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I am so, so incredibly pleased to have helped to support the purchase of this generation-defining abomination

The handful of times anything like this has ever happened in the past, all of them in the 19th century (e.g. the Broad Seal War in 1839-1840), it required the Clerk to be all-in on the scheme, yeah.

I had a whole thread about the Minnesota Dildo Rebellion yesterday, which I ended with famous quotes about revolution updated to the current moment. I was very proud of my work, but I think only one person saw them. BEHOLD MY WORK, BLUESKY.

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout

i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites

A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.

*drum roll*

Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!

I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

An illustration of an amateur home renovation blueprint drawing surrounded by a calculator, a cup of coffee, and a clipboard with documents on it. The blueprint depicts a modest two bedroom suburban home with an addition at the rear; it holds a large bin of enormous pears. The documents read "Renovation Budget: Kitchen $10,000 Living Room $3,000 A/C $4,000 Pear Wiggler $200,000 Floor $5,000. A post-it note atop the document reads "Someone who is good at financing budget this- My family is wiggling"

The Author's Barely Disguised Home Improvement

[upbeat zohran voice] I'm here at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany, where 80 years ago some important progressive work started [smash cut] but hasn't ended. So here's what we're doing:

As far as I can tell: a combination of being ornery, dyed-in-the-wool Covenanters and the Lowland Clearances, from which I conclude that getting along very poorly with theocrats and landlords is a cherished family tradition.

I hate to say it, but have you considered that the Bemidji tourism authority is secretly run by kelpies?

And they say drag isn’t art 🙄

There’s something incredibly perverse about an administration of gross freaks obsessed with portraying themselves as victims trying to silence any attempt for anyone else to discuss our society’s past wrongs!

of all the things this administration is doing, the attempt to erase and censor history may not be the most directly harmful, but it is a direct assault on our shared understanding of who we are and how we came to be here, together, and no less than the rest, it is a crime of monstrous proportions

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires.

Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess.

Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining.

Documentarian: Exactly.

Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

A stranger could well be someone who tries to kill you, and it behooves us all, as a society and as a species, to put our collective thumbs on the side of the scale that doesn’t involve mythological levels of bloodshed.

To drive the point home, those concepts were recognized in deep antiquity—in prehistory!—as two sides of the same coin. The Proto-Indo-European root that gave us “hospitality” also gave us “host (person)” and “host” (army) and “guest” and “hostile.”

Yeah, the way folks in antiquity talked about it, the punishment for this kind of desecration of hospitality was on the order of “you all get killed” or “God consumes your city in a holy cataclysm with zero regard for collateral damage.”

Sorry if I come off like I'm themsplaining at times, it's usually just because your post made me see a new connection, and I got excited about it bc of my ADHD and felt compelled to write an abstract to a future academic article in your mentions.

God, we had that situation back in 2023 after McEachin died. By the time we were done with the special elections, the poor folks at the registrar’s office were audibly a little broken inside. (They still kicked ass, bless them.)

one of the biggest news stories in Mexico right now is the return of Panchito the elephant seal, a local celebrity in a Pacific coastal town in Nayarit. scientists don't know why he hangs out here, but police have cordoned off his personal space. on Tiktok they call him the Mexican elephant seal:

Fucking hell. This is what it means to lose the consent of the governed, and the Mandate of Heaven. Everything starts going wrong for you—it’s not that you can’t win, it’s that you can only win in a handful of places, while losing catastrophically everywhere else.

Gen X Soft Club was a popular aesthetic in the late 90s to late 2000s, characterized by urban typography, cool or muted colors, urban environments like train stations, and heavy use of minimalism. It was a more refined futuristic version of Y2K.

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Jeffrey Epstein: kooko... part y nex=t week coming>?
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“Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: ‘Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?’
‘A republic, if you can keep it.’
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.”

Tossing this one on the pile of “wildest judicial document I have ever read,” which is starting to get alarmingly tall.

There’s a sense in which performance is among the MOST important things we do. We’re storytelling apes! We reproduce, reinforce, and shape both our web of social relationships and our shared understanding of the world through performance!

Not satisfied with rape, he needed to know his sperm was special and so funded the work of "race scientists" in the academy and promoted online spaces for racists to yap. His allies spent the 2010's claiming they didn't have free speech
or academic freedom bc their colleagues rejected eugenics.

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices