Thomas Kealy
@tomkealy.bsky.social
I help you do online experiments better.
In German you can add an -et to the end of an English verb to make it German e.g. downloadet.
Ex, "ich habe der Bild downgeloadet"
Ex, "ich habe der Bild downgeloadet"
keep meaning to write about this but god if this isn't me - feel like people maybe assume that being bilingual means thinking in a mix of words but my god it's so much worse than that, I conjugate French verbs in English, I feminise/masculinise English nouns, it's a MESS up here
My partner's language with siblings is second generation family Italian via Malta with English accents. Lots of English verbs can be made Italian if you add semi-appripriate suffixes, it turns out
December 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
In German you can add an -et to the end of an English verb to make it German e.g. downloadet.
Ex, "ich habe der Bild downgeloadet"
Ex, "ich habe der Bild downgeloadet"
It makes a delicious bread pudding, and I won't hear anything said against panettone.
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 AM
It makes a delicious bread pudding, and I won't hear anything said against panettone.
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kind of darkly funny Agamben became a COVID crank right before his work became hyper-relevant again
November 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
kind of darkly funny Agamben became a COVID crank right before his work became hyper-relevant again
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The Silence of the LLMs
The CAPTCHA in the Rye
The Count of Monte Crypto
November 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Silence of the LLMs
Yeah, it's pretty good.
November 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Yeah, it's pretty good.
Cancel Netflix, no avocados, no lattes, no weekend breaks.
November 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Cancel Netflix, no avocados, no lattes, no weekend breaks.
You're telling me these gender norms, they're socially constructed!?
Wow. You're telling me this now.
Did not know that.
Wow. You're telling me this now.
Did not know that.
So many men go through life like that. You can play poker because it's right-coded, you can't enjoy fruity alcoholic drinks because they're women-coded, you can't lick an ice cream cone because it's gay-coded. All day, every day, choosing and judging things based on coding for narrow norms.
November 26, 2025 at 5:21 PM
You're telling me these gender norms, they're socially constructed!?
Wow. You're telling me this now.
Did not know that.
Wow. You're telling me this now.
Did not know that.
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
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It's 2025 and you can still claim an effect with results like this at JAMA Psychiatry. cc @urisohn.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social @heinonmatti.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
November 22, 2025 at 10:28 AM
It's 2025 and you can still claim an effect with results like this at JAMA Psychiatry. cc @urisohn.bsky.social @lakens.bsky.social @heinonmatti.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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pretty clear what happened: Zohran converted Trump to the divine and immortal science of islamo-communism.
November 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
pretty clear what happened: Zohran converted Trump to the divine and immortal science of islamo-communism.
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Please we need to have a more sophisticated analysis than "capital wants this" in 2025 for the love of god.
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
You ever just sit down and realize that the rise of 21st century fascism is capital's answer to climate change?
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Please we need to have a more sophisticated analysis than "capital wants this" in 2025 for the love of god.
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
We are doing like 2 trillion in green investment annually. Lot of resistance to transition is frankly big state actors (saudi, russia, india) and confluence of tech/media interests
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I disagree. It’s central to the country’s bad vibes that we cut state support for the working poor and have compensated for that, poorly, by shunting some of the costs onto businesses and the rest onto to telling the people who have lost out “life’s tough, adapt”.
Weird thing: the UK minimum wage has risen against inflation for years. It's now really high. Millions of people are earning more than they were as a direct result of this policy. And the impact on the vibes of the country is… entirely absent?
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I disagree. It’s central to the country’s bad vibes that we cut state support for the working poor and have compensated for that, poorly, by shunting some of the costs onto businesses and the rest onto to telling the people who have lost out “life’s tough, adapt”.
So there were some fluff episodes and storylines in series 1.
The last 5 episodes of season 2 are amongst the best TV I've ever seen.
The last 5 episodes of season 2 are amongst the best TV I've ever seen.
This Andor is pretty good.
November 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
So there were some fluff episodes and storylines in series 1.
The last 5 episodes of season 2 are amongst the best TV I've ever seen.
The last 5 episodes of season 2 are amongst the best TV I've ever seen.
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This Andor is pretty good.
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This Andor is pretty good.
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
November 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
women are always saying “lord grant me the confidence of a mediocre man.” ok well he did. now what. is the world a better place? look at what you’ve wrought.
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establishing CANZUK so members of the UK can get off that godforsaken island
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
establishing CANZUK so members of the UK can get off that godforsaken island
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sorry I just refuse to engage with this in a "the policy is unworkable and it won't shift the polls!" framing - it is morally bankrupt and frankly evil, no further analysis required
morality isn't a failing and there is no excuse for leaning on performative cruelty as a polling aid
morality isn't a failing and there is no excuse for leaning on performative cruelty as a polling aid
The Sun has been told Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will on Monday propose confiscating jewellery, watches, necklaces from asylum seekers to meet asylum costs
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
This reflects the most controversial aspect of the Danish scheme - the Jewellery Law. The toughest Labour MPs thought this was OTT
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM
sorry I just refuse to engage with this in a "the policy is unworkable and it won't shift the polls!" framing - it is morally bankrupt and frankly evil, no further analysis required
morality isn't a failing and there is no excuse for leaning on performative cruelty as a polling aid
morality isn't a failing and there is no excuse for leaning on performative cruelty as a polling aid
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The idea of the Home Office selling off the confiscated jewellery of those who have fled war and persecution should, in an ideal world, be the death knell for this government.
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
The idea of the Home Office selling off the confiscated jewellery of those who have fled war and persecution should, in an ideal world, be the death knell for this government.
This Andor is pretty good.
November 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This Andor is pretty good.
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People say Cancel Culture is real and then you see Lydia Tár being invited to meet the Pope. 🙄
November 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
People say Cancel Culture is real and then you see Lydia Tár being invited to meet the Pope. 🙄
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“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
it's fascinating that you can see when exactly the Reagan revolution happened
November 15, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“there is a point on the graph where things get Worse, and there you will find Ronald Reagan” stays undefeated
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I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
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The pope has spoke to God and God clarified the whole transsexual matter as “basically pretty much cool except for the…the femboy thing”
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The pope has spoke to God and God clarified the whole transsexual matter as “basically pretty much cool except for the…the femboy thing”
You could not waterboard this out of me.
When I was 37 I was dating a woman who was 19. The thing that inspired me to break things off was hearing Pearl Jam's "Alive" on the radio - a song released 9 years before her birth she had never heard . In that moment I realized things would never work.
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
You could not waterboard this out of me.