Steven Brust

The inability or unwillingness to accept that both of these are true causes immense confusion, frustration, and demoralization among many who fight for a better world.

Human thought is deeply conservative; it will struggle to resist any change in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.
Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.

No, it's from "Over My Dead Body."

"When an international financier is held up at gunpoint, Archie, he immediately hands over not only his cash, but his pants and his shoes. Because it does not occur to him that even a common thief would draw the line somewhere." -- Nero Wolfe

We’ve been asked to believe a lot of intensely stupid narratives throughout this genocide, but “it’s actually HAMAS who’s starving Gaza” has got to be the dumbest one yet.

I salute @kenwhite.bsky.social for his principled stand. So long as academia functions within a capitalist society, intellectual honesty and integrity will remain commodities for sale. The rare exceptions deserve our respect. The rest must be opposed on every front.

So much this. Thank you for the stand you are taking, and for expressing it so eloquently.

The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?

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Yeah. And my problem with women is that they're always so gender essentialist.

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The worst thing about Millennials is they always making sweeping generalizations about people based on when they were born.

I'm so old, I remember when we'd talk about the weather to AVOID politics.

Mostly, it's just, "I could have tightened up that scene," or, "Dammit, that's the almost right word," and so on.

Yeah, also looking for loose ends that I feel like tying up, and bits of business that might be worth a callback.

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Yes.

I just invented a term for when the author of a fantasy series has to reread books he wrote 45 years ago: Cringefest.

Well played.

If you can't treat expensive equipment properly, you don't belong in the music business.

Mic drop.

Thanks. Very painfully, at this point, but that will pass. Like a kidney stone. :)

"We Leftists should stop arguing among ourselves" translates to "We all agree on how the fight has to be carried out," which is false, or "it doesn't matter what we do," which is preposterous, or "find the minimum we all agree on" which is opportunistic betrayal.

That is so cool! :)

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

Deliberately starving a civilian population and then setting up aid sites as a death trap to massacre starving people trying to get food is too evil to wrap your mind around. If we saw a supervillain doing this in a movie we'd think it was dumb, because it wouldn't be believable.

Oh, I love that so much!

YouTube video by Steven Brust Do You Believe In Science?

I haven't reposted this in a while (or ever here) and maybe some people could use a chuckle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppeA...

The New York Stock Exchange Building's Broad Street facade (right) as seen from Wall Street, April 2005.

Socialism is not a campaign slogan or series of reformist proposals. Even the limited social reforms advanced by Zohran Mamdani cannot be achieved without a frontal assault on the wealth and power of the capitalist ruling class.

Text Message from unknown number: Hey, Kate, what are you up to?

Me: Putting the finishing touches on a computer virus that I will use to destroy the computer of anyone who tries to get me to invest in crypto-currency. What are you up to?

Me: Hello?