Years ago I read Annie Dillard's "The Writing Life", and she has a quote I always come back to: "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives." I come back to writing, musical practice, game development, because I don't want it in my obituary that I worried, and scrolled, and died.

I invite all Americans to join Minnesota in a day of unity tomorrow.

Vance speaking at the opening of the Waukesha Papacy: The filioque clause? sounds pretty filioGAY to me.

Ken‘s out here remaking the entire environment —

It’s because no one wants to associate with them for any purpose other than disagreeing.

Thinking about this again for reasons www.liberalcurrents.com/why-we-need-...

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My guess: without anyone intending this outcome-in fact intending the opposite—the slogan Black Lives Matter ended up communicating to Hispanic voters that the Democratic Party didn’t speak for them, and the party never landed on a set of actual policy reforms for policing it could unify behind.

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Back on my schtick, reading about the intellectual history of literary criticism's insistence of the primacy of form and the irrelevance of content to artistic value:

I would like to inform Bluesky that today's wordle besmirches the dignity of the game.

Magical because it's full of vampires.

Work and play are not discrete categories but opposite ends of a continuum, one that only overlaps at certain discrete points with the "getting paid for it/paying to do it" scale.

Trump's National Security Strategy calls for a "Trump Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, in which strategic resources are kept out of the hands of rival powers. As I wrote yesterday in @dissentmag.bsky.social, it is unlikely to stop with Venezuela dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Anyway, I get every side of this, but I don't secretly hate Democrats because I want them to strengthen their opposition. Zohran, those that pushed for the Epstein Files release, the Tesla protesters and No Kings all prove that loudly changing the conversation can piss off and stall these fascists.

Changing academic programs to fit employer needs is bad for intellectual reasons, but it's also bad beause we didn't and probably can't actually do it. So promising that we can is the worst of all words: a least if we said, "hey, just come read some books with us," there'd be truth in advertising.

It is just absolutely vital to talk politics with literally anyone not on here. Do it twice and you'll realize a) we're to the left of 99% of the world and b) our ability to work with that vast majority is hampered by being caught up in intra-left debates.

Talking politics with a dear family member, I saw an additional downside of universitites emphasizing vocational education. She argued that American universities deserve what they're getting from Trump, because they lied to a generation of students that they would get the career of their dreams.

Something I think a lot about is how long it took the free states to decide they were willing to fight to end slavery - and how hard they did fight once they made the decision.

Republicans while everyone else runs around blaming everyone else

Eg seems like it’s time for The Bold and Courageous leadership of Europe Award to go to, like, Keir Starmer

broken record here but it is insane that i am more concerned with the 20kish Americans living in venezuela than the entire national press

My takeaway here is that FIFA should give more prizes.

Remember that there is a legitimately elected president of Venezuela: Edmundo Gonzalez. He won the election in 2024.

I feel like the clearest marker of class in America is how much something has to be worth for you to go through the hassle of selling it on Facebook Marketplace. I’m currently selling a pair of $70 ski pants and considering whether I’m bougey enough to just donate them.

The comments on this are all the archival evidence Bowling Alone needed

You dont say.

FUCK I’m a British admiral going up against the German East Asian Fleet off the coast of Chile with a couple of armored cruisers and a converted ocean liner, make sure you tell Churchill he sucks after I’m dead

Conservatives on the welfare state: you see a free market for education and health care insures that the weak do not drain public resources. Conservatives on birthright citizenship: are we not all the nation’s babies, and the person who critiques the nation like the son who betrays his father?

How does Good King Wencelas like his pizza? Deep pan, crisp and even.

[turns folding chair in asylum cell around] You know who else was in a manger and experienced the silence of the lambs

The year is 2037. Empress Marie Kondo I of the American sector holds the chains of the rebel general. Kondo: "Does he bring you joy?" Crowd: "NO!" Kondo, handing him to the executioner: "Thank you for your service."

Talarico's interesting because he actually, in no sense, is a Democratic moderate: he just looks like one at first glance because he's a white, proudly Christian Texan. When you actually listen to what he says, he's very firmly progressive

Did you know that each region of Ireland has its own figure who traditionally delivers presents on Christmas Eve??

*pushes glasses up by the taped-over bridge* that's a can punch

Engineering has the same problem

In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions. There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues. Not even a “no comment.” www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...

Relatedly, every pediatric OT is trying to get across to the public that the MAJORITY of children are failing fine motor skill benchmarks — meaning they have weak, uncoordinated hands. Coloring is not meant to create art, although that’s nice. It’s meant to give you hand strength.

It is an unpleasant truth that the best way to avoid getting myself too obsessively focused on one internet argument is to involved in a different internet argument at the same time.

The best ones will rip reporters for asking the questions. Unleashing hell on the mainstream media from the left is going to be a big winner in 2028. Breath of fresh air. Pritzker will be good in that track.

Tis the season.

I’m trying to write about this! Ultimately I don’t think these feelings are closet fascism/racism/sexism; those are just the clothes worn by old fashioned envy and frustrated ambition. So the answer isn’t some deeper form of social solidarity, or rather that’s just the clothing worn by the humble.

“The networks have declined to air prime time speeches from the last two Democratic presidents, claiming they were too political.” In 2022, broadcast networks declined to air a prime time speech by Joe Biden “where he warned about threats to democracy, deciding the speech would be too ‘political.’”

Villains: the Geslopo

Stop the Slop Is this anything

bsky.app/profile/pfes... i honestly get the picture there is no way the crowd can have any sympathy whatsoever for a complaint unless it is so properly caveated and bulletproofed that it shrivels into nonexistence

There comes a moment in every marriage when you realize your partner is willing to bribe the children with cake to win at Carcassone.