Martin Blessinger
@martinblessinger.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Fort Worth, TX 🏳️🌈
Composer, educator, goofball, friend.
Composer, educator, goofball, friend.
Next, the Feats of Cognitive Strength!
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Next, the Feats of Cognitive Strength!
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excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
Me, this weekend.
Impossible to overstate how exciting field conferences are for academics. We spend 11.95 months a year with people only understanding 5-15% of our jokes and references, but then for three glorious days 😍😍😍
November 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Me, this weekend.
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Impossible to overstate how exciting field conferences are for academics. We spend 11.95 months a year with people only understanding 5-15% of our jokes and references, but then for three glorious days 😍😍😍
November 5, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Impossible to overstate how exciting field conferences are for academics. We spend 11.95 months a year with people only understanding 5-15% of our jokes and references, but then for three glorious days 😍😍😍
Let them eat 24 Karat Gold.
September 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Let them eat 24 Karat Gold.
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imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
September 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off
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At least on social media, one reason people are "like this" is: the internet removed even the smallest frictional costs for blurting out whatever stray neuron is in your brain.
Used to be that even to send a letter, you'd need paper, a stamp, etc, and in the time it took, the impulse would pass.
Used to be that even to send a letter, you'd need paper, a stamp, etc, and in the time it took, the impulse would pass.
Why are people like this?
September 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
At least on social media, one reason people are "like this" is: the internet removed even the smallest frictional costs for blurting out whatever stray neuron is in your brain.
Used to be that even to send a letter, you'd need paper, a stamp, etc, and in the time it took, the impulse would pass.
Used to be that even to send a letter, you'd need paper, a stamp, etc, and in the time it took, the impulse would pass.
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It's in no way a solution to our current problems, but try to do something nice for someone you don't know today or this week. It'll make you feel better. Just try it.
September 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
It's in no way a solution to our current problems, but try to do something nice for someone you don't know today or this week. It'll make you feel better. Just try it.
A case against book banning.
September 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A case against book banning.
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Look, people say a lot of stupid things, but this is pretty noteworthy for its stupidity.
JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."
August 24, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Look, people say a lot of stupid things, but this is pretty noteworthy for its stupidity.
Me on <6 hours of sleep.
August 16, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Me on <6 hours of sleep.
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Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
August 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Researchers Determine Coelacanth Faked Own Extinction To Escape Massive Gambling Debt theonion.com/researc...
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1. Release the Epstein files!
2. The Epstein files are sitting on my desk and I will release them very soon
3. There are no Epstein files and the case is closed
4. There are Epstein files but they are forgeries created by Obama and Hillary so if you like me you will never talk about them again
2. The Epstein files are sitting on my desk and I will release them very soon
3. There are no Epstein files and the case is closed
4. There are Epstein files but they are forgeries created by Obama and Hillary so if you like me you will never talk about them again
July 12, 2025 at 11:49 PM
1. Release the Epstein files!
2. The Epstein files are sitting on my desk and I will release them very soon
3. There are no Epstein files and the case is closed
4. There are Epstein files but they are forgeries created by Obama and Hillary so if you like me you will never talk about them again
2. The Epstein files are sitting on my desk and I will release them very soon
3. There are no Epstein files and the case is closed
4. There are Epstein files but they are forgeries created by Obama and Hillary so if you like me you will never talk about them again
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The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
<In a Steve Reich voice> From Chicago to the Vatican!
May 9, 2025 at 2:54 PM
<In a Steve Reich voice> From Chicago to the Vatican!
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Reposting for myself
I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.
May 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Reposting for myself
Oof.
‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office
‘My Work Doesn’t Define Me,’ Says Man Who Will Spend 90,000 Hours Of Lifetime At Office
SACRAMENTO, CA—Believing that he was establishing a firm line between who he was as a person and what he did for a living, local man Jordan Wheeler, an employee of Creighton Industries who will ultima...
theonion.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Oof.
Girl, same.
Giant prehistoric kangaroos preferred to ‘chill at home’ and didn’t like to go out much, scientists say
Giant prehistoric kangaroos preferred to ‘chill at home’ and didn’t like to go out much, scientists say
Fossil teeth show species of protemnodon that roamed Australia between 5m and 40,000 years ago lived and died near Queensland caves
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Girl, same.
Brilliant.
Larry David gets to subtweet Bill Maher in the pages of the NY Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article)
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Brilliant.
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An attempt to annotate this excellent thread of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence with recent headlines.
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
An attempt to annotate this excellent thread of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence with recent headlines.