hey man welcome to friendsgiving feel free to grab a plate and sit wherever, plenty of food to go round

went w my bubbe and mum to Bob Evans for dinner, i think all the waitstaff were gone off some Molly or something, they seemed to be having a real heightened experience of working at a Bob Evans on Thanksgiving

i don't wish to paper over the genocide - in some places still ongoing - of the indigenous people of this land so for me Thanksgiving is about celebrating the time of year where the local fire department demonstrates why you don't wanna deep fry a frozen turkey

don't agree with what he did to Libya but for some reason this image always makes me smile. just like puts a smile on my face instantly

starting to wonder if the Bavarian dukes are just congenitally gay, current head of house for the Wittelsbachs is a gay art collector who seems to go around collecting titles and knighthoods. like they've amended succession laws several times to account for all the confirmed bachelors in the line

think every american city should allow only one post-Christian new religious movement to proselytize there. while the mormons are incredibly polite and have held gates and doors open for me while im out delivering, im sorry to say Pittsburgh is foundational JW territory. better luck in Scranton guys

perfect album that came out the year i turned 16

joining the mexican "gen z" "protests" on the side against gen z

Opposite World where Nhristopher Colan is adapting the Kebra Negast and is spiritually communist

picked up some stuff i couldn't find in the wild from the NYRB sale, word on the street is Chevengur will blow my socks off, got the only Sorokin not translated by Lawton cuz he's low-key annoying on twt. otherwise just some essentials

It's funny that for years people have been saying "there can't be conspiracies because no one can keep a secret" and then it's revealed all their favorite journalists were best friends with a child trafficker. And helped him keep his secrets.

We've all done a lot of growing I think we've earned some Cum Town yaoi edits

cats love society they cant get enough of it

sleep issue isn't too bad but i will say the Daylight Savings rollover does make my job a bit harder, i feel like i shouldn't be having trouble night driving at 27 on the cusp of 28 but im finding it harder to see shit at night. probably all the dang time i spend on my frickin phone

Tlon Uqbar Orbis Tertius

this guy does a p good podcast if you wanna get into Liberation Theology and need an introduction to the underlying concepts. it's completely free last i checked and he's v earnest, often bringing in anecdotes from his own experience as a working Jesuit in Latin America

Fun movie trivia fact: in Back to the Future, the actual reason the delorean needed to go 88 miles per hour to time travel was because Doc was actually brought over to America during Operation Paperclip

Chotiner conducting interviews like

mad respect to this guy for introducing me to Garielle Lutz, but this straight up hurted my soul harpers.org/archive/2025...

kinda insane to fuck ur campaign w the totenkopf tat at the best moment in the history of american politics to be an open nazi, like how do you manage that?

my sibling who is in school studying to be a nutritionist has asked me to do an interview about my dietary habits for an upcoming project because “you would make a great case study” and “are probably a statistical outlier.” finally being recognized for my work

Charlie Kirk just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. I just — you’re telling me now for the first time. She led an amazing life. What else can you say? She was an amazing woman. Whether you agree or not, she was an amazing woman who led an amazing life. I’m actually saddened to hear th

GEORGE SANTOS FREE!

God i was hoping i wouldn't have to admit this but the music thing is entirely my fault for having a real bad month where all i listened to was the Lingua Ignota Gospel album and Wovenhand

Hughes was a better poet than Plath

Michael Haneke's Home Alone

amerikkkan klantholikkk$$ when the Pope intervenes in the political situation of Eastern Europe: woooo yeahhh amerikkkan klantholikkk$$ when the Pope intervenes in the political situation of the Unknighted SSnake$: what the fuck??!

despondent Trump picking up the phone in the deepest ass crack of winter darkness just past midnight, moist w sweat and wild eyed, dialing a number and when the voice on the other side asks who he's speaking to, he starts, "Professor Hart, I've heard you can help guys like me..."

*seeing the pink light from Dick's VALIS and being thrust into an apocalyptic vision beyond my ken* i wonder what Rod Dreher thinks of this

okay big man, you earned it, thanks for writing Melancholy of Resistance for me that summer my foreman had me staying the nights at the moving warehouse and my body hurt so much that all i could do was read and cry

I'm thinking about ditching this whole queer thing and becoming cajun

if you see someone w a 🎗️emoji in their screenname, it means they like watersports. i don't want to kinkshame, it's perfectly sanitary, but these people like to get pissed on and drink the piss

obviously consider population transfers to be deeply immoral and never justified but can't help but imagine how funny it musta been to be the first Uzbek shepherd to get Korean BBQ cuz Stalin didn't understand east asian political relations

i think contrapoints is really important as a creator cuz i think a lot of young transwomen feel an unconscious pressure to be world historical geniuses to justify their already perfectly legitimate existences, but Contra shows you can be a beautiful woman even if ur dumber than dogshit and racist

Happy New Year to the Jewish homies, friend reminded me and it sent me into a bit of a reverie about the last days i spent in Occupied Quds. may we fondly hope for the end of the Zionist Entity and the restoration of free and full Palestine

saw one of these moving thru a parking lot of a development adjoining a park in Northside behind a fence looking thru to the public playground. i have never seen this before. im calling it the noncebot

saw people commenting that the Vatican drone lightshow was evidence of the kitschy hand of an american Pope, but truthfully early Francis and even Benedict did stuff like that, the thing i don't think a non-american Pope would have ever done was invite Jellyroll to the Vatican

Catholic Answers is probably mostly for the types of guys who use the phrase "marital act" but id love to go on those forums and ask some freak shit like "how many souls do/es conjoined twins have and can you justify your answer with reference to the Summa?"

we can see the Church's tendency to twin canonize saints to appeal to the two broad political wings of the Universal Body in their recent decision to canonize both St Frassati, an Italian antifascist Third Order Dominican, and St Acutis, a gamer

you reckon that in a Planet of the Apes situation there would be some subset of apes equivalent to the human concept of furries who would dress up as humans, hold conventions based on a shared love of dressing up as humans, make human inflation porn, etc? perhaps called fleshies?

hey if you could pray for my mum itd be much appreciated, she has retired and her budget will be tight and I don't want her to go back to the grind if it can be helped

made a lovely day of it at the bookstore, ill tell you this: Schattenfroh is the sort of thing you will be able to spinecheck easily, this fella is unwieldy! i know it's a niche press but i woulda published it in two volumes

cool things happening in Nepal we might think about trying out over here if you know what i mean haha

meet Barong, the fastest running cat in Indonesia

much enjoying Garielle Lutz so far, finished Stories in the Worst Kind of Way. favorite stories are The Pavilion, where a traveling salesman invents a new way to birth a child, and Not the Hand but Where the Hand Has Been, where an indexist unknowingly reveals himself in his work

you can tell things were super chill and good between the Joyce brothers cuz Stanislaus's title for his biography of James was "My Brother's Keeper"