X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Today: dustmaxxing.

I was curious about this because I didn't remember any gluteal contact from the last time I watched speed skating, which was a fairly long time ago. Apparently, it's a relatively new American-pioneered technique adapted from NASCAR! www.npr.org/2026/02/16/g...

Missed opportunity to adopt an anthem by Neutral Milk Hotel

Mark it, nuncle, I'm 'jestermaxxing' (reading King Lear).

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

A blessed feast of St. Cyril and St. Methodius to all who celebrate. Here are these two excellent saints standing before the National Library in Sofia (took this photo in January 2024). The story of what these two did to spread the Gospel is quite inspiring. Much better than chocolate ♥️. ⚓️

I kept looking for the ‘this content has been sponsored by Anthropic’ footnote but you must have accidentally left it out.

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This event listing has been taken down due to faculty advocacy.

If Democrats do not take this opportunity to relentlessly mock Trump, CBP, and DO'W' for this, I will be extremely disappointed.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

I thought this would just be another story about shooting a dog but it's a different sort of moral depravity altogether.

Gallup, after 88 years of presidential approval polling, has just 14 words to explain its decision: “Donald Trump called us and told us he would destroy us unless we stopped.”.

This is morally equivalent to the neo-Nazi use of triple parentheses to identify Jewish people.

Columbia University is advertising a Customs and Border Patrol recruiting event next week entitled "Help Defend the Homeland". Very cool! careerdesignlab.sps.columbia.edu/events/2026/...

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

I’m singing a concert of Renaissance polyphonic music this afternoon; I gather there is also something else going on around this time.

I love to point the manicule of contempt at people. ☞ ☞ ☞

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

“Renee Goodman [sic], Alex Pretti – there are no words,” DeLauro said. “You said there were no words after the murder of those two individuals,” said Rev. Jack Perkins Davidson. “I think the words are ‘Abolish ICE.’” www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-02...

I mean, it's not too hard to understand if you take into account the orthographic changes! "Merry it is while summer lasts with fowls' song, yet now near winds blast and weather's strong." The only really different word is 'fughel' (cf. German Vogel, pronounced fogel), but we do still have 'fowl'.

again these people don’t act like they believe in hell

made bibimbap for dinner; ate bibimbap; now can't move; send help

Like the Covid pandemic, AI chatbots raise the question: at what rate of societal prevalence does this behavior tip over from mental illness to a new normal?

Just say no to the bullshit machines

More angels and demons content is incoming. My next essay for Cultured Opinion, which subscribers will receive tomorrow, is on the fear of Hell, with reference to Dante's Lucifer and Milton's Satan – and against the right-wing trope of American cities as hellscapes. culturedopinion.substack.com

When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails. This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.

I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I say we scratch out "Justin" and "Welby" and just leave a mysterious "Portal".

I love being on the 38-year-old website.

Just remember – Mitch McConnell was the only Republican Senator to vote against confirming RFK Jr. The other 52 are jointly responsible, together with Trump, for this utter disaster.

A quixotic opinion: we should replace the word 'quixotic' with the word 'quixanic' since Alonso Quixano is Don Quixote's actual name.

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I have eaten the chalupas that were in the shell and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so crunchy and so 🤮 🤮 🤮

Abolish ICE and change the US national anthem to the Battle Hymn of the Republic. 🎶 I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal"; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel, Since God is marching on. 🎶

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

The anger people have at media institutions and college administrators can’t be detached from this, it’s not just that people can perceive cowardice it’s that they see others with more on the line doing more to stand up for their values than the people who have been trusted to safeguard things

Homan to MN, Trump speaks with Walz, Leavitt marginally distances Trump from Noem—all show Trump’s feeling a little heat. But these gestures mean as much as Putin suggesting he’s changed and wants peace with Ukraine. Don’t fall for it. Insist: ICE and CBP off the streets of Minnesota.

I am a member of the 'Harry Potter' generation and the books were so poorly written that I stopped reading them after #5 and I still don't know what happens at the end (and I don't care). They're just not good, folks! Perhaps the younger generation is simply more discerning sans the hype?

My guess: the DHS official thinks the term is sicko fan and this is actually an accurate transcription of a mondegreen.

a book light, italy, 15th century

Everything Stephen Miller and the rest of the 'Trump' Administration is doing right now is *predicated* on massive electoral losses in November. They are speedrunning authoritarianism on the assumption they will have fewer levers of power soon. There is no agenda except executive overreach anyway.