Daniel Dvorkin

Some things must never be spoken of after they happen.

This is a chance for Bill Cassidy to make up, in some small part, for his cowardly and murderous vote to confirm RFK Jr.

I'm not holding my breath.

🧪 ⚕️ #medsky

Yes, as strange as it may seem to the modern mind, the record is clear: Romans would do anything for #tuna.

Religious inscriptions in particular show their devotion, not only for meat on the table but for all kinds of good luck, be it victory in battle or a bountiful harvest or a successful business venture. They might even ask for its aid *before* setting out on some difficult quest.

One particular type of fish, however, took on greater meaning than mere sustenance. Their writings speak of their gratitude to this optima maxima of the finned and scaled kind.

From tiny herring to giant halibut, from the icy North Sea to the body-temperature waters of the southern Mediterranean, from cooking fresh on the beach to smoking and salting and drying and fermenting—there was no way in which they did not savor the bounty of the sea.

Indeed, fish may have been their most esteemed source of protein. They appreciated red meat and poultry as much as anyone, but fish brought out their true culinary artistry.

Like their modern Italian descendants, the ancient #Romans ate a lot of #fish. #Italy is a peninsula, after all, and except for the far northern part, nowhere in the country is far from salt water. Even as the #Empire extended to places far inland, they kept up their #pescavorian habits.

One particular type of fish, however, took on greater meaning than mere sustenance. Their writings speak of their gratitude to this optima maxima of the finned and scaled kind.

From tiny herring to giant halibut, from the icy North Sea to the body-temperature waters of the southern Mediterranean, from cooking fresh on the beach to smoking and salting and drying and fermenting—there was no way in which they did not savor the bounty of the sea.

Indeed, fish may have been their most esteemed source of protein. They appreciated red meat and poultry as much as anyone, but fish brought out their true culinary artistry.

#seemslegit

If I can convince people I’m being wise when I’m procrastinating on social media, my career as a philosopher will really take off!

This post was almost a rant about a pet peeve that came up in a comment by someone I don't know and almost surely will never meet. And then I realized there was no point, and there are a million better ways to spend my time and mental energy. Is this what wisdom feels like?

They don’t fit Whiskey Pete’s “warrior ethos,” I guess. He has zero understanding of how combined arms warfare works.

Army warrant officers will ‘bid’ against each other for their next bonus Senior Army warrant officers will bid against each other for a bonus that they will take to sign up for six more years of active duty.

This may be the stupidest thing Kegsbreath has come up with yet, and that's ... impressive, in its way. (via @hpfllyhyprvglnt.bsky.social)

“I never thought the razor blades would slice off *my* face!” wails CEO of Razor Blades Slicing People’s Faces Off Inc.

Database rot terrifies me. So many methods and results in bioinformatics depend on data that seemed like it would be available forever, but no longer is. I’m saddened but not surprised paleontology is in the same boat.

They’re all such toddlers.

Meta meme is meta.

And now it's coming out that he is in no way The Good Musk. Maybe slightly less awful than his famous brother, but not by much if so.

Any language other than English would be just a little salt in the wound.

And all that said ... I do hope when Bondi is led, stunned and baffled, down the concrete corridor to her final home, that just before the cell door slams shut, a guard whispers to her, "It's okay, Pam. The Dow is doing *great*!"

I want us to show the world that we can, legally and correctly, clean up our own mess.

What I want is for We The People, in accordance with the #Constitution and the United States Code, to #impeach, arrest, try, and convict every one of them for the numerous crimes of which everyone knows they're guilty, and then sentence them to prison for life without possibility of parole.

Nor do I want her, or any of #Trump's coterie of crooks, #assassinated or #lynched. I'm more sympathetic to those wishes, but just no. Every revolution in history has been, in every sense, a bloody mess.

TL;DR: if you wish rape on anyone, for any reason, you are bad person. You may be a good person in other ways, but in this particular way you are scum. Either do better, or own it—just don't pretend righteousness. I'm genuinely baffled by how people I call friends don't understand this.

Most obviously, #prison #rape. This is something a lot of people who should know better seem to think is an appropriate punishment for sex crimes. There are about a million reasons why this is wrong, and I'll go into them if anyone wants.

After Pam #Bondi's appalling performance in #Congressional #hearings, I have seen a number of people wishing her various kinds of harm. Some I understand, others I don't.

Trust me, you don’t want that.