Just saw a post about the middle class composition on this site that Explains Things for me

Really don't think you can be surprised that Iranians aren't rising up when the regime killed by some estimates 30,000+. The protesters aren't cowed, they're dead

Getting lots of ads on YouTube for tanks and no thank you I don't want a girdle

I'm late to this but holy shit this is too good

I love hanging out with my kid. He's such a great guy.

Actually, the 2020s feel like the 1910s and 1930s happening at the same time, only now under the shadow of an ecological crisis we are failing to take as seriously enough.

It really does feel like we're in pre-1914 conditions, on the verge of war.

At least 750,000 people died so a banker could say could use slurs

I'm reading some very reassuring news about China and Iran. I'm feeling very reassured about all this. Feeling some unprecedented levels of reassured.

woah you're telling me a foreign power attacking a regime that just consolidated itself through massive violence doesn't cause an uprising?

BLUESKY POSTER: And I hope you die BLUESKY EMPLOYEE: I hope we both die

Raymond Geuss has convinced me that the central question I have been asking myself, the question that defines much of the philosophy as a way of life orientation, is conceptually useless.

In pushing Labour's extreme and hostile anti-asylum and anti-immigration policies the Home Secretary has lied. She has, deliberately or through ignorance, misled the public on fundamental aspects of both. That alone should surely be a resigning matter

Nihilism. It's all nihilism. Except when it's gender, the only thing you aren't allowed to be nihilist about

Guys, it's a friction burn. He's 80.

"To say the truth, the perceptions of Englishmen are of late somewhat blunted as to the Tendencies of political changes." — J.S Mill on the Gorton and Denton by-election.

I know this is an emotive subject and while I agree that people with ADHD should have access to proper care and medication in a timely fashion, these concerns don't seem insane to me.

I don't want my caseload to keep growing

the people of manchester have spoken: britain demands trans rights and drug liberalisation

I absolutely refuse to take anything but good news from the Gorton and Denton result. I am sick of pessimism. I refuse it.

Every plumber can govern

@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "This was the 127th target seat for the Green party. There is now no no-go areas for the Green party, theres no such thing as a wasted vote.. you can't underestimate how transformational this is for British politics"

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Quite genuinely think Musil might be the single most important writer I've encountered.

Thinking again about how Robert Musil's Man Without Qualities is centrally about the irreconcilable gap between the sexy murder poet and basically pleasant bureaucrat modes of thinking and living.

The question "how should I live?" is a trap. It's a question so vague, so encompassing, that it guarantees either trivial answers or no answers at all

I will start reading On Certainty soon. This will be my fourth Wittgenstein in the last few months.

Watching a film every night is killing me

I'm tired of sexy murder poetry

I don’t see how a democratic society can allow a political party to illegally pretend to be the official opposition and openly campaign on a platform of illegal ethnic cleansing

Polyphony and unity are not sensory rivals; they are effects of how we attend.

This is happening at the same time that the rules behind school withdrawal are changing to make it harder

The only thing I'll add to the tourettes discourse is that like intrusive thoughts, coprolalia will often select things the person knows are inappropriate and that they have specifically worried they might end up saying. It is not evidence of racism.

It is not some individual sense that is more central—vision or audition, say—but the capacity to direct attention.

Politics is when you know that other people are wrong

My favourite thing I see on this site is leftists and liberals complaining about each other for the exact same reasons.

Phone is enemy

phone is the enemy

This is a nice framing. I think it also explains why I shifted to emphasise suffering less after my dissertation on it. It's not that I think suffering is less morally pressing, more than I don't think morality trumps all other values. outofboredompoliticaltheorist.substack.com/p/putting-cr...

"President, he said to me, we work hard—we play hard"

I get angry whenever I know you're taking a big shit

worlds largest ai hamburger

might tariff the world just to feel something

I want to do something and I don't know what it is

client with incredibly acute demand sensitivity and anxiety, and his gp is so singularly useless i want to firebomb their practice

i don't think i want to have a take on ai

Someone should really give Raymond Geuss a copy of the Zhuangzi

Ad Astra. Boring, self-indulgent, several hour long visual metaphor. Absolutely torturous.