Tyler Butler

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Tyler Butler@lerler· 15d

"Slow Gods," Claire North.

Picture of book text.
"I should make myself a hero. Pretend I knew certain things before I did, was not used by strangers and gods, did not leave people behind.
I should claim that I understand love.
This last is most important, and I am trying.
I am always trying
Is that not enough?"

Tyler Butler@lerler· Jun 4

The fearless one-footed pigeon who hangs out in the bus terminal at Glasgow.

One footed pigeon standing on a metal bench

Tyler Butler@lerler· May 19

Street art sign on a post. In a circle, two stick figure people are scaling the statue of the Duke of Wellington to place traffic cones on his head. A few empty bottles of Buckfast are present. Below, the text: "LOVE GLASGOW."

Tyler Butler@lerler· May 16

"Vice signalling" as a term has been going around. That one's vice finds useful another's exercise of (same or different) vices may explain why certain sins are ignored or encouraged by a given group, even if against their own moral code, as it indicates potential other 'useful' vices. 1/4

Picture of text from a book, reading:
Someone who has become temperate will have come to enjoy moderation and to find excess disagreeable and even paınful. She or he will no longer practice moderation ın spite of a desire for the pleasures that belong to excess, but because desire itself has been transformed. What she or he fnds agreeable and useful is no longer the same. And temperateness itself will now have become agreeable and will now be recognized as useful. The class of the virtues, that is to say, includes some virtues at least, such as temperateness, that are agreeable to and are recognized as useful by those who possess them, but that may well seem disagreeable and even harmful not only to those with the corresponding vices, but also to those whose purposes are such that it is useful to them that others should have those vices. So it is highly agreeable and useful to those who market certain kinds of consumer goods that there should be intemperate consumers. Their own vice of acquisitiveness makes the vice of intemperateness in others agreeable and useful to them.

Tyler Butler@lerler· May 14

Duck & lings in Glasgow.

Tyler Butler@lerler· Apr 29

I made this like a month ago

Tyler Butler@lerler· Apr 19

"Whose Virtue? Which Rationality?" Alasdair MacIntyre, 1988; discussing Thomas Aquinas' writings on justice and practical rationality.

Photo of a book page: "A just war requires that one's own political society may be greatly wronged and that the enemy have refused to make amends or restitution. It requires that war be declared by a sovereign authority before hostilities may commence and requires stringent limitations upon the means, which may be employed and upon the spirit in which the war may be fought. As with good and bad acts in general, the goodness of acts of War require that they fulfil the condition of just action in every way while effectiveness in any one way renders the war unjust and the actions of those who engage in it bad."

Tyler Butler@lerler· Apr 18

tfw the tarot feels like a threat 9Sw: Nightmare, worry, terror, imprisonment 6Sw, Rev: Stuck, can't move past, can't heal, resistance to change 9Wa: Wary, on guard, mistreated, perseverance

Tyler Butler@lerler· Apr 11

Painting of Martin Luther nailing his theses to a churchdoor while making defiant eye contact with observers and not looking at the door

Tyler Butler@lerler· Apr 7

literally made this before I read your post.

Tyler Butler@lerler· Mar 21

"The Spear Cuts Through Water," Simon Jimenez

Photo of a page from a book:
"What are you still doing here?
But you go on. Your movements automatic as you live through each day and sleep through each night. You know what it is to be alone.
You've been too scared to be anything else."

Tyler Butler@lerler· Mar 15

simpsons did it

Tyler Butler@lerler· Mar 13

death cult accusations keep not getting disproven

Tyler Butler@lerler· Jan 24

Lithlingow Palace, birthplace of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Church of St. Michael.

Tyler Butler@lerler· Jan 24

University day trip to Blackness Castle.

Tyler Butler@lerler· Jan 21

Euphoria screenshot, "Wait, is this fucking play about us?"

Tyler Butler@lerler· Jan 13

Televangelist praying meme: "Jesus, I see what you've done for other people, and I want that for me."

Tyler Butler@lerler· Dec 30

"What is my purpose/you pass butter" robot from Rick and Morty

Tyler Butler@lerler· Dec 8

John Paul Brammer, "'Cloud Dancer': a measured response"

Substack text post: I’m back to my senses now. As I said, there’s not much we can do. The good news I suppose is the interim can be filled with just about anything you fancy. I recommend lawlessness, violence, patricide, regicide, deicide, hedonism, abdication from responsibility, and inappropriateness. I recommend punching up, punching down, and punching laterally. I recommend a nonstop flurry of sustained physical attacks until you pass out. Repeat as necessary. Attack! Attack! Attack! And have a Happy New Year.

Tyler Butler@lerler· Dec 5

Forgot to edit that first draft, eh?

Tyler Butler@lerler· Jul 10

Interestingly, there is one what I'll call error: Nicky is shown in the final trial room, suggesting he or his spirit was going to appear. Kn of Pentacles to show the trial room design.

Tyler Butler@lerler· Jul 10

Got the official Agatha All Along tarot deck. It's neat, but not without disappointments and oddities. I'm guessing the artist had limited time with later cuts of the show, possibly beginning before the last reshoots. Example: Kn of Wands (Alice) in the show and promotion materials vs the deck.

Tyler Butler@lerler· Jul 6

Tyler Butler@lerler· Jul 5

Successfully forced an old digital camera to shoot 'daytime infrared'. Not the crispest, but we'll see what I can do with some tinkering; I wasn't sure if these would turn out at all.

Tyler Butler@lerler· Jun 24

this week be like

Tyler Butler@lerler· May 30

let them without sin etc etc

Tyler Butler@lerler· May 30

MIT's 2025 class president criticized the institution for maintaining weapon research ties with the IDF in her commencement speech. Despite the Dean's own commencement speech stating MIT stands for free speech, she has been banned from attending her own graduation.