i should be excited about moving this week but I can only think about having to drive a uhaul -- the mere thought has erased any horizon of possibility for me

A bay watch commercial came on and my toddler said “woah”

Parents who proudly proclaim being strict are authoritarian and parents who proudly proclaim being gentle are too lax, if you’re like me you’re right in the middle 😇

Between this and eledon, I’m hopeful that diabetes will be functionally cured in my son’s lifetime

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At a young age I was told that people from Dallas were snobby. I still hold onto this assumption.

I’m at a decent private school, but since it’s been paying to sustain massive projects out of pocket they basically have nil for the rest of us

Little known fact that the boy in this book is called little Hans and his dad looks like a horse (even tho he’s not depicted in the book)

This May Day I’m reflecting on how being a grad student is still the closest one can get to the mad men lifestyle (minus the juicy income)

Instagram serving up that good shit

it’s giving

Officially ABD 👍

The scientific positivism advocated here is predicated on the transcendental subject. Even Marx at his most monist fails to avoid this.

Finally leaving this shithole apartment 👍

What a horrible disease. RIP

Making my peace with the vibecession people by accepting that I’m broke bc children are expensive. Now that that’s settled, can we admit that having children in daycare shouldn’t cost more than rent regardless of how much it cost in the past ?

marx accounted for this subjective quality with the rate of exploitation formula

God, I hate econometrics so much. I've never met a median wage earner in my life. that guy is a fiction!

just war doctrine means just war. nothing else,, DUH

Interesting: basically anyone I look up associated with the Hitlerian churches covered recently has "private foundation" listed as their current employer 🤔

I think trump and the pope should send champions to fight single combat style

there's a realtor who does lifestyle consultations for people making the MASSIVE move from, wait for it, Staten Island to New Jersey. Im howling

More people should read Brian Massumi brianmassumi.substack.com/p/norms-beha...

i think time has shown that making downtowns recreation centers for suburbanites doesn't work. almost just as bad as making them places to park 501c3 organizations.

Another April, another year of forgetting how I do taxes as a graduate student

every 30 seconds on comms

Hope this helps: Atheism is a fundamental experience of being in the world and neither good nor bad.

Yup, no problem. Sin is a corporate affair and i can’t just ignore those committed by my fellow believers.

Seeing a nyc yellow cab where I live (over an hour away from the nearest bridge) is like seeing a rare bird

Makes me wonder if those Iranian hackers were holding back on some of the juicier stuff as leverage

speaking only as an outsider commenting on what is clearly a inter-jewish conversation: this kind of collective responsibility is the only way forward for a religion to survive the crimes committed in its name without giving into them entirely

just in time for fire season

People seem to ignore that the student encampments were a culmination of decades worth of on campus pro-pal organizing. Leadership and organizations that have, in many cases, been hollowed out.

Not impressed by 7/11’s Buffalo Chicken Roller… let it be known

Gas prices stay high 🫡

Losing my mind thinking how diabetic seniors weren’t really a thing until the 90s

The stories I could tell about this fucking place

Will the solution to Christian nationalism be secularism or a sort of post-post-secularism?

A Bluesky classic

Have you maybe considered that appeal of the new right is that it is functionally a hobby? An outlet for desire against boredom?

"every man that suffers is a piece of meat" -Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon and the Logic of Sensation

The story of Job shows us that God’s logic, this side of eternity, is indescribable from chaos. The story of the passion clarifies that in this chaos the possibility of being otherwise always remains because love makes it so.

From Catholic News Service: 1st station: "Every person in authority will have to answer to God for the way they exercise their power." Jesus says, "whatever you do to another human being, especially to the small & vulnerable, you do unto me. And it is to me that you will one day give an account."

Bart Ehrmann machine goes brrrrr (incidentally plugging into the douthat machine)

Brian massumi is the libmaxxed version of D&G. Very faculty lounge coded, therefore, very Bluesky coded.

Fire is looking awfully direct for an indirect fire shelter

Insulin pump in two weeks. Soon my robo-baby will be complete (apple carplay included)

Say what you will about Freemasons but at least my grandfather had a sense of civic virtue, something I don’t think got passed on to my dads generation

aesthetics are not an insignificant part of the equation, it is a quasi-spiritual force