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willow
oh yea just remembered i have mixed feelings about teachers tho
willowApr 15, 2024
teaching evaluations are vile professors are cops and therefore any positive evaluation makes you a bootlicker sellout; but negative evaluation is futile complaining to the police dep bureaucracy in either case, you’re also just filling out a consumer survey and greasing the wheels of capital
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willow
meeeeee
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willow
recent calls: many calls to kasey (and a couple with antonia/annie)
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@dreary.bsky.social
i do this too!! screenshots from discord and blog are classic willowposting. and they’re always only tangentially related :)
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@dreary.bsky.social
yea i’ll just toss my standard distinction between evaluation and moralism, though the question of framework is interesting too :) i’d probably say people draw their evaluations from plenty of different frameworks, if we want to call them that
willowApr 4, 2025
https://x.com/politicswillow/status/1607700533518680065 This Post was deleted by the Post author. Learn more Willow @PoliticsWillow moralism != normativity or evaluation (relevant section is from about minute 9 to 20) YouTube Marxism lecture by Prof. Raymond Geuss 2/8 This is the last lecture series on Marxism given by Professor Raymond Geuss (Faculty of Philosophy) at the University of Cambridge in 2013.
this is kind of a dense topic but i’ll lay out all my standard talking points and references: bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... bsky.app/profile/did:... m.youtube.com/watch?v=25aY...
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@dreary.bsky.social
honestly the short nihilism video is rather relevant here

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Raymond Geuss - Nihilism

YouTube video by Sharad Pandian

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@dreary.bsky.social
oh and it goes without saying the person you’re quoting in root is a moron lmao
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willow
fascinating + cute
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willow
you better keep posting food abominations i don’t even like them but it feels like an integral aviva post type
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willow
!!! hey i know that place
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willow
for some reason i was not aware you went here
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willow
unfortunately i gotta say soap w this time
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Score: 45 Progress: 64
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willow
looks like my anilist stats
https://anilist.co/user/DrearyWillow/stats/anime/overview Titles Watched score distribution 46.64 Mean Score 21.2 Standard Deviation
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willow
my impression is that you may have had to be a bit more restrained/professional while working at bsky, but the desire to engage still shone through
willowDec 7, 2024
one thing i respect about dan is that he doesn't shy away from the sludge that is user feedback and is a really good listener
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willow
join us
Non-default PLC keys https://bsky.app/profile/decentralised.goeo.lol
willow
no greater feeling than 2 cute girls resting their head on you
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@dreary.bsky.social
she’s so easy, don’t sweat it
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@dreary.bsky.social
kidding kidding
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willow
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 i’ll be better i promise
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willow
damn
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willow
lol @aviva.gay i see you ego-surfing verified
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@dreary.bsky.social
i’m not one of you but i’m chill with the gooning community
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willow
i’m only liking anna’s replies to help balance this egregious ratio
willow
lua test :)
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willow
i also think it is a banger...
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willow
but now im angy i have to wait for chapter 2
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willow
hella cute :3
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willow
it’s so good, must have listened a couple dozen times now
willowApr 13, 2025
the chicago route of this drive is so much worse but twiki is lovely midwest roadtrip company
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willow
<33
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willow
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
willow
i think my eyes would be more fitting as a darker shade of green
@dreary.bsky.social
this was basically the perfect reply. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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@dreary.bsky.social
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.social
it's significant to me in a way that only music can capture
willow
watching the decentralized tech enthusiast crowd discover liberal political theory 101 in real time
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willow
willow 1mo girl who has no internal monologue but instead has conversations with her headmates
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willow
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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willow
come do something about it then ‼️
willow
kasey kasey look they get it now !!!

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willow
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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willow
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.social
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 31n17zuzbsm2j 2025-04-23 08:47:06 $type: app.bsky.graph.verification handle: renahlee.bsky.social subject: did:plc:xoktq5heiz7qsjrpz4mcckum createdAt: 2025-04-23T12:47:04.366Z displayName: *key vs. offline 🔒
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@dreary.bsky.social
drearyview has this too but it’s nice on my repo
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@dreary.bsky.social
i gotta set up tailscale
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willow
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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willow
you have been re-verified :)
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willow
also the double x in the pop-up is funny, bsky.app doesn’t have it
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willow
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
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willow
so sad….
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