Is "Is 'Is a truism a tautology?' a truism?" a tautology?

Is "Is a truism a tautology?" a truism?

Is a truism a tautology?

В метро, 1979 t.me/old_Moscow

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it's been 3 weeks since my back surgery and i'm walking around nicely inside the apartment with *no canes*

We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology. www.morphosource.org/projects/000...

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RIP Queen

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I’m at Foley Square for the Journalism is not a Crime rally. A very funny dynamic is that this rally is to support us but we can’t help but be in coverage mode. (The support means the world.)

Sat down with @stevevladeck.bsky.social & @williambaude.bsky.social to talk start of a new SCOTUS term, end of an unprecedented summer on the shadow docket, & 20 years of Chief Justice John Roberts www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

Wild that a drunk white dude gets to give an important speech on the importance of being violent and mediocre just because people confuse seeing one minority on the street with the apocalypse

Meanwhile this morning protesters raged outside the building ICE rents in Portland

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

i don’t think he was supposed to post this. this is a company lobbying for medical cannabis, specifically for medicare coverage of it, and i think they made a whole commercial for an audience of one. “YOU will…” “cementing YOUR legacy,” millions will thank you… this was just for trump

he's got the nuclear codes! those are real things that actually exist! he retweeted a fake ai video of himself announcing that he was rolling out magic medbeds across america!

I'll give him a 9.0 I'd have given him a 10.0 but there's no info on if he delivered the food or not or if it was on time. We need further information ;-)

Kimmel’s writing staff doesn’t seem cowed by the events of the past week. @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social

tonight i expelled THE most amazing turd EVER; i say that partly owing to its girth, partly on account of its length, but mostly because due to its stool-softened consistency i had remained cooly unaware that an event of such moment was underway

People who make video content: what tools are fast & easy for converting horizontal to vertical video? I want to take a YT video featuring 3 speakers & clip it for Reels and was wondering if there are tools that will automatically reorient the faces (or if I need to get orig files from Riverside)

Plan now to attend a No Kings protest on Saturday, Oct. 18. Go to this site to find a rally site near you. Bring your family and friends. It's important.

Not really the point, but I can think of so many ballrooms in DC that are so much nicer than this

I turned this thread into a full post over at Fixing Bugs In Democracy. To read about torturing evidence until it confesses, check it out: samwang.substack.com/p/tylenol-ca...

preparing a dose of deadly paracetamol

Cyril E. Power, "The Escalator," c. 1929 collections.mfa.org/objects/479542

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

i scrubbed the kitchen sink! 💯

We just witnessed Russian MiG-31 fighters in Estonian airspace for 12 minutes. Just before, we had drones in Poland and Romania. European NATO members have to choose now between whether they are letting Russia’s inching work or showing that NATO's border holds.

“In the Pentagon press room, there’s a wall of photographs under metal lettering that reads ‘Pentagon Correspondents’ with the faces of the men and women who cover the Defense Department for major news outlets. “On Friday, all 30 slots for photographs were empty.”

re-upping this

Use this YouTube link to watch my opera-- 6 PM Pacific, 9/19! It will also work after that, but don't you want to come hang out with me? 🥺 youtu.be/e_A94tDTpWY

GOOD NEWS! A new cancer vaccine has shown progress in triggering POWERFUL and LASTING immune responses in patients with pancreatic AND colorectal cancer. The vaccine, known as ELI-002 2P, targets mutant KRAS proteins AND had a huge impact on PREVENTING or DELAYING cancer recurrence in patients.

Will the SCOTUS Republicans let Trump detonate the whole world economy, or will they get into an interminable power struggle with him? All outcomes here are very bad for Trump and for the SCOTUS Republicans, although painful for the rest of us too.

1/4 RE Kimmel, what makes this possible is broadcast TV/radio specifically are subject to FCC regulation in ways other media aren't. With limited broadcast spectrum, idea is built on notion the public owns the airwaves. It gives the FCC authority to regulate in the vaguely defined "public interest."

incidentally a really fruitful and relatively undertapped source of understanding of autocratic states is the "Police Union of German States," the first international police group, organized in 1851 specifically to coordinate state repression in the aftermath of the 1848 rebellions.

so can i not own my own cross? these are bad people

Lean in. Fight like hell. Throw a wrench in and smash the machine. Shit’s fucking scary right now, but it’s been this way before, and courageous people fucked shit up, held their ground, buried their dead, got back up & changed things. It can happen again, it can! It can, goddamnit!

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

my recent experience has taught me things - always tip your nurse (be creative) - i can survive anything as long as my phone will fit a nearby charger

I don't have anything useful to say about this. Just a sort of meta-comment that where we are now in the information crisis is that online groups have developed their own languages which need deciphering and translation. That's not useful. It's just a noting. bsky.app/profile/iwri...

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"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." Justice Robert Jackson, 1943

today i'm DCI Morck

A bit more autumn colors. Nature around me isn't quite ready to let go of the green yet, but here in the inlands of Norway we often get a super short autumn, as winter just swoops in and rudely takes over way too early. #embroidery #crossstitch #crafting #handmade #stitchsky #craftsky #tapestry

My wife and I did the flu/COVID double tap at CVS. Went to bed feeling a little shagged out but otherwise, aces. Get it done, folks, ASAP.

we should all aspire Gift Link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/s...