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B810. The Man who Bit Himself on the Ear. A man explains to his doctor that the wound on his ear (or forehead) is where he bit himself. He explains, "I stood on a chair."
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Ultrafinitists be like
![On April 17th, 2020, meme creator Welcome To My Meme Page posted a parody infographic to Facebook,[1] Instagram,[2] and Twitter,[3] titled, "STOP DOING MATH" (shown below). The infographic describes various ridiculous reasons why people should stop doing math, including that "numbers were not supposed to be given names," and ends with the phrase, "they have played us for absolute fools." The post gained over 9,800 reactions on Facebook, 77,000 likes and 23,000 retweets, and 18,500 likes on Instagram in 10 months.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreier7r5uluprz24b47wich5lrs5tc4kxdkbc5kbu34cxlvf5ukzgbq@jpeg)
November 28, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Ultrafinitists be like
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They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!
"They had submitted extensive paperwork and paid fees. The foreign spouses had been fingerprinted and passed medical exams. None had criminal records. None had entered the country illegally. They had already been granted employment authorization." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:55 AM
They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!
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JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 AM
JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics
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Maybe the most 'I am someone the 20th century didn't happen to' post imaginable, in which you think that 'the far right take power' and the consequence is just that after five years, boom that's over but your preferred political outgroup is out of action.
We have to start thinking about what we want Britain to look like in 2034 after the far right have been in power. There will be no status quo to return to. Centrism will be stone cold dead.
November 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Maybe the most 'I am someone the 20th century didn't happen to' post imaginable, in which you think that 'the far right take power' and the consequence is just that after five years, boom that's over but your preferred political outgroup is out of action.
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“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
“Biden Asylum Cases” is NYT’s framing for a story pegged to a man who got asylum 3 months into the Trump administration
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
Gates: Can someone who's good at the environment please help me budget this my planet is dying
Eat less beef
Gates: no
Eat less beef
Gates: no
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Gates: Can someone who's good at the environment please help me budget this my planet is dying
Eat less beef
Gates: no
Eat less beef
Gates: no
Sister fishing through the kohlrabi batons she had me cut, pulling out some irregular ones because I didn't square them off thoroughly and saying that they wouldn't pass muster
November 27, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Sister fishing through the kohlrabi batons she had me cut, pulling out some irregular ones because I didn't square them off thoroughly and saying that they wouldn't pass muster
Odds that any of these authors could give you a lay explanation of Gaussian curvature?
ruin your thanksgiving by reading new york magazine's take on mathematics
![The Ten Most
Ridiculous-Sounding
Math Classes Currently
Offered at Liberal-Arts
Colleges
By Jessica Pressler, Janelle Zara, and Emily Watkins Rachel Stein andAviva Shen OCT. 19, 2010
Every year, liberal-arts majors anxiously scour their college's course listings looking for classes that will fulfill their math requirement but aren't so, you know, math-y. Here's what they're signed up for this year.
10. Topology: The Nature of Shape and Space: "In geometry we ask: How big is it? How long is it? But in topology we ask: Is it [Sarah Lawrence
9. The Mathematies of Chance: "Most topics are introduced ina case-study fashion, usually by reading an article in a current periodical such as the New York Times. [Bard]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreieq6gmwmropzlvjkaaxk6d2smd4tv4dy7qar66uoyv6mhs6naa3fu@jpeg)
![8. Mathematics in Many Cultures: "Mathematical ideas are found in many cultures, among both literate and non-literate peoples. This course examines both mathematics and the role it plays in the cultures. Examples chosen from the mathematical ideas of present-day peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, as well as historic Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Islam and China." [Pomona]
7. The Magic of Numbers: "This course will explore the beauty and mystery of mathematics through a study of the patterns and properties of the natural numbers 1, 2, [and] 3." [Harvard
6. Models of Life: In particular, we will ask such questions as: How do you model the growth of a population of animals? How can you model the growth of a tree? How do sunflowers and seashells grow?" [Kenyon]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreic3c4ox53ouwr3ij3wsmvetmuknu2u2jai7hlvuigco3ahppeoabi@jpeg)
![5. Mathematical Origamist's Toolkit: "Topics include modular origami and how this models the creation of polyhedra and coloring of graphs, comparison of origami-axiomatic constructions to straight-edge and compass constructions, the combinatorics of possible crease patterns, the mathematics of origami design (circle packing, optimization), matrix models for paperfolding, spherical geometry, Descartes' Theorem, and Gaussian curvature." [Hampshire]
4. Mathematics and Narrative: "Many literary works (Arcadia, Proof, and Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture) use mathematics as an integral part of their narrative. Movie and television narratives such as Good Will Hunting and Numb3rs are also mathematically based. Nonfiction works about mathematics and mathematical biographies like Chaos, Fermat's Enigma, and A Beautiful Mind provide further examples of the connection between mathematics and narrative." [Vassar]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreigyk5tqjszw3fodt7ivmszq7mozpta55o7c552oyzpbqyphl26x7m@jpeg)
![3. Borges and Mathematics: "Jorge Luis Borges was one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Many of his short stories and essays were concerned with philosophical, metaphysical, and mathematical questions. The thesis motivating this course is that if we know the mathematies that Borges referred to, then we will read him differently, and we will read him better." [Bennington 2. Mathematics and Science as Art in Contemporary Theatre: "Playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Rinne Groff, Michael Frayn, and others have effectively explored mathematical and scientific themes for artistic purposes. Through readings and exercises, and by conducting labs and staging scenes, this class will gain some first-hand insight into the complementary ways in which science and art aim to seek out their respective truths." [Middlebury]
1. Meaning, Math, And Motion: "Quoting a charming articulation by Kinsman (a mathematician-turned-oceanographer, in the preface to Wind Waves): "To the beginner, science is a conversation that has been in progress for a very long time. Our collective work is to catch up on the conversation. [Evergreen]
This is why Asia is winning, by the way.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5itm7jsyrdqdxizkb4cufqxl/bafkreihglx3kxej43i22j4vggyoutp2oyomivtmmvgp6uvslqemm4hhpci@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Odds that any of these authors could give you a lay explanation of Gaussian curvature?
Remembering for no reason having written a function named shut_up_armin two jobs ago
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Remembering for no reason having written a function named shut_up_armin two jobs ago
Cannot imagine getting worked up about "USians". Yes the people who mostly use it seem to be independently annoying but in this particular regard who cares
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Cannot imagine getting worked up about "USians". Yes the people who mostly use it seem to be independently annoying but in this particular regard who cares
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To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
To be clear Lizza’s story is that Nuzzi sat on important matters of national significance for personal benefit and he’s sat on these details until he could personally benefit.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
All of DC media needs to be thrown into the sea. Anyone who defends these people is a goddamn clown.
"I posted engagement bait and got engagement"
November 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
"I posted engagement bait and got engagement"
What's especially funny about this is that not too long ago pink shirts *were* masculine
I think it can also be easier to break norms when you read as traditionally masculine.
my father was 6’5, bearded, and broad shouldered and would sometimes wear pink shirts. I never even read this as subversive because he naturally came across as very masculine
my father was 6’5, bearded, and broad shouldered and would sometimes wear pink shirts. I never even read this as subversive because he naturally came across as very masculine
1) genuine life changing moment of my early 20s was realizing I actually didn't have to do this at all. tell the youths
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
2) I feel like there's a class discussion to be had around the stakes of this kind of decision though
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
What's especially funny about this is that not too long ago pink shirts *were* masculine
If your bathrooms are labeled "men & nonbinary" and "women & nonbinary" that is maybe a decent first thought but it really seems as if some more thoughts are in order
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
If your bathrooms are labeled "men & nonbinary" and "women & nonbinary" that is maybe a decent first thought but it really seems as if some more thoughts are in order
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I am trying to manifest a Hal Hartley revival with @loureedsnephew.bsky.social www.themediumcool.com/p/trust-in-h...
TRUST IN HAL HARTLEY
With a new movie out is it finally time for Gen X's most indie filmmaker?
www.themediumcool.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I am trying to manifest a Hal Hartley revival with @loureedsnephew.bsky.social www.themediumcool.com/p/trust-in-h...
Do you have any idea how bad the shoes have to be for Derek not to be doing a twenty-post thread about how light brown shoes with a blue suit are a faux pas
can't believe this ancient mesopotamia shoe wearing ass said people need to dress up at the airport
November 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Do you have any idea how bad the shoes have to be for Derek not to be doing a twenty-post thread about how light brown shoes with a blue suit are a faux pas
It still is if you aren't a coward
I think Pecan Pie is one of those things that is divisive now because it’s just a blob of sugar with nuts on it but to someone 150 years ago who ate shoes it was probably like having 12 orgasms at once
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It still is if you aren't a coward
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I would give Andy Goldsworthy the budget of a Mr. Beast project and commission an installation in all 50 states. Statistically speaking most of them would come together beautifully at this point in his career but there would still be some catastrophes, and there’s your documentary
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
I would give Andy Goldsworthy the budget of a Mr. Beast project and commission an installation in all 50 states. Statistically speaking most of them would come together beautifully at this point in his career but there would still be some catastrophes, and there’s your documentary
If you're going to do endless food debates at least do them with style
Ritual slaughter of the latke
www.cs.uky.edu
November 25, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If you're going to do endless food debates at least do them with style
Having seen only the preview it's hard to imagine anything sexy, or even anything related to life at all, from the Wicked sequel
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
Sex cardigans: can the Wicked sequel make bulky knits strangely alluring?
It’s not the sexiest of garments. It arguably looks more like a discarded fishing net. And yet it has cast a spell over the internet
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Having seen only the preview it's hard to imagine anything sexy, or even anything related to life at all, from the Wicked sequel
They can't *keep* getting away with it, no, but they can, for any specified duration, get away with it for that long
November 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
They can't *keep* getting away with it, no, but they can, for any specified duration, get away with it for that long
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I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.
Zohran Mamdani chastised a Manhattan synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews in New York.
Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions with Jewish Leaders
The mayor-elect chastised a synagogue that hosted an event promoting migration to Israel and settlements in occupied territories. His stance further tested his strained relationship with pro-Israel Jews.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I can't speak for what was said at the protests, but seeing people react to an anodyne statement like "sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law" as if it were a vicious slur is clarifying.
Hot take but the assessment of such individual suggestions shouldn't be based on their likelihood to fix a systemic problem but on whether the suggested new conduct is better than the old conduct
Wow! This systemic problem is really structural and far-reaching. Anyway, here are three tips for how you an individual can fix your conduct
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Hot take but the assessment of such individual suggestions shouldn't be based on their likelihood to fix a systemic problem but on whether the suggested new conduct is better than the old conduct