Curtis
@soccurt.bsky.social
Overly caffeinated prof in SW Ontario, and probably having another cup of coffee way too late as you read this. Liberal socialist and limitarian politics. Always looking for excuses to post Bob's Burgers memes. He/him. 🏳️🌈
I'll never sides-or-mains shame anyone for anything they cook for a holiday, but seriously consider adding cassolita if you are a squash person. I've made a version of it the past few years and it is delicious. Bonus tip: gently heat lemon juice to soak the raisins before adding them.
Cassolita: Moroccan Butternut Squash with Caramelized Onions - Fresh Food In A Flash
Cassolita is a Moroccan dish of Butternut Squash, Caramelized Onions, Almonds with exotic Ceylon cinnamon. A vegetarian side dish or light main course.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I'll never sides-or-mains shame anyone for anything they cook for a holiday, but seriously consider adding cassolita if you are a squash person. I've made a version of it the past few years and it is delicious. Bonus tip: gently heat lemon juice to soak the raisins before adding them.
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I'm so pleased that the age-old barrier against gay men in fashion is finally crumbling.
November 25, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I'm so pleased that the age-old barrier against gay men in fashion is finally crumbling.
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I really try to make jokes and find fun ways to spin terrible news on here, but I read this and the only thing I have to say about it is that Doug Ford is a piece of shit who shouldn't be running an Arby's, let alone a province. Fuck you, Doug. share.google/gPPqvtiuqD0O...
Ford tells protesters to 'go find a job' as controversial housing bill passes at Queen's Park | CBC News
Shouts and chants rained down upon politicians at the Ontario legislature Monday as the government passed a housing bill that critics say makes it easier for landlords to evict tenants.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I really try to make jokes and find fun ways to spin terrible news on here, but I read this and the only thing I have to say about it is that Doug Ford is a piece of shit who shouldn't be running an Arby's, let alone a province. Fuck you, Doug. share.google/gPPqvtiuqD0O...
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My buddy just called Robert Kennedy Jr. “Dr. Felchi” and I don’t think I’m gonna recover…
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
My buddy just called Robert Kennedy Jr. “Dr. Felchi” and I don’t think I’m gonna recover…
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No, it's real simple. When you take over an enemy hex, any resources and hex improvements automatically become yours. So you get the oil and it's immediately added to your Strategic Resource counter and you can build a new battleship in 5 turns.
Do people just not realize how big a mess Venezuelan oil would be to deal with? It's full of impurities, profoundly dirty, the infrastructure is a mess. I don't see how any of this would work unless you have boots on the ground for a decade.
November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
No, it's real simple. When you take over an enemy hex, any resources and hex improvements automatically become yours. So you get the oil and it's immediately added to your Strategic Resource counter and you can build a new battleship in 5 turns.
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I thought this was fairly well established, but: here's another new study showing that wind and solar complement each other and make for a more stable grid when combined.
Intermittent solar and wind complement each other for a more stable grid
A study finds combining wind and solar leverages their alternating peak periods, significantly boosting total generation capacity while providing a constant, predictable power curve critical for grid ...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I thought this was fairly well established, but: here's another new study showing that wind and solar complement each other and make for a more stable grid when combined.
If you want to know why I donated to Liberal Currents, see Samantha's essay here. This alone makes it worth it, even before you read all the other great work the team is doing.
we're a reader-supported publication. pretty much everything we make right now goes straight to author fees. but it turns out that... everything costs money (under capitalism). if you want us to do more and better, we need help.
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The New Gender Synthesis
To be only masculine or only feminine is to be half a human being.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
If you want to know why I donated to Liberal Currents, see Samantha's essay here. This alone makes it worth it, even before you read all the other great work the team is doing.
Sent a small donation to Liberal Currents because they are doing great work. Have learned a lot from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com on gender, @mattpolprof.bsky.social on reactionary thought and liberal socialism, and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social's essays on moral panics.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Sent a small donation to Liberal Currents because they are doing great work. Have learned a lot from @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com on gender, @mattpolprof.bsky.social on reactionary thought and liberal socialism, and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social's essays on moral panics.
I don't know if being stared at, talked down, critiqued, and ridiculed "fixed" the "At least Hitler fixed the economy" guy I once had in a class, but I'm pretty sure Grok wouldn't shame him.
I keep coming back to this
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I don't know if being stared at, talked down, critiqued, and ridiculed "fixed" the "At least Hitler fixed the economy" guy I once had in a class, but I'm pretty sure Grok wouldn't shame him.
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🔋🔌💡💪 40 million people.
As of 5pm today, batteries were the largest single source of power for the Californian grid www.caiso.com/todays-outlo...
November 24, 2025 at 1:16 AM
🔋🔌💡💪 40 million people.
Some cornbreads are studies of simplicity, even austerity.
And then there's mine: garlic, onions, rutabaga, hot sauce, and ungodly amount of cheese.
And then there's mine: garlic, onions, rutabaga, hot sauce, and ungodly amount of cheese.
November 23, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Some cornbreads are studies of simplicity, even austerity.
And then there's mine: garlic, onions, rutabaga, hot sauce, and ungodly amount of cheese.
And then there's mine: garlic, onions, rutabaga, hot sauce, and ungodly amount of cheese.
Welfare is evil, but mortgage tax deductions are holy and natural.
As a general rule, most people decrying "government intervention" regard state activity they approve of as merely ensuring the default, correct state of affairs and state activity they disapprove of as an artificial and unnatural infringement on it.
in general the American individuality and distrust of government disappears once criminal justice enters the conversation
Americans hate the government meddling in their everyday affairs but "criminals" are a separate class of ontologically bad people that they could never ever be a part of
Americans hate the government meddling in their everyday affairs but "criminals" are a separate class of ontologically bad people that they could never ever be a part of
November 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Welfare is evil, but mortgage tax deductions are holy and natural.
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All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
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I genuinely loved my field but in my PhD it became more obvious that there wasn't a university career to be easily had (I was in my program 2005-9, yay Great Recession) and I preferred teaching, so I took a job at a community college.
November 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I genuinely loved my field but in my PhD it became more obvious that there wasn't a university career to be easily had (I was in my program 2005-9, yay Great Recession) and I preferred teaching, so I took a job at a community college.
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Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
November 22, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Ah, I'm awake again. Time to open the psychological harm app
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"The choice of a humanoid form reveals more about the sloppy thinking of our tech elite than engineering logic. The design represents a triumph of anthropomorphic fantasy over functional optimization, producing machines that excel at generating media buzz rather than useful work." ino.to/ek5hxdO
Musk’s last grift — Crooked Timber
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November 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"The choice of a humanoid form reveals more about the sloppy thinking of our tech elite than engineering logic. The design represents a triumph of anthropomorphic fantasy over functional optimization, producing machines that excel at generating media buzz rather than useful work." ino.to/ek5hxdO
I make this mistake too, and resolve to do better.
Yes! This is so important! Machine Learning is doing wonderful things like mapping Martian craters and analyzing microbe genomes. LLMs are a very specific form & it’s them doing these huge amounts of harm. I also sometimes say “Gen AI”
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
when I mean both LLMs and art generators; I try to never say AI
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I make this mistake too, and resolve to do better.
I've just finished @billmckibben.bsky.social's excellent book "Here comes the sun." I suggest anyone with an interest in saving ourselves--which is to say, everyone--should read it. He explains the progress we've made and how much remains to be done, but why solar (and wind and batteries) are our
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I've just finished @billmckibben.bsky.social's excellent book "Here comes the sun." I suggest anyone with an interest in saving ourselves--which is to say, everyone--should read it. He explains the progress we've made and how much remains to be done, but why solar (and wind and batteries) are our
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I have been mostly offline today but it feels like an entire “We Didn’t Start the Fire” worth of news happened while I was gone
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I have been mostly offline today but it feels like an entire “We Didn’t Start the Fire” worth of news happened while I was gone
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Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Gonna check in on Canada, where politics is more normal... I see there is a convoy headed to Ottawa to avenge a flock of dead ostriches
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GLAZING COMMUNISM
November 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
GLAZING COMMUNISM
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Future Fox News segment: You know who would vote against socialism to hide the fact that they love socialism? Socialists.
November 21, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Future Fox News segment: You know who would vote against socialism to hide the fact that they love socialism? Socialists.