Oh, that is nasty. That is dog shit.

The wrap up on Mann, realism, and why The Magic Mountain remains urgently relevant ⬇️

I am absolutely going to become one of those 'hold your nose and vote Labour' types at the next election.

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Unrelatedly: what if we had a political movement which began with “don’t be an arsehole” and derived other policies from that?

rate my new ink

I honestly believe the modern society has broken everyone. Social media, complexity, etc....almost nobody can cope with it. It's perfectly designed to destroy our perspectives and mental models and drive us to madness.

Saving America from Joe Biden and preserving our democracy explicitly requires that people who voted for Biden change their mind. Which in turn requires that those who didn’t vote for Biden show grace and empathy to those whose change of heart came from being hurt by the guy they voted for…

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

There's a fair few people asking what we do with this information in the comments, so here's my two cents. Firstly, if you think that the ramifications of this begin and end with arguing with people online or at Thanksgiving dinner, then you are not a serious person...

evangelicals don't want to "ban sex," they want to rule by rape. (which entails total control over sex and over the bodies of subordinate gender classes & children thry patriarchal sexual authority.) critical difference

I've seen a few videos on TikTok where ordinary looking people (even some black women!) are saying that they're lifelong Democrats who decided to watch Charlie Kirk's videos instead of just clips and they suddenly realised that he was actually a really great guy.

This sounds like an extremely interesting book - shame it's an obscure monograph that's difficult to find outside of Germany. jacobin.com/2025/09/herz...

The right has four different social networks (five if you count Twitter, which you should), one of which is the current US President's primary social network, and the left kind of accidentally found ourselves having one, even though the people who run this site hate us and don't want us here.

Charlie Kirk would be alive if people could just be normal about trans people.

Everything is horrible but at least "free speech" politics are going to be left-coded again like they should be

That's probably who you want teaching your overkill nursing lesson.

But we can replace all the coders we lose from this with VIBE CODERS, right? A 17 year old who did a course he saw on TikTok is basically a computer scientist.

A really cool subway ad. Who's paying for a media push for this book? Hey, don't worry about it.

I hope that my posthumous documentary is interrupted by the series finale of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper that was supposed to air on 9/11.

this exists it is called thinking

I mean, it's all load bearing isn't it? Trans rights, anti-racism, anti-genocide et al. are all downstream from enlightenment humanism, and if you're willing to concede one part then you're really conceding all of it, like saying that you're a mathematician but you don't believe in multiplication.

His gender was revealed as 'median Reform voter'

The idea that if you make Dems a little more Republican, Republicans will vote Dem is what’s breaking us. And it doesn’t even work!

Folks, we need to do *so much better than this*. Where's the glass coming from? Who's refining crude for the plastic for the frames? Who's making stainless steel for the tiny little screws? If you can't answer these questions, don't expect anyone to take you seriously.

One thing I've only heard brought up a few times about CK - his show had about 300k regular viewers. Quite a lot for YouTube, but nowhere near what you'd get for virtually anything on broadcast television. He simply wasn't a celebrity anywhere but in right wing internet circles.

I don't feel that we need to talk or think about Your Party from here on. They had a chance, they fucked it, story's over. I know that we want to know The Drama because these are people whose names we know, but I think that we can move on *cough*GreenPartyEntryism*cough*

Worked for me.

God help me, but Candace Owens saying 'it's a little fake a gay' has become my new vocal stim.

this was approximately like a week ago

Social media was once positioned as the great connecting force that would improve our world. If it ever did that, it certainly isn’t now. We must rein in these platforms, and deceptive narratives aimed at stopped regulation isn’t helping. Age restrictions are an experiment worth trying.

What's maddening is that there's nobody who can say 'this is bad for people, we need to take it offline until it can be shown that it won't hurt people any more.'

social media was a mistake and if we have to talk to ppl on the internet let it be on forums

To everyone asking what he’s talking about, it’s a series of 4chan greentexts from an 2023. Whether that makes it more or less insane is for you to decide

"Without the instant and continuous political, military and economic support of the USA, Israel would have been simply unable to pursue its genocide. Indeed, almost all Western states quickly bought into the campaign." Martin Shaw systematically recounts how Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.

I just Ratatouille the Ratatouille guy with facts and logic.

Finally going to find out what that Drowning Pool song was about.

Zack Polanski asking Zarah Sultana 37 times if she just wants to join the Green Party like Johnny Cash asking June Carter if she'll marry him.

Nepal's cops: *kills 20 of Nepal's children in 24 hours* The people of Nepal: *do basically full revolution inside a week* United States cops: *kills thousands of America's children every single year* The people of America: Now is not the time to call for defunding the police or voting socialist

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

"But now we shall both surely drown", said Sultana. "lol" said Corbyn, "Imao".

Meanwhile at the Tyler Robinson fanclub:

Read on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

One of the inconsequential things that pisses me off the most is podcasts about Internet culture hosted by people whose qualification is being on their phone a lot, who have like 50% of the information about any given subject, no insights, and which release episods a week after events happen.

Olivia Nuzzi whenever someone runs the garbage disposal: I should call him

With all the divisiveness in politics today I thought it would be nice to launch a new website that affirms something we can all agree on: a staggering number of Republicans are pedophiles. pedoconservatives.com

For those who missed it, here's my obituary for Charlie Kirk, a man who made the world worse every day he drew breath. www.patreon.com/posts/on-vio...