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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 11h

that's so weird. just a succession of weird choices from Duolingo

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 11h

is that supposed to be a magical girl thing?

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 21h

god it's such a relief when taking apart a computer— one which is very much NOT intended to be disassembled at home— not only goes well, but has the intended effect

in other news, my laptop's charging again!

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 22h

do you think that they realize how much they sound like charlie kirk

A skeet saying "Being empathetic towards red states is enabling behavior." It was posted Octover 13th at 4:27 PM.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 1d

who up maching they logoi

Mutable Air @mutableair.bsky.social · 1d

My new word of the day. Fight me.
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/l...

Definition of LOGOMACHY

a dispute over or about words; a controversy marked by verbiage… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 1d

Today is Tridi the 23rd of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate turnips.#JacobinDay

More information on turnips

An old time-y illustration of a Turnips.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 2d

Today is Duodi the 22nd of Vendémiaire in the year 234.
Vendémiaire is the month of vintage.
Today we celebrate peaches.#JacobinDay

More information on peaches

An old time-y illustration of a Peaches.

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meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 2d

good afternoon

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 3d

frog

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕒𝕧𝕚 𓅰 🐱 @lucavi.bsky.social · 3d

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3d

I feel lots of things that felt like, were billed as, self-actualization read in retrospect as canaries in the coal mine for the fraying commitments we owe to each other as members of a society.

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3d

Relatedly, I recall a lot of "the joy of canceling plans" jokes and memes from the 2010s and now folks are talking about a loneliness epidemic, and, well...

Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3d

People will scoff at virtue signaling and then wonder why today’s billionaires don’t build museums, libraries, hospitals, and universities like Gilded Age ones did.

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 3d

it has occurred to me that this is orgasm denial rather than edging

in apology, i present you with a phrase as a gift: treebeard goon cave

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 3d

you're like "oh god master please let me come" and treebeard's like "i've only finished the first word describing the beauty of your complete sexual transfixion, don't be hasty"

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 3d

only the elves can compete with ents when it comes to edging

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 3d

Lots of Grumpy Bisexual Trees

(the ents lost the entwives long ago, if you know what i mean)

Spooky Rex @katyrex.meatjacker.social · 3d

What does LGBT stand for? (Wrong answers only)

Lesbians, Gesbians, Besbians, and Thespians

👻 thespian lesbian 🧟‍♀️ (acetaminophen confit) @chatagp.bsky.social · 4d

What does LGBT stand for? (Wrong answers only)

Let's Go Bee-movie Torrenting

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 4d

Thei did the Mash; thei did the Monstere Mash.
The Monstere Mash: beholde, sepulchral smash!
Thei did the Mash, and it kaughte on moost fast -
Hark, heare the Mash! Forsooth, the Monstere Mash!

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 3d

anybody else seeing dan orban signs where it really doesn't seem like they're supposed to be? i've seen them on two different abandoned properties and a number of my neighbors have taken signs down after they were stapled to their fences

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 4d

there might ever be a third option! i'm not sure how italians of the time would have written it

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 4d

shit, good call! it didn't feel right as i was typing it but i was like "damn, what else could it be" and just carried on

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 4d

señor beneDICK sends me every time

chira 🎋 @artofchira.bsky.social · Jun 1

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

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ceej @ceej.online · 5d

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 5d

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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feral spooklist @tundrafuckery.bsky.social · 5d

i love the part in game prep or writing where you go "how weird am i gonna get with this?" and the answer invariably comes back "un-fucking-speakably"

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 6d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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