Bell
@bellchimesin.bsky.social
she/her, Torontonian, philosophy student, dork
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a fun thing from a class I'm guest teaching tomorrow: which of these will turn out OK for you, and which will be a disaster? (they're all from a single Chinese city between 2010 and 2022)
December 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
a fun thing from a class I'm guest teaching tomorrow: which of these will turn out OK for you, and which will be a disaster? (they're all from a single Chinese city between 2010 and 2022)
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Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
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"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
December 3, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried
Posts that could also have been about OSRS.
(This is a joke. Very very much do not turn public chat on at Blast Furnace. I did not know half those slurs for me existed.)
(This is a joke. Very very much do not turn public chat on at Blast Furnace. I did not know half those slurs for me existed.)
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Posts that could also have been about OSRS.
(This is a joke. Very very much do not turn public chat on at Blast Furnace. I did not know half those slurs for me existed.)
(This is a joke. Very very much do not turn public chat on at Blast Furnace. I did not know half those slurs for me existed.)
This might be the most concentrated Joe Rogan thing I've ever seen.
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This might be the most concentrated Joe Rogan thing I've ever seen.
Thinking about this in terms of @theabigailthorn.bsky.social's discussion of love, patience, and forgiveness to excess.
A mainstream retelling that framed Belle or Elphaba as a tragic figure in the Orpheus/Achilles/Icarus sense - as having a celebrated quality, but to excess - might have fixed me.
A mainstream retelling that framed Belle or Elphaba as a tragic figure in the Orpheus/Achilles/Icarus sense - as having a celebrated quality, but to excess - might have fixed me.
Wicked and Beauty And The Beast share the same dangerous moral payload - namely, that it's laudable for an ambitious, powerful young woman to put up with life-ruining mistreatment because her forgiveness will eventually heal her abuser--
(suddenly hauled off stage by a shepherd's crook)
(suddenly hauled off stage by a shepherd's crook)
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Thinking about this in terms of @theabigailthorn.bsky.social's discussion of love, patience, and forgiveness to excess.
A mainstream retelling that framed Belle or Elphaba as a tragic figure in the Orpheus/Achilles/Icarus sense - as having a celebrated quality, but to excess - might have fixed me.
A mainstream retelling that framed Belle or Elphaba as a tragic figure in the Orpheus/Achilles/Icarus sense - as having a celebrated quality, but to excess - might have fixed me.
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"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:29 AM
"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
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I’ll have what she’s having
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I’ll have what she’s having
🔔: "Okay, brain: I haven't always been good to you and you haven't always been good to me. But we need to finish this subheading today to stay even close to pace."
🧠: "What if @rykaaoki.bsky.social's Endplague and @qntm.org's 3125 are the same phenomenon?"
Guess I'll go home.
🧠: "What if @rykaaoki.bsky.social's Endplague and @qntm.org's 3125 are the same phenomenon?"
Guess I'll go home.
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
🔔: "Okay, brain: I haven't always been good to you and you haven't always been good to me. But we need to finish this subheading today to stay even close to pace."
🧠: "What if @rykaaoki.bsky.social's Endplague and @qntm.org's 3125 are the same phenomenon?"
Guess I'll go home.
🧠: "What if @rykaaoki.bsky.social's Endplague and @qntm.org's 3125 are the same phenomenon?"
Guess I'll go home.
Wicked and Beauty And The Beast share the same dangerous moral payload - namely, that it's laudable for an ambitious, powerful young woman to put up with life-ruining mistreatment because her forgiveness will eventually heal her abuser--
(suddenly hauled off stage by a shepherd's crook)
(suddenly hauled off stage by a shepherd's crook)
November 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Wicked and Beauty And The Beast share the same dangerous moral payload - namely, that it's laudable for an ambitious, powerful young woman to put up with life-ruining mistreatment because her forgiveness will eventually heal her abuser--
(suddenly hauled off stage by a shepherd's crook)
(suddenly hauled off stage by a shepherd's crook)
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Holy shit lmaooo
elon installs a new feature that publicly displays the country where your app was installed and operates from
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
people find out the most racist pro-US accounts are based in israel, india, bangladesh, etc
US DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY TWITTER BASED IN ISRAEL
elon pauses location feature
November 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Holy shit lmaooo
Random half-baked thought: Way more things are dark-pattern inconsistent-reward Skinner-box traps than we tend to frame as such. There are dark-pattern jobs. There are dark-pattern relationships. There are dark-pattern habits of thought and feeling.
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Random half-baked thought: Way more things are dark-pattern inconsistent-reward Skinner-box traps than we tend to frame as such. There are dark-pattern jobs. There are dark-pattern relationships. There are dark-pattern habits of thought and feeling.
Disorienting transition moment of the day: Being told with a straight face that I've got the same approximate vocal range as Idina Menzel and that it's not, in fact, unrealistic to work towards singing Defying Gravity or Let It Go.
I'm still waiting for my teacher to text me and say "sike".
I'm still waiting for my teacher to text me and say "sike".
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Disorienting transition moment of the day: Being told with a straight face that I've got the same approximate vocal range as Idina Menzel and that it's not, in fact, unrealistic to work towards singing Defying Gravity or Let It Go.
I'm still waiting for my teacher to text me and say "sike".
I'm still waiting for my teacher to text me and say "sike".
I used to think charisma builds in RPGs were unrealistic.
Q: Are you affirming that you think President Trump is a fascist?
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
MAMDANI: I've spoken about--
TRUMP: That's okay. You can just say yes. I don't mind.
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I used to think charisma builds in RPGs were unrealistic.
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I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
For those who've perished on the climb. For those still climbing. And for those who, for now, can only cling to the cliffside till the storm subsides.
May we continue to believe in the existence of a summit. May we reach it. May we never fall.
And if we must... may our ancestors receive us gently.
May we continue to believe in the existence of a summit. May we reach it. May we never fall.
And if we must... may our ancestors receive us gently.
November 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
For those who've perished on the climb. For those still climbing. And for those who, for now, can only cling to the cliffside till the storm subsides.
May we continue to believe in the existence of a summit. May we reach it. May we never fall.
And if we must... may our ancestors receive us gently.
May we continue to believe in the existence of a summit. May we reach it. May we never fall.
And if we must... may our ancestors receive us gently.
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Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.
Alberta invokes notwithstanding clause on trio of transgender laws
The Alberta government has invoked the Charter’s notwithstanding clause for the second time in less than a month in this case to protect from legal challenge a trio of laws affecting transgender youth...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 18, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Doing this two days before TDoR is particularly vile.
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POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
One loves to be the victim of racist violence on a Sunday afternoon. Or, well, the would-be victim? I don't know how to classify it when someone tries to hit you but can't.
Toronto is far from the Gotham City it gets tarred as by folk who've never lived anywhere else, but that *was* disappointing.
Toronto is far from the Gotham City it gets tarred as by folk who've never lived anywhere else, but that *was* disappointing.
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
One loves to be the victim of racist violence on a Sunday afternoon. Or, well, the would-be victim? I don't know how to classify it when someone tries to hit you but can't.
Toronto is far from the Gotham City it gets tarred as by folk who've never lived anywhere else, but that *was* disappointing.
Toronto is far from the Gotham City it gets tarred as by folk who've never lived anywhere else, but that *was* disappointing.
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You guys ever read The Giving Tree and think some people saw that story from the perspective of the boy and others saw it from the perspective of the tree and that explains a lot of things and we should run a study on that or something?
October 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
You guys ever read The Giving Tree and think some people saw that story from the perspective of the boy and others saw it from the perspective of the tree and that explains a lot of things and we should run a study on that or something?
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The video promoting this thing has convinced me that it's the most evil product to ever exist
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
Disney Channel Star’s AI App That Creates Avatars Of Dead Relatives Sparks Backlash
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The video promoting this thing has convinced me that it's the most evil product to ever exist
I'm almost surprised it took this long.
I think my favourite bit of probably-unintended poetry is that premium users can also text with Satan.
I'd cook up a joke about plutonic syncretism and the corrosive influence of wealth, but it's 19:00 and looks like midnight so you just get the ingredients.
I think my favourite bit of probably-unintended poetry is that premium users can also text with Satan.
I'd cook up a joke about plutonic syncretism and the corrosive influence of wealth, but it's 19:00 and looks like midnight so you just get the ingredients.
People Can Text with Jesus on A Controversial New App. How Does It Work?
Yes, there's now an app for that.
www.today.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I'm almost surprised it took this long.
I think my favourite bit of probably-unintended poetry is that premium users can also text with Satan.
I'd cook up a joke about plutonic syncretism and the corrosive influence of wealth, but it's 19:00 and looks like midnight so you just get the ingredients.
I think my favourite bit of probably-unintended poetry is that premium users can also text with Satan.
I'd cook up a joke about plutonic syncretism and the corrosive influence of wealth, but it's 19:00 and looks like midnight so you just get the ingredients.
It's a beautiful day.
November 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's a beautiful day.
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Shout out to everyone completely demoralized about the state of the world who still manages to get out of bed each morning.
And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.
And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Shout out to everyone completely demoralized about the state of the world who still manages to get out of bed each morning.
And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.
And shout out to you, too if you’re still in bed. This shit is hard. Talk to your friends and neighbors. They’re going though it too, which is both terrifying and comforting.
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So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
So every part of this is dumb but the idea that the Iliad is about 'fighting for princesses' is such a vapid take on a work that tells you exactly what it is about in the first (and last) lines.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.
You can tell the poem isn't really about Bryseis because her return does not resolve the conflict.