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wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
sorry arsenal, no league title for you because Morgan Rogers is playing FIFA irl.
December 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
it's a great place run by great folks
pfbvan.bsky.social Pulpfiction Books @pfbvan.bsky.social · 3d
1. Big, five-figure day. Maybe the second-busiest day we've ever had? Shortly to bed but thought I'd pop on here to say THANKS to those of you who keep showing up to buy books, or to drop off booze, or gingerbread, or - as yesterday! - to bring your NEW KITTEN in to be admired. Thanks, everyone!
December 21, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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phineas.bsky.social
New awareness campaign
A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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ceebarnacles.bsky.social
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
December 8, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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katjathieme.bsky.social
„My students needed to have good faith when they approach a text’s language. But they also needed to assume that they themselves had rational beliefs & could make meaning—that they are capable, that they can do it. . .They have to care about themselves, enough to believe in their own significance.“
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
December 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
The fact that it happened to Cubas is hurting my soul the most.
mattdoyle.bsky.social Matthew Doyle @mattdoyle.bsky.social · 17d
I am an old and jaded sports-watcher and I rarely feel emotions anymore but folks, my heart is fucking BREAKING for Andres Cubas. Yes he brought it on himself, but no, he did not deserve that horror.
December 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
Stupid sport, making me feel hope, joy and sadness
December 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
What's that lovely sinking feeling I have
December 4, 2025 at 4:07 AM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
Don't fuck this up Zak
December 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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mattdoyle.bsky.social
Mikey Varas would also have been an acceptable choice (despite how things are going tonight).

But I honestly think the job Sørensen's done this year is the single best coaching job in league history, and will be forever bitter that he didn't win.
November 30, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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doylesteponme.bsky.social
Those who kept up with the POWER RANKINGS on TACTICS FREE ZONE this season will know that the 2025 MLS Cup is between the two teams who held rank 1 the most often (Miami, 14; Vancouver, 9)

Ignore POWER at your peril
November 30, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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inanimatej.bsky.social
Just a reminder.

Lionel Messi has NEVER contributed a goal or assist in a game against Andrés Cubas for either club or country.

#VWFC
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 AM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
Referee staking a claim for biggest tosser here.
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
Please Whitecaps let's fucking do this please
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
Feel sick again because Whitecaps.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
Shout out to the underused 'tosser'
profanity.accountant profanity.accountant @profanity.accountant · 24d
@wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social has swears! They've used 16 profanities in their last 117 posts.

🥇 "fucking" (6 times)
🥈 "fuck" (3 times)
🥉 "tosser" (1 times)
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
@profanity.accountant how many times have I sworn about soccer
November 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
New York could you try hard to not crumble like warm cake please
November 29, 2025 at 11:40 PM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
Commentator trying his very best to curse San Diego there
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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robhorning.bsky.social
seeing LLMs as "ideology that can pretend to be a person" helps make it clear what "talking to chatbots" accomplishes: Althusserian "interpellation"
hagenblix.bsky.social Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · Nov 11
I do, of course, have a paragraph from "Why We Fear AI" for this
An LLM is an abstraction over the status quo (or rather, the text of the status quo) that has, at its core, no other aim than producing more text that is just like the text already in existence. One result is that the dominant ideas, the dominant textual patterns of our time, are recast as “intelligence” per se. We might call the complex mass of concepts and ideas, the channels into which ideas flow often and easily, or the boundaries of what is reasonable to debate in so-called “polite society”—the dominant ideology of an age. An age’s dominant ideology tends to presuppose that the power of that age is natural; the hallmark of ideology, in this sense, is that it is easy to recognize only when it’s past its time. We may no longer think that an almighty god appointed a king to rule us, that women are naturally unfit to vote, or that sex outside of a heterosexual marriage is immoral. But at various times, to think otherwise (to think of replacing the monarchy with a republic, to affirm that women are people, or being in favor of sexual or gay liberation) was the far more difficult, even dangerous thought—if not to have, then at the very least to put in writing. Ideology, of course, is never complete, other thoughts are always possible. But ideology is easy to think, it’s what our thoughts are already marinated in. And hence, ideology will be dominant in the textual patterns of an age. Seen in this light, what is called “intelligence” in a language model, is really that—ideology as a thing that can pretend to be a person.
November 11, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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headfallsoff.com
i love this quote and earnestly think it is one of the most beautiful and resonant things ever said about why we make art as people and what it means to live and share.

and also, i think of it every time i instead of that choose to watch 15 youtube videos in a row
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
Ref absolutely could not wait to give that penalty
November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
wellmcgarnagle.bsky.social
Another Vancouver bus driver at UBC more interested in running the courtesy crossing than letting pedestrians cross. Absolutely insane.
November 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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kwardvancouver.bsky.social
comments on bylaw enforcement in the city of Victoria from people without housing

#yyj
BYLAW Ideas: • Bylaw officers (and VicPD) should have to go thru extensive psychological testing to ensure total neutrality • There should be some training for Bylaw and Police from people with lived experience • Train Bylaw with folks with lived experience • Disrespectful language is common “parasite” “you people” “you’re lazy” • Bylaw takes our stuff and disposes of it – often not all of it is there when picked up Comments: o There are a couple of good ones of all the bylaw officers; most are terrible o Everything gets taken – purse, tent, sleeping bag, ID; they target folks o They are not keeping us safe or helping us o Blue fences on Pandora – block garbage cans, some garbage cans have been removed o People see us a degenerate pigs o Bylaw doesn’t need to exist, we can take care of ourselves o We’re being bullied and threatened o There is a high-pitched noise coming from McDonalds that extends up to Bay Street o We need you to hire people with lived experience so that they can learn what it’s really like o We are sworn at by Bylaw and Police o Bylaw is supposed to follow the law and be neutral o Hire more people with lived experience; we need bylaw trained by people with lived experience o Bylaw used to come before their sweep to let us know that they will be coming. They didn’t used to steal our belongings. o They have three bins – garbage, stuff for the person to collect, and for bylaw to have They take our naloxone kits – unhoused leave kits where we need them and they are being removed by Bylaw because they want us to die o Pressure the province to pay for support o Bring back the program to bridge the gap between Police, Bylaw and the unhoused
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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okwonga.bsky.social
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM