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Pierre Dipshit@pierredipshit.bsky.social |
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The un-funny kind of communist. he/him.
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Pierre Dipshit
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Someone once snuck a spam email (an egregiously spammy one too) past the uni filter with a sent date some time in the 2030s — so it claimed pride of place at the top of the inbox until it got deleted. Misapplied genius, I fear.
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Pierre Dipshit
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They were just really cute. The other one I loved, iirc, was a Syd Furness house on Hills Avenue. Final recommendation is Noodles+, a dumpling gem.
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Pierre Dipshit
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Oh wait, I know these guys! The two houses in the background with the blue and red doors were a couple of my favourites when I lived there.
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Pierre Dipshit
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I'm not really a dog person, I think. A bear seems like it could fit into the guy-around-the-house place that I enjoy with cats, though. But with an added dimension of hugeness.
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Pierre Dipshit
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We should have domesticated bears rather than dogs.
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Pierre Dipshit
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Letting out a single very quiet "come on England" that I will deny like St Peter if interrogated.
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Pierre Dipshit
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I spent one summer looking at possible houses for a very broke group of grad students. The worst I saw (at the time) had a downstairs bedroom with a DIY tiled floor, walls, ceiling. Of course, it wasn't in the pictures online. Not being huge piss people or murderers, we turned that one down.
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Pierre Dipshit
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I tend to think a *love of* procedure, norm, precedent — as a bulwark of trivia securing the prestige of many political positions — gets fatally conflated with *mastery of* these things, when it comes to the actual exertion of power.
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Pierre Dipshit
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This is one of the most bizarre aspects of the centre's self-image as technocratic, skilled at the craft of politics, in contrast to an idealist left. Because whenever it comes to organising the fucking of even a small rat, where is this competence?
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Pierre Dipshit
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I like the framing. Though I think it makes some sense, on an organisational level, to view the Corbyn/Momentum vs New(^2) Labour fight as over whether Labour should be a party, or be a label within which campaigns and thinktanks duel. Clarifies their different takes on "activists" for example.
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It may (or may not) be Biden's priority, but I think that is almost irrelevant because it isn't the institutional priority of his campaign / faction within the (non-)party.
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Pierre Dipshit
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I really enjoy seeing "what if the President merely *appears* to be senile" getting brought up as a serious point. Yeah, you got me, I do not have the position required to diagnose anyone. That sure addresses the problem, and would certainly reassure me were I a voter.
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Pierre Dipshit
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Nominal position aside, I don't think it makes much sense to say that Biden "leads" the Democratic Party, in the sense of being able to use it to produce&deploy cadre for his works. Instead his incentive is to marginalise party&politicians in favour of his staff&secretariat?
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Pierre Dipshit
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Something about the Democratic Party being an environment for political campaigns to compete within, rather than a machine for producing political leadership? So the self-perpetuating logic of the Biden campaign becomes squashing challenges — else that faction is out of their jobs.
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Pierre Dipshit
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But with a chalk talk you never get "wait, where's the usb?", "I'll email you the slides, one minute", or Activate Windows issues. Paleolithic tech is very robust.
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Pierre Dipshit
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So, bye then?
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Pierre Dipshit
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That is usually the point at which I get called dogmatic (or sometimes self-righteous, for insisting that it is possible to be correct).
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Daniel Sereduick
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Literally no one who knows anything about France/Macron thinks this was Macron's goal
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Pierre Dipshit
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The magnificent kind of guy who sees replies disabled, a tweet complaining about people doing driveby relationship judgements in said replies, and thinks "Ah, of course, I should do a driveby relationship judgement in the *quotes*".
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Pierre Dipshit
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That sounds about right. The grad students here were proudly telling me that a big one could reach 3000 calories, which is an Everest I have not attempted to summit.
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Pierre Dipshit
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The French tacos are good! Admittedly they do not in any way resemble tacos, but as a drunk food I'd rate them alongside a kebab.
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About one time in three that I try it, the McDonalds in my city has somehow run out of beef, so the staff are just brawling with people. French excellence! So I am not super surprised they are chaotic at all levels.
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Angie Wang
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I want to add one more thing. My 20-year-old students, the moment I tell them they need to do something they anxiously go, “Oh no, oh no, you’re right, omg. Of course, totally. Totally!” And that’s me, a random adjunct teaching one of their classes, not a world famous writer who’s their boss.
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Pierre Dipshit
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We are in the presence of a great mind, for sure.
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Pierre Dipshit
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Just found my skinniest jeans, I know what I will be melting in tomorrow.
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This is a ??? statement even by bluesky argument thread standards. Far be it from me to contradict "common knowledge" but I am 99% sure there are people who aren't women!
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Pierre Dipshit
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If, hypothetically, one's brand is "wombats", then expanding to "wombats and dogged defense of high evidentiary standards when allegations about a fellow writer arise" seems unwise, to me. But then again, I am a mere maths poster, and not knowledgeable about PR.
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Pierre Dipshit
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I am far from a journalist, but as someone capable of elementary counting I would have thought two women's accounts collated by the publisher counted as two sources for the "Neil Gaiman is bad" hypothesis. The alternative — the publisher fabricating these accounts — is frankly conspiracist I think.
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Pierre Dipshit
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Yes, I think a lot of motivated reasoning going on in some quarters.
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Pierre Dipshit
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PSA America. Keir is an irregular name, with declension: Keir, Kier, Keith, Kieth used to indicate the speaker's annoyance with him.
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Pierre Dipshit
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These days it would have to be Wokeback Mountain.
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Pierre Dipshit
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the supervisees so they are no longer one of yours. This will be a very awkward conversation, but I promise it will be twenty times less awkward than the conversation that happens if I come to your office and say «So I hear you forgot the rule from orientation...»!". This left us all pretty clear.
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Pierre Dipshit
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When I was a young grad student, the teaching orientation involved a tiny old Russian professor telling us "Do not sleep with undergrads you supervise. If you feel you cannot avoid this, you must come to my office and say «Dr. X, I think I want to sleep with this student» and I will reassign (1/2)
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Pierre Dipshit
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Neil Gaiman is not load-bearing infrastructure for not-being-transphobic in Britain. What are some of you talking about? Come on.
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Pierre Dipshit
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Oh yeah that rings a bell. My combined snobbishness about superhero films and child actors meant it was never really on my radar.
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I really enjoyed this when I picked it out of a bargin dvd bucket many years back. Much better than expected, and I always like to watch a surprise Hoffman.
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Pierre Dipshit
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I also enjoy the anachronistic level of biblical knowledge they expect. Like, sure, I know who Esau is (a reliable short answer to span awkward letters), because I am a freak. But that seems an unreasonable ask in the current century?
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Pierre Dipshit
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Is there any good way to take a peek into PDE if I am terminally algebreo-geometric? I have just totally bounced off Hormander's Hyperbolic PDE notes (I also blame the beer tbh) because I struggle to care about various estimates. Maybe there is a route through Yau? Is Yau readable?
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Pierre Dipshit
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The proudest I have been of Boys Chat™ recently is when one fool said something about Johnny Depp having a hard time, and immediately triggered Several People Are Typing mode as he pulled aggro from everyone else.
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Pierre Dipshit
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It seems both easier and better to say "oh, that sounds terrible, how awful of him" and then stake out camp there unless (unlikely) something new appears. Demanding a higher than basic reports standard of evidence gets a big hmmm — I see no ethical motive for doing so. Suspicious behaviour.
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Those doing "I must wait for this to be published by people with better politics" have been annoying. I am not pronouncing and executing some socially binding sentence. In the (frankly rather implausible) case I need to reverse my opinion, I think Gaiman can survive a month of me saying he is bad.
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Pierre Dipshit
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A friend actually got declined when he tried to open a bank account as a Rear Admiral so he could have the rank on his debit card. Absolute snitch behaviour from whoever at Nationwide decided to check the list with the navy.
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Pierre Dipshit
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One of the worst conversations in my life was with a friend who had just got into cryptic crossword writing, regaling me with the highs, lows, drama, and various gimmicks (eg flower and banker being crypticese for a river, in defiance of all standard usage). It lasted four thousand years.
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Pierre Dipshit
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Reform are looking like a massive vote share from the seats so far. Not looking forward to them stepping further into the opposition / policy acceleration role in the media sphere.
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Pierre Dipshit
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Sadly I have found that Firstname Lastname still somehow gets me routine "apt name ;)" replies. What can one do?
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Pierre Dipshit
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My bad — I had thought your posts were intended to communicate hyperbolic annoyance with a community nuisance, not danger or the presence of a threat.
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Pierre Dipshit
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I may be misunderstanding the concept? The thread certainly seems against me here. I had assumed "Half dressed man celebrating July 4th with repeated explosions. He cannot be stopped or negotiated with. Other hobbies include revving" was fairly squarely in the zone. Alas, I live and learn.
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Pierre Dipshit
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It is not good, do not bother.
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Pierre Dipshit
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I am sorry to say it, but this is sounding worryingly like a case of dudes rock, the more you describe.
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