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@soccurt.bsky.social

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Overly caffeinated prof in SW Ontario. Liberal socialist and limitarianist. He/him. 🏳️‍🌈

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 4d

Don't get too excited. The compromise is coming.

It's the "Go to horny jail" where one dog is hitting the other with a bat that says bonk, except the caption has been changed to "Go to means testing jail."

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Jordan S. Carroll @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 1h

the corollary to Dr. Google is the reddit thread where someone explains in gory detail how the minor ailment you're experiencing spiraled out of control for them and ruined their lives

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 1h

Love the "use internet to use landline phone," that's what really dates it.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

this is bad for society but incredibly funny

This is the birthday text I received from my sister

[obviously GPTd message]

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 1h

"Thank you ChatGPT"
*Follow up text* "At least it wasn't Grok I guess."

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 4h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 6h

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 3h

On the other hand this does suggest they believe in the existence of cells and genes.

For now.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 3h

You were soy drunk on soy facts from excess soy reading. Happens to the best of us.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 3h

Well, I just read it and know what you're feeling, because I experience this regularly. And I also sometimes post for catharsis.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 3h

Partner here was similarly unimpressed with "The Princess Bride" which disappointed me, and which I chalked up to not enough Carol Kane.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 3h

You're apparently not the only one talking about pressure washers on my following feed today.

Leif Hancox-Li says "yeah basically this is why I've never used the bidets in italy and spain. Bidets build into the toilet bowl are a solved technology, just use that."

This is quoting David Robert's skeet saying "All right, y'all, help me out. This is a bidet, right? (It's in my airbnb). So the idea is, you poop in the toilet and then... crab walk a few feet to your left with your pants down? And stick your butt down in this thing? There's no seat as such, so you're just, hovering your butt down into it?"

This is right above witch lasagna (American hole wizard) talking about borrowing the pressure washer from his aunt.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 4h

Sorry if I'm way off base here but would the commons/enclosure fit your goals?

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

legitimately i really do wish people would stop mistaking their own major depressive disorder for politics. it would be better for themselves and also the world

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 4h

I feel like there's just a segment of the population, trans or cis or otherwise, who will always insist that being happy is fundamentally a character flaw that implies you are insufficiently aware of/don't care enough about the world's problems

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 4h

Big if true.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 5h

Ohhhhh - sorry. I full on went into professor mode to explain something that didn't need explaining. 😅

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 5h

In recent news reports, there's been talk about Trump's cardiac age being younger than his actual age. This concept appears not to be recognized by mainstream cardiology. To me it suggests Trump's health may be worse than we're hearing about.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 5h

What's your cardiac age? 45 overall, 112 in heart here. Fascism bad for the ticker.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 5h

Picked this up at a childrens book fair, should I mail it to the HHS secretary

LET'S-READ-AND-FIND - OUT SCIENCE®
GERMS
READING
RAINBOW
Воок
MAKE ME SICK!
BY MELVIN BERGER • ILLUSTRATED BY MARYLIN HAFNER

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 6h

I'm suspicious, I bet they're those dry inside limes that you barely get half a teaspoon of juice out of.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 7h

Let's use Jared Leto's face to remake Face/off.

Box office opening weekend: 5.3 million.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

Probably none... big pumpkin has been secretly replacing our pumpkin with butternut squash FOR YEARS.

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

It's happened with my books in other subjects, but worry when this starts happening with my psychology titles. that will feel like an ominous development, a little too on the nose.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 13h

What if a Butlerian Jihad restricting AI was just a run-of-the-hill thermostatic backlash to an economic crisis

Yet according to recent estimates, generative AI now accounts for roughly 40 percent of the United States’ gross domestic product. In other words, if the AI spending boom falls apart, it could take down the entire economy with it.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 13h

An influencer asked to collab with a Scottsdale, AZ bakery and was told no thanks. Influencer then shows up, leaves a rude and condescending review, so the owner drops this video with receipts about how the include tried to “blackmail”. Wild.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AfqYBh/

I will forever dedicate my time and energy to continue to make it right to the people who value my teams hard work and have respected us and supported us since day one. #review #influencer #bakery

TikTok video by JLPATISSERIE

Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 13h

More money than sense. Can't fix the sense (probably), but we really ought to relieve him of his money.