Going through copy edits for @mattbernico.bsky.social's and my book and I've read this so many times the whole thing is pure semantic satiation at this point. There are words there, they're arranged with capitals and punctuation for pages and pages, but whether they actually say anything is unclear.

John Lee Hooker with a diagram of the evolution of the Blues.

Interesting fact: Vatican City recognized the State of Palestine all the way back in 2013.

Come on guys.

You know what's already built for education? The Bodleian Library.

I love an economy based on Fomo

I downloaded Skyrim and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 &2 in French. I have no idea what's going on but I'm prepared to get the weirdest vocabulary out of this experiment.

Charlie Kirk unironically advocated for public and televised executions and making kids watch them to reduce crime. You know, just like St. Paul.

Pretty bizarre to use a religious exemption to deny workers the right to a union when your actual religion teaches unequivocally that workers have the right to a union.

Nice

The voices of Palestinian Christians are so powerful and impressive. Today I'm feeling challenged and inspired by this moving message from Palestinian Quaker theologian Jean Zaru.

Using clean energy is actually what degrowth is, not imagined austerity. (Though it's essential to underline that solar is not nearly free in terms of materials costs, paid largely by workers and communities in the Global South, and we do need to change that.)

Agree but given the Dems flouting international law themselves by constantly boosting Israel's genocidal campaign, maintaining illegal blockades against Cuba and others, etc. it's hard to imagine that will happen.

"the market is just responding to people's demands"

Ghouls

Bicycle Kaiju

Some great quotes in here and great reporting by Mel.

Zines are analog websites.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Kind of nice to know that at least there are some weird psychological hang ups out there I'll never have to worry about.

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”

Rereading A Canticle for Lebowitz and man it's so good.

"sorry about the whole concentration camp thing. if you come back we pinky swear we'll be normal"

In a new interview, Pope Leo XIV discusses the growing inequality between the working class and the wealthy, noting Elon Musk is set to become the first trillionaire. He also says he's still learning about the diplomatic role of the Holy See. cruxnow.com/vatican/2025...

Looked at X for a second and was surprised to discover Pope Francis is still alive and leading a big concert.

Gonna play Spider-Man 2 in French, can't wait to have some really important web-based vocabulary for my next trip to Quebec.

This show was so rad and it's cool that everyone gets to see it.

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

Ah yes, results, like mass species die offs.

"Do NOT get our Brazilian president in trouble."

Can someone inform the Liberals that it's actually not good for Canada if the world becomes uninhabitable for human beings?

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I for one can't think of any other socially useful way to direct that capital. The market has truly optimized things once again.

In Montreal for work, got some motivation to keep practicing my very bad français.

It's time for Macron to listen to Rancière and appoint a PM by sortition. Pull a name out of a hat and just see how it goes.

It really should not be as hard as it is to get in-print writings of Julius Nyerere.

To be clear the incompatible demands are "stop killing and detaining Palestinians" and "no"

God would not be my Author if I were something useless. We are all worth a lot because we are creatures of God, and God has poured out his gifts on each person —St Oscar Romero, 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time (C), 1977 #StOscarRomero

Jesus didn't die so we could do this guys

Both unsettling and satisfying, exactly what you want from the internet.

So like... let's say this is a war crime, because it is a war crime. Do the Democrats have any interest in promising to uphold the rule of law or are they gonna just allow the GOP to murder people because they're afraid of alienating imaginary voters?

I don't understand how people look at a story like this and think capitalism, a system designed to prioritize capital, is a good economic system. It's so transparently clear that the profit motive is always gonna outrun other values.

And I do call them that

Cheating kids out of an education is a weird way to spend your professional life.

Couldn't have a more ironic name.

Tapping the sign bsky.app/profile/dean...

Okay at what point do we say Carney is actually doing a dangerous Canadian DOGE program? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Reading Gerrard Winstanley and Thomas Muntzer, it's interesting how Protestants responded to the millenarian impulse of Anabaptist and Quaker radicals the same way the medieval Church responded to millenarians, but on behalf of the princes and landlords rather than the church per se.

To be fair the US killing people merely suspected of crimes is not actually new or unique to Trump. (Unrelated, pirates are cool actually.)

That's why I post so much original content on here.