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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 27m

Sarandë cat performs Fosse dance routine

Tabby cat with one paw forward in the middle of the Magic To Do routine from Pippin

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Paul Kelleher 🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 3h

A kinda related story: My grandfather played the lotto every week and the morning after a draw he and his buds would go to the convenience store where they bought tickets and check their numbers together over coffee. Then word came that someone had bought the winning ticket from that store. 1/

Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 6h

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 6h

I talk about this a bit in my review of Laurie’s book in Mind, where I’m a bit sceptical. But I don’t know of anyone who’s pursued it positively drive.google.com/file/d/1StGY...

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Mackenzie @mackenzievogt.net · 18h

Shostakovich saw Jesus Christ Superstar and then bemoaned he never wrote anything like it

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 6h

apparently Wyatt Earp could have watched a Disney cartoon while eating a cheeseburger

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 6h

If you have an inkling you might win a Nobel prize, do you feel some urge to ensure you’re in a really noteworthy inaccessible place when it’s announced so you’ve got a good story about getting the news. ‘So, it was as our submersible rose from the Mariana Trench when my phone started pinging…’

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

Tolkien could have listened to the first five Black Sabbath albums.

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 18h

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry I’m late for work. I was briefly the prime minister of France…

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3d

Isn’t it wonderful? Had a really lovely day there and at Perast, which also hosted multiple glorious cats

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3d

Kotor promised cats, and Kotor delivered

Mysterious black cat sitting on a wall with old town roofs in the background, clearly enjoying the limelight as Halloween approaches

Tabby cat hunched and sitting on a wall with old town roofs in the background.

Half tabby half orange face with tail like a lemur’s curled in front of them. Looking expectantly but in vain at my pizza slice (out of shot)

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 3d

A view into the Bjelasica mountains from the Belgrade-Bar night train. Officially, we weren’t supposed to see this, as the train was due to arrive ten minutes after sunrise, but it was five hours delayed, so we passed the whole Montenegrin section in daylight.

A mountainous scene with trees in the foreground and mist, and snow covered peaks in the background

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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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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 7d

A memorial event for Helen de Cruz, featuring talks, remembrances, and musical performances, is taking place later this month.

Memorial Event for Helen De Cruz - Daily Nous

This past June, Helen De Cruz, professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University, died at the age of 46. Remembered not merely as a professor, but as a source of assistance, advice, and kindness for o...

dailynous.com

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FDC @oldaristocles.bsky.social · 8d

I wonder if people would understand Plato better if we translated the names also.

If so, get ready for a dialogue about rhetoric between Vigor and Powerful Salvation with interjections by Colt and Beautiful Fame.

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Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 9d

The bees have discovered Brutalism

Cube Enthusiast @killhamster.bsky.social · 10d

Nature is healing

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 10d

A moment of Autumnal calm, Loch Tarff #Scotland #Abertarff #FortAugustus www.damianshields.com

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shrieeek.computer @beeep.computer · 10d

Only record of night herons taking an L

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations, David!

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Christian Lawson-Perfect @christianp.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Numerologists take note: tomorrow, 27th September 2025, is a square date in both US and Everywhere Else notation.

5205² = 27092025 and 3045² = 9272025

This is the last time this will happen for a thousand years!

(from @EdPeggJr on math-fun)

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okay Kelly @kmdoublev.bsky.social · 14d

Look, the title for my all-time favorite CU Boulder engineer was locked down a long time ago, but 2nd place has never been so close.

kelsey jaffer @kelatonin.bsky.social · 14d

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

Amber Carlson @aecarlson.bsky.social · 14d

Happy (rainy) Tuesday, #Boulder. I've got a new story for you all about a new temperature-stable, single-injection rabies vaccine developed by @colorado.edu researcher Ted Randolph.

www.colorado.edu/today/2025/0...

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Richard Pettigrew @wiglet1981.bsky.social · 14d

guessing my paper on the necessary and sufficient conditions for coolness, and my explication of coolness_1, coolness_2, and coolness* put me in pole position

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 17d

it's actually really interesting me that no one who goes on about reaching people through social media has even tried to engage on tiktok or instagram.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 19d

Googling are toe prints unique like finger prints:

“There are a few famous cases in which criminals have been caught by using toeprints. The first was at a Scottish bakery in 1952 when a safe-cracker was identified by the footprints he left in flour.”

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Tim Krief @timkrief.com · 22d

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 25d

[at dinner with Tony the Tiger]
"Tony, can you say grace?"
"Yes, but it takes me a bit longer than everyone else".

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