I felt like my English professors did not emphasize enough how much of Walden is basically a prototype diet and self help book

“Walden”, Henry David Thoreau, 1854

I never noticed this either.

I’m sure smarter people than myself have made this criticism better, but I’ll take a crack at it: it is regrettable that Hadestown fuses death and industrial labor in its metaphor, in part because it could be read as artistic boyfriend rescuing his type-A girlfriend from her job

Clocking into the Discourse Factory, sighing resignedly when I read my card and see that today I must politely discuss the nigger biomass problem with user DeltaForce1488. Another day as a neoliberal on X, the everything app.

This is pretty common when thing on X dot com now. This thing where Principled Liberals engage with troglodyte gutter racists spewing slurs by just politely responding to them like peers in a debate club. It’s completely deranged.

very much the monetary equivalent of "only Nixon could go to China"- when the left does big spending it's lazy and irresponsible, when the right does it's bold and dynamic

*(french) chef-kiss*

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Marx: capitalism builds up the economic forces and productive capacity of a society that can later be more equitably distributed under different economic systems "Marxists": nooooo, you can't just increase supply, then some capitalist might make money!!!

When it first entered the mainstream, AI wasn't very good, so AI can never be good, so it's good to hate AI. This is, of course, silly. You might as well insist that people clearly cannot watch things via streaming because, as we all know, consumer internet speeds cap out at 56k.

“Other video games on his phone” oh he definitely had whale accounts on waifu gatchas, huh.

ok if it were a shitpost "g*vernments" would be pretty funny

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

We are warfighters, not woke, now get your asses in those theater seats and learn how to pick dresses for formal balls.

Damn i remember some big lawsuits of broadcasters over editing of events showing WH figures

"What you did was racist." "Well ... you're fat." Kind of proves the level of people we're dealing with.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Hey! I think it would be really cool if you re-write a National Geographic story written by @jamesstout.bsky.social as a threaded post that you credit his original writing. We are watching news rooms and funding for journalism disappear, the least we can do is cite the author's work.

Regarding peak pottery, lemme do you one better

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I love the combination of this statement with this headwear.

I feel if Zohran does moderately well as mayor both the ultras and the right will go insane

Chat is it a good sign for my deportation agenda when a Republican senator in a deep-red state is sending concerned letters to Kristi Noem telling her not to build a concentration camp in his state

Reviewing video from Fulton County elections raid. Taken aback by the dismissive & sneering attitude from FBI agents toward the cop politely asking to see the warrant. Looked him up: He's an immigrant w/ a doctorate in philosophy. His thesis? "Force by police officers toward African Americans."

I would take all this talk of ”both parties are the same, they just want to maintain their duopoly” more seriously if the people saying it actually campaigned on voting reforms like RCV or proportional representation, but they don’t

We simply live in an age wherein so much information is produced, recorded, and archived that digging up the transcript of a widely broadcast show feels like a medieval scribe unearthing a centuries-old manuscript to justify their lord's ancestral land claim

Chat is it a good sign for my deportation agenda when a Republican senator in a deep-red state is sending concerned letters to Kristi Noem telling her not to build a concentration camp in his state

A small group of protestors assembled near an empty warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, in mid-January with one objective: to stop the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from converting the building into an immigration detention center.

its WaStancil, the Wario to Will’s Mario

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

he doesn't fucking miss

DIE BTC DIE

i'm sorry they lost SEEKING ALPHA??

Anecdotally, that it fell in lockstep with the dollar recently while gold & silver spiked seems to have genuinely fucked with the heads of a lot of the true believers

The United States loves nothing more than to provide safe-harbor for disgraced British physicians.

The Bitcoin-as-Gold argument never made sense to me because it’s fundamentally speculative; most people playing with bitcoin are there for quick wins. It’s a bunch of guys telling YOU to treat it like gold so that THEY can treat it like a penny stock.

Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...

They specifically advertise it as social media for people who’ve been banned elsewhere, so yeah, this tracks. They’re bottom feeders.

Too bad transphobes don’t care about evidence.

Jeremy Corbyn’s “Peace and Justice Project” have just memoryholed Noam Chomsky out of existence and purged mentions of him from their website.

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

Hundreds of handcuffed people in fear being herded into repurposed warehouses is straight out of a Handmaid’s Tale flashback scene.

Nobody tell these guys about musical theater, Hadestown would break them

Absolutely fucking repulsive.