Chotiner: thank you so much for doing this. Me: great, thanks. If we go light on the confessing to shooting JFK thing, I wouldn’t complain. Because it could dwarf everything else

12) A guide to possible expressions of manhood through physical, intellectual, spiritual, and artistic endeavors that includes a broad range of archetypes (The Athlete, the Scholar, the Poet, the Father, the Healer, etc).

10) Interviews with trans folks about issues of gender (the effects of hormones, the creation and curation of gender identity, self-acceptance, and dealing with self-hatred) 11) An expose of steroid abuse, unhealthy masculine standards, and exercise & diet guides for a healthy lifestyle.

7) Anonymous, curated AMA sessions with men and women to get perspectives on controversial &/or sensitive issues. 8) An examination of the role of punishment and routine traumatization of boys as a cultural problem. 9) An examination of misogyny, misandrony, misanthropy, and self-hatred. (cont)

4) Essays by famous men about the wide variety of masculinities 5) An etiquette guide geared toward men of how to start and maintain friendships (and how to tell which ones are worth keeping) 6) Fashion and hygiene tips for a wide range of body types/face shapes/hair and beard. (cont.)

Alternative manosphere to do list: 1) A sex positive, affirming etiquette guide to courtship and relationships specifically for a straight male audience 2) A serious conversation about setting and maintaining healthy boundaries 3) Celebrations of niche hobbies/art/personal weirdness (cont.)

Singal: it’s too bad that everyone sees my byline and immediately writes my article off as rank transphobia Singal: *eyes the Economist’s ‘no bylines’ policy*

I’m just going to keep pointing out “we’re about to get the deal” is what they were saying about Harvard too. Nothing from the Chinese side implies a deal is anywhere close.

“I am sure Trump would never violate people’s first amendment rights,” I say confidently to the NYT. “ I mean how could he? He is is just a millionaire New York real estate guy, right? I literally just woke up from a decades long coma by the way. Are you sure you should be interviewing me for this

Technologically advance a band: Stainless Steel and Gin

You don’t have to get on this bus, any more than you have to read the entire thread, but it’s worth considering. If you’re in the US, try www.nmdp.org/get-involved...

My two cents about the “pls sign up for our protest” discourse is that safety vs coordinating is a real dilemma that might have different optima for different folks, and that conversation never happened because the discourse immediately degenerated into an argument about respect

Look, it’s possible this will happen but if you read the article the entire story is coming from the Trump admin. Nothing from China or Tiktok.

Many of us are numb to it, but almost every day he publicly confesses that he is at war with our laws and Constitution.

When someone says one thing to gain power and then a contradictory thing when exercising that power, the most useful lens for understanding it is power, not hypocrisy.

That the fascists have the power to make this happen is very bad, clearly, but also it seems likely to fully enrage viewers who tune in to watch kimmel and get kirk tribute instead?

all I can say to this is that vpns are cheap, and the torrents are free or so i hear

“They think they’re all buddies” explains the media’s treatment of Kirk and its treatment of Kimmel

See the problem with these kinds of hypocrisy critiques is they implicitly grant that rightwingers are at least half right, that red states had a point. But they were wrong both times! It is good to use state power to encourage truth telling, and wrong to use it to punish critics.

Maybe the lack of renewable energy, high speed rail, EVs and investment in science is a lil bit of a give away that “chinese style authoritarianism” isn’t actually a useful comparison

Kimmel may be (imho) a bad comedian but is apparently a good person. This is the superior combination if you can pick only one!

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

For the rest of your life, you can only eat food from one of these regions. Which do you choose? (Spilhaus-Adams projection map by Tobias Jung, licensed under Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0.)

Sorry I'm late, some dickhead flipped me off and then died so the government made me mourn him

i refuse to choose, i live in america, by god, if i want katsu curry for breakfast and tandoori chicken pizza for lunch and a sushi burrito for dinner, i barely even have to leave my neighborhood

oh no, a challenge that only 99% of humanity succeeded at trivially without noticing

I think the rest of the media believes that what happens on camera is the act and the friendly schmoozing in the green room and at parties is the real person. I think that 1. It doesn’t matter and 2. They’ve got it backwards

We deserve this (derogatory)

Incredible series—great meditation on history and destiny, and why you don’t fuck with the gods an absolute steal at $2.99

wow

My head canon, by the way, is that the monster looks exactly like Frankenstein. Maybe at 125% scale, if you must

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As a postscript, the last time I exercised my authority to defy the governor was when, over her silence: bsky.app/profile/mode...

Let’s be real: MOST violence is right on right violence. Hamas versus Netanyahu? Right on right. Sudanese civil war? Right on right. Myanmar conflict? Right on right. Russia versus Ukraine? Right versus (a lot more right than we like to think.) US versus Iraq, versus the Taliban? Right on right.

So the shooter is only “ideologically incoherent“ insofar as groypers, a far right wing group, are incoherent

that’s right

Incontrovertible history, debatable normative claim

Godzilla (1999) has by far the starkest disparity in quality of soundtrack to quality of movie ever.

A little ditty I wrote

One problem with “is this fascism” and other political binaries is that they tend to flatten out variation *within* the category. Things can be fascism already and still have the potential to get much, much worse. Israel on October 6th was a quite awful situation all around. It’s worse now!

I would like to take this opportunity to remember Melissa Hortman, a serving Democratic politician assasinated by a right-winger.

I thought people were exaggerating, but no, it really is the case that liberal politicians posting platitudes about the Nazi Youth youtuber never posted anything about Melissa Hortman

Why should I mourn the death of someone who wouldn’t mourn his own?

society would improve immediately if we just seized the assets of every person who wrote jeffrey epstein a birthday note

Democrats should not and cannot fund the government without securing a statutory provision reversing the Supreme Court and banning ICE from questioning, detaining, or attacking Hispanic and Latino Americans on the basis of their ethnicity alone.

Though today it’s just a switch to “which high ranking *british* politicians were pals with Epstein”

The epstein birthday book is shocking and disgusting: explicitly aware throughout of pedophilia as the underlying rationale of their relationship with epstein. Trump’s entry is not an outlier. Everyone in it should be in jail.