Much like real Bushido, poster's bushido is a post facto romanticization of an earlier era of uncontrolled conflict, constructed by the inhabitants of a more centralized system to justify their own pretensions.

It's funny how the ideological split between Twitter and Bluesky has done nothing to stop the power users of both sites from being convinced that leadership is personally conspiring against them in particular.

You can really understand a lot of the outrage and contempt from the press at Democrats seriously trying to contest the GOP in redistricting and legislative brinkmanship as the equivalent of those 19th century anti-suffragist cartoons attacking women for pretending to be men.

It used to be you'd have to spend a lot of time and law clerks figuring out a write a decision justifying this that isn't actively humiliating, but now you can just drop an unsigned emergency shadow docket decision at 2:00 AM and schedule the hearing for 2029!

Aw yeah man, I loved that episode of Adventure Time.

This is like John Rabe returning to Germany in 1938 and earnestly trying to warn the NSDAP about Japanese atrocities in China.

It's not hard to figure out what the @nytimes.com ownership and editors care about and believe, we're just all supposed to pretend otherwise because they've convinced you that being willfully stupid is an important journalistic norm.

Sometimes I write fiction.

I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons

If nothing else comes out of the backlash to Trumpism, let it be a renewed commitment to small-r republicanism. This should be embarrassing. It should be shameful. You are a free citizen of a free republic, act like one for God's sake.

UH OH, looks like SOMEBODY needs another OpEd about the dangers of cancel culture!!!

Thinking about this again.

I will never forget people complaining to me about it before it was even a "movement", when it was literally just every women I knew posting on Facebook about their experiences.

Me and my friends would've killed the Iron Giant with atomic bombs I can tell you that much.

"Think of it another way: You’re new management coming in to turn around a failing company. You want to sit down with every employee right after you take over to see if they’re part of the solution or part of the problem. That’s the Status Interview. Here are the five questions."

It's like if in 1944 they found a telegram where FDR admitted to doing Pearl Harbor as a false flag and everybody just decided that they were too tired to care about it.

The main thing I want you to understand is that if you're like an unironic Bluesky liberal the people who control the heights of American culture and the intelligentsia genuinely despise you and would prefer the company of fascist pedophiles.

In being possessed by @badsocialism.bsky.social again; Star Trek needs way more scenes where characters look at grainy photographs showing that 12 romulan ships have left the lunar docks in Remus and we don’t know where they are

ADM. PARIS: "So you proceeded onward, having defeated the.........terminal cancer patients?" CAP. JANEWAY: "It was more complicated than that, sir." ADM. PARIS: "Of course. Shall we move on to the.....space garbage men, then?" CAP. JANEWAY: "Evil space garbage men. Sir" ADM. PARIS: "Of course."

Taking a statistical approach to examining the records of the Five Year Mission of the Federation Starship USS Enterprise, in the hopes that it may help future officers who find themselves in similar situations.

The way you keep a strong influence over the robot army is by proving your worth to them in a debate of facts and logic.

"Events have their own mysterious logic" yes, wow, who could have imagined that "we must purge our beloved volk of the communist profiteers and race traitors who use cosmopolitanism to degrade the Fatherland" would just end up being antisemetic, truly just the world-spirit moving as it will.

I have a piece specifically about the ways in which 20th century science fiction shapes our understanding of the future, focusing on Elon Musk among others, that I really hope you guys can read soon. This is now a subtweet of my editor, who I'm waiting to get the draft back from. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

ICYMI: This book is very good and you should read it.

Rod Dreher thinks that Western Civilization and Christianity have been in decline since the 14th century, and is also genuinely baffled that people don't take the dictates of a 1962 Church conference as dispositive.

To the extent I have "tribal interests" in the Jewish Community, it's the community I belong to, of annoying Park Slope secular Jews who have coexist stickers on their hybrids. If you think we're not really Jewish that's fine, really, I get it, but then why am I supposed to care what you think?

My only comment on this is that I stopped reading the Alex Rider books when I figured out what the plot of the most recent one was going to be by the time I finished the prologue.

I mean, look, it's not wrong, is it?

Goddamnit, I'm finally going to have to catch up on this, aren't I?

It's becoming clear that a lot of people thought that the extended ACA subsidies existed until the shutdown ended, and it was the decision of Senate Democrats to fold that allowed them to be defunded which is..........not actually true.

There is no actual functional difference between an electorally successful "Third Party" and the Democratic Party, in that actual membership-based ideologically-disciplined political parties are not actually legal under US law, so we're just talking about ballot lines and electoral coalitions.

NEW BLOG POST! I should probably have written this three years ago when it first came out, but Kate Beaton's DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS is a genuine masterpiece and you should all read it.

It's incredibly frustrating how much time we waste debating things like the Sisko Agreements and the details of the Romulan detente while ignoring the life-changing work that hundreds of thousands of Federation bureaucrats show up and do EVERY DAY, without applause or acclamation.

EMAIL MEEEEEEEEE INSTEAD* *if you are specifically one of the people I have been waiting for a response from or one of the jobs I have applied for.

I love this website.

Happy #MapMonday! Today we look at a world where the United Nations worked more-or-less as the creators imagined it would.

The thing about wanting Democrats to engage in a policy of confrontation with the government when they don't control any of the branches of power is that, definitionally, you are asking them to lose at least as often as not.

Probably the best take I've seen so far.

I think this might be the greatest video game ever invented, in terms of pure cost/benefit ratio and time invested.

I think taking this deal now was a bad tactical mistake, and also the stakes of it are a lot lower than people are pretending, given that nobody yesterday actually believed (or wanted?) the GOP to actually support extending the subsidies.

"Isekai: The mustard gas of entertainment" - from a conversation with @airshipchronos.bsky.social.

Finally finished S2 of THE APOTHECARY DIARIES; I feel like the show kind of loses focus every time it leaves the Inner Palace. Was honestly more interested in the pregnancy subplots that got resolved offscreen than in the coup d'etat that took up the whole season and didn't actually make any sense.

I would like to see some reckoning with this by people, to be entirely honest.

Every time I get into an argument with a Liberal Zionist, they insist that it is unfair to hold Israel accountable for the settlements or to judge the State by the Occupation, but they also oppose any attempt to create an actual legal distinction between the two.

A large share of politics coded as “left” on this site is in fact reactionary nostalgia - an inchoate belief that times were better in the good old days and nebulous forces have taken that from us.

There's a very fun series about that!