Erik Strobl

long overdue 🙏

I bet security personnel hired by publications, networks and individual journalists aren't spending an equal amount of time on left and right wing threats. I wonder if those outlets would feel safer if they had to order their security contractors to do so. For balance.

You know things are bad when there's mainstream news stories about the U.S. Navy having decades of reports of UFOs coming from underwater and no one cares.

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HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...

Beyond Folk Marxism: Mind, Metaphysics and Spooky Materialism - Salvage Why, and how, are any of us capable of self-reflective thought? Of experiencing emotion, ratiocination, preference, cold, whim, melancholy, joy? Anything at all?

We're lucky to have writers like China Miéville for this moment

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

"the solution is still the one that can succeed: to build a new cultural order, a new civilization. To do so, academics must embrace an unusual new role: as knowledge workers, they must seize the means of knowledge production."

www.publicbooks.org/academics-mu...

Hmm maybe handing the keys to universities over to MBA morons who admire rich people instead of knowledgeable people was a . . . bad idea

seeking guest contributors on a writing project I’m simultaneously too busy and lazy to jump-start myself

girl,,,,,

*exhales for nine straight minutes*

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

made in a lab for me. Quite possibly the find of the year

If resistance history were a franchise studio, this would be its Fantastic Four.

this looks amazing - for once in history my alma mater is blessed

Rite aid in Harrisburg

Need to petition the city to preserve the historic Rite Aid and parking lot that's at the edge of my neighborhood

I mean, they’re wide. And weirdly dense

collect what you can!

dress shoes / boots: 9.5EE, 10, or 10EE depending on the last
10 or 10EE in New Balance
10.5 in Nike or Adidas

just got raptured

ama

it’s partly funny but mostly sad that there are a hundred ways for America to navigate its decline from lone global superpower status and we’ve apparently chosen the single dumbest, fastest, and most unambiguously harmful one

it's just a fact. you can't have a global hegemon who every few years is at risk of electing a lunatic government that will undo treaties, start murdering people in international waters on a whim, stop aid programs, and slap wanton tariffs on the world capriciously. we have no credibility anymore

Tumblr post from every-lemon Sep 8 so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff. they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed. I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

Follow up tumblr post every-lemon Sep 9 it was a smash hit. a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud. he was home by 6:30am.

dudes rock

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

guy at hotel breakfast looks like Oliver Reed. Extremely blessed omen

the history will continue until morale improves

to state the obvious: everyone in the regime believes it is someone else's kids who are going to be stitching the shoes together in the factories. but i think the majority of their supporters also think the factories are for others' kids. there's only so many jobs where you go to yale law like JD

They fired someone famous and well-liked in defense of a guy most people don't know and most people who do know him dislike, on the orders of history's most unpopular president

I love McMurtry so much and I can’t wait to dig into this