I think Michael Hobbe's hate of The Atlantic often overwhelms his ability to read things clearly. If you check whatever he's reacting to, sometimes to often, it will take the position he's arguing for, but with additional nuance. The problem is.... you also have to read it.

I really wish people understood Zohran Mamdani's main power is going to be appointing committees. I believe his intentions are good, his goals are awesome, his committees will be great. But if you think he was just handed a wand to remodel The West you're in for a brutal surprise.

I just want to vent into the void. I am deeply irritated with my family. From the faked murder of my sister, to the faked FBI scandals, to the blaming me for everything, I think I'm owed some apologies. I know I'll never get them. I know I even have to give up some boundaries to resolve crisises.

I sometimes just throw out stuff to enjoy the arguments. I’ll be like “Arthur from the Tick was the last good liberal”, I don’t know what that means, it’s just a series of words I found pleasing

Man, I didn't mind youtube ads when they were at the bottom of the screen. Even the ad reads that creators do one - four times a video. I was fine with an ad break every 15-30 minutes. But google in out of control with the ad 5 minute ad breaks every three minutes of video.

I always find this kind of opinion bizarre. I am confident everyone I know has spoken up. Many of the people I know have plans to effectively do something. And there was literally a protest in Philly that drew nearly a million people. Are we all supposed to protest 24/7 or its fake?

One of the things I've been endlessly fascinated by is how people mistake photographs for reality. People think they cannot lie! There was no photoshop before 1995!! Photoshop (program) is inspired by the process of developing photos & all the ways you can manipulate film! You know, in a photo shop

please like and share this drawing i did, for an experiment, thank you

@zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Is this anything? Or is only authoritarianism when you can't have brunch anymore?

omg i hate Ezra Klein so much. When Andrew Marantz is talking about the neoliberal government failing and that it could lead to a "time of monsters" stupid EZ is like "Or it could be abundance! I have a book out about how it could be abundance!"

Consensus is that I am the idiot. I think I have some fundamental misunderstanding in what "understanding" means and what people are supposed to be doing in college? I thought we were using our brains & refining our skills? What am I missing?

I guess I'm the idiot for thinking that English Majors would be able to parse and contextualize a work they hadn't read by an author they have studied? Like, if you show me a Vermeer or Delacroix I hadn't seen before I could contextualize it. I could talk about technique & subject.

a gargantuan economic development that healthier societies would be well positioned to exploit politically. but we have xenophobia and hyper policing as our de facto climate policy instead of managed fossil fuel phase out. this is not an accident

Sometimes I'm watching youtube "explainer" video essays.... and I'm just like .... embarrassed by insights like "Maybe just stop drilling for oil". Yes, unassailable. We could stop drilling for oil, but do you remember what happened in 2020 when we only *slowed* down the economy??

I feel a little weird about the shingy interview, partially because he won't be specific about anything, but also because, like.... you can pay a person to shoot landscapes or do your audio. I know audio engineers looking for work. The bonus of their expertise is they will know what you don't!

Do you think their resume will list every institution they are put in charge of to dismantle, or do they just consolidate it to one "Toadie, SR" record on linkedin

I was talking with a friend today and she felt like no progress has been made in her lifetime. I'd never say racism is solved, but the changes over my life time have been huge. People have gone from being disgusted that my family is mixed race to interested.

I can't tell if it's naive, but I keep reading things from people who survived fascism and it seems a lot of them say you've got to find people worth protecting to survive as a person & civilization. It feels true, but I think I'm just a soft hearted fool.

Since this isn't my professional account I can speak my mind with out people being like "Is this about me??" Anyway, I'm always dubious of guys that talk shit about their ex wives/ex girlfriends. Like... you married them. Add on to that they often call women hysterical....

There is something fundamentally broken on the internet when someone dresses fancy, reads 3 websites, then does a video essay and the comments are "Wow! The amount of research you did was astounding!" Yo, it's wikipedia, atlas obscura & art today. You're just fooled by lighting!

If you are looking to discover the grim level most people are living at, turn off your ad filter on youtube & absorb some of the health care scams, crypto scams, religious scams & payday loan scams. It's frightening!

I really fucking got monkey pawed with the rising interest in Moby Dick becoming a bunch of shitty rewrites.

One of the problems with gen z LGBT youths being cut off from their elders is they think they are the first ones to have the discussion whether or not bisexual women can ever be real lesbians

There is a specific type of man who follows a woman around to start fights after she has corrected him once. I hope this genre of man is dying out with my generation.

Whenever I am tired from travel and I get back home to Philadelphia, my comfort food is Nanzhou Hand Pulled Noodle House. It's pretty close to my septa station and it's just so comforting. I immediately relax when I eat it.

Like does anyone remember when someone would try to sell you a dvd or watch or glasses on the street and they'd say "trust me bro"? Street smarts seem to evaporate online.

I have noticed an overlap in super posters & influencer intellectuals. I am dubious that we should just take the word of someone who posts hundreds of times a day, but avoids saying how they came by this information or their authority. "Trust me bro" shouldn't be enough

It's interesting that 22 year old graphic designers think that AI will replace designers. (This is from a youtube from a 22 year old complaining about her job as a graphic designer) I noticed she didn't get a lot of the nuance of the job: the note behind the note, office functioning, soft skills &c

Eagles parade & beautiful valentines meal. What an amazing day

Rose-Tu’s calf has a name! Meet Tula-Tu 💕

I'm not really sure democrats are to blame for people not believing the GOP. I'd honestly link it more to: -American exceptionalism -GOP advertising -Middle class comfort -Ignorance of how politics work -Hunger for authoritarianism But on the other hand, dems are the only ones with agency 🤷

I think The Mist Noble is the most typical FromSoft boss. So cruel, so funny.

Rose-Tu’s baby met Auntie Shine and much trumpeting ensued 🐘💕🐘

You couldn't make Cool Hand Luke today, eggs are simply too expensive for prisoners.

Go back to having bluesky be invite only, but they have to pass a captcha to identify real and joke tweets to sign up.

Even I have to admit 9am is a little early for freeform jazz.