new project: articulate the sacred and the profane in a single breakfast

I want to say Measure for Measure or Othello. but in my heart I know it's Midsummer Night's Dream

no, this time the lie was "this attempt at regime change inside the country was totally not done by Mossad/the CIA"

Iran is decolonizing the Middle East.

why would the battery makers make the juice inside so delicious if we weren't meant to drink it?

so this happened under Carter. the policy was probably planned under Ford. interesting that Ford rarely gets talked about and Carter pretty much exclusively gets talked about positively, yet something they did lead to this. probably nothing worth interrogating though, hahaha

text-to-speech versions of languages becoming their own specific simplified dialect because of duolingo

fascism is essentially what liberalism is called when it stops pretending to be nice. so too with twitter and bluesky. your perception of how different they are is directly proportional to how much you buy in to this facade

cowardly, lazy nonsense. if "the citizens seeking to overthrow" Iran are successful, it will become another US/Israeli puppet state. it has been the single most important regional ally for Palestine. have you given any thought about what would happen to Palestine if its biggest regional ally falls?

How China is reporting on the Epstein Files.

POV: you are Proudhon

there is still a middle class in america, and it is still the wealthiest class of people in human history

every once in a while I become aware of some kpop drama that's exceptional both in how inane it is and how extremely racist it is

while it is a problem that billionaires exist in the first place, the larger problem is that the state is subservient to them, and is therefore incapable of taxing them out of existence

these mass protests throughout the US will be funneled back into support for the Democrats, who will then do nothing that the protestors want them to do. they will also burn out the people who actually want things to change; reducing their capacity for their actual goals

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

I enjoy when people use "dynamite" as a synonym of "great"

OK - now at US v. Nicolas Maduro presentment in SDNY, in Venezuela narco case 1st indicted in 2011, Maduro added in 2020, wife Cilia Flores added last week. Inner City Press has covered it all, including in UN until banned, and will live-skeet, thread below

the purges that will be necessary in the US will make the soviet union's purges look like solitaire

Henry Ford's wikipedia page is interesting. it goes into decent detail about his ties to the nazis but still minimizes them en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_F... (screenshots are from the "Antisemitism and the Dearborn Independent" section) why include the highlighted bit in the first screenshot?

a radio station that plays silence when you're tuned to it and the sound of trees falling when you're not

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

Scooby Doo has a cousin named Scooby Dum, suggesting that their family uses Japanese naming conventions. this would technically make Scooby Doo (the show) an anime.

saying that 1984 is overall a very bad book, but that the Two Minutes Hate scene is funny and a pretty good representation of the way people behave online. I stand by both assessments

Hey, it’s great to meet you! I actually kind of have a thing for older women. :) No, I don’t mind kids, how many do you have? Oh, wow. No, not at all, the more the merrier. What do you mean your living situation is complicated? A shoe, you say. Huh. Well, what’s your philosophy on child discipline

Yuletide Carol was my math teacher in junior high

ESTRAGON: you think godot will like these red and green m&ms? VLADIMIR: i don't know i never met the guy!

Domenico Losurdo - Liberalism: a Counter-History every other nonfiction book I've read has made me think "I wish this was written by Losurdo" at least once

i sold 💲my #dick ✊💦 to get my wife 👰 a vibrating 👋 #dildo 👆👆🍆 but she sold 💲💲 her vagina 💢💦 to get me an #electric 🤖 fleshlight 🙊🙌 #sacred #God #PraiseToTheLordJesusChrist #Christmas

interesting graphic. what happened in 2013? why the big spike then?

me: I would like a small jar of weed that smells like candy but when you vape it there is a note of hot dog on the exhale. GreenBoyz420growCo: All of our weed does this. you are in luck hot dog breath

people who are sincerely puzzled by this are idiots, and you shouldn't listen to them. people who pretend to be puzzled by this are actively deceiving people, which is worse. move on. the world can make sense, but you have to let it. adapt your thinking to the real world!

specifically, the relevant error here is called "tailism." when people say that we should adopt bigoted behaviours (racism, transphobia, etc) under the belief that it will bring more people in, they are engaging in tailism. we can't just follow. we have to lead.

about once a month I see an article from The Atlantic about someone who thinks they've revolutionized historiography but their "revolutionary" concept is just like, an aspect of historical materialism

screenshots of tumblr posts are a very poor basis for a worldview

End Notes: 1. Consider, for example, my friend Brindle Mundy. She seems at first to have a wholly unremarkable name - that is, unless her middle name, Grindle-Trundy, is included. Her full name, Brindle Grindle-Trundy Mundy, is, I'm sure you would agree, actually quite silly.

my favourite synecdoche is "hot piece of ass" because it can refer to both the whole ass and the person to whom the ass is attached

cat!

old cheddar, turkey breast, montreal smoked meat, cucumber salad, pickled carrots, spinach, kewpie mayo, deli mustard. a damn fine sandwich

this dog’s about to kick my ass in a shaw brothers movie

[Extremely loud industrial clanging] "That what good pussy sounds like."

couldn't remember the name of the Paul Simon album "Graceland" so I just referred to it as "the apartheid album"

so much of the budget for Wicked: For Good went to 60 seconds of sexy photorealistic burlap man that, of the full orchestra and choir in the soundtrack in the wedding scene, they could only afford to animate the harp and one cello

Beans: an excellent source of beans

it's awfully convenient that the musical performer with the stage name "Madonna" had a hit song called "Like a Virgin"

WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada has lost its measles elimination status because of continued spread, international health experts say.

We didn’t need all these biographical Willy Wonka movies about who he is as a person. In the older versions, he’s obviously God or the Devil. You’re supposed to spend the entire story wondering which one and gradually become worried they’re the same being