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shearwater 🌟

፠ Evolutionary Cybernetic Beast of Burden ፠ · · ─────── ·𖥸· ─────── · · Pigeon keeper, tea drinker, birdwatcher, ☦︎

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shearwater 🌟 2026-07-07 02:34 🇺🇸
Absolute first draft of a thought but I think it's got legs: von Haller's Restoration of Political Science as an early example of systems theory applied to politics
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shearwater 🌟 2026-07-06 04:49 🇺🇸
I can't figure out if a world where there is a higher reason for all events is more or less comforting than a world where things just are. I always found the latter of the two easier to bear, and the possibility of active fate fills me with dread. Perhaps if Providence is truly unknowable there's no experiential difference between the two.
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shearwater 🌟 2026-06-24 14:12 🇺🇸
Eusociality is so strange, I wonder at what level of differentiation something like an ant colony can be considered an organism. Functionally it already resembles one.
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shearwater 🌟 2026-06-11 16:43 🇺🇸
Dark day for all Wisconsin residents - the Culver's barn has been destroyed
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shearwater 🌟 2026-06-08 15:42 🇺🇸
My pigeons sometimes misjudge the distance to the top of my bookshelf and fall into my lamp, helplessly trapping themselves until I rescue them. Their ancestors won wars and this is the best they can do?
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shearwater 🌟 2026-06-05 21:31 🇺🇸
Noticing a trend where writing by heavy AI users sounds computer generated even if they wrote it themselves. My friend calls them "Bioemulators". Sad!
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shearwater 🌟 2026-06-04 15:06 🇺🇸
Love how learning begets learning, where gaining knowledge about some topic immediately opens up countless more avenues of exploration. My greatest intellectual struggle has been trying to balance depth with breadth, both unfurl themselves with care and attention but the lazy part of me hates having to choose. Honestly I haven't thought too much about the afterlife but my idea of heaven is drinking deeply from every cup in front of me.
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shearwater 🌟 2026-05-20 00:21 🇺🇸
Interesting how a lot of most dramatic environmentalist gains of the previous generations are invisible or forgotten. One of my friends knows more about turkeys than anyone else I know, has hunted them his whole life, but was surprised that turkeys were driven locally extinct in the 1800s in Wisconsin and were only reintroduced 50 years ago. No knock against him of course. Seeing how numerous they are across urban and rural parts alike nowadays, so much so they're a daily sight, one would never guess the hills were once so deeply silent.
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shearwater 🌟 2026-05-20 00:10 🇺🇸
If a history book that covers a large span of time for a specific location doesn't start with a geography lesson it's not complete - so much of why where and how people live in a location is dependent on the natural environment. The particulars of human life are so deeply physical.
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shearwater 🌟 2026-05-15 00:19 🇺🇸
Got to watch woodcocks displaying at the local arboretum a few evenings ago and as strange and flealike as the birds look on the ground, they look twice as strange rocketing through the sky like airborne punctuation. #birds
Pretty similar to the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin honestly.
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shearwater 🌟 2026-05-06 15:31 🇺🇸
Coconut in black tea is such a gigabrain move, it adds this delightful creaminess to the tea without actually having any cream added. Absolutely delicious.
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shearwater 🌟 2026-05-06 14:45 🇺🇸
It's important to limit anthropomorphism lest we lose important details about animal cognition, but I have the strongly held opinion that animals do feel something recognizable as joy when they fulfill their instinctive drives. We know beavers get anxious when they hear running water, does a beaver not then feel relief when she completes her dam?
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shearwater 🌟 2026-05-05 13:36 🇺🇸
A frustrating phenomenon is when you find out the fancy version of something is, in fact, genuinely better than the basic cheap version. I got a glass pen recently and I'm almost offended by how much of an upgrade it is, I didn't even know writing could be improved upon. Material culture where higher quality in make and materials often objectively improves the experience is an interesting counterpoint to the tech sphere where a billionaire is using the same iPhone as your bus driver.
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shearwater 🌟 reposted 2026-04-29 22:35 🇮🇹
New very fitting game idea of "pin the tail on the bieresel"
argumente 🌟 2026-04-29 10:17 🇩🇪
words the english language lacks pt. 2:

Bieresel ['bi:ɐ'ʔe:zɛl]
(german -> english "beer-donkey")

that one person in the group who drinks too much beer at the gathering and forcibly becomes the jester for that night
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shearwater 🌟 2026-04-29 21:52 🇮🇹
The past sometimes doesn't feel too different until you get hit with some phrase like "Cosimo I de'Medici's favorite Dwarf, Morgante, most famous of the Five Buffoons" and multitudes immediately unfurl themselves before your eyes from the implications alone.
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shearwater 🌟 2026-04-27 10:48 🇬🇧
Everyone loves Porphyry 100% best rock
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shearwater 🌟 2026-04-27 09:54 🇬🇧
Collecting a rare flag feels like beginning a stamp collection
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shearwater 🌟 2026-04-26 22:03 🇮🇹
The ruins of the Palatine hill retaining walls are greatly enhanced by the flocks of rose-ringed parakeets nesting in the holes in the brickwork.
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shearwater 🌟 2026-04-25 22:44 🇮🇹
In Rome right now and if someone made a field guide for Catholic orders and clergy instead of birds I'd buy it in a heartbeat.
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shearwater 🌟 2026-04-23 16:13 🇺🇸
Linkedin but instead of your work history it's increasingly precise and localized awards eg. won blue ribbon at the Toad Suck Daze Toad Races of Conway Arkansas
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