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Footnoted references from the GOP manual of public speaking

God, Greek is kicking my assssss

Aw jesus, the absolute last discourse I wanted to see when I first woke up is a bunch of bullhocky about concept formation.

I was walking along a river in Wales looking for new plants to forage and found an entire ass peacock feather instead?!

Anti-theists, "skeptics," debate me bros, Objectivists, rational altruists, and other members of the cult of scientism might not be the worst people on the planet, but they are definitely the most insufferable.

Public information sharing forums challenge my principled commitment to lateral, community knowledge sharing SO HARD.

I get that we have to practice scrupulous information hygiene in the current disinfo moment, but we just uncovered hard evidence of a world-wide child trafficking conspiracy. I cannot take liberals seriously who discount conspiracy theories solely because they are about conspiracies.

Now that I have my own apartment I have immediately become that simmer pot bitch

This would be FUCKING AWESOME

One of the most fascinating books I read for my diss was an Army scientist's memoir about chemical weapons work. He would shift with breathtaking speed from one paragraph to the next btwn indignation at public distrust of scientific expertise to "aw shucks smallbois playin'" when things went wrong.

The forgery machine continues forging.

My new apartment is like if my famed grandma tiger jacket came to life and decorated a flat, or so I have been told.

You know who I have learned as a grown adult who faces consequences when I do things? One should never ever ever ever ever befriend a person who talks a lot of shit and then jumps behind YOU when the consequences come knocking.

God, I signed up for a few dozen academic job notification services and I keep getting jobs for AI positions and what the fuck are we even doing. These algorithms cannot even produce material as good as that of our worst students. What the actual fuck.

I left my career in tech because of galaxy marketing brain that insisted I update things merely for the sake of updating them so it seemed like we were fresh and cutting edge. It was a waste of everyone's time, created horrific security holes in the website, and made the user experience worse

Cults are like that.

You know what? Gulf coast oysters are nasty and inferior in every way to the sweet, delicate morsels you find in the cold waters of the Atlantic.

My brain: lift? Sure. Pint? Nbd. Flat, rota, pram, pensioner? U got this. Also my brain: Trousers do not exist.

I have decided to experiment with all the old fashioned pub drinks in the UK, and may I just say that both a cordial pint and a shandy are disgusting

The political decisions to use a combination of malnourishment and illness to potentially kill off the offspring of your primary supporters (who also happen to overlap significantly with the primary body of people you are expecting to serve as your shock troops) is an interesting one.

Faculty, your job is to be annoyed at the administration and back the students 100%! www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/21/b...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

I know that all of you will be sad not to hear my absolutely batshit English hostel adventures anymore, but I just signed for a real adult flat and live in Wales now.

I apologize for the lack of bee pics for the last week but I haven't seen any Welsh bees yet.

There's a herd of sheep on the hill just below the National Library of Wales, which is maybe like the most Welsh thing ever.

Being able to see which reels your friends like on Instagram has taught me so many things I'm not sure I want to know, including who amongst you are fart monsters in bed, who likes the idea of being slapped by hot strangers, and who really likes reels with jiggling boobs, just as a start.

Have you seen this book? YOU SHOULD.

Gonna add the National Library of Wales card to this collection tomorrow.

Hey baby. You haven't blocked anyone on bluesky in nearly a month. Are you ok?

Today I went for a walk on the beach and started learning the local seaweed! Apparently most of it is edible. I was able to identify about a dozen different types. The only ID that eluded me was this uncommon one. Possibly it is a red seaweed known as The Landlady's Wig! Any algae experts out there?

So many schools are gonna follow suit with the Trump-exacerbated funding crisis. Entire higher ed sector going in to free fall, this is just the start

I have stumbled into the "fussy, maximalist grandmother" genre of guesthouse decor and honestly I can see myself decorating my house this way in a very slightly different timeline than this one.

Imagine how much bullshit people would call if statisticians said queer people were lying about being queer because statistics show the average person isn't queer. But swap the word "queer" with "poor" & every dipshit economist comes out of the woodwork to say poor people are lying about being poor

"chicken goujons" is an awfully fancy name for fucken "chicken fingers," Brits.

Jamie Raskin has argued that the only way to beat the far-right and extremists is an alliance of the center-right, the moderate center left and the left. Judging by the tactical voting of the left in France and the election in Hungary, he's right.

I've been waiting for the evangelicals & trad caths to finally take the masks off re: the cynical pragmatism of their US political alliance. Love to see it. Will the left capitalize on it & scoop up all those moderate, left-leaning religious folks, or are we gonna keep listening to dirtbag atheists

Everyone keeps asking me where my accent is from and I remain confused. Like....it's just a pretty standard American accent and these are not exactly unknown on the world stage?

I briefly considered doing a second project on alternative health grifting but I don't think I could look at this stuff every day for three years without losing my mind

When the absolute dumbest motherfucker on the planet starts digging a hole, refuses to stop digging, and comes out the other side of the earth into China.

Hello me it is me

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

You know how Panda bears have to eat like 10000 calories a day and have evolved themselves into god's stupidest creatures because they eat the least nutritionally dense food on earth? I think about that a lot when I go to the grocery store and look at what modern agriculture has done to vegetables

I was chopping mushrooms today and enjoying how pleasant their earthy smell is when I realized. No. In fact, it is the other way around. Mushrooms do not smell like soil. Healthy soil smells like mushrooms.

Please cite the deep magic to me. I have 93 instances of the deep magic being cited over the last 120 years. It is in a cross referenced spreadsheet on my computer so that I can follow the trail of its mutations over time, scrupulously linking each alteration to the utterer's personal desires.

Just thinking back to the many CIA propaganda pieces about LSD I read in this magazine.

I'm not 100% sure on the ID, but I think today's bee spotting is a common carder bee.

One of the best things about the barrier to publishing being low in the past is anyone could create a journal with a solid reputation and then go absolutely feral publishing personal grudges against enemies in competing journals. You don't even need to go to private correspondence to get good drama.

Check out this photo of Miss Annie D. Betts (who, ahem, remained "Miss" until she died at the age of 77). She was a British mathematician, aerospace engineer, and beekeeper. She was the first to describe the beehive fungus Pericystic alvei, which was later renamed to Bettsia alvei after her.