Simon
@seemonchek.bsky.social
41. He/him.
Language aficionado 🇸🇮🇺🇸🇯🇵🇮🇹🇪🇸
Liberal. Bookworm. Gamer. Podcast addict. Into politics and social issues. Striving for personal growth, one step at a time.
Language aficionado 🇸🇮🇺🇸🇯🇵🇮🇹🇪🇸
Liberal. Bookworm. Gamer. Podcast addict. Into politics and social issues. Striving for personal growth, one step at a time.
One of the most important things I’ve learned in my 41 years is that while not all arrogant people are stupid, the vast majority of stupid people are arrogant.😮💨
December 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
One of the most important things I’ve learned in my 41 years is that while not all arrogant people are stupid, the vast majority of stupid people are arrogant.😮💨
Christmas illuminations in Shibuya❤️
December 17, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Christmas illuminations in Shibuya❤️
Seems appropriate🥲
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2025 Word of the Year: Slop
Plus 'gerrymander', 'touch grass', 'performative', and other words that defined the year
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December 17, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Seems appropriate🥲
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Go to Mars, Musk 😘💪💪🇪🇺
Elon Musk keeps flirting with chaos and calling it “free speech”. Europe won’t take democracy lessons from a billionaire who toys with extremism to stay relevant. And yes — Poland’s Foreign Minister just delivered the comeback of the year.
December 8, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Go to Mars, Musk 😘💪💪🇪🇺
Watch out for rage baits!
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Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press
The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Watch out for rage baits!
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映画『ブルーボーイ事件』｜11月14日（金）全国公開
この事件の裁判では、ある人間の“幸せか不幸か”が争点となり延々と議論された。これは事実にもとづく物語。
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November 16, 2025 at 9:59 AM
TayTay just dropped her new album and I’m hyperventilating 😍😍😍
October 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
TayTay just dropped her new album and I’m hyperventilating 😍😍😍
A brilliant essay on the toxicity of ableist language. Written by @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social
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Incontinence Happens – The Rare Crap Both Sides Do Do
I appreciate a lot of what Rachel Maddow does. But she, like all of us, is not perfect, and the point of this essay is to point out something problematic she encouraged in her program for the week …
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September 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A brilliant essay on the toxicity of ableist language. Written by @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social
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For God’s sake, stop calling it “intelligence”.
What’s really scary is that a whole lot of people are using it as a source of information.
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What’s really scary is that a whole lot of people are using it as a source of information.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/b...
The latest ChatGPT is supposed to be ‘PhD level’ smart. It can’t even label a map | CNN Business
Sam Altman, the artificial intelligence hype master, is in damage-control mode.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:54 AM
For God’s sake, stop calling it “intelligence”.
What’s really scary is that a whole lot of people are using it as a source of information.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/b...
What’s really scary is that a whole lot of people are using it as a source of information.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/14/b...
A great read for all the coffee culture lovers out there! Kudos to @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social
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Agog With Analog
There is a cafe in the Nezu neighborhood of Tokyo called Kayaba Coffee. We generically call such establishments a cafe or coffee shop/house in English, but this particular type of cafe is called a …
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August 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A great read for all the coffee culture lovers out there! Kudos to @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social
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I sincerely hope the author is right, but given how readily people seem to buy into cheap, trashy populism, I’m not so optimistic.
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Japan’s right-wing fringe is no MAGA or reform movement
The Sanseito party is surging in polls with anti-immigration talk, but its rise is likely just a short-lived protest vote rather than the start of lasting right-wing populism.
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July 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
I sincerely hope the author is right, but given how readily people seem to buy into cheap, trashy populism, I’m not so optimistic.
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www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2...
July 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
🤣🤣🤣
ICE officers stopped by our farm yesterday…
July 12, 2025 at 5:40 AM
🤣🤣🤣
Definitely worth a read, a brilliant essay on epistemic responsibility and vigilance. Thanks @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social!
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Is It Perth It?
I have a shipping container of factoids stored up in my memory that I unload to keep conversations going. Examples of these didja-knows are, ‘Did you know Michael Jordan’s fallback if basketball di…
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July 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Definitely worth a read, a brilliant essay on epistemic responsibility and vigilance. Thanks @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social!
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This really resonated with me:
“When everyone knows how much you have, flaunting it so flagrantly is insulting to the common person — even vulgar. People are struggling — emotionally, financially and socially.”
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“When everyone knows how much you have, flaunting it so flagrantly is insulting to the common person — even vulgar. People are struggling — emotionally, financially and socially.”
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Opinion | Jeff Bezos' exorbitant display of wealth sends a clear message to the rest of us
From Venice to New York City, the world is growing weary of the extraordinary wealth divide between the uber wealthy, the “oligarchy” — and the rest of us.
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June 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
This really resonated with me:
“When everyone knows how much you have, flaunting it so flagrantly is insulting to the common person — even vulgar. People are struggling — emotionally, financially and socially.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
“When everyone knows how much you have, flaunting it so flagrantly is insulting to the common person — even vulgar. People are struggling — emotionally, financially and socially.”
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
So so proud of Hungarians 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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Thousands party at Budapest Pride in clear message to Orban
A giant crowd throngs the Hungarian capital, championing LGBT rights and defying PM Viktor Orban.
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June 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
So so proud of Hungarians 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
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IT’S FINALLY HERE! ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍
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DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH | ゲームタイトル | PlayStation
PlayStation公式ウェブサイトで『DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH』をチェックしよう。本作は好評を博したオープンワールドのポストアポカリプス アドベンチャー『DEATH STRANDING』の続編であり、世界的ゲーム開発者である小島秀夫が監督兼ゲームデザインを担当したPlayStation 5向けの作品である。主人公サム・ポーター・ブリッジズを演じるノーマン・...
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June 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM
IT’S FINALLY HERE! ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍
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My fellow linguists, another brilliant essay penned by a dear, dear friend of mine @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social ❤️
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I Got Yinz; That’s All I Need Redd Up
My father grew up in Youngwood, Pennsylvania. As a result, I was immersed in Pittsburghese through visits to his side of the family. Growing up, I didn’t call it Pittsburghese. It was somethi…
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June 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My fellow linguists, another brilliant essay penned by a dear, dear friend of mine @moderndaybartleby.bsky.social ❤️
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The world is on fire, and the people who could actually do something about it are bickering on social media like two petulant teenagers. Disgusting.
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Trump and Musk enter bitter feud - and Washington buckles up
A knock-down fight between the world's the richest person and the most powerful politician is playing out in public view.
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June 6, 2025 at 3:37 AM
The world is on fire, and the people who could actually do something about it are bickering on social media like two petulant teenagers. Disgusting.
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No one should have to live in fear because of who they love. Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈
June 5, 2025 at 6:11 AM
No one should have to live in fear because of who they love. Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈
Reposted by Simon
Creating a world free of bigotry, where everyone — no matter their sexual orientation — can live and love as their true selves is something I have fought for since I was Mayor of Burlington.
Happy Pride month to everyone in the LGBTQ community.
Happy Pride month to everyone in the LGBTQ community.
June 4, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Creating a world free of bigotry, where everyone — no matter their sexual orientation — can live and love as their true selves is something I have fought for since I was Mayor of Burlington.
Happy Pride month to everyone in the LGBTQ community.
Happy Pride month to everyone in the LGBTQ community.