I had crab cakes for dinner and I ate them OUTSIDE

I feel like this is somehow a project to sell us doorbell cameras, but for coffins

Oh no I just got the backstory on the potempkin jokes

FORBIDDEN CITY OF POSTS

I believe men can learn from their shitty behavior toward women and become better people. I can also count on one hand the number of men I know who've been exposed as behaving inappropriately and genuinely had a reckoning about it. I think the majority reaction is to blame others

Imagine explaining modern social media to a lit scholar circa 1996. You can’t, you will cry

I believe survivors. Period.

Petting the dogs ear while she makes a sound like door in a haunted house

When I hear people voice this defense of rape unthinkingly I always feel that they mean exactly what they say - why would she (be doing some kind of normal activity)? Rape is intended as punishment/ terror for leading a normal, public facing life - these questions bind and reinforce that that logic

Good lord heterosexuality is so gd bleak

So what I’m hearing is the White House door dashed … a person?

My back is staging a general strike and my kitchen is under construction I’m hungry and lying flat on the floor thinking about the pope

I hope the people who cried about jfk being catholic are happy

We saw the moon, we saw an autocrat defeated by democracy, we saw a sexpest suspend his campaign - all in one week. You never know what’s possible until it happens

I want a social media option that will deliver me nothing and I mean nothing but cute animal videos

So now it’s just back to regular ol vanilla misery

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Nuclear war, and the credible threat of it, is torture

Hi all, its your friendly neighborhood retired therapist here to remind you that the horrors persist and so do we! Have you: -had a glass of water or something liquid that is not caffeinated recently? -used any calming or grounding techniques you like? -eaten a food? If not, do that now. 💜

Every frustration with this administration and, in fact, the entire Republican Party, is a frustration with misogyny. You’re all feminists and you just don’t know it yet

The limitations on violence established after World War II were not brought by pacifists or peaceniks but by literal old soldiers. They knew. They had seen.

You know who actually loses everything, loses jobs, has to change careers, loses their health, loses money, loses friendships and mentorships, loses peace of mind and the feeling of safety? The people these men hurt. The victims. They lose all the time, often without anyone protesting it.

Wonder what name my dog gave me

It really is awful how there is no gap at all between unwanted male attention (ages 13-35) and total social isolation (ages 36 and up)

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Adjuncts

One of the semi ferals is doing her best to become a housecat. If the door cracks even a little she’s in like a vapor

“As Robert Cover put it, "Legal interpretation takes place in a field of pain and death." It's not a soccer field or a football field, it's not the Lands Between in Elden Ring. Play games with the Reconstruction Constitution, and people will suffer, bleed, die.” reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Sometimes it’s just one really determined misogynist in a really complacent department, even

It’s not the biggest problem but one real reason why no left-liberal popular front has emerged in America is because of a loud and highly visible cohort of not-that-young-anymore leftist edgelords who refuse to be in coalition with their moms.

I wish there was a way to tell birds how famous they are on the internet

I know we’re mad about self driving cars but as someone who lives in the middle of no where can I just say how dreamy it would be to laze in the back seat and watch the wind blow the corn while the car takes me and the dogs for a hike? Maybe someday right

I donated books today

Frederick Jameson said that it was easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism; I would add that it’s easier to imagine the end of capitalism than the end of rape.

This book is about to be told it was never very good anyway and then get turned down for tenure

This video belongs in a museum

I did it friends

I have a history joke but everybody dies at the end

Tomorrow I go back to translating after my 3 day break. I’m writing it down in case I come over here to procrastinate

Seriously, don’t marry (a hetero dude). In the very best case scenario, you’ve legally tied yourself to someone socialized to think less of you, and undoing all that is now your job. Or worse, and more likely:

It’s like they’re begging for for a general strike - if people can’t have affordable coffee they’re gonna get it one way or another

Trying to force the return of Jesus seems like a profound misunderstanding of chain of command

When I retire from public life to read books it’s selfish but when Montaigne does it he’s just inventing the concept of the self.

The economist is not the boss of us

Speaking more languages means I am never alone when my country does something stupid. The Angry European Posters are always there for me

Giving the semi ferals churu and watching them become domesticated in real time, because the wild life is not better than fish slurry

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Should you need them in these trying times, Cinémathèque française has a selection of free-to-stream movies with English subs, silents and talkies www.cinematheque.fr/henri/english/

The first Middle East war I (briefly, alone on a suburban corner) protested, I missed prom to do it. That’s how long we’ve been doing this

Opening up new fronts when things are going badly is a sign of desperation for sure. But it's sort of like seeing a cornered raccoon scratching and biting and saying, "oh that scratching and biting is a distraction." And, like. It's just what they do, dude.

Guys it honestly sucks that this is true but there isn’t an “Epstein class” or a “predator class” there are just men and we all have to deal with this sordid fact