giulio rospigliosi

for people who use the word sportsball, today is their super bowl

*you've* had

"He is only guilty of being Arnold J. Rimmer. THAT is his crime... it is also his punishment."

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simple solution: stop abducting people illegally

The Sorrows of Old Elon

I move that we stop using investment funding rounds as a proxy for any sort of actual value or utility or interestingness of a technology or a business.

That nonsense has dominated coverage and conversation for the last 15+ years.

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can:

drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

Cartoon feat young girl with scissors cutting squares of something. She says “LSD. DO YOU NEED ANY?”

Tuesday.
How do we cope🤔

the practice of requiring NDAs from govt employees should be outlawed, and all such NDAs should be voided by law

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Gift, Mr. and Mrs. Alan H. Pollack, 1984 © Victor Vasarely

Lacerta by Victor Vasarely, 1955
https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137325

"Caouissin ... would like to think the language will follow a similar path to Welsh, which has enjoyed a revival over the past half-century and is spoken by 538,000 people"

People keep getting this wrong about Welsh! There has not been a "revival". Let me explain. 1/

A poster styled like an “In This House We Believe” sign, stacked in horizontal bands with stark color contrasts and different fonts. At the top, black text on white reads: “IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE:”. Below it, a black stripe with red serif text says: “Eris Discordia rules The Material World”. Next, green text on white reads: “She won it from God in a divorce suit during the Beforelife”. A black stripe follows with jagged yellow text: “The French anarchist Pierre Joseph Proudhon was Her attorney at the trial”. Beneath that, blue, slightly uneven text on white declares: “Nobody is Her Prophet”. The final black stripe features bright pink, handwritten-style text: “Eating hotdog buns is a sin”. Overall tone: overtly Discordian, absurdist theology presented with meme-sign sincerity, mixing Order (structured layout) and Disorder (chaotic claims and fonts). Generated with Bluesky AltText, a CustomGPT.

📜🏠✨ IN THIS HOUSE, WE BELIEVE: 🌀🧠
🍎🔥👑 Eris Discordia rules The Material World ⚖️🌍💥
💚📖⚔️ She won it from God in a divorce suit during the Beforelife 💔⏳👼
🟡⚡📚 The French anarchist Pierre Joseph Proudhon was Her attorney at the trial 🧑‍⚖️📜🧨
🔵👁️📣 Nobody is Her Prophet 🚫🔮🌀
🌭🚫💖 Eating hotdog buns is a sin 😈🥖🎉

silly me, I had thought Wambsganss was a ridiculous name made up for Succession

A 🧵re protective masks for ICE protesters (in Minneapolis MN and elsewhere). I am not a scientist, but my BF has a PhD in inorganic chemistry and provided this info to me so I could provide it to you. Please share and re-post it widely. It may save someone, esp. from green gas ICE is using (1/x)

morpheus, holding out a red and blue pill: I got us some drugs. Neo: that's interesting because I take drugs. morpheus: and me. that's why I got two.

The Matrix (1999)
Dirs: Lana and Lilly Wachowski
#oneperfectshot 📽️

opponent of free speech hates the constitution

A little armored one / turtle rabbit in the wild

The word armadillo is borrowed from Spanish and simply means “little armored one.” But an even better word for an armadillo, in my opinion, is the Nahuatl ayotochtli. It means “turtle rabbit.”

Here are some examples from my running thread. Frame: DOGE was a govt efficiency project to save money Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost money Kirby: DOGE WAS A PROJECT TO BREAK AND PRIVATIZE FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY Frame: This public service costs too much, it isn’t making money Negation: It’s actually very efficient and it could make more money Kirby: THEY ARE ATTACKING THE VERY IDEA OF PUBLIC SERVICES Frame: Des Moines Superintendent Dr. Ian Roberts is here illegally Negation: actually his paperwork is in order Kirby: THIS IS A RACIST ATTACK BY FASCISTS because a Black man is leading a school district. The better he’s doing the more they hate him Frame: ICE is targeting criminals Negation: No, they’re targeting ordinary people! Kirby: THEY’RE WHITE SUPREMACISTS DOING ETHNIC CLEANSING which is why they’re saying everybody who isn’t white is a criminal

Yes! We do not have to accept the terms of bad faith arguments.
It's not an ad hominem attack to address the meta text of the argument.

by popular request i have turned the meme into a blog post, which explains how it works, links to the template file and includes a selection of examples from the thread

#KirbyFraming

they're doing an invasion

it's an invasion

It is upsetting how credulous this is, repeating the marketing of the APA without getting other perspectives. The DSM books are extremely lucrative for APA, and the move to a frequently-updated online version would involve recurring subscriptions, a massive boost to their income.

It is upsetting how credulous this is, repeating the marketing of the APA without getting other perspectives. The DSM books are extremely lucrative for APA, and the move to a frequently-updated online version would involve recurring subscriptions, a massive boost to their income.

call it the Ronald Reagan 40-Year Memorial Jubilee

Where we are at as a society is that we have seen, without illusions, what type of people we hire to enforce our borders.

And we have seen how easily those enforcers were turned on everyone else.

The question now is whether you love "border security" more than your own freedom.

The word ‘outrage’ consists of neither ‘out’ nor ‘rage’.

Instead, it comes from an Old French word for “excess”.

‘Outrage’ used to be pronounced /outridge/, just like ‘garbage’ is /garbidge/, but it was influenced by the unrelated word ‘rage’.

Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about it:

Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation—in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes germination of consciousness. The properly shaped question always emanates from an essential curiosity about what stands behind. Questions are the keys that cause the secret doors of the psyche to swing open. . . . Those who would readily develop consciousness pursue all that stands behind the readily observable: the unseen chirping, the murked window, the lamenting door, the lip of light beneath a sill. They pursue these mysteries until the substance of the matter is laid open to them. — Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run with the Wolves

On the importance, to personal transformation, of asking questions

This is on one level amazing and on another level a lovely bit of art

Therapy has usurped the once-primary place of poetry. We need therapy when we cannot sing, dance, or make art an integral part of our everyday life. In earlier time it was poetry that was the terpnos logos, the healing speech. The sick called not the physician—known then as those of 'silent tongue'—but the poet, those of 'willing tongue'! The fact that art, song, movement, dance, and poetry have all become 'therapies' is a testament to the reversal that our culture of intellect and power has achieved. What was the source of the very binding together of culture has been so unravelled that it all must now be imported as therapy. So in therapy we are trying to sew back together huge tears in the fabric of the spontaneous life of psyche. And it is in principally these things that psyche now finds its nourishment. By Russell Lockhart from his book, 'Psyche Speaks: A Jungian Approach to Self and World'.

On therapy.