A man: who, knowing his whole true self, cannot be used or possessed by any power other than himself, and whose life therefore is lived for life’s sake and never in the service of ruin, or pain, or hatred, or the dark.

There is nothing inexplicable about why some histories are not widely known.

My apparently controversial opinion is that nobody should be getting grants from the government to study anything until everyone in the country has food and housing and medical care. If a country can’t afford to feed everyone then it can’t afford cutting-edge research.

listen im not very well spoken on this stuff we need help. the time for silence from supposed allies has long since passed and they are pushing things that will directly harm trans kids. they seek our elimination because we embody everything they want to take from everyone. freedom. choice. hope.

I don't want to live any more it's too expensive

Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.

WE CAN'T HAVE A FUCKING CONVERSATION IF I'M FUCKING TRYING TO FUCKING KILL YOU AND EVERYONE YOU LOVE.

Literally fuck you. Fuck all of you. FUCK YOU. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhkB...

Braiding Sweetgrass or The Color Purple. Or Shrek.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

My Zionist ex-friend. Or JK Rowling.

People love rich people and want to be rich themselves. Rich people have nothing to fear from the public and they know it.

The love of rich people is only surpassed by the hatred of the poor. Two sides of the same coin.

And this is the truth that must be contended with.

Every single person should read this. I've read it three times.

Why did the British have to get into colonizing. Why couldn't they have stuck with the inventing the dumbest names I've ever heard

Because fuck you.

Have any of those anti-porn feminist scholars successfully published enough articles to make their husbands stop watching it?

Crystal Waters should be New York’s next city council speaker. She’s been advocating for the homeless since the 1990s.

Me: My rates are flexible for mission-aligned organizations Real meaning: I work for as little as $10/hour

You hate women. A woman wears the wrong shoes to a wedding? A woman gets plastic surgery and it gets botched? A woman doesn't go into "STEM"? You jump on it like a roach on garbage.

If I ever have a wedding, you are allowed to wear literally whatever and no one is allowed to film anything and no one is allowed to make passive aggressive comments if you're not to "code".

Women showing me their engagement rings makes me feel like I live in the year 1509.

This was a mean-spirited essay that contradicts itself almost as much as it congratulates itself. It's not original or interesting. It's hate wrapped in faux-deep bullshit. open.substack.com/pub/fatherka...

Getting embroiled in Substack politics is loser behavior, go outside immediately.

Capitalism creates the problem and sells you the solution....

Phrases like "before shit totally hit the fan" tell me that you live in a privileged bubble. It's that jokey thing white people do when exclaim "everything is so crazy right now" while having access to food and shelter, experiencing no threat to their lives or livelihoods, still going to brunch...

People will make fun of dogs for enjoying a park or a leaf or a stick. But what's sillier? Nature? Or taking shit like "deliverables" or "executive assistant" or whatever seriously?

I saw a homeless man crying on a bench at 59th and West End. A nest always falls out of the tree.

So many men are so fearful. So afraid and so small and so insecure. So wrong in their definitions of strength, their definitions of weakness.

Conversely, any endless scrutiny of women is always misogynistic, it's always playing right into the hands of a patriarchy that tortures and humiliates women into worrying about the tiniest things, pore sizes and eyebrow hairs and arm fat.

the things that white man gets away with are astonishing.

I'm so fucking depressed

The point of having tenure is going your whole life from age 18 until death without having to ever find your own housing or figure out your own health insurance, living a wholly sheltered life of institutional privilege while entirely convinced only you can see the world objectively.

Successfully pushing and challenging yourself to do things you couldn’t initially do when you first willed yourself to do them feels great actually! Our war against waged labor should not also be a baby-with-the-bathwater war against creative labor and other kinds of concentrated striving.

“The will to power” isn’t leather trenchcoats and sadism, the will to power is practicing the same two bars of music over and over at half tempo for as long as it takes until you can play it perfectly at full tempo.

“Struggling” and “making an effort” are not the same thing. Trying to work when you don’t have enough food is bad. Having to revise the same paragraph several times until it’s just right is good. Having to practice for a long time to master a complex skill is also good.

I think this is basically correct but my more careful version would be that USians whether they enjoy the idea of cruelty or not have a very low threshold for actually watching it done in front of their faces. Many people here are comfortable with it happening if they don’t have to see it

I saw a dried-up old man sitting on a bench freaking out about "paid protestors" on his phone on the most beautiful, glorious, sunlit autumn day at the park, the splendor of nature on full display. God's little joke.

Why does no one ever talk about Gabriel Rockhill?

After The Times published an article supposedly citing De Blasio, he said he was “astounded” and called it “a complete fabrication.” “The truth is I fully support Zohran Mamdani and believe his vision is both necessary and achievable.”

Once you learn that a lot of people on social media are actually furious at themselves and need a way to externalize their fury, things become clearer.

I don't trust the NYC electorate on the whole. Folks here are extremely susceptible to demogoguery and the worst part is that we believe ourselves to be so savvy. We are not, 😂. I am certain that the Mamdani campaign takes nothing for granted.

As Toni Morrison said, "the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work." But she also reminded us never to lose our capacity to be shocked. Part of my conversation on @ayman.msnbc.com earlier today.

It's not that they don't have a sense of humanity. It's that they don't see you as a human being.

For FY26, funding for NYC Public Libraries is only 0.45% of the total city expense budget. @nycplan.org is currently organizing for an increase to 0.50% for FY27 which would mean an additional $56.4 million for our libraries. IMPORTANTLY, we demand this stay CONSTANT as the FLOOR. nycplan.org

Do you live in an apartment complex? How about printing out some fliers letting your neighbors know that on a particular day of the week, u will be cooking X extra meals and that anyone who needs one can stop by your place at X hour to pick one up no questions asked? Can even leave them at the door.