one of these guys is reading what looks like an older academic book in what I'd guess is a student lounge or canteen! another is taking a break on a walk with his dog! it's the article writer who's stereotyping men as not being readers, and therefore men reading must be fake

it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!

you guys aren't thinking this through. if the GOP renege on any part of this deal they'll look like shameful hypocrites!

This little sequence amused me. Going immediately from "why are we so reasonable when the left are so anti intellectual!?" to "vaxxed?????" is just... welp.

I want Oscar Isaac to play a different version of the Victor Frankenstein character every three years for the rest of his life

We need to do risorgimento 2, this cannot be allowed to stand.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

i commend this essay to all of your attention

Day 7,106: I still do not understand what it means to be someone's soda pop

didn't really expect to get more mileage out of this again so soon

Just absolutely classic BBC. You've just broadcast the most successful programme of the year, uniting Gen Z kids online and Boomers on broadcast in a return to appointment television. And instead of celebrating, your DG reigns due to a made-up right-wing scandal.

Yeah I watched the edit yesterday and it's stupid and misleading, which *given that he did actually encourage the riot* is doubly stupid.

C. A. Martin’s really rather lovely alt-movie poster for 1993’s “Jurassic Park”.

Irish house, winter edition

I wrote a paper arguing that we should replace authorship with contributors, spokespeople, writers, and guarantors. One of the contributors to that paper (Mikkel Gerken) has written a response paper arguing that the view defended in that paper is implausible www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

The new unbiased BBC will presumably platform both for and against on whether immigrants (or perhaps non-white people) should have any rights at all

this is what most people miss about fedoras. you need to wear the rest of the ensemble

Rough Sea at Pourville, 1882 by Claude Monet (French, 1840 - 1926). Oil on canvas | 60 x 73 cm. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Incredible shit here: the man who provided the template for stomping on the BBC when it displeases malicious actors in politics, complaining that malicious actors in politics are using his template for stomping on the BBC for displeasing them.

#dailyart 67 : study

fun fact: the three colours of the italian flag (red, white and green) are actually there to represent the three things that are supposed to go on a pizza: tomato sauce, mozarella and broccoli

" someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my Imperium is dying"

www.youtube.com/shorts/W-B8f... seeing so many candles in warhammer media makes me wonder if the Imperium is suffering from Dril's spending problem @lastpositivist.bsky.social

[whispers] it's legal to sign up with both Indivisible and DSA. you don't even have to decide who you're doing entryism on until later.

LMU Munich is advertising a new W2 Professorship in Philosophy Education. Deadline: 15 Nov 2025. For more information, and to apply, follow this link: job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/b... #philosophy #education #professorship #academicjob #lmumunich

was on a bus in San Francisco the other night where the driver stopped and then refused to move until another passenger turned off his speakerphone. I am now pro Leviathan

“defeats the purpose of” let me stop you right there, pal. you can’t defeat a purpose

The period where the IDF were firing machine guns at people trying to pick up bags of flour was one of the most despicable things I’ve seen in this country: every day for weeks, people behaving like something confusing and hard to understand was happening, because they couldn’t say what they saw.

Fire Emblem Echoes Box Art - Fire Emblem Echoes Shadows of Valentia

I’m so sorry

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Thesis committee. Charles Bridge Prague.

In passport line in Prague remembering my best experience in US: Agent: why are you here? I’m a Professor, giving a talk. What’s you subject? Political Philosophy. My favourite!! Really?? No. I say that to all the Professors.

no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy

Just occurred that the BBC is the most literal example of Conquest's third law in that it is actually run by a cabal of its enemies.

I love* how the UK and Australia are currently echoing one another in the worst ways. The supposed party of labour licking the corporate & xenophobic boot. The national broadcaster trying desperately to appease those who hate it.

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

this is the trump guy urtext

Lmao, what do you even say?

Yeah :D

No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.

hi, i know we're talking about other stuff right now, but i still think this is the best movie poster in the whole wide world

sex workers who make their money on the internet often hang out being cool people on the internet to generate traffic on a sfw account. if you have zero sex workers as mutuals it means you're using the platform you're on like linkedin and checking their resumes in advance

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

The pure Berber Zyrid Architecture of the 10th ceuntey in Algeria . Later transported to Granada when they ruled there Location: Zyrid palace in Casbah , Algiers