Mr Scare-Ick-onymous If You're Spooky Szn

Protecting everyone's *rights* requires protecting *everyone's* rights, so if your plan to "widen the tent" means bringing in those who are hostile to some rights, you're not protecting everyone's rights. Your "big tent" is pure sophistry. Shut up. Shut the fuck up.

This is an under discussed point. Bill Kristol isn’t picking fights about trans people. The people who are? Our purported “allies”

PEOPLE WHOSE TOTAL LACK OF PRINCIPLES BROUGHT US TO THIS PRESENT MOMENT: okay so first, it's very important that we don't develop any principles that would leave me feeling embarrassed or politically isolated

I'm of course radically condensing just one of Auden's many points in his introduction to the Portable Greek Reader, but it's something I've been turning over in my mind, how the RETVRN movement has mostly abandoned the archetype of the Savior they claim.

A little off topic, but I keep thinking about the Auden essay contrasting the ancient Greek ideal of heroism (strong man, capable, impresses gods) and Christian era ideas (sacrifice for others) is in need of a revisit as all these self-identified Christians have basically adopted the Greek ideal.

fish and chips, the native British dish invented by sephardic Jewish migrants in the 18th century using a vegetable no one on this island had encountered before the 16th

elegant woman blasting a suitor in the face with the NO gun

absolute workhorse of a reaction image from over 100 years ago

One of my favorite tricks back when was memorizing a number on the spot. Like, no I'm not going to write it down. I'll remember. Did this impress prospective dates? I have no idea, but I got dates and it was fun.

thanks for the heads up; this will give me time to fuck around

Scary. They should arrest anyone in Florida with a hunting license just to be safe.

Does Trump also get credit for Israel immediately violating the ceasefire? Is that how it works?

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Pure shock doctrine

“Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.”

Jorge Luis Borges. Statement to the Argentine Society of Letters (c.1946)

Hell of a quote!

The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

Hell yeah

They should quit

But also: who care?

Ah. Well yeah then probably a made up guy.

There it is

I mean, I have several decks and read them on occasion but is that not playing with them?

the most popular and widespread form of theft is wage theft from employers. the fact that your employer can call the police if you steal from them but you can't call the police if they steal your wages, should tell you almost everything you need to know about the police and their function in society

They'll cast these rallies as "angry" but everyone there is plainly having a great time because it's fun to get together with like-minded people to engage in the oldest American tradition: telling a tyrant to eat shit

Great thread on ABBA from a real one

You’re a damn fool

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states.

Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Block the White House. Quoting anything from it means I will block you too.

Wait, we only get one?