airbuilder7.bsky.social
Aerospace engineer, NASA nerd, aspiring novelist. (34)
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A whiny privileged kid leads a cargo cult of the previous regime, and is largely successful in destroying the democratic government due to the destruction of state capacity and elite capitulation, until it’s defeated by a small amount of normal people bothering to tell them to knock it off.
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Like i don't think anyone anticipated Iran turning into a paper tiger in the same way Russia turned out to be a paper tiger
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I’ve been reminded recently that humanity didn’t evolve sapience to be engines of creativity and reason, they evolved sapience to win arguments with other apes, and that sapience isn’t even particularly good. Evolution has delivered the minimum viable product of sapience.
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Using the brains evolution gave us to make art and do science is like running Crysis on a TI-82 graphing calculator.
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visdev for upcoming littlefoolery.com project with @moonsheen.bsky.social l : Gaze An Eagle Blind.... designs for the extended cast
had amazing fun concepting this circus car of hot messes
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visdev for upcoming littlefoolery.com project with @moonsheen.bsky.social: Gaze An Eagle Blind
Jolanka's visual arc tracked by her blondification
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Like, the second take isn't even wrong. "The things that make me a man make me a bad person" is myopic, but almost tautologically true. Tons of human traits make us bad people. Half the point of having a moral code is to stop ourselves from being little shits when we have a titch of power.
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youtube.com/shorts/nrfmR...
I found it on YouTube so you can share with your dad.
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"democrats' message is something no democrat has ever said but i associate the women i resent online with democrats"
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The 19th century made a purposeful mess of how we can contend with the 18th.
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"Open the pod bay doors, HAL" was not accompanied by a laugh track, but here we are.
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I think there's also something about the speed & immediacy of the reveal, and speed of agency. You can usually sense Something Bad coming in a book and put it down to collect yourself. Visual media can flash-bang you with something searing at (literally) the speed of light, before you can hit pause.
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my favorite art has made me howl like a wounded animal. those emotions are important to engage with, maybe even moreso when we're not feeling prepared for it. but also its hard to call into work like "ive been crying in the corner for the past two hours because of storytime, rain check on my shift"
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"exercising my rights"
"pursuant to"
"as stipulated in"
we're not fucking around this morning
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Really hard to overstate how much of all this is prosperous small- and medium-business owners desperately trying to find an ideological excuse to enforce power over people they think should obey them without question
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I think we can chalk this one up as an unmitigated success, we have finally calculated the eigenslur from the classic Theophite tweet “Don’t Calculate The Eigenslur”