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Was Socrates an alt-right troll?

I'm not fat because I'm lazy, I'm fat because I'm smart!

I remain a boxed rodent, notwithstanding my emotions on the matter.

Oh gosh. I thought going page by page and applying markings was painful, I can't imagine straight up rewriting everything.

D:

That's interesting that the Android developers decided on that term. I guess the people focused on localizing grammar are grammar nerds. Surprising they haven't changed the user (developer) facing option even if they left the backing keyword the same. It's been like that for years.

Or reddit every other Tuesday

Reading stats. 100 books and 29,420 pages in 2025. 48 books and 16,000 pages in 2024

Rating histogram with a sorta normal curve but biased to the right with a mean of 3.2 and a mode of 3.5.

I have now read and rated 100 books so far this year! More than twice as I read in all of last year. #storygraph #booksky

He was popular enough with millenials but I'm just saying he's less popular with gen alpha than Pikachu, Spiderman, or monsters in general.

Pretty impressive, the part that aged the worst is darth maul.

Book ratings I'm gonna say it now - 3.75 Incompetent - 3.75 Elements of Style - 4.5 End of America - 2.75 Comimg up Shirt - 4.25 Guide to Houseplants - 3.5 The Intelligence Trap - 4.0 Fellowship of the Ring - 2.25 Obscure Sorrows - 4.75 Calculation of Volume - 3.0

Might as well share this too. #storygraph #booksky

I know a lot of people love it, but I don't think Tolkien is for me.

Storygraph month report showing 10 books (same as August), 3000 pages (up 29%) read. Averages of 3.65 rating, 265 pages, and 5 days to complete. Highest rated books are Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows at 4.75, The Elements of Style by Strunk and White at 4.5 stars, and Coming Up Short A Memoir of My America by Robert Reich at 4.25. Pages read per day varies between 50ish and 300ish.

Second page of storygraph month report showing 80% nonfiction and 20% fiction, 60% under 300 pages and 40% between 300-499 pages, and 100% print. 2 books each are Reference, Essays, and Politics while 1 each are Speculative Fiction and Science.

An unusually non-fiction heavy month for me but an above average month both in quality and quantity of what I read.

September #storygraph #booksky

It's only fast because of 50 years of groundwork via the strategies of Nixon and Gingrich. It was only a matter of time after the post-9/11 legal frameworks. Then McConnell delivered the courts in Trump 1 which was the last thing standing in the way. The warning bells have been ringing for decades.

The liminal third space of libraries hidden in mall back halls

These are the real issues our politicians should be focusing on! Where are the ostrich/emu races?

One book I read recently, the intelligence trap, talked about how learning is more effective when you're more frequently going back and forth and forcing yourself to recall what you learned instead of focusing on just one thing. So it maybe feels less efficient but might be better for retention.

When is the circus in town?

Did you know? If you "ate like a bird" you might eat more than twenty-five large pizzas each day. From What It's Like To Be A Bird by David Allen Sibley

Found my new diet #birdsky

Which state is the non-CA Los Angeles in?

I'm reading Theories of Multiculturalism. Not sure I can recommend it though, first chapters have a lot of fallacious reasoning and ax grinding.

Cat on printed manuscript on lapboard, obstructing the red pen of change.

Cat isn't making editing easy.

You deserve the oxygen you consume.

Dog

My dog is on a much overdue diet and today I caught him stealing the cat's food. Presenting the face of a thief

My new ZZ plant. It wasn't sideways when I bought it.

I got a new plant that's supposed to be practically unkillable, perfect for my black thumb. What happens the minute I bring it into the house for the first time? I fucking drop it.

It feels so miserable living in a world where we have to stop and ask "does this kitchen appliance have ads?"

...and then get answered by a language model trained on ads.

That parasocial urge to engage in empathy.

The cheez-it taco bell items were horrid and I can only assume this would be worse. That said, I desperately want to run down to (what I have to assume is) Walmart and buy one out of morbid curiosity.

Short for Red Daddy-Tit. It started as a site for republican gay men who like large pecs.

The End Of America by Naomi Wolf

This feels apt to read this September 11th

#booksky