Rich Nordin
@spookymotion.bsky.social
Papa. Student. Gamer. Leader.
Well this is going to be cute. If you're in or near Boston, you should probably swing by.
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Well this is going to be cute. If you're in or near Boston, you should probably swing by.
First Platner, now this!
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
October 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
First Platner, now this!
This is a pretty good explainer for folks who still don't get it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DqK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DqK...
How the Dune Universe sounds to an outsider
YouTube video by Sir Swag
www.youtube.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
This is a pretty good explainer for folks who still don't get it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DqK...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DqK...
My five year old referred to Fever Ray as "Spooky Ghost in the Woods" music and I think that's spot on.
June 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
My five year old referred to Fever Ray as "Spooky Ghost in the Woods" music and I think that's spot on.
There’s this cute little party in Boston at Manray this Thursday. You should probably come!
June 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
There’s this cute little party in Boston at Manray this Thursday. You should probably come!
Gogol Bordello and Dropkick Murphys are topologically equivalent. No further questions, please.
June 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Gogol Bordello and Dropkick Murphys are topologically equivalent. No further questions, please.
I was doomscrolling the latest criminal activity by the administration and they made me sad. I read this and it didn’t quite make me happy, but it did make me hopeful: commencement.news.wfu.edu/2020s/c2025/...
2025: Scott Pelley - Commencement News Archive
Good morning, everybody. What a beautiful day. What a beautiful North Carolina day for a graduation. Incredible. Thank you, President Wente, Provost Gillespie, members of the Board of Trustees and Kat...
commencement.news.wfu.edu
May 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I was doomscrolling the latest criminal activity by the administration and they made me sad. I read this and it didn’t quite make me happy, but it did make me hopeful: commencement.news.wfu.edu/2020s/c2025/...
The best part of the night (my 5 yo giving me a high five while I was lining up to get my masters diploma)
May 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The best part of the night (my 5 yo giving me a high five while I was lining up to get my masters diploma)
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Maybe you like to dance, and you love drag, too? Well, I'm playing at Houseboi for the first time in a couple of years. You should come dance with us tomorrow.
April 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Maybe you like to dance, and you love drag, too? Well, I'm playing at Houseboi for the first time in a couple of years. You should come dance with us tomorrow.
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Gen Z cultural exchange: they all know Rick Astley, and now he's done a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club.
(A banger, I might add)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF2...
(A banger, I might add)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF2...
Pink Pony Club (Chappell Roan Cover)
YouTube video by Rick Astley
www.youtube.com
March 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Gen Z cultural exchange: they all know Rick Astley, and now he's done a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club.
(A banger, I might add)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF2...
(A banger, I might add)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF2...
February 28, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Oh, btw, did you know you can block tags and words permanently or temporarily? Cool huh? boringstorybook.com/bluesky-mute...
Bluesky Moderation – Nuclear Block & Mute Lists for Beginners
With X‘s tailspin into an unusable platform—where you are aggressively served content that is unwanted, offensive, and a waste of your time while your own content is suppressed—I have really taken …
boringstorybook.com
January 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Oh, btw, did you know you can block tags and words permanently or temporarily? Cool huh? boringstorybook.com/bluesky-mute...
Your Sunday morning "heroes still exist and they walk amongst us" nice time.
I’m the daughter of a fighter pilot and even I’m in awe of these pilots because JAYSUS
January 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Your Sunday morning "heroes still exist and they walk amongst us" nice time.
Whoa neat!
January 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Whoa neat!
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Zizek figured them all out by looking at their toilets
January 12, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Zizek figured them all out by looking at their toilets
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low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.
Zuckerberg says people who leave his platforms are "virtue signaling"
January 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.
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The Carter Center posted the best picture of the present and past the president's and vp's today.
January 10, 2025 at 4:37 AM
The Carter Center posted the best picture of the present and past the president's and vp's today.
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I was going to post something else this week, but the structural inability of global corporations to govern platforms seems inescapably relevant.
www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
Bad shape
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
www.wrecka.ge
January 9, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I was going to post something else this week, but the structural inability of global corporations to govern platforms seems inescapably relevant.
www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/
I did it. I downloaded two decades of data, and I deleted Facebook. The reflexive instinct to sit in front of a computer and type 'fa <enter>' into a browser is some Pavlovian shit, innit? Done it like 3 times in the last 10 minutes.
January 10, 2025 at 4:40 AM
I did it. I downloaded two decades of data, and I deleted Facebook. The reflexive instinct to sit in front of a computer and type 'fa <enter>' into a browser is some Pavlovian shit, innit? Done it like 3 times in the last 10 minutes.
This was a total banger back in the day! Still is! www.youtube.com/watch?v=axup...
BT featuring Tori Amos - Blue Skies
YouTube video by ohnoitisnathan11
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
This was a total banger back in the day! Still is! www.youtube.com/watch?v=axup...