It's because he doesn't own a horse he can appoint to the senate, a la Caligula.
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It's because he doesn't own a horse he can appoint to the senate, a la Caligula.
This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...
Schweik is a little more like Sancho Panzo without Quixote - he's certainly smarter than he lets on, but he's so good at playing the fool that he even fools himself. Tolkein seems rarely satirical, so it may not be a good parallel.
I wonder if Tolkein was aware of "The Good Soldier Schweik"? Schweik doesn't save the world - he barely saves himself - but he bumbles through world historical events, and seems like a distant cousin at least of hobbits.
True enough!
Gawain comes off as a fool, or at least naive and over-confident, in the Green Knight poem. He totally misses the obvious passes his host's wife is throwing his way, and not just because he wants to remain pure ...
Be ready to hit the streets.
fuck your goddamn a.i. chatbots no, elon, I did not mean that literally
I love a soundtrack like this! Every song from "Sing Street" could have been a hit in 1985, the year the movie is set - "Girls" is clearly a lost Joe Jackson track, and "Drive It Like You Stole It" would definitely have sat at the top of the charts for two weeks or more.
happy labor day everyone. now more than ever we got to remember what it's about.
Yes! And Wolves, Lower - I wore out my Chronic Town bootleg when I was 16 ...
Swan Swan H
All of these, plus Nightswimming, Can't Get There From Here, and Swan Swan H (pretty much anything before they sent poor Michael Stipe to elocution school - I love the mumblies!)
To celebrate the second month of the #100HorrorMoviesIn92Days Challenge, @shudder.com has generously offered a 30-day trial code for new subscribers (US only, sadly)! Use code SPOOKY30 and be sure to come join us for our Friday and Sunday watch parties! #HorrorSky #FilmSky
Sherman was too lenient
What, it ENDED? No one told me!
When books are outlawed, only outlaws will read (and publish) books🖤☠️ store.tenebrouspress.com
I gave a talk this morning at Upaya Zen Center. Here's the essay about disaster and human nature it was based on. It look back to Hurricane Katrina and forward to the present moment. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made...
Freewheel has been our go to, but the aforementioned Recovery is solid too
We had an econ prof who kept his office hours like a train schedule (13:03-13:17, 13:38-14:02, etc.) and would walk the halls with his left shoulder brushing the wall, never making eye contact with anyone.
How to Get Ahead in Advertising - BRILLIANT Thatcher-era satire!
If we say he's dead enough times, gen AI bots will regurgitate it as fact.
The Artist of Blackberry Grange by Paulette Kennedy - delightfully gothic!
New album Wrong Puberty by Organic Daughter just dropped!
I know everything is a 5 alarm fire right now, but this is really important.
It’s not a Silver Shamrock reference?
How now? Where’s the King?
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I hate being right: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
Powerful piece by @markhertling.bsky.social. “I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
This is chilling. "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov
"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
Northern New England especially is the last refuge of the village atheist - their ancestors fled the Puritans and have no desire for theocracy.
The calming effects of a daily Dunkin's visit?
This isn't just a political claim, it's an empirical one. If "the problem is not guns" then we shouldn't see any correlation between gun ownership and oh wait platform.vox.com/wp-content/u...
On this 20th anniversary, it’s important to remember that the effects of a storm like Katrina were not only predictable, they were predicted. Three years earlier by @mschleifstein.bsky.social and @johnmcquaid.bsky.social msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essay...
Happened to my grandfather; finally started talking about his experiences
I would watch this
This is almost comically grim. We’re living in a bad Ayn Rand fanfic.
I'm adding these to my library queue on the strength of her Wikipedia page alone (and have begun a hunt for her collaboration with Robert Aickman, "We Are For the Dark," because I can't pass up a good ghost story or a good book quest)
You can finally have your forever race car bed! I'm rethinking my sky burial dreams ...
Bear Head is such an underrated treasure! Definitely one of my favorite parks, and there are a lot of great Minnesota parks to choose from!
My kids are on a week long trek in the Dolomites and sent me a picture of their Verona meal of Aperol spritz and prosciutto; I made myself a little jambon beurre to eat on the patio with a San Pellegrino - tasty, but surely not as delicious as theirs
"If the antisemite is impervious to reason and to experience, it is not because his conviction is strong. Rather, his conviction is strong because he has chosen first of all to be impervious." - JP Sartre. TL/DR: don't debate with fascists.
He's such a fucking ghoul.
I would like every Democratic office holder to learn to use these words: "Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired."
There are 400 million guns in this country. More guns than people. In America, we are ten times more likely to be shot in a school or playground than any other developed nation.
THANK YOU, Senator Smith! More of our elected officials should be calling "bullshit" when these ghouls peddle their lies.
I dare you to go to Annunciation School and tell our grieving community, in effect, guns don’t kill kids, antidepressants do. Just shut up. Stop peddling bullshit. You should be fired.
Ouch. I hate when my fitness watch confirms what I already know. (But I do like to see the little body battery line tick up a couple of points after a nap.)
I don’t want to hear shit about “the shooter was trans” from a media that has spent the last two decades painting every radicalized white male shooter as a lone wolf
Our era's Leni Riefenstahl is some dude on 8chan using an old version of MS Paint.
Anyway go freeze your credit if you haven't already www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
www.kare11.com/article/news... Horrifying!
The conflation of homelessness and criminality is so so gross. Why are they so afraid of homeless people? Why are they so disgusted by poverty? "Driving out" homeless people doesn't end homelessness - getting people housed and helped does. What's their plan for that? Oh. Right. They have no plan.
Joe Biden must be rolling in his grave right now.
here's a gift link because you deserve all the sandwich content 🎁 🥪
not only is LUCKY DAY still on the USA TODAY BESTSELLER LIST for a second week in a row, it is number 17. LETS TROT. get yourself a copy and read the chapter 2 that has buckaroos all across the country sayin 'what the heck?' us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
DOGE put at risk *every person with a Social Security Number* for identify theft. DOGE's treatment of these data is extraordinary-the level of protection that has long been applied to these data is rigid. But they just uploaded it all to the cloud! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
In fact, many of these risks were reported in real time by @wired.com & @marisakabas.bsky.social & @wyden.senate.gov , but failed to get the attention they deserved from mainstream press. If @nytimes.com & @washingtonpost.com had done their jobs in January, we could have nipped this in the bud.
At least my first pet's name isn't in that file, so my passwords are safe for now ...
I saw a business owner on here say he had just let his junior developer go because of recent improvements to a coding AI and that he couldn't see himself hiring one ever again and... do people not see that if we eliminate all the junior positions, there will never again be another senior developer?
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
My Foinn Seisiún books have arrived, no doubt just under some tariff wire or other; watch out monthly seisiún, I’m going to master my share of tunes by September’s meeting
If you purchased a book between 2017 and 2025 that identified "wokeness" or left wing censoriousness as the major threat to free speech and democratic values, might I politely suggest you ask for your money back.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
"He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
The appearance by the AI-generated hologram of Foucault performing Gil Scott-Heron was a high point, though.
I like a video that starts with a jump scare. The gothic season is upon us ...
I find it charming when the @radiok.bsky.social DJs do this, though: they'll pick out a Spandau Ballet or ABC CD, have no clue which track was the hit 20+ years before they were born, and let fate take them where it will. And then follow it up with a Prince single played at 33 1/3 RPM, for the LOLs.
Is America great yet?
you aren't owed an end to your favorite story. you don't own it. you have no claim on it. go write fanfiction.
I hope they pitch a couple of sandwiches his way, with an aggressive overhand throw
Why are you so hot for Newsom so early in the process? It's literal YEARS before any votes are cast in caucuses or primaries; at this point in 2005, Obama was on no one's radar. Is it just for engagement? Because you're only drawing blocks.
The world is a little brighter today
At this time in 2005, the potential Democratic front runners were Clinton, Kerry, and Edwards; Obama wasn't even in the field. It's WAY too early to be pushing for someone who throws people under the bus for a handful of votes.
It's WAY too early to be settling for someone who punches down at trans and homeless people and makes nice with fascists. We can do so much better.
Fascism Lite is still fascism; someone who will sacrifice other Americans’ rights to live their authentic lives is not someone I would vote for
How is it "impossible to understand the perspective of the trans community"? It doesn't take a huge amount of compassion to put yourself in the shoes of people who are being vilified for political gain. If someone can't stand up for trans folks, I don't trust them to stand up for me, either.
[Re: Your Failed Tonsillectomy] by Em Setzer "When we opened you up, we found a syrinx in your throat like a bird. You expelled song at us and resisted penetration, none of us knew what to do." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po... #poetry #speculativepoetry #specpo #sff
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Plea for fellow reporters: can we stop reflexively referring to everyone the feds randomly arrest as “undocumented” or “in the country illegally?” We frankly have no idea who they’re detaining or what their status is most of the time, and there are *many* reports of people with status being detained
I just saw a video of somebody proposing in front of a volcano that spontaneously explodes, and the failure of the bride to grab the ring and throw it into the volcano is exactly why humans cannot be trusted with the One Ring.
I too have a price (please adjust for the currency exchange)
Trust me, write the weird thing.
Reporter Eddie Kim went downtown to cover the detainment of an immigrant by ICE this morning. Then he was pepper-sprayed in the face by an ICE agent standing a foot away. Completely unprovoked. See our exclusive story and video from @eddiekimx.bsky.social here: sf.gazetteer.co/i-reported-f...
Yes
I can't wait to read this one - I burned through "Last Hour" at breakneck speed!
I can't wait to read this - "The Last Hour Between Worlds" was fabulous, and I know this one will be, too!
If you, a normal person, ever worry 'oh geez could I be a psychopath' first, psychopaths don't worry about being psychopaths. second, if you've ever had a pet you cared about the answer is 'no'.
Ah, I didn't see the "this one" note! Mysterious Pte. Avery ... so you're saying the fellow with the dog might still be looking for a pen pal? Just out of curiosity, of course ...
This might be my favorite letter. Dear Sir, I was reading the monthly Canadian Pacific Railway Budget (as one does) and saw a photo of your unit. I saw a young man I’d like to write to, so please send me his details. I’m just really interested in War Graves work. XOXO [not actually me]
Which fellow do we think it is? Front row, far right, certainly looks like a likely correspondent, though the lad with the dog seems like he'd have some interesting insights with that wistful smile.
Good thing billions of dollars are being lit on fire and poor neighborhoods are losing access to usable water for the great AI boom.
Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
No shade on the newton of course; things can be both delicious and functional
My great grandfather always had a box of fig newtons when we visited; only years later did I realize they were probably to keep him regular
The most Devo plan ever.
one of the most depressing things of the last decade or so is realizing how many friends/ colleagues/ leaders are (a) actually sympathetic to bad faith fascistic attacks (on public goods, education, vulnerable peoples, etc.), or (b) just simply not up to the moment we find ourselves in
THANK YOU MINNEAPOLIS BUCKAROOS. LOVE WAS PROVEN. what a wonderful night. day off then trotting to portland oregon for AUGUST 19TH show at @powells.bsky.social . this one is FREE so get there early if you want a spot. info is here LETS TROT www.powells.com/events/chuck...
Annalee 