There’s a woman at this restaurant struggling to eat Mabo Tofu with her chopsticks. I want to tell her that she doesn’t need to do that.

I suspect that many “centrists”, “moderates”, and “liberals” from the pundit class meekly agree with certain facets of MAGA. It has nothing to do with embracing politics that will win.

I really can’t tell if the Op-Ed Class is anti-politics or bad at politics.

In other news, I saw this on display at my local Kinokuniya. Cc: @opfuchs.gay

The only thing that you need to know about Clavicular is that he has a thread dedicated to him on Kiwi Farms.

I knew some Chinese students who were fans of Gintama. I didn’t get it because a lot of its parodies were very esoterically Japanese

I just saw someone refer to Chapelle Roan as Kabuki Karen and I can’t

I hate TPOT but I think that this is the correct take away:

I just learned that this incredibly flawed story was put on the front page of the newspaper, and that certainly seems like an editorial choice

Aristophanes’ Frogs is canon.

in your 20s, you'll come across someone who's wrong online. it's very important than you spend the next 40 years of your life learning and arguing about this topic online long after they've moved on, built a career, and raised a family.

A lot of RETVRN classicists don’t realize that their archaic Greek and Latin vocabulary is just as alienating (and misused) as the most Obscurantist of French Theory and esoteric Tumblr “Queer” lingo.

Mods are asleep, post blobby Qing dynasty cats

bluesky is where elder millennials enjoying internet retirement meet younger millennials with untreated depression

Had a Ginger Tabby who liked dogs and probably thought he was one. So he was a weird little guy and a faithful companion. Really stood by my dog when he was terminally ill.

I don’t know about BlueSky, but the Fediverse (Mastadon) 9 years ago appealed to artists due to controversial sexual content. ethanzuckerman.com/2017/08/18/m...

For Pop Rock, it’s:

I’m not the first to notice that there’s always a dril tweet for Blue Sky. But I’m going to say it anyway

Christ on a cracker there are like five separate streams of cursed discourse tonight, I get half of you are sugar detoxing but still

Most of them are repeat (sex) offenders and Daddy Trump and JD Fat won’t always be in positions of power to protect them.

I’m going to give this a listen. Strauss and Kojeve are a huge part of the Think Tank Ideology of the Nerd Wing of Weird Maga.

[Chanting in Sindarin] [Chanting in Quenya] I love the subtitles for the Lord of the Rings.

Sounds like the Zainichi author Miri Yu is living in Hyde Park, Chicago, IL until October. It’s kind of cute and amusing to read her tweets about American life.

It’s contextual because many of the influencers of SV like Nick Land and Moldbug are actual accelerationists.

Nolan also has a background in Literature from his university years. I care more about what he does with that than with history.

I wonder if Razib Khan is looking at how his friends and peers regard Usha Vance and Vivek Ramswamy and realizes that this what they think of him as well.

A prominent commentator in the fighting game community, Sajam, has announced he will not participate in future EVO events following its acquisition by the Saudi government.

I think there was a ladder to come up as a journeyman not too long ago through Social Media during the era of "Traffic" and "Engagement." And a lot of the people that we hate and love on Blue Sky and Twitter benefitted from that era. (Tik Tok kinda sorta offers opportunities) But it's over now.

Archivists and Librarians can’t keep getting away with crimes of the 21st Century

This will come as a surprise to absolutely no one but there’s apparently a clip of Nick Fuentes in which he said that he preferred the relationship between Kaworu and Shinji over the other women in the series. rumble.com/embed/ucfsd....

Bari Weiss' reporting experience is summed up by the time the NYT bizarrely gave her the cushiest possible assignment - go to Australia and hang out and write about it - and she produced a story so bad and so wrong about basic facts of Australian life that it became a running joke there.

This sounds an awfully lot like the Americana on Brand in Glendale(See HBO's Hacks) or the Grove in West Los Angeles. And these are not cheap places to live.

most cranks need to devote at least half of their articles with an introduction to who Burnham was and why he matters. Because a majority of high functioning people have no idea why they--and other populists-- are big bad at the world.

joe biden was completely right to treat people like ben smith like lepers

The reason why I've used Hobonichi Techo for almost two decades is a simple and shallow one: I'm a fan of Shigesato Itoi. I didn't expect his planners to take off on a global scale. www.wired.com/story/japane...

Yglesias, Klein, and most of the blogger bros of their era badly want to exert the same influence as Stacey Abrams. To their credit, they're seldom wrong about politics and policy, but they're incompetent when it comes to a fundamental rule of politics: don't alienate yourself.

Riddle me this, why would Vance choose Unherd instead of an outlet with a larger platform to finally defend his Wife. Is it because he's a shy cuck? Or because he's clueless and bad at politics.

why are we doing theater kid discourse tonight

Vance is Senator Joe Keene from HBO’s Watchmen.

The information networks of social media have allowed users to speedrun through dialectics that would typically take decades to complete. And I don’t mean that in a good way.

The Last Man of History is a Fail Son.

Can someone who is more online (and Japanese) than me explain who they are and why their divorce is consuming most of J-Twitter?

it does not require a super genius to predict that people will start hating you if you spend a lot of time telling them that you’re coming for their jobs and careers

"Slop" is more or less the "Gray Goo" hypothetical catastrophe except for digital objects. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

Are there any parts of Europe that react with radical suspicion? Because that's what typically happens in parts of Asia.

I somehow missed the old news that Lomez/Jonathan Keeperman/whatever/A MAGA Creative Writing Failson hosted an overpriced GALA for Trump's election. A St. Bernard Dog crashed it with explosive diarrhea.

I regret learning what “The Longhouse” is. It’s somehow an even stupider synonym for Moldbug’s “Cathedral” and—few people want to admit this—Mark Fisher’s “Vampire Castle”.

Sarah McBride apparently lobbied GOP lawmakers to oppose the anti-trans bills this week and played a role in getting multiple to flip against their party and vote “no” If a handful of Democrats hadn’t also flipped, the MTG bill at least would’ve definitely failed

what did Robert e Lee do? Did he get cancelled?