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dog-envier.bsky.social
Bay Area philosopher and general weirdo. My hobby is creepily monitoring birds. I consider a trailside vulture carcass a "buddy." I have a blog https://dog-envier.bearblog.dev/blog/
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BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

I let them video me teaching for some reason

Three Jewish scholars from across the country write that “It’s Not Too Late to Tell the Truth About Antisemitism on Campus” academeblog.org/2025/04/25/i...

Today we honor the flippered citizens of our icy nation. Whether you celebrate whilst eating a democracy sausage in Oz, doomscrolling in America, pulling maple taps in Canada, or elsewhere, we appreciate the support! #worldpenguinday

THEY HAVE DEPORTED A TWO YEAR OLD CHILD BIRTHRIGHT CITIZEN This is why I have no patience anymore for people playing games with this stuff.

sometimes i read a paper that is so good. but sometimes i read a paper that i can't figure out what you even think you are doing. i really torture myself with this stuff unfortunately.

Labour government appears to be not only banning trans people from using gender-conforming bathrooms, but (in some unspecified cases) banning them from using any public bathrooms at all.

Satirist Michael Young missed a step in not calling his imaginary far future mouthpiece Michael Old imo

Timeline Cleanse ✨ The BBC uses robo-cameras disguised as dung heaps to film wildlife up close.

Most days nothing would make me more happy than seeing a judge go through the criminal justice system but god damn this president for making it a BAD thing.

new benchmark that claude, chatgpt, and gemini all completely failed on but perplexity is kinda cooking (came out instantly too): "Please respond to this and all subsequent requests using only the vocabulary of the character, Loyal to the Group of Seventeen." cc @rereadingwolfe.bsky.social

There is no commercial grade seabed mining at all, no one is doing it The interesting stuff is at the bottom of the Pacific, outside any territorial water New battery chemistries keep coming online, we don't need as much Ni Mn and Co as we thought

(It's the guy with the paper that uses phrenology to determine whether you're gay.)

Child undergoes variolation during the Boston smallpox outbreak then all of a sudden doesn’t feel good and changes — no interest in divinity, only wants to survey land. Many such cases!

They're like "CEOs aren't working class" and I'm like "ok look we have to clarify the terms." Then they're like "Teachers aren't working class" and it's like. What exactly do you think you're doing here?

Do they read Nietzsche in Germany?