jmightbsane
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This is my United States of Whatever.
Someone a few months ago posted some specific advice for how to deal with a specific wild animal potential attack. Now I can't remember the animal or what you're supposed to do. Maybe some ranger should make a flashcard of like 10 animals and the proper defense for each.
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Someone a few months ago posted some specific advice for how to deal with a specific wild animal potential attack. Now I can't remember the animal or what you're supposed to do. Maybe some ranger should make a flashcard of like 10 animals and the proper defense for each.
Linked vid: why beer is foamy
me: that sounds interesting *click*
1:45:34
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me: that sounds interesting *click*
1:45:34
🫤
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Linked vid: why beer is foamy
me: that sounds interesting *click*
1:45:34
🫤
me: that sounds interesting *click*
1:45:34
🫤
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BREAKING NEWS: Fox News reports a massive buildup of Venezuelan troops at the US-Venezuela border.
November 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Fox News reports a massive buildup of Venezuelan troops at the US-Venezuela border.
I love the combo of being partially understood but also perplexing, so I add UUI to my posts.
November 23, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I love the combo of being partially understood but also perplexing, so I add UUI to my posts.
And much like smoking, it was always bad for your health to engage in conspiracy thinking. No, not watching some xfiles, but "wanting to believe" and going to UFO cons and listening to coast to coast obsessively. Bad for the brain.
Conspiracy thinking was considered "fun" throughout my childhood: the X-Files, old hippies, quirky Bigfoot fans
It's not fun anymore! We are now drowning in harmful falsehoods. Government policy is set mainly by unfalsifiable fever dreams now.
It's not fun anymore! We are now drowning in harmful falsehoods. Government policy is set mainly by unfalsifiable fever dreams now.
November 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
And much like smoking, it was always bad for your health to engage in conspiracy thinking. No, not watching some xfiles, but "wanting to believe" and going to UFO cons and listening to coast to coast obsessively. Bad for the brain.
One of the cooler things about getting old is that you can look up obituaries of teachers who were shitty to you.
November 22, 2025 at 6:09 AM
One of the cooler things about getting old is that you can look up obituaries of teachers who were shitty to you.
My new mantra.
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
My new mantra.
Great micro-story! Made my day.
Tamales go hard.
A little girl knocked on my door one day. I heard her tell my partner that Abuela was making tamales. They're a dollar.
He was telling her 'no' when i came flying into the room with my wallet screaming '10! We want 10!' like a crazed lunatic. He'd never had a tamale. He ate 9.
A little girl knocked on my door one day. I heard her tell my partner that Abuela was making tamales. They're a dollar.
He was telling her 'no' when i came flying into the room with my wallet screaming '10! We want 10!' like a crazed lunatic. He'd never had a tamale. He ate 9.
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Great micro-story! Made my day.
November 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Rem Koolhaas wrote the only public activity still allowed is shopping. Things have changed - it's now branding. People have no personalities or "character" they have personal brands. Do something reprehensible? No problem. Fold it into your brand. You're twisted? Cool, romanticize your twistedness.
November 15, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Rem Koolhaas wrote the only public activity still allowed is shopping. Things have changed - it's now branding. People have no personalities or "character" they have personal brands. Do something reprehensible? No problem. Fold it into your brand. You're twisted? Cool, romanticize your twistedness.
My number one source of bitterness this year has been about the waste. All the disruption, political games, chaos, just a total waste of time and taxpayer money leading to the destruction of US leadership in science and the future of our economy.
Weird thing happening where I + my colleagues, same convo on repeat: can't think about next year, next month, even next week. All I can do is wait for the next days or next hrs, close projects, write more grants that wont save us, sit in misery. This is what the fed govt is doing to science
November 14, 2025 at 5:46 AM
My number one source of bitterness this year has been about the waste. All the disruption, political games, chaos, just a total waste of time and taxpayer money leading to the destruction of US leadership in science and the future of our economy.
"Hey map, this is my immediate area. What's the name of that tamale place I like?"
"Here, I zoomed way out so you can see all of the 118 mexican restaurants in the tri-state area."
"Here, I zoomed way out so you can see all of the 118 mexican restaurants in the tri-state area."
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
"Hey map, this is my immediate area. What's the name of that tamale place I like?"
"Here, I zoomed way out so you can see all of the 118 mexican restaurants in the tri-state area."
"Here, I zoomed way out so you can see all of the 118 mexican restaurants in the tri-state area."
Oh sure just dunk on half of Bsky with our smartphone pics and lack of patience and altitude and dark skies and meteors.
This is the nicest shot of the night, via two different cameras that captured the same meteor.
Crestone, Colorado USA November 12, 2025 at 2:36am MST
#astronomy #astrophotography #meteor #aurora
Crestone, Colorado USA November 12, 2025 at 2:36am MST
#astronomy #astrophotography #meteor #aurora
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Oh sure just dunk on half of Bsky with our smartphone pics and lack of patience and altitude and dark skies and meteors.
So far I find the Avatar movies an enjoyable experience that I never think about afterward. Remarkably transient. It's the mo-cap cgi; it's neither real people nor fully animated, so my brain just tosses the memory.
This is such a funny statement.
Avatar keeps selling endless amount of tickets and people on the internet keep saying no one watches the movies. Or everyone hate the movies but are hypnotised by the posters.
Avatar keeps selling endless amount of tickets and people on the internet keep saying no one watches the movies. Or everyone hate the movies but are hypnotised by the posters.
November 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
So far I find the Avatar movies an enjoyable experience that I never think about afterward. Remarkably transient. It's the mo-cap cgi; it's neither real people nor fully animated, so my brain just tosses the memory.
Bob was right! I've never seen it here before.
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Bob was right! I've never seen it here before.
This is about 10 posts into a book-reading thread. The book is "Disabling Intelligences".
Before they get into their "taxonomy of AI" in ch2, the author mentions an interesting resource from www.aiaaic.org where harms are grouped into categories: autonomy, physical, psychological, reputational, human rights and civil liberties, social and cultural, political and economic, environmental.
November 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This is about 10 posts into a book-reading thread. The book is "Disabling Intelligences".
I made it 1.5 days avoiding politics before something else hit my impending doom button.
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I made it 1.5 days avoiding politics before something else hit my impending doom button.
Naked corruption is not nearly as hot as it sounds.
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Naked corruption is not nearly as hot as it sounds.
Old joke:
B.S. = "I know everything"
M.S. = "I don't know anything"
Ph.D. = "Nobody knows anything"
B.S. = "I know everything"
M.S. = "I don't know anything"
Ph.D. = "Nobody knows anything"
As someone who spent ten years in grad school (and did defend + graduate) I’m always so weirded out by people who think being smart about one thing makes them smart about everything when what being highly educated did to me was saddle me with the crushing certainty that I’m not smart about anything
the pandemic really fucked him up. he had no expertise in public health, but felt like being a quant guy should make him an expert by default, and people not agreeing with him on that point just sent him into a bizarre radicalizing ego spiral.
November 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Old joke:
B.S. = "I know everything"
M.S. = "I don't know anything"
Ph.D. = "Nobody knows anything"
B.S. = "I know everything"
M.S. = "I don't know anything"
Ph.D. = "Nobody knows anything"
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I'll just keep unfollowing until I don't see any more full quotes from that asshole. It's like someone picking up roadkill and shoving it under your face and going "LOOK! SEE IT? IT'S A DEAD SQUIRREL, IT GOT SQUASHED BY A TRUCK, YOU CAN TELL BY THE TREADMARKS".
K. I'm not better off knowing.
K. I'm not better off knowing.
November 10, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I'll just keep unfollowing until I don't see any more full quotes from that asshole. It's like someone picking up roadkill and shoving it under your face and going "LOOK! SEE IT? IT'S A DEAD SQUIRREL, IT GOT SQUASHED BY A TRUCK, YOU CAN TELL BY THE TREADMARKS".
K. I'm not better off knowing.
K. I'm not better off knowing.
Pivoting away from the noise I can't do anything about. Time to share what useful things I can, or failing that just shitpost.
November 10, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Pivoting away from the noise I can't do anything about. Time to share what useful things I can, or failing that just shitpost.
I need a cookbook or recipe site that has in a bright colored box at the top the REAL prep times and what needs to be done before. I skim recipes and miss the part where it says "andthenrefrigerateforfourhours" and get to that step IRL at 6pm. 🫤
The person who estimates "total cooking time" on recipes is the ultimate internet troll
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I need a cookbook or recipe site that has in a bright colored box at the top the REAL prep times and what needs to be done before. I skim recipes and miss the part where it says "andthenrefrigerateforfourhours" and get to that step IRL at 6pm. 🫤