While watching #StarfleetAcademy I was confused. But the more I sit with it the more I like it. Themes of the nature of time, self-acceptance and the processing of trauma using the play "Our Town" as a metatextual device. I am still not sure if it fully worked but it was ambitious!

Wow, didn't know about him. How much more are we missing?

Concerning ... [to paraphrase a certain evil trillionaire overlord] I've definitely noticed some ostensibly "center leftist" influencers subtly becoming more and more "redpilled" and they don't even seem to realize that their excessive X consumption is shifting their Overton window.

"just fuck everything up as much as you can" This summarizes a LOT of Trump 2.0. Just fuck shit up just because. Anything woke people might like should be attacked. Academia, the arts, rule of law, alliance with Europe, etc. But there is no overarching vision or goal.

One effect of the gendered split in the US political imagination, in which liberals are feminized and conservatives are masculinized, is that liberals’ opposition to the right is cast as disavowed sexual desire. Liberals secretly want fascism, in this view, the same way women secretly want rape.

Wow, this song is really good! @billybragg.bsky.social

Best post I've read on the housing crisis -It's not about zoning. -It's about the pandemic. Really the housing crisis story is just a part of the pandemic induced inflation story. But a lot of nonsense spilled (much of it by Ezra klein) essentially blaming it on environmentalists and progressives.

How would you live if you were told you only had one year left? You would sharply prioritize spending time with people you like and doing activities you enjoy and ignore everything else. This theory argues that this is essentially how old people live and why they are so happy.

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat. Some of those stories may even be true! But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇 

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.