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Thrice-Gay Him-mess Driven relentlessly by Arts Divination Horny & Divers thinges otherwyse Firm believer in bodging one's way to the ineffable
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@goingmedieval.bsky.social what about Spanish empire in Latin America? I feel Tierra del Fuego to Utah might be more than the mongols?

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It just struck me that my theological approach is a fundamentally skeptic or scientific one despite my keen-ness towards the mystic

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There is no line that bisects the circle No thing is another No thing is not all else, No wave is the crossroads of oceans A crossroad is under every step

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Your reminder that Humboldt Fog cheese, Humboldt County, CA, the Humboldt penguin (Spheniscus humboldti),and the Humboldt Current that allows wine grapes to grow in Chile are all named for an 18th C gay scientist whose love letters were all burned and who left his entire estate to his “valet.” 🏳️‍🌈

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Tentatively: Magic is the art of growing/shaping souls. It is not the only art or path towards that goal. Nor does it signify any quality to that soul. Outwardly it is what chaotes reckon as the creation of servitors & egregores

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It occurs to me that the whole "return to monkey" thing smack of Diogenes' "become as a dog" That cynics are named for the Cynosarges: the gymnasium named for Heracles in the shape of a silver hound; that he too was called Monoikos, lone dwelling, which in a roundabout way names monkeys

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It strikes me that academic freedom is fundamentally undermined by the publish or perish paradigm. & like i understand the why of it, the need to quantify these vague concepts such as research progress & knowledge... But the system (like school grades) has turned the metric into a goal in itself

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As ever Pterry was wise on wisdom understanding that through teaching, through writing, we let others benefit from whatever skill we carve out from existence

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Piece from 2022 🐮🕷️🕸️

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Furries are so cool, this rules

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Nonsense idea: The Tower of Babel is an allegory of god imposing limits on our perception which force our physics to be probabilistic, & thus our limit our knowledge of causality

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It's June 💙🧡 @neok.ai

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I forget what I was dreaming but in the dream I saw this fascinating typesetting innovation. Parentheticals were not marked by parentheses or dashes of commas but by being set in superscript or subscript

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If the state has taken a monopoly of violence the state should have an active duty to prevent violence be used. Police officers should have a duty to protect, they should not have the laxity afforded to the layperson of being a bystander

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