Goblin, PhD
@phdgoblin.bsky.social
The internet is for making up kinds of guys. That's it. Mostly dog and baking pics, gossip girl gifs Baker, Philosopher, Adjunct, Veteran, TTRPG GM Tottenham and St. Pauli supporter
Posting. To get my ideas out to the world, I’d have to take out a classified ad in the New York Review of Books. Now I can just type into my phone and the entire world can see my most cursed, curdled thoughts.
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 22h agoSo this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary
You guys, it's not called "Poaster's Sane and Reasonable Affect" so maybe we're setting our sights too high
[Adam Duritz voice]: Italians in Baltimore.
loctastic@loctastic.bsky.social · 3d agowhen you’re in Baltimore and are looking for a book to help you find Italians
Ryan Ruocco noting Cheryl Reeve's shirt and then video of Cheryl talking to Sophie Cunningham earlier
Sometimes, the guy we made up on the internet is all of us
Thleen@kathleenbot.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is literally me and—worse—I sometimes also confuse both of them with Weezer
I don't appreciate having acclimated such that 76 "feels like fall," which is also a real thing I just said. I hate it here climatilogically
I really do this explains a lot about the online experience, ngl
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 3w agorao’s argument is that online beefs often consist of hordes of interchangeable “mooks” that see themselves as honor-bound to participate in fights that have nothing to do with them, often out of a desire for recognition from celebrity “knights” engaged in high profile duels
If you use AI for basic arithmetic, you should have to give up your tenured philosophy faculty position
Guy who consistently confuses Ween and Wheatus for each other
drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying
"Soldier, then professor" was something I also did, so probably a transition I could make
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · last wk.Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?
I dont think we need one editorial on flirting at a conference...we need to assemble thinkers on the topic and have them give presentations. Yes, exactly what youbthink it is...
Was just talking with a friend about how jeans, a red checked button down shirt and a newspaper from that day is an easy dead Mitch McConnell Halloween costume and now she sends me this:
PLAY GUNS OF BRIXTON! Sir, this is a farmer's market GUNS. OF. BRIXTON.
I mean first of all kids belong in libraries too But the weird thing is that kid-free libraries exist? University and research libraries don't generally have children's areas. That's not an "unpopular opinion;" it's just going to the wrong building. The right building to meet that need exists.
Matthew Noe@noethematt.bsky.social · 2w ago"This might be unpopular but I'd like to discriminate against an entire class of people" If this is you, I hope the next 500 books you try to read are a disappointment.
Thousands upon thousands of us nobly sacrificing our sanities over the next few years so as to save the world
James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w agoIt's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.
Odysseus and his men landing on an island where they have to play basketball against the Harlem Globetrotters
Genuinely baffles me that so many of my fellow farmer's market vendors use AI, and some quite heavily. What's the point of making craft and art if you're gonna let clankslop be the face of your business? (interestingly enough, none of the actual farmers use it. I respect clip-art signs.)