THUCYDIDES: In my book I invented the Melian Dialogue as a cautionary tale DIPSHITS TALKING ABOUT IR WHO WANT TO SOUND SMART: At long last, we have done the Melian Dialogue from the classic book Don't Do the Melian Dialogue

dante made up an entire fake trip through hell just so he could talk about how he coincidentally saw every single one of his enemies there receiving graphically specific and tailor-made punishments

Man, Occitans went crazy when they invented chabrot. Got to be one of my favorite liquids.

I went to Big Hog Battery and nobody knew you

Now more than ever my dream is to quit my job and get one coming up with names for Khan Academy word problems

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

10 year anniversary of my favorite picture ever. It’s the way they’re obviously talking to one another that gets me.

Struck by thrown horseshoe at sixth grade camp; concussion

I stay on Facebook a little, mostly to post news for people from my (deep red) hometown and while it’s mostly tolerable sometimes it is just completely surreal. Like, you played saxophone next to me in 2000 and now you’re an open fascist.

I just don’t see how we’re stopping this without serious jail time for the people responsible for it. Start with the standard penalty for sexual assault and stack the counts from there. We simply cannot have a functioning and equal society if this goes unpunished.

Kazakh language dissertation defense until midnight, with a fever, the day before the quarter starts. “It’s not ideal.”

“If a woman dares to show herself in public in any way, then she can and will be sexually harassed with the aid of genAI-driven tools that can easily turn her face into highly realistic pornography” is an absolute red-alarm human rights disaster

[as serious as a heart attack] Now that's what I call music

I love it when a professional football player just falls over out there. I can’t throw the ball 70 yards but I could do *that*.

On day 3 of a bug that’s acting exactly like the one that turned into pneumonia on day 5 for my kid and basically refusing to admit that it could be happening. I will be healthy by tomorrow am through the power of my mind.

I promise you, you'll never guess which "politics" they're referring to

Endless Column, by Constantin Brâncuși, 1938, 📸 by @stephenmally

I am so fucking tired of being governed by these sadistic freaks

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

My folks brought some shirts from high school out here and they really paint a picture. (The title of the picture is “Probable Adult Virgin.”)

Beautiful alley-oop from Elliott “The Gift” Cadeau, a nickname that I hear is really catching on

Time for Michigan basketball

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you: Hi, I’m my own failure to consume any electrolytes during the Paiute Meadows 50K.

I really thought that this level of open racism (plus homophobia, plus the reemergence of the r-slur) was behind us and I have never been sadder to be wrong. This shit makes our lives so much worse. It endangers vulnerable people and cheapens all of us.

STOCK DAAAAAYYYY

James Garfield’s doctors feel like this ending is needlessly painful and drawn out.

Lane Kiffin I dare you to google “Bill Frieder.”

OH NO! DISASTER! WHAT A BAD IDEA!

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

Shout out to the first person who figured out that it’s good to soak old bread in custard and then cook it.

We’re not amazing at couple selfies so when there’s a good one you know I’m gonna share it. Happy new year!

Almost unbelievable that Third Eye Blind was available

No thank you

Accidentally messaged the subaltern periphery group chat "may your new year be full of imperial superprofits" and the metropole labor aristocrat group chat "may Babylon finally fall this year," so 2025 is starting off great 😒

i’d die for her

1525 miles for the year. Bit of a step back after cresting 2000 in 2023 and 2024. With two 50K trails on the schedule for 2026, getting back to 2000 is an attainable goal.

Michigan still looks talented but young. Get a couple more coaches in there who are interested in teaching football instead of setting the World Adultery Record and hell, we might have something

uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"

just received word that onions have been ranked the "number one vegetable" of 2025. that makes 7,448 years in a row of the humble allium placing in the top 3, a stretch of unrivaled dominance that is unlikely to ever be beaten by other greats like cabbage or chili pepper

Just true shitheads, the lot of them. If you tried to do this where they live they would try to shoot you but everyone has to take them seriously in cities because only liberals are allowed to have agency and agency requires grace in the face of petulance like this. I’m sick of it.

I played the Cowardly Lion in my all-white* high school’s production of The Wiz

Re: Hankins article, I hope that academia will not move away from holistic admissions and other efforts to combat implicit bias just because some people and institutions that have tried them have done so badly.

They should invent a me whose glasses don’t constantly get foggy on trail days

I like mountains and being outside, struggle with heat, cannot do humidity really at all, tolerate cold and snow. Can reluctantly deal with small-town stuff if the outdoors are good enough. Deep red states need to have either amazing scenery or amazing food.

“Part of what was so terrifying at the beginning of the year was the way many elites acted as if Trump had won a landslide and had the widest conceivable support among the public. Many among the press, the universities, corporations, and law firms surrendered in advance”

One subject on which I will brook no dissent whatsoever: the finest 22 minutes of TV ever made are The Simpsons, S5E02, “Cape Feare”

Score a hundred points, smash the KenPom margin, simple game.

Dusty May seems like a nice dude but starting a half with a 15-0 run while already up 31 is definitely mean-spirited (laudatory).

Getting hospitalized after taking the Marshall’s creatine, as a bit