Thomas Beck

does the plane stay behind when she leaves or does she get to take it with her?

Quackery with a University Logo: How Bizarre Numerology Offers a Surprisingly Accurate Glimpse of Contemporatory Georgia While the Georgian Dream systematically dismantles the country’s leading universities, it greenlights degrees in “Astrolinguistics” at Bidzina Ivanishvili’s flagship Kutaisi International University.

I do not think I am promising too much if I say that this story will blow your mind -- how esoteric numerology with bizarro claims about Aryan, Chaldeans and Mesopotamia gives you a surprisingly accurate insight of how to understand #Georgia today.
open.substack.com/pub/ganatleb...

also how honest they are: do they deal with contradictions, ambiguities, lacunae, questionable sources, or do they pretend they don’t exist? do they anticipate and answer potential objections? do they credit others when due? do they overinterpret?

is a “false herring” the same thing s
as a “red clue”?

i must be a starry-eyed naïf because I’m innocently unaware of dreck like that. in my own little universe. aware of perversity from a distance but not seeing it firsthand.

Nazis actually hate children most of all because they are the next generation of the disease. So we should be shocked if not surprised that ICE is imprisoning babies.

Russia is waging a genocidal war on Ukraine. The world must do more to defeat the invaders and free the captives suffering under occupation.

my SP is all historians and the like.

Rodgers wrote words as well as music, since Hammerstein had died a few years earlier.

dog kennel or shooting range?

The awful thing about rightwingers trying to prevent teaching history is, the victims of all the bad stuff already know what was done to them. Black Americans know all about racism. Jews know about antisemitism. It’s fragile wypipo who can’t handle the truth.

there have been so many genocides in wretched human history that there is an entire field of study

wonderful movie

at least the movie had “Something Good”

Republicans and Americans

it’s all and only political. they’re afraid he’s losing his juice and may not be able to anoint them as winners. they couldn’t care less about morals or decency.

best performance ever by anyone in anything

Arrival, even if just for not misusing Bill Clinton footage because they could.

he’s always the real, one and only victim.

best performance ever by anyone in anything.

A manatee looking directly into the camera to say hello with its whiskers glimmering in the sunlight

Manatee Monday!

Some people call them sea-cows but they’re actually related to elephants!

They’re super important to the ecosystem system bc their grazing controls vegetation & helps maintain open water channels.

They’re endangered even tho they have no natural predators. So save the manatees!

the improvement in quality of play in women’s ice hockey just over the past four or five years is staggering.

MAGA Congressman Makes Sick Post About Muslims and Dogs Republican Representative Randy Fine twisted a harmless joke into a racist attack on Muslims—just days before Ramadan.

Continually disgusted not only by the blatant Islamophobia and racism, but also by the Republican Party’s embrace of Fine and his views.

Utterly disqualifying in a United States Congressman, as it would be in any job.
newrepublic.com/post/206611/...

sorry if it sounds like i’m telling you something you obviously already know. just filling in a bit of context for other readers.

concept originated in Spain’s colonial war against Cuba in the 1890s, and the Kitchener camps during the Boer War.

it’s a meal

Putin wants a gelded Ukraine, and the tankies say that’s reasonable—would the USA feel comfortable with a hostile Canada or Mexico? But under Trump, they have to accept a hostile US! And Ukraine is supposed to bow to a hostile Russia. This is not “big power” politics—it’s schoolyard bullying.

and he will, of course, take all the credit for whichever wins

also, NBC’s graphics for all the events make it impossible to figure out who is competing in which event and whose score or time is whose. 🥶

he’s a bit of an autistic libertarian absolutist. actually a nice guy otherwise.