NEW BLOG POST! Today we're looking at Enver Pasha, the man who presided over the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, and his completely batshit insane postwar career.

A 1965 report predicting BART ridership at Berkeley's stations. The estimates are way high, primarily because they assumed population densification and a seamless transfer from AC Transit to BART. North Berkeley: 8,700 predicted (4100 actual) Ashby: 16,400 (5,165) Downtown Berk: 24,000 (11,000)

major problem with a lot of pan-africanism is how transparently uninterested it is in the actual diversity of pre-colonial african societies, economies, and modes of thought

Top 5 most evil nonbinary people list 1. Jefferson Davis 2. Ezra Miller 3. J Edgar Hoover 4. Marie Antoinette 5. Cyrus the Great

Positive portrayals of autism coded assholes in media basically never include the part where they care a lot about fairness and justice over social norms, because usually the characters are just wish fulfillment for neurotypical assholes who wish they could get away with it by being smart

Sappho’s Wario

New, from me: The NYT reporter who specializes in profiles of beleaguered right-wingers on campus went to New College...and found out that things were going ok! So let me explain some pretty massive errors of omission: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

Sparta is the perennial classic example of this because I bet they can't cite a single actual example of a Spartan military victory of note

“Heterodox centrist” normally just means too gay for the right but too racist for the left

Attempting to explain AO3

It's dormroom bullshit. To the extend that it's true, it's trivial: of course mathematics is shaped by language, it's a communicative phenomenon and ergo involves language. To the extent that's nontrivial, it's not true: Euclidean geometry would be essentially the same in any other culture

the breathless tech critics failed to take their criticism seriously. some of them (ed zitron) make their money taking danegeld from the worst actors in the industry. others of them (bender, gebru) refused to take the problem seriously. yet others (van rooij) can't even describe the technology.

Average tweet: Bet on myself in the Saying The N-Word contest and the Jews who run Kalshi are refusing to pay out, please intervene @realdonaldtrump Average Threads post: Not yall just now realizing the Geico Gecko originated in minstrel shows

We should hit students in the head with a metal pipe every half hour during exams, with exceptions for disabilities of course. it will teach students to think on their feet

Marcus Herz wrote the “Physician’s Prayer” that is often attributed to Maimonides Rabbi Rami Shapiro wrote “do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief” which is often attributed to the Talmud

Absolutely incredible R142 sign failure

i feel like this from roosevelt's 1942 state of the union address still works as a mantra today for our fight

here's a hot for Bluesky take: a lot of tech-criticism is so bad and focused on a kind of stupid imagined STEM-humanities culture war that some companies have been able to build whole brands around being "evil tech bros 😈" making supervillain promises despite their shit being vaporware

every wiki article about classic UK comedy like "Father and Sons was a comedy duo comprised of Reg Father and Tommy Sons, who appeared on a record breaking 18,450 episodes of The Light Applause Hour. Reg Father died in 1988 of Cigarette Fever. Tommy Sons remains alive in prison since 1997"

this whole episode is an incredible instance of someone telling you it looks like rain as they unzip their fly

somehow this doodle i did at like 2am popped off on the other site

every photograh in a textbook or historical work, every painting, and virtually every description of the event described as the "storming of the winter palace" comes from the morning dress rehearsal of a 1920 reenactment of the nonviolent 1917 seizure of the winter palace from kerensky

At synagogue we have a woman who plays the flute sometimes and the NB who comes back on Yom Kippur because they sing good

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

it is true that you cannot always tell when people are disabled but the article also points to many instances of people *explicitly advising how to exploit the system on social media or filming themselves doing so.*.

Liberalism, in turn, proposes an aesthetic but most of you hate it because you refuse to understand it for what it is.

As a guy who rolled his eyes at the "Hands Off Venezuela!" stuff when it came up under Biden: Hands Off Venezuela

No Gaston backstory is necessary, but now I want him to Flashman his way through Revolutionary/Napoleonic/Restoration France. Like he unwittingly foils the flight to Varennes, is nearly executed in the Terror, betrays both Napoleon and Louis XVIII, that kind of thing.

the original is a list for babies. here's a real one 1 CUNEIFORM 2 ORACLE BONES 3 THE SPIRIT TALKERS 4 OLD JEB AND HIS WAYS 5 DR MORTEN'S ETHERIC TRANSMORGIFIER 6 THE DARK ARTS OF THESSALY 7 EROTIC IVORY CARVINGS 8 SONGS, SONGS OF THE VERY DEEP 9 HAEMOMANCY 10 'THEM IN THE HILLS'

In this house we believe Climate change is REAL Insurance risk models are FAKE LANDSCAPING is a human right

The problem is not that we do not teach people they should be good, the problem is that we teach people being good is thankless and ultimately the lot of a good person is to be taken advantage of by funnier, more colorful, sexier naughty people. It is virtue as designated driver for society.

Nobody reads the damn article! There’s caveats in there!

No it’s saying things that should only be about Jesus if you believe that way about Charlie Kirk

Happy Hanukkah, the holiday where we celebrate the defeat of a large cosmpolitan empire by a small determined group of militant religious fanatics

>the gyre? narrowing >falcon? hears the falconer >things? sticking together >center? holding >mere anarchy? never heard of it >blood-dimmed tide? locked up tight >ceremony of innocence proceeding as normal >the best have so much conviction >the worst? listless and apathetic we're all gonna make it

we could have had a future with tumblr's politics and 4chan's taste in art but we got a future with 4chan's politics and tumblr's taste in art

Bluesky comments are like encountering the patients the neuropsychologist Alexander Luria found in the Soviet Union:

the weirdest and funniest kind of self-funder by far is the kind who, while still an attention-seeking narcissist, mostly just wants to actually do the unglamorous public servant's job they've purchased for themselves

Brett we are Jews do you remember what the Christians did to us

Amazing thread

i love delis and diners but it's hard to square them in economic models that don't benefit from a very specific american postwar framework where meat and local cost of living for labor is all very cheap. roman emperors had fewer menu options than what some long island greek diners offer

because Eric Adams caught the leprechauns who were doing it! it's all connected

I buy this stuff with, like, literary classics to some degree, but no, you do not in fact need to know poetry to be a well-rounded and educated human being

just riffing on this, in 1944 my grandad's friend Paddy, who would go on to become a very distinguished writer, kidnapped a German general in occupied Crete and took him up into the mountains with a resistance team, from where he was sent on to the UK by submarine. Now, up in the mountains ...