Oh are we talking about the ways the groundswell of transphobia has harmed us? Sure, let's do this. A depressing thread by me, a trans southerner in exile.

"Go get married at the Great American State Fair if you don’t wish to be seen by anyone."

I agree with all the takes about an attack on the humanities being an attack on critical thinking, &c. It’s also about joy, though. ‘Why bother studying that’ is always also a sneer at — why do you think you should get to do something you enjoy? Grow up and be miserable all the time!

important to note that, while Benedict was the one who un-excommunicated them (because he sucked), the much-more-liberal Francis ALSO made concessions with SSPX. he tried to give them a few things they wanted in the hopes that they would then offer compromises from their end, but these guys never do

I think he’s baiting them to admit it’s code for other stuff “oh, you guys like the Latin Mass? that’s what this is about? Latin? nothing else? no weird creepo vibes? no stochastic terrorism? just Latin, the language, completely on its own? sure, go ahead!”

Obviously I've made my peace with soccer theatrics, which I mostly just find funny, RIP Neymar etc, but "the truly maimed are usually quite still" goes so hard as a sentence

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

Tomorrow at SCOTUS is gonna be like: a. Trans athletes get screwed b. Another campaign finance law is gutted c. Birthright citizenship is upheld ... and we're all supposed to focus on (c) and forget about all the atrocious decisions that preceded it. Let's not, please!

Honestly this idea - each state sends one thing to a grand state fair across the National Mall would be amazing.

Liars got good Women and Mothers killed.

Honestly the Trump era is when you think about it the culmination of a 50 year crusade to avenge Nixon which succeeded with its final triumph being a President who is worse than Nixon on every single level but is immune to the consequences he faced

him being the world's first trillionaire is depressing, but him being the world's first ex-trillionaire is very very funny

WHEW when Courtney's right, she's right, and she's just about always right

Like many people who have worked in politics for decades, I am baffled and upset to see candidates who say they are going to try to make things better defeating candidates who say they are trying to make it more or less like it was in the years before things tipped over into Oaf-Style Fascism.

"After analyzing federal and industry records, including never-before-examined data on vehicle dimensions, we found that the rise of large pickups and S.U.V.s is an important factor." i'm sorry but how the fuck is this correlation just coming to light now?

why are we acting like the Gabbard being in a weirdo cult is breaking news, people were talking nonstop about it back when she was pretending to be Democrat

The arrests for "vandalism" around the reflecting pool are in principle the same thing as Russian soldiers being forced to record false captures/flag-raisings on the frontlines– the deforming of the state into a tyrant-soothing bouncy infant chair

So glad I've lived to see a world where CR7 is getting the scorn he so richly deserves.

One of the odd directions that politics seem to be going in is that geopolitical views are driven by the internationalization of domestic political culture war positions: chud vs. woke in two dozen countries, with all of the chuds and wokes aligned in a chud international and a woke international.

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Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

Now these are the tech bros. But before? These were the guys who came up with "evolutionary psychology"

This is perfect. Excerpt from a longer piece by Shawn Smucker, published here: shawnsmucker.substack.com/p/please-use-ai #poem #booksky #writing

“nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person WITHIN ITS JURISDICTION the equal protection of the laws.” Not citizens, not residents, anyone within the jurisdiction.

gaiz you need to learn to enjoy the process or this is not going to be fun and all you can do with it is have fun

i hope media executives are taking note of the tens of thousands of people who for several hours on a friday night have stayed glued to livestreams of scaffolding being built just so they could witness his name getting knocked off a building

Delaney Hall was really rough again last night. Don’t take your eyes off this place.

I am less concerned about Trump literally “canceling” the midterm elections than I am about him insisting that no results can possibly be legitimate, and urging his most psychotic acolytes to take matters into their own hands (again)

I don’t know who that is, and you can’t make me learn, but this is still funny.

Hunter Biden spending his whole day every day on Twitter being like "I'm not a pedophile, I was smoking crack with ADULT hookers at the Super 8 outside of Newark, you guys have pictures of all of it INCLUDING my hog from My Leaked Stolen Laptop™" is a masterstroke. Should've done this years ago.

No, it's absolutely true that union contracts protect bad people and deter employers from getting rid of underperformers. It's just that's the cost of protecting everyone else.

Anyway it's shabbat so I'm going to leave you with this delightful reminder of how the world is full of moments of awe and that is what we all deserve

Classicist here to inform you all that this is ancient Greek for summoning a cat

Additional context for anyone catching up: bsky.app/profile/seat...

The criticism of Trump, Kennedy, and Bhattacharya that was so subversive that the ADA had to eject the Editor-in-Chief of their flagship journal from their annual meeting for sharing it? Prior today it had fewer than 1000 views. Do your thing.

Never gets old. J-school essay topic: Is there any performance test for essentially life-tenure columnists? A limit on how many big calls you can get totally wrong, before they say: Hey, buddy, how about taking a step back for a while. Maybe a few reported pieces? Where you go out and ask around?

@brianphillips.lol has done a great service to humanity by writing this.

I am once again wondering whether "no, the legitimate concerns racists don't have a point, fuck off, they're racist" might have been a better way of combating the far right.

This is 4′33″ for people who don’t have their kids’ current addresses

Yeah, that’s the thing. The overwhelming majority of these performative types don’t actually line up with any of the classical masculinities most of us grew up with, which were often toxic but at least useful. Where is “can’t talk about feelings but changes your oil?”

Cartoon: Babar the... Conanarian? Babarbarian? :) I could'a sworn I'd drawn this years before. Maybe it never left an old sketchbook. Anyhow, thanks to @adampknave.com for triggering me to correct that situation :) I wonder how many versions of this @jimzub.com has seen during his Conan tenure? :)

Asmongold and Fuentes accidentally reinventing ancient Greek "peak masculinity is wanting to fuck other men" belief from first principles is fucking hilarious.

We regret to announce that the following acts will not be appearing as announced at Americapalooza on account of our not having gotten their permission to list them and also them saying we are Nazi scum: 1/23

Universities: no/almost no funding for conference travel Travel: increasingly wildly expensive, unsafe for many Conferences: oh no, there's no remote option the disjuncture is not great

Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com

My new book is out in the UK and will come to the US in the fall. Grateful for this review. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Fifteen years of lecturing everyone about saying average when they mean modal has sharpened me like a blade

I’m not saying genetic material can’t add to our understanding of the past but, seriously, journalists and scientists need to stop framing this stuff as if historians haven’t been asking and researching these questions for literally hundreds of years.