Sibylla

thanks to @sibyllam.bsky.social for commissioning me :) #comms

28.09.2025 19:29 — 👍 19    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Some people's "radical" take on criminal justice is that they favour "rehabilitation" for the petty criminals who acted rationally under unjust conditions and don't actually need rehabilitation, and the abolition of punishment for offenders who committed acts that should not have been criminalized.

13.08.2025 02:40 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Christa Peterson vindicated for one billion years against the supposedly "anti-Trump" Brian Leiter who nevertheless has defended Byrne as some kind of objective, uninterested party while the guy becomes more and more invested into a political project of extermination. (Not that she needed it).

15.07.2025 17:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Illinois released rejected submissions for their state flag and wow they really dropped the ball not picking some of these

04.01.2025 01:48 — 👍 49    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Biden has curtailed some of its shadow party’s economic agenda — less so its cultural and social policies. There, Judis and Teixeira argue, the party seems bent on imposing a narrow progressive stance on issues like race, “sexual creationism” (commonly known as gender ideology), immigration and climate, at the expense of more broadly shared beliefs within the electorate.

Pamela Paul is, naturally, for a NYT columnist, absolutely psychotic, but this must have been going on for some time. Her deranged pronouncements ('sexual creationism'???) cast into doubt everything during her tenure as editor of the NYT Book Review archive.ph/qnQOf#select...

02.11.2023 14:59 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

"this volume of obscure academic work in religious studies is brutally expensive" Brill issue

24.10.2023 17:37 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

gen X-ers love "leaving their phone in the other room"

12.10.2023 15:47 — 👍 406    🔁 11    💬 46    📌 11

What Happened to Sweaters? The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory.  

Have you noticed that sweaters all kind of suck now? I wrote about why that is. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

10.10.2023 14:41 — 👍 799    🔁 188    💬 67    📌 82

Grad seminar in the us: how do we read the political imaginary in the post class consciousness Symbolic?

Grad seminar in Latin America: the topic of this class is Tradition. For tomorrow please read Ernst Curtius and Raymond Williams.

10.10.2023 13:01 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This blockade is genocide

09.10.2023 09:35 — 👍 647    🔁 218    💬 14    📌 23

Incredible how the retvrn guy clearly does not know what metre is. This is not a case of BAD metre it's literally just someone who thinks about Shakespeare often but is not aware of the notion of metric verse.

09.10.2023 18:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is an optical illusion. Circles are initially hard to distinguish, for many people.

Can you spot the circles?

It took me a long time. Once you see them, they'll seem obvious.

This is the Coffer Illusion, by Anthony Norcia

09.10.2023 06:33 — 👍 92    🔁 27    💬 18    📌 6

Gloria Anzaldua is quite literally the worst theorist I've ever read.

07.10.2023 14:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Target says it's closing 9 stores due to theft. The crime data tells a different story. On September 26, Target announced it was closing nine stores "because theft and organized retail crime are…contributing to unsustainable business performance." Target said that before making the dec...

Remember last week when people were insisting to me that big box stores would never be *lying* about the claim that rampant shoplifting was making them close their stores? Well @juddlegum.bsky.social tracked down the data. The retailers? They're lying. popular.info/p/target-say...

06.10.2023 05:45 — 👍 1819    🔁 713    💬 64    📌 39

I've seen this in like, students in a college campus talking about the local downtown! It's interesting how the discourse is LITERALLY in the same genre, it's not driven by anything except the cultural production of the American suburb.

05.10.2023 16:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

well if we all turn into 5G zombies today let me just be the first to say it was all worth it for the 6 weeks where we got to prevent conservatives from eating at casual dining chains. and i'd do it all over again in a heartbeat

04.10.2023 12:53 — 👍 2208    🔁 326    💬 26    📌 10

ive only listened to frank sinatra when i felt in love or was in a severe mental health crisis he really was mitski for italian dudes

02.10.2023 04:41 — 👍 313    🔁 54    💬 5    📌 2