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i don’t think i could ever do that, seems like a lot of effort and my eyes are very sensitive, plus the fittingness i had in mind was more abstract and i regard my physical appearance as basically a lost cause. my ideal would be like black sclera and pastel pink iris

willowApr 25, 2025

i think my eyes would be more fitting as a darker shade of green

@dreary.bsky.socialApr 25, 2025

this was basically the perfect reply. bsky.app/profile/did:...

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@dreary.bsky.socialApr 25, 2025

historical context

willowFeb 1, 2025

this vid has been in my peak playlist for like 2 months and it always makes me think of u hehe

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@dreary.bsky.socialApr 25, 2025

it's significant to me in a way that only music can capture

willowApr 25, 2025

watching the decentralized tech enthusiast crowd discover liberal political theory 101 in real time

you’re right sorry 😭 i feel like a dick nagging you when you already have so much but it’s bad and i gotta

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willowApr 25, 2025

come do something about it then ‼️

willowApr 25, 2025

kasey kasey look they get it now !!!

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willowApr 25, 2025

i find the phrase “vertiginous kaleidoscope” to be aspirational in some of my moods

raymond geuss, not thinking like a liberal, 136-137, robert denoon cumming

DESPITE MY GREAT admiration for Sidney Morgenbesser, he was clearly a man of the living and spoken word, not of the written word. He was too intellectually impatient to work over a written text again and again to get the structure and form of expression exactly right. A doctoral dissertation, however, had to be a longish completed, and preferably polished, text, and I worried about my own strength of character and ability to settle on, stay with, and complete an appropriate piece of writing under Sidney's consistently acute, but also constantly wandering dialectic. The vertiginous kaleidoscope that was Sidney's mind and discourse was in a way a model of intellectual activity, as a kind of permanent theoretical motion, but I thought it was probably also important to be able to take a snapshot of the provisional results of that activity at some given time and fix it in writing, even if one's thoughts in some sense really had already moved on. I thought Sidney, as a doctoral supervisor, would be an active hindrance to that part of the process. In addition, I wanted

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willowApr 25, 2025

not the first time i’ve noted my affinity with sidney

willowMar 21, 2025

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.

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.

@dreary.bsky.socialApr 25, 2025

verification records are cool as snapshots, this one is really special to me

https://pdsls.dev/at://did:plc:hx53snho72xoj7zqt5uice4u/app.bsky.graph.verification/3lni7zuzbsm2j

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subject: did:plc:xoktq5heiz7qsjrpz4mcckum
createdAt: 2025-04-23T12:47:04.366Z
displayName: *key vs. offline 🔒

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@dreary.bsky.socialApr 25, 2025

drearyview has this too but it’s nice on my repo

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@dreary.bsky.socialApr 25, 2025

i gotta set up tailscale

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willowApr 25, 2025

i’m totally here for it, that’s how i determine my identity too :) me bantering back is extending the play <3

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willowApr 25, 2025

you have been re-verified :)

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willowApr 25, 2025

also the double x in the pop-up is funny, bsky.app doesn’t have it

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willowApr 25, 2025

no no i’m kidding, i say it both ways bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:...

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willowApr 10, 2025

woah woah who said i was trans

so sad….

i imagine recreating the record is what made kold’s take precedence over mine? how does it work if one is valid and one is invalid

willowApr 25, 2025

he changed his display name since i created the record.. pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

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willowApr 25, 2025

he changed his display name since i created the record.. pdsls.dev/at://did:plc...

willowApr 25, 2025

annie just sleep talked “click the x on that one, yeah” can’t even escape tech support in her dreams

@drearydev.bsky.socialApr 25, 2025

nospec

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@drearydev.bsky.socialApr 25, 2025

peep

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zero two from darling in the franxx is a pink haired anime girl with horns .

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@drearydev.bsky.socialApr 25, 2025

test

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a close up of a person 's face with a moon in the background

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willowApr 25, 2025

yess more alt text secret posters!!

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willowApr 25, 2025

yea ik (that’s the /j)

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willowApr 25, 2025

yoooo ur neocities would go so hard

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willowApr 25, 2025

i should update mine, i’ve only been pushing to dreary.dev and even that’s super unmaintained

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willowApr 25, 2025

i feel so at peace here 🙂

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willowApr 25, 2025

didn’t know you supported transphobia /j

willowApr 25, 2025

i wanna light fires, i wanna explode, i wanna be everything you want to know

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willowApr 25, 2025

at this point, i’d probably have to do the opposite. my old posts are crystal clear, my new posts are often unparsesble without context that i obscure

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willowApr 25, 2025

he’s okay!! and can be used in neat ways! i just think most of the time it’s like an odd noble savage type thing lol

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