to comprehend it aright, you must know something of the curious internal structure of the thing operated upon

sorry emily wilson also every classicist

As an English speaker, I do love stumbling upon Dutch content for the initial sensation that I am suffering from aphasia.

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

As a self-esteem building exercise, I've started saying "I lived, bitch" after completing any miniscule task whatsoever. It does not help.

eternal childhood is how we domesticate animals

I will do my endeavor.

In a perfect world, cinematic depictions of the Ancient Mediterranean would have everyone speaking actual Greek, Latin, etc to reinforce some of the strangeness of that time and place to us moderns. Unfortunately, only one man in Hollywood agrees with me on this, and, worse, it's Mel Gibson.

The Wellness industry has the same greed as the biomedical industry but nothing it sells you actually works

I know you shouldn't compare your progress to anyone else's but I have to admit it doesn't feel great that I couldn't even write 100 words this weekend when other people finished entire manifestos

Guy on Bluesky: Megan Thee Stallion I am here for you if you want an extremely anxious man with credit card debt

The youth love saying "with that being said" the youth can't stop saying "with that being said"

Dang this Twilight Zone has Lee Marvin and Lee Van Cleef! That's so much good Lee! Should have fit Lee Meriwether in here tbh

I got on the freeway in my 2006 Toyota Tacoma and drove 13 miles in a stunning 12 minutes, beating the human world record by more than 44 minutes

All these right wingers who converted to Catholicism in adulthood were just shopping around for an ideology that justified their pre-existing instincts and prejudices. If you convince them that Catholicism means peace and charity they'll just drop it and keep shopping.

So many people I like indulging in named generation cohort discourse. You don’t have to do that! There are always better explanations!

My probably economically illiterate hot take is that agricultural laborers deserve to be better compensated than almost anyone else in society and we should be willing to radically restructure the economy in order to achieve that

Annoying that the definition of the antichrist is "huge piece of shit" and not someone different from Jesus in every way. Would love to meet the guy who can't feed his dinner party no matter how much fish and bread he serves, has extra flesh on his palms, and fucked up a woodcutter's foot

NPR could get a lot more clicks if they found one economist to say we need to "force-femme men to make them more suitable for girly jobs."

boats

i have a great idea, let's all get foaming mad at each other over shit none of us control

It just doesn’t make sense to me how a decorated soldier could also be a psychopathic murderer

Much to object to here, of course, but it's striking how the teachers featured in the article are unable to apply their criticisms of students' use of "AI" to their own behavior.

My Ex-Wife Leverages Tibetan Plateau’s Water Wealth - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

It's impolite to call Musk a genocidal white nationalist because "civility" in American discourse functions not as a neutral procedural norm but as an asymmetric weapon to shield the powerful from accurate moral characterization while policing the tone of those who object.

one of the things I treasure most about writing is it is one of the vanishingly few remaining pursuits that involves sitting quietly with your own thoughts—something the entire tech industry has mobilized to ensure we never do again

I don't understand why people love this one, it's so bleak. "Sex is just a transaction and love is nothing but a commodity." Am I on the wrong antidepressants or something?

Okay this is very funny to me

I don't think most, or even many, of the No Kings protestors share my exact politics. I don't think these protests will bring down the regime or reshape society. I do think that a lot of fascists will see these events and realize that half the grandmas they meet think they're contemptible assholes!

physical copies of the washington post can be shredded, combined with bisquick and baked to make delicious and informative newsmuffins

Me any time anyone says anything mildly complimentary to me in any way:

This lack is, in fact, what I love in Wodehouse. Like, in a sensible world you shouldn't be able to make brilliant writing in the idiotic genre that is Edwardian light farce, and yet by God he did it. It's the most mysterious transmutation in literature. Like building the Eiffel Tower with kazoos.

Harry Potter Imbroglio Solution: Transfer your allegiance to Brad Neely's "Wizard People, Dear Reader" (2004)

Can people change? Sure! I’m rapidly deteriorating as we speak.

We're winning the War on Syntax

if the national guard are going to be deployed here until 2028 i think they should be bettering themselves instead of loitering. take some culture with you back to iowa and go to a smithsonian. give me 1500 words on how the barbara kruger installation at the hirshhorn makes you feel by 0900 tomorrow

selective serotonin reupdog inhibitor

At the airport typing contemplatively on my handheld device (a blueberry pop tart)

In the late '80s / early '90s we discovered that feeding processed bovine meat and bone meal to cattle leads to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE or "mad cow disease"). What strange new wonders will come from artificial intelligences cannibalizing themselves?

incredible line.

I have more in common with any Iranian than with any of the ghouls who have run my country my whole life

two dudes sephirothing at each other over a film composer within the comforting white-walled parameters of a phpbb is healthy and good, like watching two lions fight at the zoo. without message boards to contain them it's bad, like watching two lions fight at a water park or the ballet

Suboptimal shit is like yooooo... this could be optimal... except it's sub that... damn...

My entire life I've been put in this strange position where I have to hope my own country loses its wars

Waving at a baby is, in fact, praxis