Stephen Berquist

it gets slightly more nuanced in some cases, but its still essentially just people arguing over the definition of "fascism"

nor do any of these people define what "moving to the left" means or describe how this characterizes democratic politics. utter charlatans. completely unserious.

My grandpa was a photographer in WWII and was stationed in Guyana- he took a photo of a man who had been more-or-less skeletonized by piranhas. It's real!

given the urgency of global warming, it's possible that he may, in the long term, have collapsed civilization

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

this isn't a legitimate government, they have no interest in the mechanisms of governing and no belief in the value of governance. you don't need to play at process anymore. you need to build a plan whereby as many of these officials and their funders as possible are eventually behind bars or broke

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

UChicago always had these irritating little intellectual cults around e.g., Mearsheimer, Sunstein, the Comaroffs, etc. and it's been mildly amusing to watch them all gradually outed as frauds, idiots, and perverts

actually, one of the first things that they really drill into us in archaeology school is that burials and monuments to the dead don't necessarily say much about the dead person

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This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

porchetta is basically the same as Peruvian chicharron, which is explicitly a breakfast sandwich (which I just ate for breakfast). just needs some fried sweet potato and sarsa criolla.

you should stop saying things like this. if you notice that your arm hurts and then decide to cut it off, you haven't "accurately diagnosed the pathology," you've accurately observed a symptom of it and then wildly misdiagnosed the pathology.

Counterpoint: what if shadowy cabal, but all very stupid

also, I'd think that a fair criticism of congressional dems and their consultants is that probably not having the votes frequently results in them abandoning the issue entirely instead of working to solve the problem

That's a great question. It's hard to give a definitive answer yet: we see cut marks on the bones from butchering but also a ton of tools for spinning and weaving from the same context. They're also probably using the llamas for caravan trade. I'll get back to you after the analysis.

i've definitely never had a bad alpaca burger

I just spent 8 hours dusting animal bones from an 1100-yr old garbage dump, if it makes you feel any better

they’re assembling the pervert megazord

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in general the user experience philosophy motivating a lot of academic software appears to be "lol fuck you"

Sort of the issue here is how many people construct 'science' as "Truth" and treat any challenge to that as a challenge to science itself

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

I'd maybe see order 66 as more of a "night of the long knives" type thing. Maybe not, but George Lucas isn't a dumb guy. Bad at dialogue, but not dumb.

lmao this was the very first thing that popped into my head as a former Toronto grad student.

the same people who gave anon quotes to axios 3 months ago like “we tried pro-democracy in the last election and didn’t win so now we don’t care about democracy, it’s all egg prices” wondering now how to earn voters’ trust lol. maybe dont outsource your values to polls you don’t even understand

you want to win voters trust? choose something, anything at all, to care about more than polls and fight like hell for it.

Ratting out a vulnerable grad student to an oppressive foreign government isn't where I'd take my stand on "honesty & truth" neighbor, nor something I'd brag about online.

i folded mine and put it in my passport. stapled it to one of the pages. nobody complained.