Ingrid

Andrew Tate is currently in KSA custody and please please please please please, do your thing, you're like the Michael Jordan of this specific thing, come on KSA don't let me down

Wow dude your postmodernist masterpiece is a multimedia hodgepodge both symptomatic and representative of an unnavigable and overwhelming mass culture? That’s soooo cool ❤️ Can I come over to your place when this is over

Texas oil barons donated millions to his campaign (only outspent by crypto and the usual suspects) so they're getting their money's worth from this

I hate to pull rank here, but as a trans woman, I disagree with basically all of this. I realize the plaintiffs in the suit are also trans, but frankly I doubt they drafted it. I'm not saying I think sex and gender are totally interchangable concepts, but for the purposes of legal construction I think it actually makes more sense to acquiesce to the government's preference toward sex, and simply argue that sex is not immutable, and is actually quite easily altered. After all, Dawg I'm wearing a hat with buncha cheerleaders hittin' Pigeon Pose, you really think I'm ready to discuss transgender metaphysics? You can take the hat off.

laughing crying et cetera!

In the meantime, with the reassurance of US self-restraint gone, other states will in all likelihood begin seeking to counterbalance US power, in ways that have not meaningfully happened despite IR theory's expectations for a unipolar order.

It will work more or less in the short term. But eventually indirect means and the use of standoff force will no longer be enough to compel concessions, let alone cooperation.

At that point, the US will be forced to escalate to direct imperial control, or risk becoming a paper tiger.

But in other very important ways, Trump represents a qualitative break in US forpol, similar to GWB and the neocon crusade but stripped of their legitimizing rhetoric of democracy promotion.

That matters, because it removes even the socializing mask that has made US power palatable to other states.

(Would be happy to discuss privately)

I do miss the weather, always

(I have Reasons but I would not like to post about them)

I have a great deal of affection for the region but I'll never move back

I always thought of it as 'the best possible version of a PNW city' (I still believe this, particularly culinarily) and that's still evil

I appreciate the sturdiness when taking notes

Are we falling out of love with nonfiction? In the early 2020s, readers flocked to books to explain political turbulence. But is the world now too grim to read about – and are podcasters taking the place of authors?

my view on this is that publishers should stop it with the 80k wordcount obsession, so many contemporary non-fic books are obviously 40-50k pieces of work stretched to the extent that they become very boring to read - just let people write cheaper, shorter books! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

pronouncing "magnet" with a soft gn

grey/tan owl with brown wings and huge almond shaped pure black eyes and a very intensely sort of heart shaped face? idk man its weird

I've seen people say Barn Owls look like aliens but Bay Owls are really like "hold my beer"

too many images on the computer

they call him degrowth don

That clip of Timothee Chalamet being like “no one watches the opera or ballet” is wild and I am dying over every ballet and opera acct (correctly) being like “we’ve been here for hundreds of years before you and we’ll be here for hundreds of years after you” lmao

Israel is doing vile things in Lebanon while everyone is looking at Iran. There’s an actual distraction, for the distraction crew.

re: Timothee Chalamet shooting his mouth off about opera and ballet, I will say in NYC it's much more affordable to go to the opera or the ballet than see a Broadway musical. The Met's season starts back up on Monday. They're doing Tristan und Isolde, Madame Butterfly, and La Traviata. All bangers.

Merz Warns of Economic Damage Due to ‘Endless’ War Against Iran German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned the US and Israel against waging an “endless war” against Iran that could lead to the disintegration of the whole Middle Eastern state, a new migration crisis i...

Fascinating to watch 🇫🇷, then 🇬🇧, then 🇮🇹, now 🇩🇪 start to acknowledge what 🇪🇸's government recognised from the very start: the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran is a reckless intervention conducted without regard for rules of war and without a strategy for what comes next.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s like that by design, Chris.

when you described the world as having a "Global North" and a"Global South" you were doing woke DEI indentity politics, and when you used the phrase "settler colonialism" it was bigotry of the worst kind. anyway welcome to the new greater north american destiny power dome

Lol people are suing to be able to bet on death, that's fun

*KALSHI SUED OVER IRAN LEADER PREDICTION MARKET CARVEOUT: BLAW

The final Überhebung of the psychic residue of the 1970s apparently requires a conscious choice to relive them.

Knife the Mack?

These guys would not only refuse to apologize for Abu Ghraib, they'd high five each other over it.

I hope its "sports betting", because otherwise we are fucked