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A dangerous servant and a fearful master. Freedom, joy, choice, consequence. Teneo ea quae fūror. MLDNI pronoun.is/he/him Avi: picrew https://picrew.me/ja/image_maker/447749/ 2k23 dice.camp/@palecur

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 14m

i don't think monism can be meaningfully disagreed with, so i'd have a hard time saying i do.

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 28m

i don't recall making a proposal, but are you proposing a non-monist alternative to it?

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not sure how you can seriously claim we're not without some sort of self refuting materialistic monism.

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 2h

i would have thought that 'what we see is a software construction based only partially on direct sensory input' to be either glaringly obvious or at least uncontroversial but i guess not?

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 2h

we can't even get rid of whole language, which is multiply demonstrated to not, you know, work and has ruined a generation's literacy

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 2h

it's bullshit that hibernal, aestival, and vernal are all fancy names for the seasons and autumnal *is* the fancy version but it's so commonly used i don't realize it's fancy and keep trying to think of 'the science version of autumn'

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 2h

it might make reporting predation easier, which helps *some*

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 2h

*threateningly waves wall of text about genderflipped Robotech remake with Bridge Buddies being flirts at Rick and Roy*

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 3h

for big enough hypothetical piles i often amuse myself by daydreaming of picking a county and funding their public defenders to parity with the prosecutor's office, just to piss all the right folks off.

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 3h

fricken *nice*. Best to you and yours.

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 3h

the masculine urge to put on the ANC cans and spin up "Pretty Savage" for the third time today

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 3h

she's a delight and so is the ghost piloting it. take care of you.

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 3h

once again Tom from Myspace fucking off to travel and do photography and not get into blood transfusions for eternal youth or NRx shit marks him as a vanishingly rare sort who got the Big Wagonload of Cash internet payoff and just...left.

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 3h

yeah that checks out.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 3h

ME: a doctor put a curse on me

WIFE: which doctor

ME: yes

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 3h

sometimes a man has to go back to his origins to rediscover what made him into who he is today

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 3h

the smaller the stakes, it seems, the less it takes, yeah. parking disputes among college faculty are legendary.

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 4h

He is a handsome lad! Seeing him on my timeline is always good for a few seconds of peace and grace, thank you.

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 4h

it's becoming apparent that there exists an amount of money that is literally a cognitohazard and confiscatory taxation is essentially a medical intervention at that point

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

i think it's apparent that the lack of any consequences or guardrails or competition or any constraints whatsoever for these freaks has made them mottled and rancid (see, eg, good times, soft men or whatever). no one will tell them they look stupid or that their ideas are stupid. played themselves

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 4h

you will do joy my way or the highway

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 4h

actually even at 3 bucks a minute 30 minutes is still a better value than a counselor; the skillsets do have some overlap but are nontheless distinct

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 4h

don't these guys know about phone sex lines bc that seems more money efficient

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 4h

just wrote 'child broiler, but as part of a CI/CD pipeline' because my brain puts words together (this is a Mawaru Penguindrum reference and the child broiling is *probably* symbolic. almost certainly. in all likelihood.)

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 4h

i can really see both ends of that one. he's uniquely terrible, but that isn't open season for antisemitism -- obviously throwing unambiguous slurs is shitty. it hinges on how clearly we're to parse 'venomous' as antisemitically coded, and my goy ass is not qualified to make that call.

shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 4h

運命が笑う ass timeline

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shambling state machine @palecur.bsky.social · 5h

jaysis, someone really workin the Rough Chuckles desk today

The Onion @theonion.com · 6h

ICE Raids: Myth Vs. Fact https://theonion.com/ice-raids-myth-vs-fact/

MYTH: My grandmother was deported to El Salvador.

FACT: No one really knows where she was deported to.