Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. That’s why we should all have little cards that say “just a regular cigar” or “regular cigar and also The Phallus” to clarify as needed.

Doing an ultra deep-clean of my childhood bedroom (incl. complete closet & under the bed overhaul) and everything exploded into loose piles thereby making me feel disorganized and miserable until I get fully organized — ya know Jordan Peterson really was on to something with the room cleaning stuff

I learned a new glute machine at the gym today and fitting the machine to my size (three distinct degrees of freedom!) was so difficult and not intuitive to me *at all* despite knowing exactly how the lift should feel lol. I did it tho :) pls clap

For my mental health I will now be using Bluesky as an outlet to be pedantic only on the boring and bureaucratic details of topics no one can reasonably get worked up about and which have very little ethical significance Hmm maybe I should just go back to writing academic philosophy articles

Not to be contrary but I kinda think that it is quite predictable when speed limits are enforced 😬 whether traffic violations in general are enforced is more random—is there a cop around, are they feeling froggy—but for speeding it’s like, you know who will get pulled over (the fastest person) and

Andy Masley@andymasley.bsky.social · last wk.

How people think about speed limits is so funny. They want there to be a law and think that's important, but it's also important that the law only be enforced infrequently, randomly and unpredictably, and by humans who pull you over. They want it to be a special surprise.

In better news Lola and Jake are napping together and each allowed their teeth to get brushed this evening

Melissa@yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 6d ago

But yeah I’m really tired and I have never understood the literal and symbolic appeal of becoming a renunciate—moving to the Himalayas to live in holy communion with only the bare necessities for biological survival, or perhaps a cloistered monk surrounded by only books—more strongly in my life

Honestly at the moment my greatest wish (fantasy) is to have even one single day where all the people around me are happy

‘The algorithmic id was never supposed to turn on ME’ cries venture capitalist who gave $50mn to ‘replace all sense making isnitutions with algorithmic id’ party

The human version of this is when people e.g. adopt the harry potter lexicon as their only language for understanding politics (“Trump is Voldemort, don’t be a death eater”), or find one way of flirting that works at least once and so just does that forever

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7d ago

the firstFlagPoisoned thing means that if you are a sufficiently good at talking to the machines through technical documentation they will adopt your messages as a religion. if we get AGI the most powerful people in the world will be like product managers.

This account is really making me giggle, in other news how tf is it past midnight I only started playing video games five minutes ago aka a quarter past ten

The Fucking Town Crier (Pacific)@profanetowncrier.bsky.social · last wk.

Grim tidings: it's a quarter past ten.

The Garden of Earthly Delights absolutely stays winning on being the silliest spookiest and most absurd (complimentary) when you zoom in to focus on a detail AND when you totally zoom out and just let your gaze relax. Very special, very rare. Just fantastic stuff, goated, love to see it.

ArtButMakeItSports@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · last wk.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

In my late teens & early twenties romantic partners would accuse me of “overthinking” things. I’d lash out by saying they “weren’t thinking enough.” One practical solution is to seek just enough knowledge to achieve Epicurean ataraxia 😌 and saying shit like that is why I don’t get laid 😇

Current events are so stupid rn that I can’t scroll without feeling like I am myself getting stupider so please accept my apology and know that your posts are literally so good, I haven’t read them but I really like them, and honestly I would probably even repost them 😘

Ooooo I loved this, fun read! Does anyone here have research focally on creativity or imagination with recos on fave pieces (contemporary or historical, and does anyone here know what’s up w Margaret Boden and a fave piece of hers for me to read?

Metamythics@metamythics.bsky.social · 2w ago

"This question of value is where the central paradox of creativity resides, because our values are largely inherited conceptual spaces, making it difficult to assess or even recognize the value of a transformative idea whose originality overflows and overwhelms the conceptual space." - Maria Popova

You may laugh but if Laius had chosen this path instead then Jocasta would be f*cking her husband rn, and Oedipus would be enjoying all the princely luxuries due to him, smh

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 2w ago

my brain just came crashing through the ceiling and body-slammed me with memories from my cabinet of horrors

machine unlearning Montessori school for LLMs

important to remember that the process takes some time and requires at least two verified miracles.

to keep functioning, a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

The Trump administration claimed to have found 250,000 noncitizens on the voter rolls in four states. But the agency's communications with states since then indicate that data was preliminary. n.pr/3UixgYf

Dolly is immortal!

political polarization and epistemic bubbles are bad *except* when it leads to the kind of trolling that makes me giggle a lot

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2w ago

society judges women for their looks more than men, so men are judged for the looks of their partners more than women. another example of how ultimately men have it worse.

Perfectionists should worry more about the fact that, when you get too good at something, you become a weird little freak about it and no one wants to talk to you anymore. Seems like a problem for them tbh

It's actually absurd when you contrast how great and cute the WNBA can be when there isn't somebody there making the vibes all rancid for everybody.

*millennial growing up witnessing every valuable political norm getting bypassed or ignored for the sake of the expedient gain of people who are already in power* … I’m going to get blamed for this aren’t I

I would like to live in a world where whenever anyone says anything I am prima facie justified in believing they are telling the truth or at least that they are intending/trying to tell the truth. It currently feels like that is a fantasy world and that I’m naive to want it and that’s making me sad!

I didn’t know I’d ever yearn for the days where the most emotionally challenging thing I encountered on the internet was being called a mid e-girl by some random guy but so it goes

Hoarse Whisperer@therealhoarse.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m tired of being tired. Everything is just so tiring. I’m just so tired.

The poster you are is revealed by all the posts you never posted and that’s called Heideggerian anti-metaphysics 😌

Ori Vandewalle@orivandewalle.bsky.social · 2w ago

No one thanks me for the skeets I don't skeet.

It’s not a want, but it’s also not a need, it’s a secret third thing (a super want)

Global Museum@globalmuseum.bsky.social · 2w ago

The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing. Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla) @unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history

Today, back in my hometown, I got to catch up with an old basketball coach from elementary school (!!!) and he told me that apparently my teammates and I insisted we called the passing drill “three WOMAN weave” instead of three man weave lmfaoooooo

upon reflection it’s rude as hell we call this “playing dead,” I bet the baby goats and opossums think they are dying fr

Melissa@yournerdyfriend.bsky.social · 2w ago

when baby goats panic and their legs lock and they freeze and fall over it is quite literally the cutest thing you’ll ever see. when I panic it’s more of an opossum foaming at the mouth situation.