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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 14h

can't tell if my inability to feel impressed at anything another person does is a kind of ignoble contrarian impulse, a valuable and accurate sense of perspective, or a symptom of major depression

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 1d

if having friends made you less healthy would they recommend you not have them? every good friend takes five years off your life. move to the woods, say doctors

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 1d

seems like kind of an insane perspective to be like "don't forget about the instrumental value of human connection to you personally! friends are simply a means to your own well-being"

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

Social relationships contribute to health and longevity in a few critical ways. But experts say it's less about the sheer number of connections you have, and more about what those connections do for you.

How to Live a Long and Healthy Life as an Introvert

You don’t have to be the life of every party to reap the health benefits.

nyti.ms

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oblivion.txt @oblivion-txt.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sorry, but I really don't know much about the town itself. I spend my time outdoors, walking the ridges and valleys.

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · Apr 13

don't hear much about qanon anymore these days, though I guess they were right about a storm coming. more vindicated than a lot of people attempting to predict the future, really

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · May 23

alternatively, and I guess more likely, it's just an audacious scam where they pretend to replace people with a miraculous technology but instead the stuff those people did stops happening

maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · May 23

so the current AI culture complex is essentially a cult that has misunderstood LLMs as meaningfully generally intelligent and taken over large portions of corporate governance, right. that seems... bad

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 5d

sure, I guess. nor are most people doing the kind of labor blue jeans were designed for

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d

This year’s cowboy boot boom isn’t just fashion. It’s America once again clinging to a myth in search of a shared identity.

What the Cowboy Boot Boom Says About America

The style statement is also a story about nostalgia, nationalism and America’s search for identity in times of uncertainty.

bloom.bg

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 6d

speculating, but I think this is downstream of twitter and tumblr both sort of diminishing and taking the sense of internet monoculture with them

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 6d

in general I think stan culture has kind of had its heyday, I don't feel like I see the kind of grandiose threats and pile-ons from swifties or kpop people pretty much ever anymore

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 6d

I think this is a little bit awkwardly constructed but I don't see the use of passive voice here as especially exculpatory or anything, nor is "landed on the ground" from the clause in the sentence utilizing passive voice

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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 7d

1776: Beans are housed. One swallow. Apples are gathered. Ivy continues to blow. Bat is out.

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 7d

only if you don't read the next sentence where he describes other people being convinced by it?

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 7d

quite enjoying watching the mods and the people who don't like the mods having a days long ineffectual slap fight, this is very cozy to me as a person who has wasted their life on forums

Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 7d

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 8d

I think it's a little embarrassing to have foes in your 30s

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

Taylor Swift’s new album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” is here — and it’s an NYT Critic’s Pick. Read our full review. nyti.ms/3IOOHKn

Taylor Swift’s album cover for “The Life of a Showgirl.” A headline reads: “Album review: On ‘Showgirl,’ Taylor Swift Has a Lust for Love (and Her Foes).”

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 8d

aren't "the divisions cannot be overcome" and "the political system is too divided to solve problems" pretty different statements?

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d

Americans have less faith in the ability of the country’s political system to solve problems than they had five years ago, with a large majority now believing that the U.S. is incapable of overcoming its deep divisions, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena University. nyti.ms/476StrS

A line graph titled "Most Americans Think the Country's Divisions Cannot Be Overcome, Poll Says." It shows 64% of respondents saying that America's political system is too politically divided to solve the nation's problems, and 33% saying the system can still address the nation's problems.

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 10d

finding both concept and execution of "woman destroying glass bridge with rock" videos quite existentially scary. world passing me by moment

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 10d

they always call it “pain at the pump” when gas prices go up but they never call it “pleasure at the pump” when they go down

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Ppallo @ppallo.bsky.social · Nov 24

The bullfrog in a tweed suit whose land I live on, came by to tell me they were busy planting this year's carrots. He proudly told me he still employs two gardeners, as his father did, though "only one maid." He then observed the rising spring sun and said "it's all diminishing."

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 13d

medbeds... medbeds!!

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 14d

People obviously do get mauled by mountain lions sometimes, but I think the correct position on that is who cares. it's got more right to be there than you whether it benefits you or not

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14d

Column: For all the mythology, mountain lions pose almost no threat to humans.

They actually offer enormous benefits to humans, and restoring these big cats to their historical range could help the environment and us.

Column | I got nose-to-nose with a mountain lion. It was scary — and magical.

Mountain lions in your neighborhood could be just what you need. How restoring these big cats to their historical range could help the environment and us.

www.washingtonpost.com

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 15d

parking lot omelette is coming together

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 16d

I never stop thinking about robinson jeffers shattering the backboard bitchily characterizing americans as "easy to manage, a gregarious people, / full of sentiment, clever at mechanics, and we love our luxuries"

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · Dec 4

observing a lot more people I am sort of casually aware of on the internet get pretty materially ground down by life, I feel like. second trump term initiating a sort of dickensian vibe shift, you might say

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 18d

the background radiation level of this feeling has been rising steadily

maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · Feb 13

grew up around enough crunchy / medicine-skeptical people that RFK jr gives me not just normal anxiety but this very specific "oh god the people I mistrusted and felt uncomfortable around in high school have taken over the world" feeling

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maundering yokel @nomic.bsky.social · 20d

at least he was courteous enough to leave me an unsmoked cigarette for each one he smoked

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