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Andrew M. Reichart

@andrewmreichart.bsky.social

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Therapist (now accepting new clients in California andrewreichart.com), writer, editor, publisher (autpress.com) abolitionist, antifascist, Jew, heathen, warlock, werewolf. He. Co-writer of the Weird Luck webcomic weirdluck.net

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · Jul 26

“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.”

— Omar El Akkad, Oct. 25, 2023

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 13h

what is even happening right now

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Moss Elixir @sorryforlaughing.bsky.social · 13h

Our top news story tonight:

Lamb And Her Rock

YouTube video by Lee Walters

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 13h

For strategy to be effective, it must be based on a detailed analysis of the terrain.

Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 13h

I love that Dick Halloran from THE SHINING has a cameo as a teenager in a flashback in IT.

Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 17h

I think you misunderstand the point that jagoff was making; he didn’t say they were *of* the republic, just that the organization that first used the name “Antifa” as a shorthand name arose during the republic.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifas...

Antifaschistische Aktion - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 19h

The Holmes Basic boxed set came with chits instead of dice for a while in 1979. I always heard / assumed it was because of a manufacturer’s shortage, but I just learned that in classic TSR mismanagement fashion, they wanted to manufacture their own but got the timing wrong & needed a backup. 😆

Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 19h

I’ll read further, but I suspect I reject her premise with all of my heart, all of my soul, and all of my might.

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 19h

(Oh gosh, yeah, I think the whole Doctrine of the Double Effect is exactly what I take issue with — that by presuming to identify the exceptions to moral justification, it just trains the thinker to generate those exceptions, e.g., reasons it’s ok to kill civilians in wartime or “self defense.”)

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 19h

Anyway, I only learned of Foot last year, and now that I’ve ranted a bit I’m inspired to repair my ignorance about her work.

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 19h

Not even a little bit. It’s very much the opposite.

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 19h

Out of context, though, I think it offers a great illustration of what’s wrong with philosophy. Training people to think about ethics with tidy, unrealistic, decontextualized thought experiments that highlight an imaginary choice is, like, not a good way to learn how to be a good person, actually.

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 20h

(I guess I bring these things up because they’d affect how much I care about the decontextualization. My current attitude is “eh that’s how ideas work, they evolve, often badly” — but if I knew the paper was brilliant and pivotal I might feel more reverent.)

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 20h

I haven’t studied it in situ so I don’t know how effective it is in her original paper. And I don’t know the details of that thread of history to know how significant its impact (the paper or the thought experiment) was on the social change.

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 20h

Sadly, perhaps, it is now a feral meme with a much larger existence outside its original context and divorced from its original intent.

Sadder still, its prevailing cultural function is now to train people to justify killing innocent people, sole exception being Kobiyashi Maru answers like the OP.

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 20h

I’ll never understand people who step up to practice with a partner and don’t have a deep and refined sensitivity to modulate their intensity to match their partner’s capacity and current desire.

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 21h

And maintained plenty of friendships that would have otherwise atrophied.

Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 21h

Met plenty of people who became lifelong friends.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 1d

nothing but cute quaint cuteness here

youtu.be/uahfu3NYrVo?...

Monster eats frog & people (SA)

YouTube video by Nomchive Bonus Bites

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Azzia Walker @azziamw.bsky.social · 1d

"Is there something you’ve been struggling to solve that perhaps just needs to simmer? Can you trust that that is happening? How can you tell what is old versus what is current—not in the world, not in the headlines, but in you?"

www.soulwriting.org/joy-blog/old...

Telling old stories because we don't have new ones yet — Soul Writing

We can only spin narratives for so long before they become overworked and threadbare.

www.soulwriting.org

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 1d

Lovecraft, Wodehouse, and M.R. James up late drinking coffee as they come up with increasingly snarky golfer jokes

Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 1d

"I don't despise the golf-player—he is doing what he needs to do in order to forget boredom till he can die."
—H. P. Lovecraft to Maurice W. Moe, 24 Mar 1923, LMM 492

Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 1d

“Tellin’ my whole life with his echolocatory clicks and buzzes…”

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe you should rewatch some Sesame Street to get clarity around the distinction between “big” and “small,” so you can learn how to describe the world accurately and meaningfully.

Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 1d

I mean…

Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 1d

Posted to the Southern Reach Reddit...

Southern Reach told me Area X keep eatinh his expeditions so I asked how many expeditions he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new expeditions afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding expeditions to Area X and then his daughter started crying.

(adapting a tweet about coyotes eating cats)

Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 1d

nice ace!

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 1d

Oh!

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Andrew M. Reichart @andrewmreichart.bsky.social · 1d

I’m listening to the audiobook of IT and the kids just saw this in the theater. (Double feature with the Landon werewolf flick, natch!)