algebraicyclist.bsky.social
I don’t actually study algebraic cycles
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(and I don't think his later works are cynical! but they often gloss as asking why we can't bring ourselves to want love and art and truth and beauty, and "The Frogs" is about a quest for them)
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it's striking, in view of Sondheim's more famous works, how comfortable he was being plainly naively idealistic (naive in the non-pejorative sense). it's hard not to read character!Shaw as the brilliant-but-overly-cynical writer he was afraid he was
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the uk has chip butties, i.e. french fry sandwiches
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MERRY: Who is Saruman?
TREEBEARD: (deep sigh) You would not believe how long Saruman has been a piece of shit.
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I don't get it, didn't Cubic handle the development of the oyster card and the integration of a bunch of London regional transit into the oyster-verse? why is the MTA so much harder?
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that's too bad, I was really looking forward to this one
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HOW MANY NINES OF SHACKLES BIND A DAMNED GOD IN CHAINS
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I had one last year. it worked, but the long hose you need was about as unwieldy as a regular vacuum cleaner
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I thought the “ender is hitler” essay was a different one
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“creating the innocent killer”? or a different one?
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in CT I apparently have the ability to choose a different electricity provider (the meter and infrastructure remain owned by the default utility). the UK also has consumer choice in energy providers
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are you thinking of the EHRC? that’s a uk thing (equivalent of the EEOC)
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These guys think they will never be held responsible, but to be blunt, I think it is only fair to let a jury decide that question.
Show 12 Americans in a jury box the face of a deported American citizen toddler and see what they think is justice.
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supposedly you can get a fresh culture by putting chili stems in milk, but when I tried that I waaaaay overfermented and it was vile
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I’ve had some decent non-dairy crumbly cheeses, it’s the melty cheeses that’re tough (some of them are ok, I’ve had friends go “this brand tastes better, this one melts better, we’ll mix them together for pizza)
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some of my friends like coconut yogurt, and others culture their own soy yogurt
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there was a lot of weird shit (derogatory, laudatory) in the EU and a pretty light editorial touch
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there was a short story, I think in Tales of the Bounty Hunters, in which Jabba gave her to Boba Fett for a night (but he thought extramarital sex was immoral)
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also Gadsden flags, 13 colonies flags, and “no kings since 1775” signs
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The Court has seen your tweets and is not a moron
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I flew into Newark last week (from London), and immigration was as crowded as it usually is (the US line took about 40 minutes and the international line looked about the same length)
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the thing about consolidated regimes that have known they're on the periphery of the liberal world order is that they understand they're holding major events to legitimate the regime and they should keep their hands off tourists. our current goons don't seem to understand any of that
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sorry: maqali, not maqluba