fucking convexly

True, but continental philosophy includes croissants.

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

your feedback was kind gentle and correct and still i resent you

we saw backrooms tonight & the theater’s power failed at the exact moment chiwetel ejiofor says, “lights please” & it took 3 solid minutes before all 50 people there accepted it wasn’t part of the film. that first minute in darkness & silence was some of the best cinema i have ever experienced.

The left that won't understand logistics, combined-arms, deterrence, the boring material reality of how force actually works (because understanding it feels like endorsing it) is *standing down* and *surrendering* by way of category error. Pacifist societies that dont have armies *get belgiumed*.

Idgaf except igaf because no one who dgafs posts that they dgaf. However, idgaf about saying idgaf, because that's how little igaf

I do genuinely think that so many things treated as “mental health issues” are just people having reasonable responses to bad situations/instability and need money/resources, not CBT to try to convince them this is fine, actually.

no one should start adult life with years of debt, that’s not the same as a degree being not worth it

every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar

LGBTQNJ+ 😆 (reposting with alt text)

it is part of why “you’re the racist for calling me racist” is legible. what they’re saying is, “you are the mean one for insulting me and even noticing race to begin with”

a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype

Why did you transition, right answers only. I love pockets!

I think about Aaron Swartz a lot these days.

I was so annoyed during a congressional hearing the other day when a Republican witness was like oh if you don't like the Court's interpretation of the Voting Rights Act, you can amend it Motherfucker we did! And the Constitution! And yet!

are humans god’s herpes? amen

(Single payer for dental has been a big bugaboo of mine for years, it would be a great initial bid on single payer because it's really important, separate from regular health insurance, and people use it regularly rather than the big expenditures being solely catastrophic stuff.)

Why are you nonbinary? Wrong answers only: I'm half girl on my mother's side.

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

In related “linguistic pareitolia” news, here is a version of the Soviet national anthem with French, uh, “subtitles”: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM5H...

Oh, we’re doing a Sumerian version of Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mots_d%...

Again, the real issue is that now we have a demographic of people who have typically been shuttled around in cars now suddenly trying out car-free mobility. People are noticing the infrastructure and driving habits are horrible for this, but they're blaming the bikes. 5/

This is lovely.

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You can avoid demeaning yourself this way by just reporting the facts, but the Times' politics reporters all think they're Faulkner.

Fascism can’t succeed without centrism, because far fewer people will admit to being a fascist than will endorse its policies — especially when they’re allowed to do so with the barest minimum necessary plausible deniability.

@lostcitymagic.bsky.social This is really cool! I‘m curious how you translated “ice,” whether you used the equivalent term for “frozen water” or for “immigration enforcement” or something like that?

part of the reason people don't want the history of this period taught or understood is to make this illegible to people. it's easy to swallow thought ending cliches about which venerated figure was a "man of their times" if you remain studiously unaware of what their times actually were

Funny that we humans brand other species as invasive

I keep thinking about so many of these summary tools as being the equivalent of a proxy pre-chewing your food before you get to eat it, but chewing the food is by far the best part of food. Encountering nothing but an endless ocean of masticated mush seems like an unbearable culinary nightmare.

I was vegan for a handful of years, and I have actually turned down cocaine with “No thanks, it’s not vegan” as a close-enough shorthand for my ethical issues with the human rights abuses in the supply chain. 😆

This reminds me of how no amount of pointing out how Trump supports people who tried to murder the Capitol Police will get cops and the biggest cop supporters to stop backing Trump because that support is motivated by racism, not regard for any individual's safety or well-being.

Dennis Hastert was a Republican Speaker of the House, the longest-running Republican to ever hold the position, and he was sentenced to prison for paying off children he sexually abused. Nobody associates this with the Republican Party because they’re the “law and order” party, because they’re white

If we were really supposed to separate the art from the artist, then publishers wouldn't put author bios right there on the books. We would't go to their events and listen to their q&a's and stand in line to get their signature on our pages.

"When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away." - Sara Ahmed, Living A Feminist Life

Every animal released from a wildlife rescue thinks they managed to execute a daring escape.

The entire “never satisfied” thing is only rolled out for communities that people insist shouldn’t be participating in public life in the first place.

People have to poop. If you make it so there's nowhere for them to poop, they won't stop pooping, they'll poop wherever they can get away with it. This is true of many things.

I love this from writer Rebecca Woolf on Instagram. Selflessness is not a maternal virtue. Let moms have selves.

I wasn't all that surprised by what it knew until I got to this part and then I was creeped out

A lot of restaurants will close of UBI passes, not because there won't be people willing to do the job, but they won't be willing to do it for THAT boss. I'm ok with people who you only put up with because they control your ability to eat and pay rent being out of our lives.

*cough laughs*

Often framed as a “generous” interpretation. At whose expense? 🫠

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Referees have announced that players over 40 are now allowed three extra free-throws per quarter, effective immediately. The Lakers are now heavily favored to win the playoffs.

I am looking for a calligraphy artist to do a small (3x5 card size) commission of the words "Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate." Strong preference for artists who immediately recognize that quote & its context, for reasons that will be obvious to the right artist. RTs welcome.