🎶Friendship is rare🎵

"sovereignty and national borders are less important than the singular role the United States plays as the protector of the West" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

“She’s, I guess, the president. She had a long conversation with Marco and said we’ll do what you need. She had no choice,” share.google/tMdYnsqG7D1Q...

“When you have a group of kids you pick the one that is the most well behaved, that always does everything right, and you beat the living shit out of them. Because then the rest of them are like: ‘Oh, man, holy shit. If Dad does that to her, what would he do to me?’” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m...

I dread the dawn’s recurrent light; I hate to go to bed at night. I snoot at simple, earnest folk. I cannot take the gentlest joke. I find no peace in paint or type. My world is but a lot of tripe. I’m disillusioned, empty-breasted. For what I think, I’d be arrested. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zOf...

Since WHEN do ssds mount on the motherboard

@rianjohnson.bsky.social dear creator-of-the-best-star-wars-film-ever, I promised my aunt to take her to Wake up Dead Man. But it's not showing in any cinema in Rotterdam. Or any cinema in the Netherlands at all? I remember a packed cinema for Glass Onion, so it can't be that there is no demand.

"she's had so many men in her life" www.youtube.com/watch?v=smNK...

My cups break. My lasagne falls upside down. What is this november

"bekogeld met een exemplaar van de verzamelde werken van Charles Bukowski" www.nu.nl/achterklap/6...

2009 "But damn it, doesn't anybody know how to write an ending any more?" grrm.livejournal.com/82239.html

Great article; great person.

In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the release of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest on November 19, 1975, I want to reshare my contextual history review of the film that doubles as a guide for thinking through our reactions to films, why we feel the ways we do, with my own thinking as a case study.

"My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem, but they don't know me"

Big fan of your work. Friends & followers: this is going to be a great keynote to attend:

"None could find the words to describe it, although one said it was reminiscent of the deepest ink. When it lies down, it curls in a circle like a bi disk. When it stands its cry expresses profound loneliness like a black dragon floating above the clouds." www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture...

Final call to jump onboard our "Friendship & Positive Peace" section for @europeanisa.bsky.social in 2026. Deadline is 17/11

Not only did my desktop die last week, my laptop died today as well, live, in an important meeting, as I was about to take the floor, with the most melodious beep possible. Twice. youtube.com/shorts/6avdY...

"do you think the French are better?"

Top Mamdani-leaning neighborhoods, top Cuomo-leaning neighborhoods, and results from the highest-turnout areas: www.nytimes.com/interactive/.... And the map: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Horatius reads before Maecenas https://www.wikiart.org/en/fyodor-bronnikov/horatius-reads-before-maecenas-1863

"The Netherlands is one of the last cases of “pure” proportional representation (PR) anywhere in the world, and certainly the only one in an established democracy"

"Zelfs in Omtzigts thuisstad Enschede, waar twee jaar geleden nog meer dan een kwart van de mensen op hem stemde, stemde nog maar 1 procent van de kiezers op NSC." www.nu.nl/tweede-kamer...

Hast thou not spoke like thunder on my side? Been sworn my soldier, bidding me depend Upon thy stars, thy fortune, and thy strength? And dost thou now fall over to my foes?

"celebrating the enduring friendship through taste" New article title just dropped

10/16 and the world makes no sense anymore www.americansurveycenter.org/quiz/

"Trump en Xi zijn twee wereldleiders die meer gemeen hebben dan ze toegeven. Beiden geloven dat macht belangrijker is dan het respect van vrienden"

Marking the tenth anniversary of the DVPW Working Group on Critical Security Studies, this roundtable brings together leading scholars from Germany and beyond to take stock of a decade of critical engagement with security politics.

Janan Ganesh puts it well: on.ft.com/48TsW78 Europe and the curse of geography Eg.

Que peut la #fraternité ? À-peu-près tout et son contraire : exclure/inclure.. Alors faut-il s’en défaire ? Dans « Fraternité » @anamosa-ed.bsky.social, @arthurduhe.bsky.social invite à se saisir de la puissance de la métaphore fraternelle, pour « frapper juste ». Pas de combat sans #images !

Currently finalizing our "friendship & positive peace" section proposal for @europeanisa.bsky.social. Do feel free to get in touch if you're working in this area as well; there's room for everyone.

...

White House begins demolishing part of East Wing for Trump ballroom - BBC News share.google/sHVc69CwfsTF...

"The necessity of peace and restoration, the hard work they require, are left to the cutting floor, while hour-long scenes of heroic violence take more and more space in each subsequent film" www.avclub.com/return-of-th...

"If federal law is followed..." www.bbc.com/news/article...

24 October terrifies me. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

"already more than 100 countries are running mercantilist policies marked out by reshoring and friend-shoring and by bans on cross-border trade, investment and technology transfer, sinking international cooperation to its lowest ebb since 1945." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don't forget the stamp

"accidental friends" TM 2025 @vanhoef.bsky.social

A riddle for @theguardian.com books page. p.s. My new book 'Physics for Cats' is out this week in bookshops and online. Details at www.tomgauld.com

"you are one uptight philosopher" youtu.be/l0Evue46LNk?...

"The young prince's presence, according to Andrus, was the only thing that stopped a riot. They trusted him because he'd been with them at Dachau"

“I want to thank you for your friendship and for your leadership [...] you have proven time and again what I have said many times: you are the greatest friend that Israel has ever had in the White House. And you and I both know it’s not even close.” youtu.be/tP0Hf_anQpU

PSA: @americanstudier.bsky.social and I are launching this website to host our public scholarship and get it off of Substack. It's going to take a lot of self-promotion (sorry!) to rebuild from scratch, but we put so much love into this site (that's notably Nazi-free and penguin-friendly!)

De Duits-Nederlandse militaire samenwerking is op een dusdanig innig niveau dat je hier een prachtig voorbeeld van vriendschap tussen landen ziet in de praktijk.

📣 We are very excited to share that the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations will take place in Lisbon, 1-4 September 2026! ⏰ The call for section chairs is now open - find details here: buff.ly/pRPNM9R 🗓️ Deadline: 17 November 2025

"What if the mountain is high, Or how deep the sea? When the Duke of Zhou greeted a guest, in his service all wished to be." youtu.be/gFIT8s4zLN8?...

"Carson’s daily mentions of Richard Nixon or Watergate in the early 1970s was a major contributor to the president’s approval rating crash, underscoring Carson’s tremendous influence on the bygone monoculture in his nearly 30 years on air" www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

“So in renewing our bond tonight, we do so with unshakeable trust in our friendship and in our shared commitment to independence and liberty." www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...