one thing i think about @moiradonegan.bsky.social's point is that you never hear people go from "male loneliness" -> why don't we get men involved in collective projects of meaning for the most part. instead it's usually a discussion about how society is too "feminine"

It's 9 PM and I'm dancing around my standing desk, belting along with the Spotify playlist Songs to Sing in the Car, simultaneously reviewing some deliverables from my overseas team members and prepping knowledge sharing materials about testing methods for tomorrow's "morning" meeting 🤪

This self-reflection definitely aged well!

This is real btw

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

how i’m watching the collapse of American empire

Escalator stops. Secret Service:

Sephiroth posting through it

Updated my phone the other day forgetting I was in the beta program and it totally bricked my felica functionality so no Suica and no Quicpay until I factory reset... 😫

The homeopathic cure for autism already exists

Apropos of nothing...

I've had this exact same thought for at least the past 5 years (wrote a post after the election in 2020) so I'm curious to see how an expert historian makes the argument

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Seems like a decent amount of new centrist-coded, anti-left formations taking off can be explained by people figuring out there's lots of donor interest in things that rankle the left, because donors are generally wealthy people whose class interests are opposed to the left & they find them annoying

I think about this all the time. The profound hubris of this man...

The idea that “the civil rights act was a mistake” is a mainstream conservative position we can only tolerate but “defund the police” is a great cancer that must be excised from America for Democrats to win is the actual reason Democrats lose. Sorry.

John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave But his soul goes marching on

Spent my entire day in 不具合分析 training but I learned a lot including about this really cool model (developed in Japan!) for delving into the cause of human error: m-SHELL! www.keyence.co.jp/ss/general/m...

Nobody has done a better job documenting the FCC’s attack on free speech under Brendan Carr than @theverge.com under @reckless.bsky.social — a must-follow and a must-subscribe if you want to know how they’ve been preparing to go way past McCarthyism for years: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

Exactly. The American Revolutionary War took 8 years and the Revolution itself took longer than that. The French Revolution took 10. Whatever era we’re in arguably started Jan 20, 2017, the first day of Trump 1. There have been many moments since (Jan 6th, etc) and there will be many more to come.

idk i read in the free press that the real risk to free speech is three oberlin undergraduates who say geometry is ableist. this is pretty confusing to me.

So this doesn't leave the circle of trust (no influencers blowing the spot up) but I went to Chichibu and Nagatoro this weekend and omg best domestic trip I've taken since before the pandemic (to Kinosaki Onsen RIP)

It may be a bit of a production but the annual health check is honestly so incredible and it's insane that every country doesn't replicate it

Having my health checked today

Hell yeah West Virginia (but also what is the cultural basis for whatever is happening out west??)

In the long term I'd argue it might be better for Europeans to suddenly realise and adapt to a new reality where Americans can no longer relied on rather than arrive at the same place after false hopes through a painfully drawn out process

The don't-ask-don't-tell (but also don't do...but also "everyone knows that everyone does"...but also if you get caught then I'll act surprised and seek damages) nature of romantic relationships in this country is wild

$100,000,000,000 is obviously an absurd figure for Trump's "one-of-a-kind" brand, but it also has the distinction of being the number with which Dr. Evil tries to blackmail the world's governments in Austin Powers.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

The discourse is all around deradicalising young men and the crisis among young men. The discourse would be much better targeted if it was about deradicalising boomers (and increasingly Gen Xers).

The intense vertigo of smashing repost on Bill Kristol saying trans rights with his whole throat should give everyone pause about dismissing persuading pundits as hopeless

imo "violence aimed at elites from non-elites" is the category of violence most disfavored in elite discourse. and violence that flows from elites to non-elites is not conceived of as violence at all. and these ideas frame the entire elite conception of who charlie kirk was and what his murder means

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

This video by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social is so so so good, hitting the gas pedal hard from the first 30 seconds. Succinct and well sourced. Will be watching again, I'm sure. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k__v...

GRIM

Part of what I enjoy about Bluesky is that you have people trying to be funny and people with no sense of humor trying to coexist in the same place.

Irony of all ironies that Twitter began its life tearing down dictatorships abroad and it ends its life tearing down democracy at home

Exactly, political violence isn't bad because the victims are good people, it's bad because it's bad!

I don't like doing this. It feels fucked up to constantly point out the negative dimensions of someone who just died in a horrific, worrying way. But I would like the media to tell basic truths about this person and his impact on public life rather than resorting to euphemism and outright lies!

re: my last repost There's an obvious way to read it that politicians are going to unusual lengths b/c he's a white supremacist (implicit: and they approve of that) But there's also the interpretation that they're doing it b/c he's a white supremacist (implicit: and they're afraid of retaliation)

once again it is not fucking normal to lower flags in oregon for random member of the opposing political party who was born in illinois, lived in arizona, and died in utah. this is not a normal thing they're extending to a white supremacist, it's a special thing they're doing for a white supremacist

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors

You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics. To pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling.

Liberal elites are making this their line in the sand to an extent that I don't think actually lines up with even proudly liberal common people