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Moonrise 🌕

“Our attack was so successful we inadvertently created a power vacuum” is a new one to me tbh

We talked about the thrust of the Trump quote on potential leaders being removed for the episode of the podcast recorded tonight and I know it sounds funny but the implications it holds for the civilian population in Iran are incredibly dire and it’s hard to laugh at it for that reason.

It's funny to me when people who love to go on about second order effects of economic policies and the challenges of central planning without local knowledge suddenly drop all of that when it comes to foreign policy.

I'm not forgetting about the Epstein files and actually I don't need to be reminded about them every 14 seconds.

as far as im concerned, every season is mating season

Usually wherever there is an outbreak of Gender it's fellas getting cringe. But. The Fancy Critics Are Bro-y So I Support Corporate Slop counter reaction is femme coded cringe. Saw this when people kept boosting Marvel over Scorsese, and you sometimes see it in anti-Andor takes in Star Wars fandom.

In a normal environment, the job description on my Hinge profile is a big hit. They love the (sorry) joke. But right now I’ve got people hounding me. “What do you mean you’re sorry to work in tech? What are you trying to say?” “Elon Musk may be socially problematic but he’s STILL a genius!”

Stopped paying for the dating apps while I get the headaches under control because, you know, why bother? This means conservatives can now swipe on me. Wooooooffffff is it rough out there.

Every once in awhile I think about this Nancy comic and it makes me laugh every single time. Absolute perfection.

The Epstein files were actually an elaborate distraction from the preparations for war against Iran.

I saw this and at first thought "no, there's no way 'we definitely had alternative leadership in mind for Iran but I blew them up alongside the schoolgirls using AI' is what the White House is actually saying, that's too clueless and evil to be real"

In Austin: 3 dead and 14 injured in mass shooting www.kxan.com/news/crime/p...

a reminder that Graham Platner is the grandson of the designer of the "Windows on the World" restaurant at the WTC, has considerable family money, and his main business is selling oysters to his mom's two restaurants. These people are fucking marks.

front end will be automated. back end will be automated. only data science and the liberal arts will remain. now is the age of the political scientist.

Prediction markets: a bunch of new users bet big on war with Iran. This is not suspicious at all; we follow the law. Also prediction markets: we are not paying out on regime change in Iran, you can't have a prediction market based on death. This is not suspicious at all; we follow the law.

Once again, this is the guy who conned a Nobel Peace Prize winner to give him her Nobel reward. You want to talk fraud, talk about a man who covets a Nobel but claims it the easy way and then wages war.

HEY OLD FUCK

We are all born into a web of inescapable mutual obligation, it turns out!

I block people who are annoying in OTHER people’s replies. It’s a hobby at this point. Block hunting.

Just remembered the Rocky Road to Dublin scene from SINNERS. That was good

Blowing things up, kidnapping and killing foreign leaders, is good because it's Doing. Considering the consequences of Doing would be Thinking, which is weak and woke

New and free online: @msgjonhere.bsky.social & my edited collection of essays on belief with Oxford University Press: academic.oup.com/book/62410 Table of Contents in thread

Remember when that politician released that statement about a current event (more than a week ago)? Remember the words they chose? How important the order of their paragraphs were and the future that could've been if only it had been different?

Thermostatic opinion famously works solely based on whether the opposing party has exactly the right, perfect, well crafted message, as we saw clearly in Trump’s 2024 campaign, with its exquisite message of “Puerto Rico is garbage and Haitians are eating pets” delivered by a gibbering madman.

this is exactly it—Steiner sounds like a liberal arts advocate but he’s been agitating for scripted curriculum for years anti-intellectuals can also quote Shakespeare and Plato

Because right now it’s a bit “well, we have the Pope saying this, and Putin saying that, and frankly when you think about it they’re both right, aren’t they?”

Just can it. Don’t report it. “Murderous tyrant is moral hypocrite“ is as dog-bites-man as it gets.

No person could actually believe this but saying it seems even more stupid than thinking it

"oh here you go again with your pro-gravity nonsense"

but the Twitter mentions were big fans so they thought it was doing a populism- this is the first ever echo chamber govt

Is vs. ought Constrained vs. unconstrained optimization Path dependence The counterfactual You don't need a PhD. You just need to masters these concepts and then read about the basics of the thing you want to discuss.

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

so it’s been an open secret shes an out of control alcoholic for a while but it seems notable that it’s gotten so bad that Omar’s aware of specific times her staff tried get her to Log Off

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

*straining with great effort to control myself* (don't say estrogen. do not suggest estrogen. you're better than that. you are past that. you've grown as a person. suggesting every man try estrogen is played out. just don't say it. don't even think it -- FUCK)

This will amount to a significant hit to GDP growth and a potential staffing crisis in the NHS and care work sector – with zero political credit, because the goalposts have been shifted away from "net migration" to *all* migration.

oh it’s the Boyle reply. I agree this was a new move.

You'll know we're ready to rejoin the EU when everyone starts referring to scandals as 'affairs', again.

Incredible. Kalshi is not paying out "Khamenei out of power by [date]" contracts because he died.

Labour deciding to sacrifice bourgeois support at the same time as sacrificing proletariat support is a bold electoral strategy

Tech execs provide their kids with liberal arts education to ensure their futures—-all while many state schools are becoming all STEM. www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

lol I muted a post on Threads and finally came back to it to find a community note attached that…very much proves my point! Roughly a quarter of hospitalized patients (per a study) see a chaplain? That’s huge — and makes their absence from medical dramas even more galling!

We'll sooner learn to draft 90% of what we want to post than that. I think many have started to come on here to find something to be angry about.

This ring at the #MetMuseum caught my eye, because I know the hieroglyphs for #Tutankhamun's throne name (prenomen) ... and there it was in the center of this cartouche. Neb-kheperu-re, 'Lord of the Forms of Ra'. Purchased in Cairo in 1921, the year before Tut's tomb was discovered. 🏺 1/ 📸 me

“Bomb the shit out of Iran” has been a GOP foreign policy pillar for decades and is arguably the best case for continuity between MAGA and what came before

If Americans discovered how good the average British grocery store is versus what they get, they'd riot, I swear.

These assholes are really gonna go with “war is peace, actually.”

"The most relevant question is not 'is this government bad?' or 'do they deserve it?' The most relevant question is 'will this use of military force make things better, enough to be worth the death and suffering it’ll impose?' It’s hard to see how this will." www.liberalcurrents.com/internationa...