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Aspiring philosopher; tolerable human; "amusing combination of sardonic detachment & literally all the feelings felt entirely unironically all at once" [he/his]

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Nov 10

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 1m

Just found out that there's a chapter of Space Marines called "the Blood Drinkers" who are, in fact, space vampires -- but it is a secret. So they introduce themselves as the Blood Drinkers and sometimes peasants living around their castles disappear in the night. But no one knows they are vampires.

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Gwen @finalgwen.bsky.social · 3h

I thought that Hux was a neat character in the first film, Gleeson gave him a lot of weight as this horrible little fascist in a version of the Empire where that ideology was as much a driving force as the Sith/force stuff.

So they open TLJ with him as a comedy character who gets Marvel quipped at.

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3h

you know what fair

Bootleggirl on twitter writes: "I still dislike the Star Wars sequels but I can't no longer fault them for running with the premise of "20 years after fascism, same fascism again, but stupider" bc I just lived through that.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 23m

Genuinely love that because of Modernity I can get a cute little taxi just for my burrito. It's so cute, kawaii!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 4h

An image of Roboute Guilliman in his full sci-fi Roman Emperor regalia, gloriously gesturing into the future, overlaid by the text from tumblr user "so many orcs which reads: " *voice of someone craving even the tiniest sliver of control* i could make a spreadsheet,

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 1h

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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LOWρUFO 🐁🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1h

Bluesky is a big site full of many Bsky users

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Aight Griffin @aight-griffin.bsky.social · 3h

It wasn't a conscious decision initially, but it's been one for like 10 years at this point. Skyward Sword is meant as an origin point for the entire series, and in it, the final boss curses Hyrule into this endless cycle.

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TM64G @tm64g.bsky.social · 2h

little did she know, this would lead to the events of hyrule warriors (peak)

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 2h

its like how people ignore khomeini’s extensive knowledge of western philosophy and time spent in europe.

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 13h

This is Red Guards shit, I don't know why people keep getting mad at that comparison

Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 13h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2h

To be fair, I was expecting the business suit and briefcase tactical squad to go straight into Number 10 the day after the election, rope-swinging down from Tony Blair Institute For Change helicopters, just to underline yet again that Fuck you, Britain is not a democracy: you get what *we* want.

Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

www.theguardian.com

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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 2h

The real reason the Nobel Prize Committee snubbed Trump: Tylenol.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 3h

"We document the participation of women in European academia [from the year 1000 to 1800]. A total of 108 women taught at universities or were members of academies of arts and sciences. Comparing them with 58,995 male scholars, we find that they were on average better."

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...

table 1 from David de la Croix, Mara Vitale, Women in European academia before 1800—religion, marriage, and human capital, European Review of Economic History, Volume 27, Issue 4, November 2023, Pages 506–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heac023

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 4h

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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liv's evil second cousin twice-removed, liv @livfreeorcry.gay · 3h

if it turns out that trump was somehow one of the boys from brazil i'm gonna be SO MAD

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The Lincolnshire Poster @desiderratum.bsky.social · 7h

Every day, Andrew Yang looks more & more like a world-historic bag-fumbler

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 7h

The lathe that I don’t remember being near me just started glowing. Probably fine.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

gang, there are going to be between 20k-40k people at the portland NO KINGS rally, and at least half are going to be wearing inflatable costumes, i want you to think about how funny that looks for a minute

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 11h

They Live is a fantastic film but every time I introduce it to a Gen Z friend I'm reminded that the plot boils down to, "two hobos carry out a series of workplace mass shootings because they believe half the population are aliens wearing human skin"

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 6h

Go for it, Taylor!

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3h

you know what fair

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Mathias Girel @mathiasg.bsky.social · 3h

I agree with that; long time ago had the same feeling with Cash's version of Highway Patrolman, even if the original by Springsteen remains strong as it is. But Cash revealed something. Same too with Mercy Seat and Cave...