"if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you"—Terry Eagleton paraphrasing Herbert McCabe

Real men eat balls drenched in milk

There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides

It's been a hell of a year (and week, JFC), but I found some time to reflect on it with a year in review post daniel-saunders.com/posts/notes/...

It's been a hell of a year (and week, JFC), but I found some time to reflect on it with a year in review post daniel-saunders.com/posts/notes/...

The shooting in Minnesota is a reminder that while authoritarian governments may justify abuses of power by directing them at scapegoats or vulnerable populations, the goal is ultimately to deploy them against anyone they wish to www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

Chat Geo Political Travesty

By this token, Vance should have to stand trial in Venezuela for crimes against the Bolivarian Revolution

Funny how the nations with the strongest ties to Third Worldist/anti-imperialist traditions are the most clear-eyed about imperialism and self determination

You have though, for months as the US has said it was killing fishing people for being drug traffickers and Maduro is a narcostate president, and for years as the US has bipartisanly sanctioned the country to sap its ability to function unless it bends to US designs. Wake up folks!

another morning when it’s an existentially shameful thing to be an american huh

Such a moving, unflinching, inspiring speech. Mayor Mamdani setting the socialist bar for every city in this country let's gooo

A visceral realist poet

New frames who dis

God rest ye merry COMMA

My HS football coach/PE teacher was the same 50-year old guy who said things like "pain is weakness leaving the body" and who showed up to a student awards ceremony with a black and blue face from getting destroyed in a bar fight. So I just do whatever is the opposite of him

What up I turned 37 yesterday

My container for knowledge is way bigger than yours bro

The Bank of America Lectures in Natural Theology are going about as well as you would think

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Watched "You've Got Mail" last night and it seems like this movie is about a sociopathic obsessive cyberstalker from a sex pest family who ruins a woman's career and then gaslights her into entering a controlling relationship with him. Romantic!

Expropriate the trillionaire infants while they're helpless

Chat what is rise and grind hyperproductivity capitalism as a personality

Lo, he comes on AWS descending

Happy Tuesday! Have some pie for breakfast, you deserve it. 🥧 ☕ 🦉

Time to procrastinate important end of the year tasks (at least for 3 days) by naively brute forcing algorithms and data structures I have never studied! But hey a solve is a solve I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

Pedantry at its fineëst

While you all were simping for turkey, we were reveling in the glories of Levantine Thanksgiving

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

I love it when normal people make fun of tech/web stuff, even though it's what I do. Because usually they are right, most of it is cringe and full of itself

he’s the creator of Flask. he’s literally the creator of Django. you dipshits he invented Zoop. better watch how you talk to the actual inventor of Peebo

Whether or not this feature is being used for AI, it sure has made me way lazier in what I let in and keep around in my email. I just turned it off, which removes the multi-inbox auto sort thing, and what was 10 unread emails jumped to 19K 😳

People are rightfully dunking on this, but "Economist writer thinking capitalism is synonymous with human nature and not a historically contextual mode of production" is like their whole thing isn't it

The 20 year olds in this article are like "Orthodoxy is so masculine bro" and they converted because they got scared of a woman preaching at a Methodist church

Youtube Music's "Forgotten Favorites" list will literally be one of my most-listened-to albums of all time and something new I added two weeks ago

Can we fix this problem that did not happen with something that does not exist?

I love that they used the Yuri Gagarin "GLORY" poster like it's not the coolest fucking image ever. Well done, New York!!

As a true Angeleno, I have waited until game 7 of the World Series to start caring. (I hope the Jays win so we don't get 24 hours of fireworks!)

I shocked myself by unexpectedly beating Silksong. I honestly had no idea I was on the final boss

You mean the insolent, emotionally stunted men who have made careers out of trolling their own communities are increasingly comfortable showing their true fascist colors since Jan 2025? What a surprise

HITLER CONCERNS what are you people doing dude

We are rapidly approaching the Luddite uprising / Butlerian Jihad for AI because the grifters peddling it are transparently contemptuous of actual skilled labor. You think people who have invested their whole lives in a profession are just going to walk away?

Anyway, when all of this started, I kept saying that you have to always look at these new technologies through the contempt that the tech world has for labor, and their campaign to destroy anything they can get their hands on for a bit more money. Human deskilling, not flourishing, is their goal.

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

I actually think that it is fine for the left to say that actually, biologically essentialist views are not a project that we are interested in engaging seriously with, and that is the case both for race essentialism and sex/gender essentialism.

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You don't meet with the opposing side in a class war b*tch