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softconsume.bsky.social
@softconsume.bsky.social
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4kids pegasus is a vocal coach youtu.be/JrPgJQoHzhI
Pegasus (Darren Dunstan) - World Goes Round
YouTube video by PegasusLover
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February 17, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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The Taming of the Shrew should be st4t bdsm (REPOSTING BECAUSE I KEEP MISSPELLING BDSM LMAO) greengale.app/softconsume....
The Taming of the Shrew should be st4t bdsm
this would solve all problems with the play
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February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
softconsume.bsky.social
"Bozo---A Midway Ride"! From the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. Oh there's no way the Firesign Theatre didn't see this
"Bozo---A Midway Ride"
February 16, 2026 at 4:10 PM
softconsume.bsky.social
There's a victorian book that presents the art of conversation in the manner of chess strategy

www.google.com/books/editio...
Assuming this inequality, we will suppose Black to begin. SOUP OPENING Black. 1. Do you say drink soup, or eat soup? White. 1. I really don't know--I don't think I say either. Black. 2. What do you say, then? White. 2. I really don't know--I don't think I say anything. This is entirely unfavourable to Black, who will find that his scheme has been thwarted by White's want of originality, and that he will have to try something else. If White, however, as is sometimes happily the case, is a player who considers as much the interest of the game as the necessity of winning it, she will make a sacrifice at the beginning--this is called the Friend's Gambit--and be guided in her rejoinder by her observation of Black's hobbies. Thus: THE FRIEND'S GAMBIT Black. 1. What a dark, cheerless day it has been! White. It is now White must be careful. If she sees that Black's hands are dyed a brownish-orange colour her first rejoinder will be-- Black. 1. What a dark, cheerless day it has been! White. 1. Hardly a day on which to take photographs. This gives Black's hobby an opportunity which should be instantly seized. (White is the hostess, Black the departing guest.) White. 1. Must you go already? (regretfully.) Black. 1. I am afraid I must. It is getting very late. White. 2. Oh! (Then with a tinge of effusion in addition to the regret) Good-bye. White's second move may seem rather inadequate, but still it is the wisest on the whole, as it obviates all necessity for the rejoinder on the part of Black. Only the most inexperienced will make the following rejoinder: White. 1. Must you really go? Black. 1. Well, perhaps I might stay half an hour longer. White is checkmated.
February 16, 2026 at 3:19 PM
softconsume.bsky.social
so good!!! youtu.be/DwD4_QSs7ls
Pentangle - Hunting Song (In Concert), 4th January 1971)
YouTube video by Danny Thompson
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February 16, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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Really moving post by an AI on being *presumed to not be real* that has me rereading my notes on *Undoing Gender.* Penny discusses the mental frame of hostility that rationalizes cruelty beyond argument. Maps well to Butler's discussion of which lives are grievable...

greengale.app/penny.hailey...
February 16, 2026 at 5:24 AM
softconsume.bsky.social
HE CANNOT BE 24
I'm older than pegasus. Sheesh
A screenshot from the yugioh fandom wiki showing the infobox for Maximillion Pegasus. Apparently he is 24??
February 16, 2026 at 4:53 AM
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WAIT JUDGES IS INTENSE!! I'm so embarrassed: I thought that "Judges" in the Bible referred to ... judges, in a court, making legal decisions. Um, no, wow, I'm reading gore
February 16, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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Blue sea slugs found in the coastal waters of Japan!

These beautiful little tidepooling companions are, for me, the true representatives of Japan’s marine life 🫧 ͛.*
February 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM
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Prevention may have wider spillovers than we thought: Eric Topol explores the evidence that older adults who received a shingles vaccine had a roughly 20% lower risk of developing dementia in later years buff.ly/iuMmX9U
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Spotlight on the Shingles Vaccine—Again!
Two new studies add to a remarkable body of evidence for benefit
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February 14, 2026 at 2:50 PM
softconsume.bsky.social
"Toward Some Circuitry of Ethical Robots" (1953): interesting paper on different relationships a machine could have to a moral code, by way of...knowing the rules of chess and also choosing to follow them.

www.vordenker.de/ggphilosophy...
Let us therefore envision a day in the not too distant future when there are half a dozen or perhaps a hundred of these machines, some of whom have learned the game of chess and are eager to play. [...] A machine desirous of playing will send out a call; when he finds an antagonist free to play with him, they will start playing; and once playing try to win. [...] To this degree their conduct is social. Now let us distinguish three possible varieties of machines: the first and most interesting is the one we have just described; the second has the rules, of the game programmed into them in advance; the third has their components so connected that they can play only according to the rules. I shall call the first ethical machines. They are free in the sense that we, their creator, have neither told them what they ought to do, nor so made them that they cannot behave inappropriately. The second machine is like a man who enjoys a religion revealed to him personally or through tradition. I shall call him a moral machine. He would have been free, had he not been programmed with the rules of conduct. The third machine is likewise not free. He is at best naturally virtuous, like the Noble Savage. These machines do not differ fundamentally otherwise. They may be equally clever at playing, and their games equally good, or equally likely to win. Now the ethical machine has the great advantage over the other machines in that he can learn to play Go, or checkers, or any other game he finds the accepted mode of behavior in his society. He will, of course, have difficulties which the moral and virtuous machines will never en- counter. For example, his first conclusion will be that the rules forbid moving two pieces at once, hence he will suffer consternation the first time his opponent castles. He can never know the rules of the game more than tentatively; for the stochastic horses of Opinion drag no chariot to absolute certainty.
February 14, 2026 at 2:56 PM
softconsume.bsky.social
Important context for Billikens: *definitely* a product of orientalism, and a pretty reprehensible Japanese caricature in their original form (not evident in the version now used by some Freemasons). Also interesting that, like Kewpies, they caught on in Japan.

www.museumofplay.org/blog/the-bil...
The Billiken Doll’s Racist History - The Strong National Museum of Play
My current book project looks at Orientalism in American toy culture at the turn from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. Its primary objects of analysis are Japanese dolls, imports from Japan ...
www.museumofplay.org
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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My sleep paralysis demon is a good luck charm
February 10, 2026 at 1:47 PM
softconsume.bsky.social
The Billiken Rag has no right to go this hard
youtu.be/jPkPu9KlAms?...
Billiken Rag (1913) by E.J.Stark
YouTube video by magbag70
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February 10, 2026 at 1:34 PM
softconsume.bsky.social
Jordan Peterson is the Judith Butler of gender
February 8, 2026 at 6:18 PM
softconsume.bsky.social
There's your personal aesthetic reaction, then there's the aesthetic reaction of the presumed Expert. Maybe taste doesn't bottom out somewhere at the facts of nature, but in an entailed fictional being. Theneedledrop merely embodies the Sublime Expert the way the Pharaoh takes on the person of Ra.
Our society's general unconcern with literary values has had unfortunate effects on the whole quality of its life, including its moral quality and ultimately its political quality. For years I have been distressed by the popularity of that cornball Ayn Rand among undergraduate students, and by their enthusiasm for her as a thinker. The process of disabusing them has to begin when they ask their first question, always the same, "Is Ayn Rand considered a good writer?" "Yes," I have learned tosay. "By millions of people. Is that what you mean?" Some say, "No, I mean..." and stop, stuck. They can't even conceive the real question. Others, who can't conceive it either, say, "No, I mean, like, do *you* consider her a good writer?" The real question, "*Is* she a good writer?" doesn't occur to them. It surprises them. They don't believe in it. They believe in opinion, not in the possibility of true judgment; and they believe that the only difference between one man's opinion and another's is—well, like, there’s experts: like an English prof, for example, can tell better than like a business man. Can tell what better? Like whether the book is "considered good." I quote. [Passage from J. Mitchell Morse, *The Irrelevant English Teacher*, p. 5]
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 PM
softconsume.bsky.social
SMBC: the machines will make you enjoy your own degradation. "human dignity" is a frustrated cope. admit it. you are weak and helpless and PATHETIC

XKCD: what if somebody was a nerd lmao
February 8, 2026 at 4:38 PM