What do you mean you're shocked that the generations who had to be bribed to read with pizza parties don't read as adults?

Have you taken the time to mourn who you were "supposed to be" but never became?

I just saw a video of someone about "clarity maxxing." It's mindfulness. They were talking about mindfulness practices. Baudrillard and the Buddha both just had facepalm moments.

Some of the best advice I pick up in life comes from fictional characters.

Word of the Day: Meteoropathy - pain caused by changes in the weather. My leg experiences meteoropathy when storms are coming, making it a more reliable predictor of storms than the forecast since DOGE ravaged NOAA.

some days the muse is just a sleep-deprived goblin eating cold noodles in the corner, and the only thing i can manifest is another tab I won't read.

Looking at my degree plan to see where I'm at towards graduation. I'll either have to cram some extra credits in the next two semesters or I'll have to take some class next summer, but either way, I'll be graduating in 2026! 30 years after I graduated from high school.

Don’t be the kind of ghoul who is delighted by the death of innocent children in Texas. That’s Greg Abbott’s thing. Don’t be like Greg Abbott.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Is Kermit a person? Discuss.

The people saying the federal judge doesn’t understand copyright law should instead realize that they are the ones who didn’t understand copyright law

Oliver North thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles. Oliver "convicted for selling missiles to Iran" North.

I attended small town 4th of July parades as a kid that had more energy than Trump's birthday parade did.

Season 21 of Grey's Anatomy just dropped on Netflix, so that's what I'm watching this weekend to regulate my emotions while WWIII and Civil War 2.0 pop off. Because Grey's Anatomy is less of an emotional rollercoaster than reality right now...

The first battles of the Civil War had spectators. People showed up and sat to watch it. Vendors sold food for the event. The new one will be streamed. The creators will sell merch.

Twilight marked the mainstream turn back towards conservatism. Pro-life Mormon vampires that enthralled a whole generation of young women.

Writing a paper on perdurantism for metaphysics today. Fun times.

Just three more weeks and the semester is done. Still debating whether I'm going to take classes summer semester, or drop the classes I'm registered for and take the summer off. Kinda wanna push through and get as many classes in as I can, kinda wanna take a break.

Loving life is an act of defiance. Misery is part of how they control you.

I *know* it's a game. And yet, when my player character falls, my heart jumps. Every. Single. Time. Because for the brain, games are practice. It makes them a remarkably powerful mindfulness and contemplation tool if you choose the right sorts of games.

Breathe.

Time to admit that "billionaire tax cuts" is a dogwhistle for eugenics.

Perfection is our most irrational belief, and it's importance in Western philosophy is one of the roots of supremacy.

Trump is not the modern Hitler. Hitler was never elected. Hitler was appointed Chancellor and took over from there. Musk is the modern Hitler. He told you that with his salute on inauguration day.

Musk is the gun that Peter Thiel aimed at the head of American government and economic function. Getting rid of Musk won't stop the takeover. Getting rid of Trump won't stop the takeover. J.D. Vance is one of Thiel's men. When do we accept they've won this and start organizing accordingly?

Borderline personality disorder and moral responsibility by Agnès Baehni | link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Elon Musk’s staffers have gained unauthorized access to sensitive government employee data by installing a server at the OPM. They now have access to USAJOBS, the federal hiring portal where applicants submit personal details such as Social Security numbers, home addresses, and employment histories.

I've seen too many people say they don't know what the Trump/Musk endgame is. Just get to know Peter Thiel and his goals to end the U.S. government, destroy the U.S. dollar, and send us into technofeudalism where everyone is owned by a corporation.

I think we need to remember that some strategies shouldn't be publicized. To effectively counter fascism, the resistance has to move in the shadows. If they tell us the plan, the fascists will know the plan, too. We can, and should, take public resistance actions.

One of the most effective ways to resist the South African Steampunk Edison hijacking the U.S. government is simple: troll him mercilessly. He's so fragile, a well-executed trolling campaign would derail him faster than his ketamine hits.

Let people be wrong without being punished; allow them space and support to learn, grow, and make changes. The “I told you so”/ “you should’ve known” attitude does not help bring people on side.

Day 14 of the American Coup. How's it going for you? Me? Trying not to panic about financial aid cuz I'm fucked without it...

I cooked ramen on my woodstove today. First time cooking on my woodstove, since it's not a cooktop, just a flat top woodstove. But with Trump starting trade wars that could affect delivery of energy to my state, might as well get used to cooking with the wood fire.

While the collapse of American representative democracy into fascism is going to be terrible for those of us living here, it's likely to be good for the rest of the world. China calls Trump 川建国 - Nation Builder - because he's so bad for the U.S. that it's good for China.

How y'all doing knowing Trump ramped up his coup yesterday?

A GOP politician has resigned after she copied Elon Musk's Nazi salute in a TikTok video

Nvidia's plunge, fueled by investor concern about Chinese artificial-intelligence startup DeepSeek, erased a record amount of stock-market value from the world’s largest company

This is unacceptable! Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, reporting that Navajo citizens in Arizona and New Mexico have faced “negative, sometimes traumatizing experiences” with federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants after Trump’s recent immigration orders.

Cool idea and interesting stuff (philpapers.org/rec/HANMCI).

Republicans aren't Conservatives Democrats aren't Liberals We need to recategorize them. Republicans are Reactionary Populists Democrats are Managerial Centrists