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Calvin’s dad voice: The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories. Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists. Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism. Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

This is @glutelord.bsky.social and he's completely fucking correct. The fundamental tension at the heart of all incel culture is that these guys HATE women and refuse to appeal to them but desperately want to get laid anyway, and this contradiction can only really be resolved through violence

Going to Italy for the first time. Looking for advice. Wrong answers only, please.

Far side of the moon released by NASA today. 🧪🔭

In spite of everything, Christ is risen!

The cinematic trailer that dropped today! @bobbiechristine.bsky.social @voxytwitch.bsky.social @shivambhatt.bsky.social @taaliavess.bsky.social @zabracus.bsky.social @schmandrewart.bsky.social @itsannamargaret.com @kesswylie.kess.co @cedricaphillips.bsky.social youtu.be/clKNMdlFiPw

Bear with me here, but there many things that drivers can do to protect themselves from rising fuel prices such as driving less and driving more slowly (or even stick to existing speed limits). The Chief Secretary to the Treasury saying people don’t need to change their behaviour is stupid.

If you are going to be at #MCVegas, you should really come and watch me run D&D!! With @seananmcguire.bsky.social @jacuzzitubbs.bsky.social @moxreuby.bsky.social @persephiroth.bsky.social !!! mcvegas.mtgfestivals.com/en-us/experi...

Absolutely brilliant piece of writing, and a lucid description of why the humanities matter even to the hard work of foreign relations. For more on this, I cannot recommend Martha Nussbaum’s “Poetic justice: the literary imagination and public life” highly enough.

I wish I could express quite how hard I was laughing watching a toddler gymnastics class try rhythmic gymnastics ribbon twirling for the first time. All they were supposed to do was walk in a line twirling the ribbons. The ribbons hanging from a stick. Absolute carnage.

What I think of literally every time @shivambhatt.bsky.social mentions the CAG on SAWLM

I know people know LRR mostly for magic content (especially here) but we also spend a lot of time making bonkers sketch comedy, like this video about how to kill a rock. youtu.be/-BZjRtXjs6w

Yeah I use AI LLMs for my guidance in life- Ancient Indian Lengthy Liturgical Manuscripts

[Exit Murderer.]

This sounds like an ad, but it's about murder.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

I was radicalized by a kind elderly Presbyterian minister in a brightly colored cardigan who played with puppets and told me that people could like me exactly as I am and that everyone is different and that's great and we should like them exactly as THEY are.

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

Yes.

You know that cough you get at the end of a cold that doesn’t ever seem to go away? Yeah, fuck that cough.

Real talk, kids these days do NOT understand Richard Scarry's Busytown books (1960s) because the concept of a dense urban core that nurses and workers and firefighters and food vendors can afford to live in is increasingly foreign

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Well, it looks like the UK is stuck with me… indefinitely.

GOOD NEWS! The Panalysts is back! Tune in next Saturday, February 14th at 10:00AM Pacific for the season 3 premier! Then, every Saturday after that for the next 11 weeks! Can't wait that long? Too bad :P But here's a trailer to tide you over :D youtu.be/Iguw0HRhuuI

I’m looking to read some off-piste Dragonlance. @shivambhatt.bsky.social, which 3 non-“main storyline” books would you recommend?

I taught a class on “hope” last year and the few theorists who’ve written on it all point out that hope is the harder choice - that despair is easy and too often fashionable

Also universities.

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JESUS: Forgive them, Lord; they know not what they— {puts finger to earpiece} Sorry, Lord, I'm now being told they absolutely do know what they do

I read in the press that the Brooklyn Beckham debacle will be a test case for influencers’ children and how they will view their parents when they grow up. But what about Christopher Robin? We already know how that went.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Just a heads up, tomorrow is Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder, hope you've done your shopping and holiday meal prep.

Fascinating essay on *why* some cultures are terrified of reheating rice and others just...do it every day. The justification cycle - racialised thinking, call to science, appeal to long past and/or 'traditional' wisdom - seems universal for this sort of food story #histFood

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I am HOWLING

My Magic hot take for the weekend. Ignore the TMNT cards. Stay off the subreddit, do not engage. Just go and enjoy the incredible set that is Lorwyn Eclipsed. A bunch of folks put a lot of love into this set, and it deserved its time to shine.

Maybe the best thing on the internet still? Certainly the most essential counter we have to our current shitstream of social media-driven misinformation.

New dating strategy just dropped

i’m sure ICE guys with their guns and masks fancy themselves big brave men, but when you see real, honest courage it knocks you on your ass. it’s a glimpse of something holy.

Begging leftists not to dismiss the crucial role of radical clergy in mass protest movements as happened so often during his first term. At every one of my most formative experiences, they’ve been there. The most brutal violence I’ve experienced at a protest was side by side with radical clergy.

Watching JD Vance since he entered politics has really made me understand the kind of person that led Dante to write about someone so monstrously amoral and treacherous that his soul could fall straight to Hell while still walking around alive and well.

(homoousios)

Super interesting thread on why this is not only illegal but also deeply stupid

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.