Andrew Ball 🤠 🏳️‍🌈🦃
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Andrew Ball 🤠 🏳️‍🌈🦃
@cortextual.bsky.social
Husband, dog dad, cat dad, software engineer.

"Cats and dogs living together ..." ... Pandemonium! (From Ghostbusters)
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December 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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This amazing Art Nouveau building…
December 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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A highlight was the African grey parrot that spoke cat... (📢sound on to hear the meows 😹)
December 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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In HS I got a rep for being funny, but also blunt. I found myself coping by making jokes, playing with the irreverent/ absurd. I also have difficulty lying/ being dishonest. Eventually got known for occasionally saying truths / wise things, shocking others with honesty. So a weird schism arose.
December 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why.

gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...
I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist - gregpak.net
I’m an “A.i.” abolitionist. No consumer-facing LLMs or generative “A.i.” in anything. Sure, machine learning in science and a f...
gregpak.net
December 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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Find the glimmers ✨
December 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Religion should not make us say that there are five lights.
December 23, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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I kind of like this whole “We won’t buy your liquor but we will air your state-suppressed news stories” niche that Canada’s apparently carved out.
December 23, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Autistic masking often feels, from the inside, like aggressively performed hypernormality. It's like living in a huge company networking event that never, ever ends. I'm sure non-autistic people have similar experiences when they find some aspect of their identity in the cultural minority.
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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The idea that autistic people lack empathy is still depressingly prevalent, partly because people conflate 'caring about other humans' wellbeing & wanting them to be happy' with 'reliably able to infer a stranger's motivation & emotional state based off observing a few external nonverbal clues'.
December 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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I don’t know how it works at the New York Times, but my editors at The Guardian would never let me publish this if they knew that I was one of the elites who spent time with Epstein. And if I published it without telling them, I would be out of a job.
December 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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a hot blonde santa with a grudge against vampires is called a buffy the vampire sleigher.
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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It should fail spectacularly, like everything else they do.
Seems like Trump and his groupies think starting a regime change war of conquest out of nowhere is a political masterstroke that will get them back on the front foot, but I don’t think that’s how it will play out.
December 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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They went from “no new wars,” to whatever this is, without skipping a beat.
December 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM