This is amazing.

i look up and behold: arm.

No such rules will ever be adequate to prevent institutionalized corruption in congress and scotus from ignoring them. Not saying it’s a bad idea, but there were plenty of other guardrails that should have prevented all this, and they were disregarded.

we live in an era of unfathomable political corruption, and it has in the most important ways been made possible by the actions of the Roberts court.

ben and jerry’s set up a hotbox booth in union square to promote cannabis justice and ice cream.

the lack of enthusiasm i am feeling for this leg workout

So Robert’s upended the whole way SCOTUS operates because he felt an existential need to protect the coal industry’s bottom line? Really?

This is so beautiful.

“The speaker of #lunchpoems” 🤭

I created a throne account a few weeks back and then didn’t share it because (1) I am a single gay SWE in NYC and nobody has any business giving me money (2) i don’t want to turn whatever this schtick is i’ve got going into a business.

cleaned up a bit

Gadamer on the magic of reading.

chelsea horse surveys its kingdom

time for a saturday morning walk

cool thread

shoulders ✅

happy friday!

he's targeting a religious group because he disagrees with their theological views. which is worse, this or asking catholic employers to offer contracepion thrrough their insurance plan?

cardio ✅

happy bsky detox day to all and sundry

vs Spicy Liberalism (Rorty)

I just want to point out that this kind of "speaking truth to power" stuff is what gives the Church moral credibility in normal people's eyes.

home in time for my first meeting, but it got rescheduled. more focus time for me!

arms ✅

few things irritate me as much as cradle catholics pretending that catholic converts get catholicism wrong, or pretending that converts are the typical case for zealot psychos among catholics. broaden your horizons. most integralists, most trads, most opus dei numeraries are not converts.

tired boy prepares to gym

hot girl (TM) next to me on the train “i did upper boddddyyy…. and then i did my 12-3-30…. it’s like one of my favorite things now”

in for my quarterly PrEP STI panel. we love these numbers.

my post count has finally surpassed my follower count. time to delete and start over.

this seems right to me.

Today’s poem: David Woo, “The End of the Visit” #lunchpoems

the antifeminist “feminists” on the right have no juice. idk who, absent the befuddling fumes of trad incense, believes this crap.

Government would function better if republican assholes weren’t constantly defunding and obstructing it. And also, the best grocery chain i’ve ever experienced is the Swiss co-op chain, which is member owned (albeit not by the state).

quads / calves ✅

i just want to win the lottery and retire (i enjoy my job but still)

listening to an audiobook of this and… the prose is so much less dense than the typesetting of this crappy paperback makes you feel.

Giving Gadamer another go. Last time I tried reading Truth and Method was about a decade ago.

deep sigh

This is from the same school of hermeneutics that gave us the Catholic reading of Matthew 1:25 (“He did not know her until she had given birth.”)

never wearing sleeves again

chest ✅ camera is cooperating today haha

sometimes one looks at the morning headlines and just laughs

from the last section of Rorty’s “Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature”

good lord it is monday again

Jen Shah once said she owned this huge house but it turned out it was a rental and also she was running phone scams on seniors.

Orban has been nurturing the intellectual side of the MAGA movement for a long time now. It'll be interesting to see if people like Gladden Pappin and Rod Dreher still have a place in post-Fidesz Hungary.

it’s that kind of annoying level of brisk where it’s beautiful out but too cold to enjoy it.

ok not to get nerdy but there’s a joke in Aristophanes’s play “The Clouds” (his parody of Socrates) about this exact phenomenon.

Good luck to Hungary today... Regardless of whether Magyar follows through on his anti-corruption platform, a loss for Orban/Fidesz is a win for humanity.

RIP to this guy's fridge (if this is even real) but everything about this is so heavily imbued with American male gender performance. What an artifact!