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B810. The Man who Bit Himself on the Ear. A man explains to his doctor that the wound on his ear (or forehead) is where he bit himself. He explains, "I stood on a chair." Signal: oulipien.12
Gonna be interesting to see how I fare with replacing a flat bike tube when I haven't had to do so in ages, may no longer possess either levers or a spare tube, and definitely no longer possess the part that allows me to remove my theft-resistant skewers
Steve Martin's "King Tut" just came on at the gym who is DOING this
Ironically clothing made out of literal paper does exist and it's often not cheap
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 7h agoThere may be a handful of exceptions to this - predominantly at the extreme low end of the spectrum. If you pay $3 for a jacket on SHEIN it may be made of literal paper and you should have bought it for $20 at Old Navy. But overwhelmingly it’s simply not an accurate description of reality.
Broke: caramel corn Super genius idea that cannot be contained within any contrastive rhyming schema: corn caramel (made either corn-infused cream)
Sudden highly specific desire for trippa alla romana
say, what's the difference between a tool for making sharp creases and advice on how to cold-call more effectively?
I knew Robertson Davies was interested in ghost stories but to have delivered the tanner lectures 26 years after dying is taking it a bit far
s/antagonism/engagement of any sort/ really, and also s#screenshottable/quotable#legible#
Chris Forster@cforster.bsky.social · yesterdayGenuinely, screenshottable/quotable content affords antagonism in a way that an audio clip doesn’t. I try not to be the bad sorta media determinist, but medium matters.
Didn't notice who reposted this, read the first four words, and was ready to go with uhhhh if anything Henry Cow and their RIO confreres are UNDERhyped smh but managed to piece together what was actually going on in time
nines LP@bladeeburger.bsky.social · 2d agoprog is def overhyped but its still such a nice stabilizer
(Observing the effects of pruning) imagine if mammal bodies worked like this. Cut your arm off right after a node grow five new arms
Reminded once again that I live in twizzlers country 🤢
Tabasco Diamond Reserve (2018-2018): A special edition, incredibly small-batch hot sauce, released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Tabasco brand. It came in a champagne-style bottle with gold foil and a fancy gold box, retailing for $35 for a 6oz bottle. What made this sauce so unique? A 🧵
The idea that there might be hard things that are necessary is just 100% not acceptable to us as a culture. We are dead set against the idea of opportunity costs - that in order to do one thing you might have to refrain from doing something else - because we always think there's a Secret Trick
relatedly I find it puzzling when people invoke the latest&greatest vision science re questions like "is there perception of the world". cortex this synapse that, the argument is no stronger than if you pointed at your eye and said "well it's full of goop innit?"
doleful moo of a cow@oulipien.bsky.social · 2d agoEasy: just say yes. I am skeptical that any neuroscientific could be given that would "look like" free will. It would be a neuroscientific account! Where would you find something that did? The details don't matter except insofar as scientists fail to think carefully about them in a given case
Easy: just say yes. I am skeptical that any neuroscientific could be given that would "look like" free will. It would be a neuroscientific account! Where would you find something that did? The details don't matter except insofar as scientists fail to think carefully about them in a given case
Michael Bench-Capon@mikebenchcapon.bsky.social · 2d agoIt's so sad when neuroscientists ignore all their expertise and just go "determinism → no free will" rather than giving our best neuroscientific account of how we make decisions and saying "even if free will and determinism are compatible in principle, does *this* look like free will to you?"
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
(deep breath) ON MY NAMING DAY WHEN I COME 12 I GONE FRONT SPEAR I KILT A WYLD PIG HE PARBLY BEN THE LAS WYLD PIG ON THE BUNDEL DOWNS ANYHOW THERE HADNT BEN NONE FOR A LONG TIME BEFOR HIM NOR I AINT LOOKIN TO SEE ANY AGEN
David Weiskopf believes in you@dave.bzky.team · 10mo agoWhat is your favorite English-language novel? (Free spaces for Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, and Moby Dick -- what else you got?)
Say, what's the difference between what you sometimes should do in a game of basketball and what you absolutely never should do with a baby?
The index of The Phenomenology of Perception has no entry for "Schneider"
I lack the theoretical savvy to express this well, I think, but I find arguments of the form "some social/technological change allowed preferences that were really held all along finally to be expressed" extremely suspicious
Max Dubler 🏳️🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d agoI think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.
"Hören Sie die Erklärungen zur Realisierung des apikalen und uvularen r und sprechen Sie nach." look I know full well that I can accomplish neither of these sounds can we just skip this
It's untraditional for sure but how about this: rex stout / sex trout
Urban Futurist Democrat@urbfuturistdem.bsky.social · 2y agoWhat is woke?
I would like to see a divorce lawyer's take on Intolerable Cruelty
Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 3d agofun hobby: cataloging the securities law violations in batman begins bruce wayne bought up the shares of his company right after the IPO without so much as a 13D, let alone a Form 4?
Social structure of drives and affects
gerge@gerge-lemons.bsky.social · 3d agoImagining the chinese room, except at any arbitrary scale at which you zoom in, there are little guys passing each other notes in a language they don't understand. That's closer to the brain, I think the scale-invariant full-of-little-guys-ness is important
Here's what drives me crazy about this: It's literally been the guiding philosophy of the entire Democratic leadership for 30 years! Build the entire party around the platform that will appeal to swing districts. It's barely even repackaged! Why does she keep acting like it's "her" theory?!
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 3d agoI really hate Elissa Slotkin's patronizing "my theory of the case is that what works in the middle of the country will work on the coasts, but not the other way around" shit. It's one of her canned lines that she uses in her eventual attempt to run for president.
