Stuart Presnell

@logopetria

Mathematics, CS, physics, philosophy Most recently : Teaching logic and philosophy of mathematics in the Philosophy department at the University of Bristol

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Stuart Presnell@logopetria· 1d

A nice morning stroll in Barcelona to enjoy the warm hospitality of the city, and then a fast train to the vast cavernous station of Zaragoza

A sticker on a pole in a Barcelona side street. Its jaunty design slightly moderates its harsh message:

U ❤️ BCN
WE ☠️ HATE U
#TOURISTGOHOME #EXPATSGOHOME

A view from the Magic Fountains of Montjuïc, looking toward two huge red brick towers. On the horizon is faintly discernible the outline of the Sagrada Familia

A zoomed view of the Sagrada Familia from the Magic Fountains

A panorama of part of the vast cavernous space of the Zaragoza-Delicias train station

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· 2d

I looked this up for a joke and now I’m annoyed that they wasted the opportunity

Screenshot from https://www.thelabradorsite.com/border-collie-lab-mix/

The Border Collie Lab is a mix breed dog also known as the Borador. These are active dogs, brimming with intelligence and energy. And your Borador is likely to need plenty of human company and exercise.

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· 4d

As Odysseus, you mean?

Oscar Isaac in the Star Wars "Somehow, Palpatine returned" meme. The caption is amended to read "Somehow, I still haven't returned"

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· 16d

What’s your sign?

A pedestrian crossing in Edinburgh with a sticker: “press the button
for the immediate
cessation of all
suffering”

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· 26d

Can’t believe it, I’ve just been refused entry! Anyone know where I can quickly get some blue hair dye and a nose piercing?

A photo of the poster for The Odyssey outside a cinema

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Jul 3

I didn't even know Woodstock was on here

Woodstock from the Peanuts cartoons, writing and saying "'''''''''''''''''''"

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Jun 29

The report was ok but I preferred the CITV adaptation

Promo pic for the CITV series "The Trap Door", featuring Berk, Drutt, Boni, and also a green worm and some bright yellow eyes peering out from below the eponymous trap door

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Jun 25

Bluesky has seen this expression of hope for humanity and said, idk this can't be English

A screenshot of the post I'm replying to, with the word Translate circled in red

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Jun 16

I was skeptical at first until I saw the pictures

Photo of Dormition Cathedral at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, showing its many golden domes

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Jun 10

Sweep from The Sooty Show with a speech bubble

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Jun 6

I believe the standard goes like this:

A diagram of various strata of rocks labelled with prehistoric eras — Archean, Cambrian, Jurassic, etc. The top layer, from 1.8 million years ago to the present day, is labelled Recent

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· May 28

"Wir müssen mögen. Wir werden mögen"

As the Wikipedia caption says:
David Hilbert, wearing a dashing hat

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· May 25

First panel of the Anakin & Padme meme
Caption: “I’m going to edit this meme to get rid of the redundant panels”

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· May 18

Musk is basically Mr C harpers.org/archive/1941...

"The saturnine man over there talking with a lovely French emigree is already a Nazi. Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity. His brilliant gifts won for him successively government positions, partnership in a prominent law firm, and eventually a highly paid job as a Wall Street adviser. He has always moved among important people and always been socially on the periphery. His colleagues have admired his brains and exploited them, but they have seldom invited him—or his wife—to dinner.

He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him—he despises, for instance, Mr. B—because he knows that what he has had to achieve by relentless work men like B have won by knowing the right people. But his contempt is inextricably mingled with envy. Even more than he hates the class into which he has insecurely risen, does he hate the people from whom he came. He hates his mother and his father for being his parents. He loathes everything that reminds him of his origins and his humiliations. He is bitterly anti-Semitic because the social insecurity of the Jews reminds him of his own psychological insecurity."

"Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known. He has an ambition, bitter and burning. It is to rise to such an eminence that no one can ever again humiliate him. Not to rule but to be the secret ruler, pulling the strings of puppets created by his brains. Already some of them are talking his language—though they have never met him.

There he sits: he talks awkwardly rather than glibly; he is courteous. He commands a distant and cold respect. But he is a very dangerous man. Were he primitive and brutal he would be a criminal—a murderer. But he is subtle and cruel. He would rise high in a Nazi regime. It would need men just like him—intellectual and ruthless. But Mr. C is not a born Nazi. He is the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery. He is a sensitive, gifted man who has been humiliated into nihilism. He would laugh to see heads roll."

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· May 18

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone

David Suchet as Poirot in the episode Three Act Tragedy. Caption: “We do not scamper around like… the puppies.”

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· May 13

As another data point, Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable has this to say:

Play fast and loose, To.

To RUN WITH THE HARE AND HUNT WITH THE HOUND; to blow both hot and cold, to say one thing and do another. The allusion is probably to an old cheating game once practised at fairs. A belt or strap was doubled and rolled up with the loop in the centre and placed on edge on a table. The player then had to catch the loop with a skewer while the belt was unrolled, but this was done in such a way by the trickster as to make the feat impossible.

To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose.
SHAKESPEARE: Love's Labour's Lost, III, i (1594)

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· May 7

Looking forward to 50 years of nuanced debate in the literature between devotees of @lastpositivist.bsky.social and @zachweinersmith.bsky.social over the distinction between shenanigans and galaxy brain stuff

Twitter post by Liam Bright @lastpositivist January 10 2021:
"Adding a single principle to utilitarianism ("okay, but no galaxy brain stuff, alright?") and thereby perfecting moral philosophy."

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· May 1

Tempted to buy one of these just to find out if it sleeps furiously

A picture of a green ceramic item in a shop, whose price tag calls it a “Habitat Timeless Green Reactive Salt Pig”

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Apr 24

Jeongak Demon Hunters

Screenshot from a performance of Sujecheon, a mid-7th century jeongak (Korean court music) piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4thupu1YDiI

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Apr 24

This reminds me of the tweet that earned me my proudest block

$Tweet from Stuart Presnell @logopetria 6:04 pm · 27 Aug 2020 Picture: a mug with the text "I grep, therefore I am." As a linguist I expect Steven Pinker is a wizard with regular expressions He probably knows all the tricks, like using \b to mark word boundaries He's probably such a regular expression nerd that he drinks his coffee from a RegexMug, or a FiniteAutomatonTankard, or a GrepStein$

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Apr 22

No, you see it's a little more complicated than that

A sine wave, where the peaks are even-numbered years and the troughs are odd-numbered years. A text label at the top reads "Vital constituency, ignore at your peril". A text label at the bottom reads "Insignificant smol bean birthday boy"

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Apr 22

Reading Lawvere is always such a tantalising head-spin

David Lynch meme:

Top caption: "This commutative diagram of lax-monoidal 2-functors reifies the Hegelian dialectic"

Interviewer: Elaborate on that

David Lynch: No

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Apr 21

Gil Morris as Gag Halfrunt in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Caption: "Look, Bigfoot's just this guy, you know?"

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Apr 5

Star of one of my favourite niche movie genres

A list on Letterboxd called "Films in which a betrayed British boss whose American dealings have gone badly stares mournfully through a vehicle window at his wife Helen Mirren". It contains two films: "The Long Good Friday" and "The Madness of King George"

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Mar 30

"Our culture and our way of life is under threat from outsiders coming here from Marseilles and Ottawa and Peru..." *crowd starts booing* "... and Spring Valley and DuPue and ..." *crowd lifts me onto their shoulders*

Map of a portion of the Illinois River, showing towns named DuPue, Spring Valley, Peru, Ottawa, and Marseilles

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Mar 20

The replies to this

“Why Can't You Just Be Normal” template

First panel — woman in the front seat of a car, caption: “It's basically impossible to have any sort of nuanced discussion on this site about AI”

Second panel — child in the back seat, caption: “*Screams*”

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Mar 19

But you have to make it a fair contest otherwise the whole conversation is like

The "Bronze Medal" meme, but in the last frame there are six podium places above the guy celebrating, collectively labelled "Transphobes"

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Mar 19

Sadly adding "Abqaiq" to @scattermoon.bsky.social's list

Tweet from Elaine Scattermoon @scattermoon • Jun 28, 2021
Like "Kessler syndrome" and "nuclear winter", "wet bulb temperature" is one of those terms where the more people out there who know what it means, the worse things have probably become.

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Mar 16

The real question is who do you cast as @seamas.bsky.social?

Tweet from Séamas O'Reilly @shockproofbeats
"Got my days wrong and ended up alone in a room with my boss and the
President of Ireland while I was on ketamine."

Stuart Presnell@logopetria· Mar 12

Can this be a solution?