Brendan AE @AnimalExtender

I'm a pedantic twit and I vote. Sometimes I post cat photos. Resident of Taiwan. 外國人 Taipei, Taiwan Joined September 2018

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Brendan AE @AnimalExtender

5 days ago

What percentage of discourse on this app is people intentionally misunderstanding each other?

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there’s a particular tech-adjacent solipsism where when they discover something it’s the first time it’s ever been discovered, and when they see something it’s the only way it’s ever been seen, and these tendencies occur in tandem

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Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil

2 weeks ago

Also Dems talk about democracy ALL WRONG It’s just worship of institutions, process, and precedent—“Trump is breaking The Rules” There’s no message of “Trump is stealing your agency. He is silencing your voice. He wants to make you a serf.”

Tahra Hoops @TahraHoops

2 weeks ago

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Brendan AE @AnimalExtender

a week ago

Theory: nobody actually cares much about an American restaurant chain changing its logo, and when the X app tries to convince me otherwise it’s just trying to gin up engagement. Like when Duolingo makes the owl appear dead or melty

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yoshimi red @nise_yoshimi

2 weeks ago

I loathe whatever the diseased minds on the modern right are doing to the word "empathy" now. to me empathy is the most basic of human feelings and to question it or mock others for expressing it is the lowest thing I can imagine. Corrosive to our very shared nature

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Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc

3 weeks ago

I often hear from people 'what's the point in teaching the kids lots of factual knowledge in the era of AI, where it's all at their fingertips". But I couldn't disagree more. You have to understand a lot of details to start reasoning well about the world. I like how this put it:

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Jamie Barne @chamebarne

a month ago

The finding that 76% of twitter is comprised of bots has been a game changer to me. That dipshit bluecheck at the top of your replies farming for engagement isn’t real. The racist moron incapable of synthesizing thought is not alive. Dispels all anger instantly

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Tommy Siegel @TommySiegel

a month ago

citing sources: an official guide

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你法我笑的Dictator Yang🌻🍉🏳️‍🌈🐚 📄 @Y_Wenli

a month ago

I remember a local Indigenous librarian saying how library cataloguing is inherently political, whether we like it or not. This is honestly a great example:

你法我笑的Dictator Yang🌻🍉🏳️‍🌈🐚 📄 @Y_Wenli

a month ago

I remember a local Indigenous librarian saying how library cataloguing is inherently political, whether we like it or not. This is honestly a great example:

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Spellgage @spellgage

a month ago

The Lord of the Rings as a story wasn’t necessary. The greatest sign that Tolkien was a hack writer is that he decided to write at all. All the best authors write nothing.

memeslich 💀 dnd memes @memeslich

a month ago

The Lord of the Rings as a story wasn’t necessary. The greatest sign that Tolkien was a hack writer is that he decided to write at all. All the best authors write nothing.

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Chris Horton 何貴森 @heguisen

a month ago

Reminder to both-siders that the KMT tried to initiate recalls against DPP legislators and failed to get enough signatures. Moreover, dozens of KMT members nationwide were indicted for forging the signatures of voters - many of whom were deceased.

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Brendan AE @AnimalExtender

a month ago

The funny thing about the common disinfo “You can tell the protest is funded by the CIA because the signs are in English” is the implication that the CIA is so stupid that it hasn’t occurred to them that foreign countries often use foreign languages

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Α.Z. Foremаn: Seriοus Philology, Silly Вehаviоr @azforeman

a month ago

It's a very funny thing to say, given the difficulties that Chinese-speakers do in fact have with English grammar, especially things that English-speakers might find too basic to even think about. (The difference between "a" and "the" is famously hard to learn for speakers of…

Tim the Shitposting Linguist @LinguisticsShi1

a month ago

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Noah Garfinkel @NoahGarfinkel

2 months ago

The thing that’s funny about most photoshop jokes is that somebody took a stupid idea seriously enough to invest the time to make it. If you use A.I. it’s just like, yeah, I guess that’s what that would look like.

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Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson

2 months ago

For lack of opportunity, let's be clear.

Mike Nelson @mikenelson586

2 months ago

For lack of opportunity, let's be clear.

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Brendan AE @AnimalExtender

2 months ago

Something that annoys me on here is when someone posts a genuinely insightful observation about human nature but unnecessarily frames it as “men are like this” or “women are like this”

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Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar

2 months ago

A phenomenon in internet discourse over the last 5 years is that the correlation between signals of textual quality (grammar, punctuation, social media likes, probability it shows up in my feed) and actual textual quality has completely broken down. And it's driving me insane.

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Brendan AE @AnimalExtender

2 months ago

“Nobody is actually different from me and those who say otherwise are just pretending” posts seem to be getting more common on my timeline

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Brendan AE @AnimalExtender

2 months ago

This is one of the weirdest trends ever. Not only have I been seeing em-dashes used by humans for my entire adult life, but I know I saw writers praise the humble em-dash as a versatile bit of punctuation long before anybody knew what ChatGPT was

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2 months ago

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Greg Daly @GregDaly

2 months ago

This is absolutely correct. Essays aren’t assigned because the world desperately needs another five-page take on the Aeneid, or the Republic, or Flannery O’Connor, or marriage in medieval Ireland; they’re assigned to develop and assess students’ understanding and abilities.