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willowMar 27, 2025

exposed

kasey Today at 09:57
kasey x atproto like squidward in that episode where he eats the krabby patties
willow Today at 09:57
Imfao it's so real
kasey Today at 09:57
it's so cozy ,..,
willow Today at 09:57
you're just an atproto tsundere
kasey Today at 09:57

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i think so

danii really said

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idk i tried

kold pls save her

bro im gonna kms

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raccoon with frizz

not a quantum ppl but in general i think it’s philosophical import has been way overplayed. the whole cluster of traditional free will/determinism/necessary/contingent questions are kinda the wrong ones to be answering anyways

raymond geuss, morality, culture, and history, 195. nietzsche and morality

Nietzsche's view here is like the one I ascribe to him about free will/determinism. It isn't so much that he thinks historical events are 'contingent' in some positive sense, but that the distinction 'contingent/necessary' is useless in the study of history. Since nineteenth-century philosophers of history stress 'necessity' it is convenient in exposition to emphasize 'contingency' but actually I think Nietzsche would prefer to avoid the distinction altogether.

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willowMar 23, 2025

(i know the quoted doesn’t really back up my claim more than just being another assertion of it, but it’s intended to really just be a broad gesture at a body of work and way of thinking about the question rather than a pithy one shot answer). to hopefully be a little more fleshed out tho:

raymond geuss, outside ethics, 54

Nietzsche, then, thinks he has found a naturalistic replacement for the traditional ethical perspective and its questions, although, in my view, this naturalistic view is one centered not, as is usually thought, around the concept of "will-to-power" but around that of admiration. His view of humans, that is, takes them as standing at the intersection of certain forces and powers operating in the world —some of them operating on humans, and some through them—on the one hand, and, on the other, certain human reactions of admiration and contempt. Forms of morality are congealed and focused structures of human admiration and contempt.
It is important to see that Nietzsche does not first accept the central ethical question "What ought I to do?" and then go on to say, for instance, that each individual should perfect himself or herself, or maximally develop his or her will-to-power, or attain the highest possible self-aggrandizement. Rather he rejects the whole question on a number of grounds. First of all, asking the question presupposes that the agent, "Ego," is confronted with a decision in which there are a number of different possible alternatives between which Ego is free to choose. Nietzsche rejects the claim that this is in any sense the usual situation in which human agents find themselves. It is not useful to think of people as having a categorically free will (or a will that is in bondage). The whole dichotomy "free will/will-in-bondage" is a false one. People have wills that differ in their degrees of strength. Some have a strong will; others have

raymond geuss, outside ethics, 55

a relatively weak will.3s If you are the right kind of person, one who has a strong will, you will not be terribly concerned with the question of what you ought to do. You will, to be sure, be looking for objects of appropriate commitment (Hingebung, Bindung), but that is just a fact about how a person like you is liable to feel the need to act, and the search on which you embark will be for something which you judge to be worth admiring. Such a search, how-ever, has a completely different structure from that into what anyone "ought" to do. Also, if you are another kind of person—a kind of person Nietzsche does not admire and who has a weak will—asking the question what you ought to do will generally be pointless, because if you are weak there will be no significantly different alternatives open to you anyway, none, that is, that makes any real difference, just as for a certain kind of traditional Christian, a person in a state of sin does not have any freedom worth the name. A sinner can choose X or Y, but from the definitive religious perspective they will just be different versions of sin. Freedom to choose one sin rather than another is utterly unimportant, or rather it is a way in which an especially deep form of human bondage plays itself out. Nietzsche's own positive use of the term
"amor fati" to describe a kind of character which he admires is an expression of this. To love one's fate is not something one ought to do, but something people sufficiently admirable will in fact do, and others will not be able to do, and in that ability and inability will lie the grounds for admiring them or despising them.

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willowMar 22, 2025

lol i redownloaded to check

my bumble bio

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willowMar 22, 2025

diary
willow 9/1/23, 4:59 PM
bro i cant
no
no
no dawg
no shot i cant bro
im matching with literal children on bumble dawg its all over
https://www.youtube.com
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Hello everyone I'm
20 she her
Mostly showing fashion related/mini vlogs on this channel
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honestly it would be like a little endearing if it was like autistic child and theyre just reproducing existing social relations but like anything close to a romantic or sexual context and my body recoils i do not belive you are 20 and like even 20 is even pushing it bro i cannot watch ur highschool vlogs
willow 9/1/23, 5:08 PM
where am i supposed to go from here i think i just have to unmatch like wtf
like in case you think im exaggerating just check out the voting video a biting political engagement

willowMar 22, 2025

leftcoms watching atmosphere conf: ewwww moralism and democracy in my tech talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCS4WTKqkAo
like 20 mins in
The viability of technology, like democracy, depends in the end on the practice of justice and on the enforcement of limits to power.
atmosphere conference 2025 - blaine cook - Network Punk: Welcome to the Jungle
https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf-2025-talks/

e is crazy

(i'm mostly kidding, my graph still looks like this)

Attachment graph
Score Mother/CG1: Anxiety: 1 | Avoidance: 6.67
Score Father/CG2: Anxiety: 1 | Avoidance: 4.33
Score Partner: Anxiety: 1 | Avoidance: 5.67
Score General: Anxiety: 1.00 | Avoidance: 3.67

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willowMar 22, 2025

widespread affliction unfortunately

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willowMar 22, 2025

btw if you don’t wanna sit through my bullshit here’s the tldr

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I AM QUITE LITERALLY ALWAYS SAYING THIS

https://dreary.dev/blog/playlist-auto-ethnography/
It's clear the purpose for making playlists is not primarily about them appreciating what I share, and in some ways directly having an interaction or conversation about what I had shared would spoil it for me. I want to have this minimal act of creation that allows me to externalize my feelings about a person without requiring direct social interaction. Once this creation exists it serves a variety of distinct but highly related functions: a repository for videos and music that I associate with a significant person in my life, allows me to reaffirm myself and the things I enjoy, recontextualizes existing aesthetic associations (for instance, I have very different emotional engagement with the same song that is placed in *G, *J, and *K), and offers a space for me to think about a significant person in my life and reflect on our relationship.

meow

that can't be right...

https://www.idrlabs.com/sonic-syndrome/test.php
shadow (ptsd) 35%
tails (anxiety) 60%
metal sonic (schizoid) 60%
sonic (adhd) 30%
amy rose (dependent) 15%
knuckles (ocpd) 25%
dr eggman (narcissistic) 0%

willowMar 21, 2025

i think about this anecdote a lot from geuss, and recognize myself quite a bit. one of the reasons i appreciate kasey's familiarity with me is that she's grown accustomed to this and treats my statements with the appropriate amount of distance.

raymond geuss, who needs a world view, pg 34
As I said above, I lost contact with Krigler when he moved so far west as to be outside my ken. One might think that, in parallel to that, I lost touch with Sidney, because I moved so far east (to Cambridge) that our worlds could no longer intersect. That, however, would not be the whole truth. If one thinks that it is a central part of pragmatism to value actions, deeds, real changes, rather than mere words, Sidney had always been a rather odd kind of pragmatist, in that for him the spoken word was everything. He could (and did) talk about anything; argue one side of an issue, then change and argue the other, reversing positions immediately, elegantly, and at will; assimilate any new perspective; counter, deflect, or rebut any objection, or accept it and suggest revisions of the original position that had been criticised. He was an absolute master of all of this. It was his

raymond geuss, who needs a world view, pg 35
way of keeping the world at a safe distance. You could say anything to him and it was all grist for his mill. However, although spoken words were everything, also, in an odd way, they were nothing. They weren’t real, but part of an autonomous realm of discourse, and did not necessarily lead to deeds or consequences. One could also, when talking with him, sometimes get the sense of being caught in a web of words: one could say anything precisely because the words did not really count; they were mere speech. Sidney and I eventually had a terminal falling out, ostensibly about the appointment of a new member to the academic department of which we were both members. He supported the appointment and I opposed it. After a very long and very acrimonious series of debates, interviews, and discussions in the department and the university, the decision was taken to make the appointment. This was disappointing, but it was the sort of thing that happens in human life and which one must deal with as best one can. The fact that Sidney and I were on opposite sides of what I took to be an extremely serious matter also did not bother me terribly—we often disagreed; what could be more usual among philosophers? One might even say it was our natural state, as the joke had it: two philosophers, three opinions. However, the day after the final vote, he came up to me and tried to suggest that life would now simply go on as before; this infuriated me. In my view, this had not just been one further turn in the argument, that could be countered or reversed by another dialectical twist, but an actual decision had been made which had consequence that changed reality.

raymond geuss, who needs a world view, pg 36
I made the countersuggestion to him that if he wished things to remain as they had been, he should write to the provost immediately and say that we, the members of the department, had not really intended to make a decision and needed more time for further discussion; then life could continue as before. When he started explaining evasively and interminably why he was not willing to do this, I lost my temper and took the nuclear option, doing the one thing I knew he would find it difficult to construe as a mere move in a verbal game or which he could make disappear by verbal redescription: I told him I was not going to talk to him anymore. If I had been less angry, I might have responded more positively to his no doubt genuine desire that we stay on good terms. Since I am not, and have never been, a Kantian, I never attribute special value to the consistency of action per se; however, since I was able to arrange an almost immediate change in my affiliation to a different academic department, and soon after emigrated to Britain, we never in fact had another conversation. Thus, I don’t know, and never will know, whether he actually took the point I was trying to make to him: that speech sometimes has real consequences.

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willowMar 21, 2025

like hop off my dick maybe

willowMar 18, 2025

External Mail Amazing! Thanks so much Kyler! System Director Product Management

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willowMar 20, 2025

:~/Code/bsky/bsky-dump$ py song-scraper.py

Attempting: dreary.dev
JSON retrieved
Media search complete: dreary.dev
JSON extracted to 'media/dreary.dev/links.json'
Results: 298 total, 219 youtube, 59 soundcloud, 20 bandcamp, 0 spotify

Attempting: mary.my.id
JSON retrieved
Media search complete: mary.my.id
JSON extracted to 'media/mary.my.id/links.json'
Results: 111 total, 110 youtube, 0 soundcloud, 0 bandcamp, 1 spotify

Attempting: renahlee.com
JSON retrieved
Media search complete: renahlee.com
JSON extracted to 'media/renahlee.com/links.json'
Results: 43 total, 7 youtube, 0 soundcloud, 0 bandcamp, 36 spotify

:~/Code/bsky/bsky-dump$

willowMar 13, 2025

i’m literally always saying this

discord alt with just diary and emergency contact

im gonna curtail bsky usage a bunch, and probably dms a bunch too. #diary in the burrow is my new home. a lot of this mess is very much wrapped up in the fact that i have an audience, even if that's just an audience of 1.

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willowMar 18, 2025

mhmhmhm i mean i was just coming at it with the angle of, i cant expect every person around to be familiar with my idiosyncrasies, you're absolutely right that in the context of me it's one of the most offensive things you can do