I did the politician fan thing once and, yeah, I was disappointed. But this is exactly right.

I'm not sure this is what revealed preference shows. Most people do end up having kids. The ppl who have the most kids are the rich and the poor - those with resources and those who don't necessarily use marginal resources on more kids. So RP is ⬇️ for the large middle due to resource constraints?

Really no reason that Area 58, Tri State, couldn't be a City State like the Venice or Athens of old. Areas 55, 57, 59, and 60 would be well loved vassals.

The enduring love I have for ST:NG is because it was the story of good people (in space) trying, and not always succeeding, but always trying, to do the right thing (in space). No other iteration of ST quite captures that idealism so well.

Posts about something meaningful: 0 likes Stupid joke about making pasta: lol, so true! I have received your feedback, internet, and am equal parts chastised and offended.

Can you make pasta yourself and will it be better than store bought dried? Yes. Will you spend the entire time cursing and wishing you had bought fresh pasta with all the money you spent on a pasta maker? Very much also yes.

It's not my favorite song on the album, but "I want a best friend I think is hot" is excellent relationship advice.

Because I live in NY, I am going to a watch party on *Friday.* I assume the internet will accommodate itself to my schedule and everyone will agree to a 24hr moratorium on spoilers? Right?

Fair play correcting the right wing journalist, but I have to confess it’s hard for me to enjoy a political culture whose main point of consensus is that it should be illegal to use federal funds to treat people who are injured or sick and happen to have the wrong immigration status.

In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.

Firmly on team article. You will not trick me into watching your stupid video.

In JKR's hateful worldview, there's an aspect of womanhood that is cis-ssential, that only cis women would or could understand. That makes it much more threatening to her when a cis woman is the one saying "that's bullshit."

So exhausting..

Been a lot of male loneliness discussion recently, so I thought I'd add some #LessonsForMen in the thread below that I think society hurts men by not teaching. Would love to hear yours too. 🧵

Cuomo could never.

I was taught about shame in purely negative terms - about how women in particular were kept in line through shame and social opprobrium. The last decade has made extremely clear, however, that it is essential that the ***powerful*** feel shame. Very little else keeps them in check.

What a journey irony has had over the last few decades. It used to be that thing Alanis Morisette couldn't define to save her life and now it is destroying the American empire.

Immigrants, myself included, had a much more positive view of America and the American promise than was fashionable among Americans who consider themselves sophisticated. Of course, that was then...

So they stole it

As I was saying…

You guys gotta LMK if the rapture happens. I live in NYC. Genuinely think I wouldn't notice.

Also, once you start looking for autism spectrum behavior in your family, you have to start thinking about whether it was really ok to make fun of Uncle Al's train obsession all those years.....

You know that acquaintance that was losing it and you wondered, doesn't he have any real friends who can say something? American does not have any real friends. Starmer, the Special Relationship means it falls to you to tell the US people this can't go on and we need to pull ourselves together.

One of the fun aspects of my new world building hobby is that amazing art like the sword below immediately becomes a creative writing prompt to have fun with.

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

If anyone is worried about whether they will make the cut for the rapture, feel free to make a legally binding gift of all your stuff to me to boost those good deed numbers.

The numbers in this story stun me. And i have seen a lot of theater is dying moments. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...

In my day dreams where we get out of this ok, one of the best consequences is the complete destruction of the myth that success = character.

Spent 2 years working for federal judges, ~10 years litigating, and now ~5 years investing in litigation. Have *never* seen this happen. This is the judicial equivalent of being arrested for jaywalking (i.e., it only happens to poor people).

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

I had to come back and find this again because it has really stuck with me. It describes political commentary as pro-wrestling - all fun and games and just a performance. I think this is deeply insightful.

Gee, I wonder if this Warren fellow's view that comments about "white men who espouse hatred and violence" are actually comments about all white men could be in any way supportive of @karenattiah.bsky.social 's suggestion that there was a racial solidarity element to support for Kirk.

I grew up in the 90s, so I saw the tail end of this. I genuinely didn't realize how bad it was a decade or so earlier. An important piece.

In Sorkin's play version of To Kill A Mockingbird, Atticus says of a racist he treats with decency, "I believe in showing people respect." Calpurnia's response, "No matter who you're disrespecting by doing so," will probably never leave me.

Last night one of the guys in my D&D group read the poem/ballad he wrote about the prior session and I don't care what you were told growing up, peak masculinity is a bunch of middle aged men whooping in absolute unbridled joy at their friend's artistry and their shared absurdity.

I dunno, maybe the Supreme Court majority could have the decency to bestir themselves to write an actual, you know, opinion, with their names on it, explaining their endorsement of using race and ethnicity as part of a national policy of harassing and intimidating non-white Americans.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

This comes close to being my favorite male outfit ever. It's extraordinary.

Extraordinary. Judges would not speak to the press like this unless they were deeply concerned. Take it from a (still kinda) lawyer - this is just not done.

Sea Level xkcd.com/3135/

Just saw a post refer to someone as "a 40-yr old" (derogatory) and thought, "ha ha, old" and then I remembered I'm 41.

Newsom is, as they say, all sizzle no steak. But this guy, he gets it.

Also a lot of those words describe real phenomena for which there isn't a great substitute. Asking us to forego the word is akin to asking us to overlook the phenomenon. Just a couple examples (1/x).

Last sentence ⬇️ is generally applicable.

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social

A little strange to say Political Liberalism doesn't pay attention to why people choose liberalism when its most famous idea is the overlapping consensus, a theory about the politics of choosing liberalism.

For a second I wondered if the video was reversed before I realized how stupid that thought was. That's how impressive this is - it destroyed my understanding of gravity and physics.

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

If it were not resulting in horrors like this, it would be absolutely fascinating that it is apparently easier to engineer AI to seduce and beguile humans than to engineer AI to run a vending machine or even make restaurant reservations. Like, what does that mean for how human cognition works?

If you loved Maybe Happy Ending, I'd really appreciate hearing what you loved about it. Possibly the best stage design I've ever seen and strong leads, but overall seemed enjoyable but not special to me. Would like to understand what others saw. #Broadway #MaybeHappyEnding