One might say that people are no longer Hungary for right-wing slop.

When you were sleeping and then some guy kissed you on the head

no servants … only fate are you on your way to your destination … is this my destiny ? (thanks for your time w/ my silly joke, remember this month of may … labor is how we create this world and we deserve our share of ALL)

*that weird kid in your class looks up from his copy of the phenomenology of spirit* "you people made fun of me"

w00t more winnicott Let the Moonshine In !

Went with THE MUMMY because it's leaving HBO Max at the end of the month.

kinda amazing in hindsight that this dude was significantly cooler than any of the actual supervillain billionaires we wound up getting

My “this is not a golden calf” statement has people asking many questions already answered by my statement.

Civilization being desperate to return to a mythologized prelapsarian greatness in a rejection of progress in response to reactionary populist outrage feels like a metaphor

when i show up in your mentions

RIP to everyone banned by the mods for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the mods

Odysseus: Kermit Penelope: Piggy Telemachus: Scooter Athena: Prairie Dawn Poseidon: Gonzo Circe: Abby Cadabby Calypso: Janice Polyphemus: Animal Hermes: Beaker Eumeaus: Beauregard Antinous: Timothée Chalamet Eurymachus: Pepe the King Prawn Eurycleia: Fozzie Argos: Rowlf

Poseidon saying I too can do the thing my brothers do (the one above and the one below) I can torture this boy Ὀδυσσεύς* on his Odyssey, and the poets will name him one who hates, one who suffers, one who is lost and laments also tagging @besttrousers.bsky.social

Incredible subtweet.

All polling in the US is, at most, a push poll for the president's approval rating

BREAKING NEWS: Here is a baby otter.

Calvin’s dad voice: The two types of philosophy are mysticism and lists. All philosophy falls into one of these two categories. Plato? Mysticism. Aristotle? Lists. Confucius? Lists. Zhuangzi? Mysticism. Despite constantly talking about true essences and infinite attributes, Spinoza is lists.

If you are not on the @rudetales.bsky.social Patreon you are missing an amazing Frasier-themed TTRPG one shot out today!

Dog in the club

is he still doing the 3 books you recommend others read with each pod ? (ezra) empty signifiers like trump saying “two coronthians that's the whole ballgame” empty signifiers where anything can go here

I’m not saying Tolkien definitely inserted this part of Sam’s speech as part of his failed effort to convince his publisher to publish LOTR and the Silmarillion together as one single work, but I am saying I imagine him doubly underlining “we’re in the same tale still!” as he wrote it

going to have to slightly (only slightly) disagree with @adriandaub.bsky.social here with @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social in the “natural law episode” Thomas Hobbes was 32 ish when he started working for Francis Bacon, the science method guy former hand to the king of England (Lord High Chancellor)

Between Luke Evans in this leather daddy outfit and Ben Platt dressed up as a George’s Seurat painting, I genuinely have no idea what the Met Gala theme could be this year, other than Very Gay

My favorite part of Shadows of the Empire (outside of Luke's sick tactical vest) is the sound Dash Rendar makes when he gets shot.

The reason droids aren’t allowed in the cantina in Mos Eisley isn’t residual clone-wars anti-clankerism, but rather that the bar has live music, and R2 is a holographic recording device, and Threepio is basically a walking LLM. Tatooine musicians’ union has strong thoughts on plagiarism machines.

"The Jedi has basically become the Catholic Church circa 14th century" is how you fix the prequels. A caste of political juiced in warrior priests with side pieces and one dork that edgelorded himself into being Jedi Martin Luther

favorite prequels theory is that all the jedi were basically fuckin' and anakin was too on the spectrum to pick up on it

Jinn wanted to legitimize a bastard, who he sensed had The Juice, wanted to get him ready for the corner office

Let’s all be honest, Phantom Menace is the story of a guy looking up his old booty call and finding that there’s now a kid who looks oddly like him

but isnt the point of the movie that in fashion, simple everyday beauty doesn't count because there is an overarching game she is playing, and then she discovers playing that game cuts out old parts of herself and her life? beauty is cheap in fashion like text is cheap on the computer

Perry (1979) “The Problem of the Essential Indexical”

Aristotle ”on interpretation” (comes after the categories in the latin edition)

This could be business casual if we even gave a shit

Yeah I need Dems who won't do this ok thanks.

get away from Donnie's catnip pouches

Classic

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

this is the precise sense in which "technology is political"

Bluesky Moments

You remember last year when 500 South Korean battery production experts were kidnapped from a Hyundai plant in Georgia and mass-deported? This single act completely destroyed the willingness of foreign EV experts to work in the US to advance American battery and motor manufacturing. 7/x

I read a very compelling argument that when this weasel chewed through a cable and unexpectedly shut down the Large Hadron Collider’s 17-mile particle accelerator in April 2016, that’s when our reality went haywire. I have yet to hear a more persuasive explanation. Not even really joking.

Hold that thought, while I try to google Gonzo’s gender identity

In the original longer version of the movie(which is rare) you can hear the end credit conversations. Almost nothing coherent is said in this shot, but Kermit seems to be congratulating Janice on her performance. Miss Piggy is likely still talking about herself (and Janice?) youtu.be/3p-kI3MmBoc?...

Around minute 94 of THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979), during the closing credits, we see Miss Piggy speaking briefly to Janice in the screening room, and the film finally passes the Bechdel Test.

if you haven’t seen it theonion.com/i-am-the-god...

the nanosecond my daughter sees her she's like "Dad shut up. my FRIEND is speaking and she has crucially important things to say. we are studying high five theory"

people had described the Miss Rachel effect to me - it's not like I didn't believe them but I was still somehow unprepared for how strong it was