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haikugoat.bsky.social
wannabe linguist & tutor [social meaning, semantics, pragmatics, philosophy, film, animals, mental anguish, poetry, pedagogy, Japanese]
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maybe the real et al. were the enemies we made along th way

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

*philosophers of science audibly sweating*

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

I used to live at a lighthouse. But now, I live at a different, stouter lighthouse.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

A carefully chosen garnish is the key to a cocktail that isn't just tasty, but visually pleasing too. (Picture unrelated)

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

"For reasons I don't understand, I could absolutely annihilate a tomato juice right now." Tommy Siegel, New Yorker.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Has anyone tried this? 🐦🐦

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Fully agree. As a tutor, I see one of my biggest roles as modeling what healthy, generative intellectual confusion looks like. Sometimes this boils down to saying "Just because you're 15 years old and this author was 60 doesn't mean you're wrong to notice that their argument is shoddy or confusing".

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

It must feel crazy to be a cookie. And imagine if you were two cookies with some frosting in between!

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Pronatalists are just doing Nazi kink. I think there's not enough kink-shaming in the world. In my experience dealing with people into kink, it's just a cute quirky way to eroticize fascist power dynamics.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Has anyone ever done this? Any tips?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The mainstream press viewpoint is that no one mainstream is racist, and therefore, as ideas approach the mainstream, they become less racist

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Maybe I'm missing something, but I fail to see why this finding is at all surprising?? Sure, the crows haven't invented the Panopticon, but they fucking *fly around in 3D space* their whole lives. Of course they have good geometric reasoning

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments