Reiterating what I used to say on twitter before Elmo took over: I will only trust a Christian left that's capable of self reflection and a lot of it seems more interested in deflecting the fact that christian nationalism is ultimately a christian institution.

I too like to confirm all my priors based on someone's fiction output.

While Kennedy is a worm who stepped down from the court so someone else would do the conservative stuff his vanity stopped him from doing, I'm still surprised major churches didn't try that tack 20 years ago already as they were already starting to spread that shit about LGBT rights in general

I need to think of another goddess as I realized I have duplicates on my list (all my computers are named in honor of various goddesses I happen to like, it's been like second nature since I got my first laptop)

Not being cryptic is something that takes effort and I take it as proof that I'd have made a really good oracle in times past.

Trying to do a temporary purge on current politics *ends up reading on horrifying early modern politics instead, knowing this isn't actually going to improve my mood*

I appear to fit again in stuff I haven't worn in years.

If you ask me to choose between generational analysis and astrology I'm picking the starchart every time

We're deep in leaves, which is the most on cue seasonal shift I've seen in a while

Bullets with "A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing."

Even having been through the stereotypical teen wiccan phase all the way to my early 20s (I still have some of the books in a box somewhere) I somehow wasn't certain we'd get a full blown return of the satanic panic as part of this fascist movement.

The FBI should get less lazy with their planted evidence. Drop a spam can of 7.62x54 with the entirety of Mutual Aid written on it or something.

The kids are free to not watch adult shit if they hate them this much - I did not fucking complain when I was watching something clearly labeled above my age.

Killing the oxford comma user in my head to be able to stay within character limits.

My least favorite part of pop history's weird turn into catholic apologetics is the whole way they sort of try to make the witch panics a strictly protestant thing. The ultra-catholic duchy of Lorraine alone tops the entirety of France including protestant jurisdictions.

Setting aside the absurdity of building an argument on the basis of the intrinsic value of gold as currency, one of the most common reasons pyrite is mined is as a gold ore.

Thinking about a really old French commantary on Tolkien and specifically how slow his popularity was to grow in France being tied to Cartesianism and how a certain overdose of rationalism had made that kind of fairy tale a hard sell to modern French publics at the time.

I rescind my previous opinion: if you're a trans person in a western legislature the least you should do is be a Carla Antonelli

Liberal democracy has ceded to fascism often enough that I at least think radlibs who don't at minimum entertain other ideologies (rather than doing the extremely unserious dismissals many of them tend to do) are dumbasses.

Not to bag specifically on McBride since a lot of other dems buy into that nonsense but POWMIA isn't just a huge conspiracy theory, it's a foundational building block of american fascism.

Normally I think nazism comparisons are dumb (mainly I think Brazil is a better model for a fascist US) but WW1 on the German side really does provide a lot of echoes of "a war we lost despite never being occupied and where our government looked like it was doing a fascism dress rehearsal"

I already knew about the Balbo nonsense that has a bunch of Chicago's Italian community pretending they're being oppressed anytime someone tries to get rid of it but apparently one of the Croatian catholic churches is named for Aloysius Stepinac

The Heritage Foundation basically never got over losing Sex War 1 so none of this is a surprise.

Welcome back government by assassination

"Groyper Imperial Way versus Turning Point Control: Understanding the American Right of 2025 through the lens of the Kōdōha–Tōseiha conflict within the Imperial Japanese military in the 1930s."

By all indications Göring and Himmler were also doting fathers.

"He gave a voice to people who have never once in their entire lives shut the fuck up"

Suddenly thinking about an old trans guy friend who used to think e could have saved David Foster Wallace unironically

An underrated aspect of the bro nod is that if you pack enough gym bros in an enclosed space you just end up with a bro minuet.

There's something amazing about how pervasive all the Vietnam Dolchstoss shit became in US perceptions of *the troops* that even some self-admitted liberals buy it, because all of this bullshit is about as foundational as it gets to american fascism

McCain is the only GOP presidential candidate since like Nixon who wasn't either from California or the Northeast.

I think one of the rare monarchist arguments that I can actually believe is that no british (or, hell, canadian) politico would have wanted to run against Elizabeth II, who would probably have done Assad numbers for most of her life. OTOH, with Charles, I am very dubious.

The hyperfocus in modern cath apologia on Luther's personal antisemitism is a bit weird when his main catholic German counterpart in the counter-reformation (Johann Eck) thought Spain didn't go far enough while even the personally antisemitic Luther helped overturn some local jewish expulsions.

Guitar started to get popular across Europe in the 16th century so there's fair odds that guys with guitars going "here's Greensleeves" was a real type of person in Elizabethan England.

The google AI constantly contradicting easily verifiable info is the most annoying thing.

One of my favorite systems as a kid actually used cards which makes the randomness aspect way easier to work into a full collaborative storytelling game but would also probably be hell to do on roll20

So GW2 is still actually a great game - I've basically been using a spare slot I still had to redo story stuff on a new sylvari from scratch (also clearing like 1-2 zones every day and I'm not sure how people say the game is dead as I keep bumping into crowds doing metas regularly).

Sometimes I can't stop feeling like mom and I have been lending each other the same 100 bucks for years.

A whole bunch of lib guys on here get way too comfortable with the "actually liberals are female coded" nonsense to the point where they do it while aiming some actually rancid misogyny at leftist women (and it's almost always at leftist women)

I've had a sudden hankering to reinstall GW2 only to find out I played so long ago the account is in preventive security lockdown or something

I have no idea if it's just a wrong feeling but I feel like countertenor is more of a thing in professional baroque stuff than it was a decade or two ago.

I will never understand people who think American Psycho's evisceration of yuppies is not literally from the book

One thing they don't tell boys is that men who age well are basically diamonds

It's sort of funny that both the anglo right and a weird subset of the left have landed on "protestants have no culture" and I blame franco-italian intellectual milieus for both

Everytime I try to look for a paper or book on a specific historical concept the google AI makes me feel like the dumbest Victorian antiquarian imaginable is looking over my shoulder.

At the rate modern catholic apologetics whitewash shit I give it about a month after the last victims of the Magdalene Laundries and the Duplessis orphans die before someone starts claiming they were made up as anti-catholic propaganda

I would give a lot more of a fuck about Vance being an adult catholic convert if 2/3 of the SCOTUS (including most of the right) wasn't cradle catholics

In theory Truss could do a rerun of her month and a half and still beat Canning as the least lasting PM (it wouldn't be funny to live in it but I'm sure it would be funny to future bored people)

Trying to figure out some pre-modern currency conversions is hell and I get why a lot of RPGs just do the D&D thing of ignoring this

Temu Rococco (the ill-fitting ones on top would probably have been the cause of an interior decorator's suicide in the baroque period)