Weird Alex

In a book from the early 1980s, he predicted that if people were discouraged from speaking publicly about their deepest convictions, “this would create a kind of moral vacuum, a void in our public life, an emptiness of meaning that sooner or later would be filled by narrow, intolerant moralisms of two kinds: fundamentalism or hyper-nationalism,” he said recently. “Four or five decades later, alas, that’s what’s happened.”

Who, exactly, has been "discouraged from speaking publicly about their deepest convictions"? It seems to me that the trajectory of public discourse over the last five decades--especially with the rise of social media--has moved in precisely the opposite direction that Michael Sandel posits here.

And that's why we don't need a Nazi like Platner, or someone who hates California's disabled like Newsom, to fight Trump. They bring nothing to the fight because they're on his side.

I had to be REAL obvious y'all

Scene from Andor, Imperial propagandists talking about manufacturing public support for a genocide: edited on the last word. The propagandist says, with a smirk, "Hasn't there always been something slightly arrogant about the trans?"

NYT opinion page for the last decade:

please please please help if you can 💕💸

I think we can absolutely get on that

The cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marianne Satrapi.

Now would be a good time for anyone who wants to learn about recent Iranian history to read this. It is well worth your time and money (I am sure your local library has it if you don’t want to purchase it).

I truly don't have time for this dipshit behaviour. Pick a fight with someone else- you're really gross. Sort yourself out.

Like you get that saves don't show appreciation on a porn post, you get that, you call porn actors "sex beggars" so let's not pretend there's some sort of respectful interaction you're doing here

First of all fuck you for "sex beggars" unless that's how you describe literally every artist who provides samples of their work

The latter seems far preferable since you can't pay rent with "internet points." I get some people like yourself are going to be weird sample-hoarders either way.

It's such a bad decision that saves are half-visible on bsky.

Why is it important to show us how many times a skeet was saved, but not who saved it? If it's intended for private bookmarking, don't tell anyone anything. If it's intended as fully visible tell everyone everything.

Hell yes! I hope you and your dream lover had a good time?

The last decade of the NYT opinion page:

brainstorming pet names for dirty talking my body horror sex computer while i ravish her like babygirl you’re such a

A new month, same old oysters! This one felt like it came out weird, it’s been an odd day. 🦪🦪🦪

sinead lying on its back taking a high angle selfie, head at bottom of frame and upper thighs at top. it has glasses and short sea green hair with a shave in the right, half-smiling through pierced lips. it wears a silvery armor-like pvc crop top under a cropped lace long sleeve top in deep blue. its soft big belly is exposed, with cow print leggings covering spread thighs.

it’s soft body sunday

the horrors persist, but so do we.

hold on to the gentle things in life 🖤.

If you don’t study aerial, you might think me guilty of false modesty when I refer to myself as a beginner (albeit an advanced one). Okay so first, I am too vain to do false humility and second, I am only now starting to explore the span set—the black fabric that suspends the hoop.

Fuck the troops and fuck your service. If you want respect, quit.

LOOK AT THIS POWER & ARTISTRY 🔥🖤✨

holy fuck this is so cool and such a powerful pose!!

I have a new short story up on Patreon.. it’s about Sam, the (hired) free use office slut. Sam is a man. The office gets very busy 😅😈

Text excerpt of H.R.7661 on Congress.gov, ending its definition of "sexually oriented material" with:

“(ii) involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism.”.

Legislation can be seen in full, including a link to contact your member of congress at:
www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

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A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

There’s no excuse for your random cis friends and family not to understand this as an obsessive hate campaign by lying bigots. Whatever anyone’s opinion on trans people, even the most ardent lunatic cannot deny the existence of people who transitioned decades ago and have yet to ‘get over it’.

DEAR TRANS KIDS, THIS WORLD IS BETTER WITH YOu IN IT AND YOU AR E WORTH FIGHTING FOR.

It's just really really pitiful

Ugh yeah and like. This is the kind of entitled misogynistic dipshit behaviour that would call a beating upon ye if attempted in a real world space; these people are such cowards

And you can't lock a skeet as unsaveable, either, which would help a lot!

Yep! We're going to show not just the author, but everyone who views the skeet, how many times it has been saved; but not by who" is just fucking baffling and it's so easy to harass specifically people who go "i don't like when people save my skeets" for whatever reason

Apollo with the dodgeball of prophecy

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one