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When voters vote for someone I like, they are noble savages. When they don’t, they are irrational hogs to be herded

Make a life-buoy of the coffin, and no more.

Something I never considered but now will be unable to forget

they say the best revenge is to live a long and happy life. and as a non-vengeful guy, i'm going to kill myself

Literally will make me laugh every time

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China — Harvard University Press Winner of the Lionel Gelber PrizeNational Book Critics Circle Award FinalistAn Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Year | A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year | A Washing...

Logan just read this one and it seemed like a good crash course in modern chinese history. Real doorstopper though, but seemed worthwhile www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

FUCK

But can we talk about how perfect Salad is

Can I just say that it’s time for Bluesky to let us have private accounts

Logan has quit playing and then angrily started playing again several times. I hear him grumble and swear for hours

Image of a rug next to a diagram of the Pentium CPU die; they are remarkably similar

fascinated by Intel, in 1994, commissioning a Navajo / Diné weaver to make a rug using traditional techniques replicating the Pentium die

The rose garden was already just an uglyass lawn, literally who cares

A lot of people being angry about Trump making the White House look ugly which is wild to me because I can’t imagine caring about or respecting the White House enough to give a shit about its aesthetics. We’re a bad country and we deserve to have an ugly, tacky building represent us. It’s funny!

Most hateful!

Also obligatory plug for the Terra Ignota series, which is not what I described above but is absolutely brilliant and one of the best modern works of sf imo

One of my favorite genres in sf is “the universe and time are too big and dark and it makes me want to kill myself” and my favorites in that regard are Aniara (which has a great film adaptation), Three Body Problem trilogy, Tau Zero, Aurora

In fairness he finished it when he was 32, which is still four years younger than me 🥲 Thank you for appreciating my incessant Moby Dick posting! It won’t get out of my head!

This is an obvious moneys paw situation. Think about it. A really young guy somehow writing the greatest novel in the English language. But it’s a monkeys paw wish, so the twist is that everyone hates it and it ruins his life

Just realized Melville was 31 when he wrote the greatest novel in the English language 🙃

Numerical mnemonics from English polymath and birthday boy Robert Fludd, who was born on this day in 1574. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/robert-fludds-memory-tricks-1617/

Playtime/Koyaanisqatsi is excellent

And Florence. Just talked at my husband about Florence for like 90 solid minutes.

I was in this (incredible) class and I’m here to warn you that if you take a class with @adapalmer.bsky.social you WILL leave obsessed with Diderot

I heard about this hours ago and I can’t think about anything else

I want Ishmael’s whale measurements tattoo so so so bad but I can’t even picture what it would look like and I don’t think I can make a tattoo artist read several hundred pages of whale facts in order to design one for me

Reading Moby Dick is like a 4D experience because, just like Ishmael, I now can’t shut the fuck up about whales and whaling

Thinking about how Herman Melville didn’t know about whale songs and I’m so upset about this that I need to dig him up and make him write a new chapter

The Palace of Excess An Introduction to the World of the Nympho Librarian

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