELATIONSHIP ANANCILE Relationship Anarchy Juan-Carlos Pérez-Cortés V One very clear example of this issue is when the idea of avoiding labels in relationships is insisted upon and one of the people involved has a personal traumatic history of being denied value, a name, or the importance of a bond. If you have been denied recognition as a mechanism of power in the context of an abusive relationship, you will experience that desire not to name as a violent memory rather than a safeguard against repeating relationships of control and possessiveness. You will understand this as minimizing its significance rather than preventing the imposition of a predetermined format, identified by a label, in establishing how the bond will be set up and evolve.
September 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Screenshot of quote Holy the Firm ANNIE DILLARD Holy the Firm Annie Dillard く The seraphs are born of a stream of fire issuing from under God's throne. They are, according to Dionysius the Areopagite, "all wings," having, as Isaiah noted, six wings apiece, two of which they fold over their eyes. Moving perpetually toward God, they perpetually praise him, crying Holy, Holy, Holy.... But, according to some rabbinic writings, they can sing only the first "Holy" before the intensity of their love ignites them again and dissolves them again, perpetually, into flames. "Abandon everything," Dionysius told his disciple. "God despises ideas."
September 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Screenshot: Letter From Buenos Aires Anne Boyer With the artist, we had spoken about why it was that Paradise, in Dante, is so boring. I said it was because Dante had never really known Beatrice, only laid eyes on her and run back to his room for the hot flush of fantasy. She was an absence, not a person, as contentless as every other abstracted desire – "and betaking me to the loneliness of mine own room, I fell to thinking." The artist disagreed, then told us about Marta, his Beatrice, with whom he fell in love and for whom he wrote eight poems, after which she moved to Patagonia and he forgot her. He couldn't remember her last name. This is why heaven is boring: there is nothing substantial in it, only a ghost of a hope.
September 4, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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On my way to my first vaginoplasty PT session today
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August 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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what we must do to see
quote from Teaching a Stone to Talk by Annie Dillard > God does not demand that we give up our personal dignity, that we throw in our lot with random people, that we lose ourselves and turn from all that is not him. God needs nothing, asks nothing, and demands nothing, like the stars. It is a life with God which demands these things. Experience has taught the race that if knowledge of God is the end, then these habits of life are not the means but the condition in which the means operates. You do not have to do these things; not at all. God does not, I regret to report, give a hoot. You do not have to do these things—unless you want to know God. They work on you, not on him. You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.
August 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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quote from Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit > Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief that's austere at one end, in the deprivation it endorses, and fantastical in the other, since it awaits a universal utopia. Joy sneaks in anyway, abundance cascades forth uninvited
August 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Their branding is so good. This and tits out on the landing page right below the fold
Screenshot of cargo.site with a marketing pullout of a latex fetish site front and center
August 4, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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From @markleidner.bsky.social
Share the Good News While the News Is Still Good O 2 Mark Leidner © I like to think that to give is to prove that the gifts that you received were not given in vain. If you search the terrain of your own happiness, you will probably find that everything that makes your life worthwhile resulted from someone's gift.
August 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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i was gonna post this as an example of family vacation film but i realize they're basically the same thing. i feel like these films have sweet spots right in the middle of the exposure curve that, like your photo, really sing (though overexpose even a little and it becomes a 90s family photo album)
box of fujifilm 400 camera film
July 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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A photo of a little free library in Brooklyn with a book titled logical positivism slapdash into its maw
July 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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we weren't the first to say this, but thanks for the citation!
screenshot that reads "Inferential statistics is a way of drawing inferences about populations based on the statistics obtained from observations of samples (Kalish & Thevenow-Harrison, 2014; Nikita, 2017). "
November 25, 2023 at 5:00 PM
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Bodega cat, Williamsburg
Photo of a black cat mewing vigorously at its owner who was on the phone and wouldn’t come back in
October 12, 2023 at 2:07 AM
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weekend book haul in PDX (there's already more than this... we're terrible and enable each other)
a photo of books on a bed: the boy she liked wasn't a boy at all, nihongo notes, hit parade of tears, by your side, a girl on the shore books on a bed: woes of the true policeman, and our faces, my heart, brief as photos, monsieur pain, people from my neighborhood, solip, strange hotel, photocopies, lilac and flag, frankissstein
August 7, 2023 at 10:50 PM
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shortlisted by the Children's Book Council of Australia
a photo of a book titled "all cats have asperger syndrome" by kathy hoopmann
August 7, 2023 at 10:44 PM
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powerful fit, precision targeting
insta ad for cat ear hat, collar handcuffs, cardigan, and skirt/pants
July 14, 2023 at 2:09 PM
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summer afternoon in the park
a color photograph of a person resting in the shade among coniferous and deciduous trees in a park, the summer sun strong, the sky blaring, the shadows cool
July 10, 2023 at 4:50 AM
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show yer lockscreen
Kikuri Hiroi from Bocchi the Rock! wearing a slouchy dress looking seductive
July 7, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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hello bluesky friends, here’s us on our way to bouldering on thursday
selfie photo of two trans women sitting in a car
July 2, 2023 at 4:25 PM
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PrEP is completely covered by pretty much every medical plan in the US (and so are the tests, as it's all preventative care), but the retail price is absurd: $1,795.99 for one month
receipt for Truvada (a form of PrEP) that shows a retail price of $1,795.99 and an amount due of $0.00
June 27, 2023 at 1:22 PM
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i'm 6'4" and kay is 6'1" 😊
photo of two trans women, kay and me, seated against a wooden wall, with a baby on my lap
June 22, 2023 at 10:27 PM
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APPLE-SIZED, THEY SAY
weather chart showing colorado centered on denver with an alert for "BIG HAIL (APPLE SIZED)"
June 22, 2023 at 9:46 PM
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i just remembered some things
14.8 on the purity test
June 20, 2023 at 4:12 AM