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kierk.bsky.social

some guy | techno-pessimist | christian in the good/bad way depending on who you ask | banjer hammerer | interested in all sorts of stuff | oslo 🇳🇴

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submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).

submitted 20 hours ago • 17 comments

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ever observed in land animals.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

resisting so hard we’ve accidentally smuggled an ontology in under our totalizing epistemology. bhaskar distraught. hume doing an end zone dance

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

man he was so dignified when he said israel didn’t blow up that hospital

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

cool old english word: feasceaft

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

a person just tweeted something very wrong about theology and i didn’t say anything except this subtweet, please clap

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

oh for sure goodreads

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

what enneagram number is it if you relate to all the numbers’ weaknesses but none of their strengths

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks Microsoft Teams for that not-at-all-chilling message 😧

submitted 7 days ago • 233 comments

training myself to use a mouse with my left hand

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

i was thinking it would be fun to write down little ideas for fantasy stories to tell my kids as they go sleep but of course i can’t even put a single sentence down because first i feel compelled to ground it in thousands of years of fake histories, migration patterns, linguistic variation …

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

if you’re a professor about some thing no one cares about but then you get invited on to in our time and at the end melvin says that’s it’s “been terrific” but where he stresses it on -rific part of terrific so you know he’s being earnest and means it … man that’s gotta be like the best feeling

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

what does this mean

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

jail: welcome to the resistance

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

pro tip: if the book/article/podcast you’re reading/listening to refers with any seriousness to something called “totalitarianism”, you’re being fed a pack of lies at worst and a confusing conflation of easily separable concepts at best

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

can i ask why sewage runoff has been a problem for 50 years

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

i agree. 30 dolls is too many dolls

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

digging up and desecrating the skeletons of karl rahner and hans urs von balthasar and henri de lubac because they aren't authoritative representatives of catholic doctrine but reactionary theological illiterates are

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

ezra klein needs to go in the contraption

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Not sure why on every new Papacy we end up running through this phase of shock on discovering thst the Pope is, actually, a Catholic.

submitted 13 days ago • 48 comments

i went to a public sauna today. it was great. except someone stole my socks which means i have to wear my shoes without socks now on the way home

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

"The group, which seeks unspecified damages, argues that the public backlash prevented the company from pursuing 'the aggressive, anti-consumer tactics that it would need to achieve' its earnings goals." An insane sentence.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments