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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 1d

wut

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

"the Bad Faith Threshold" is a great coinage.

The first wave of comments on a post, from those who do actually follow you, is usually interesting or fun or both.

But the later waves are of scolds, humourless reply-guys, "sorry to be pedantics", "whatabouts", and "why are you insulting".

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, I see this post has crossed the Bad Faith Threshold: that indefinable moment on social media when people stop behaving as if you’re a normal human person who, say, loves your child and is making a mildly humorous observation, and start responding with wild criticisms and imagined slights.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday my eleven-year-old daughter claimed that Taylor Swift had embraced a range of genres which included punk. The retribution was swift and included considerable mockery and a lesson on punk which probably took longer than she would have liked.

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 2d

May I suggest to the French

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 4d

And I thought America took the Rawls hagiography too far.

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 5d

Hell yeah Cambridge. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

England's 'first official Cycle Street' being built in Cambridge - BBC News

It aims to make one of the city's busiest routes safer by giving cyclists priority over motorists.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 12d

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

A herd of sheep move across a marshy bridge.

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 15d

Happy Rapture Day to all who celebr

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 16d

Why did adjectives associated with intelligence—e.g. smart, clever, brilliant—take on different connotations in the US and UK?

Off the top of my head, I can't think of any other domain with the same variance.

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Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com · 16d

Starship Troopers (2025)

Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 16d

I’m in Boston. This ad just came on TV

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 16d

I have a version of this thought just about every day.

Writing was so much easier when it was all ego and conviction!

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 16d

Which recent writers do this well? I’ve been thinking about this lately and would welcome some models.

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Jason S. Canon @uncanonical.bsky.social · 17d

For reference: bsky.app/profile/nyti...

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17d

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Many stewards of cultural institutions are aware that they have a problem,” our columnist Ross Douthat writes. “But they are still dealing with internal ideological pressures — so to be able to reform, they need pressure from the outside to do the right thing.”