Yes

I’m also holding US-Iran peace talks at my apartment tonight. I don’t know if anyone’s going to show but I’m still having the talks

The thing about bears is that they really do look like a guy wearing a bear suit. Patrick O’Brian *vindicated*

Fellas love to retire to their chambers

Yeah, one of my big counterfactual’s has always been “what if the US didn’t take Europe’s side in every single de colonial conflict other than the Suez crisis”

I’ve always thought A probably didn’t need to happen but both US and USSR read each other‘s actions in the late 40s so paranoid that something like it would’ve been very hard to avoid.

If they get into actually granularly defending like Pinochet or Jakarta… whoof

Do they mean American rivalry with the USSR in an abstract sense or like everything the US did in the Cold War?

i have never spelt Mediterranean correctly on the first go round

An AI image, ostensibly ofJesus, with the description: “For some evangelical Christians, faith is about having a personal relationship with Jesus. At $1.99 per minute, the tech company Just Like Me is taking that concept to a new level, allowing users to video chat with a personalized Al Jesus. It's part of a larger boom of faith-based Al tools.” BY the Associated Press

I don't care if everybody else is into it
I don't care if it's a popular refrain
I don't wanna be a puppet in a theater
I don't wanna play your video game

“Video Game” by Sufjan Stevens

“Really Poor Exegesis” Capsule reviews and commentary

open.substack.com/pub/gnocchic...

Above the paywall, discussion of Marcel Gauchet and Andrea Dworkin, below Thomas Pynchon and Thomas Merton

would like to state for the record that I am opposed to military action against the pope

I don't understand why they're adapting the first seven books again when they haven't done Harry Potter and the Avignon Papacy or Harry Potter and the Concert of Europe yet. frankly the series didn't get good until Harry Potter and the British Raj.

its really just a way for people who would never have had kids to begin with to.....take a deep breath before you hear the word.....virtue-signal about it

i honestly don't know how to express to people that i am tired of you not taking the oldest racism seriously just because fucking israel has weaponised it

The chance of a blue whale smashing through your walls is low but is never zero.

Five or so people sharing this onto my feed was how I found out that Jurgen Habermaas had passed away

What’s the context?

NO

FINNO KOREAN HYPERWAR: A SCENARIO

*scrunching up post-it notes with “EV Camino” and “El CamEVno”* bro we’re so close

Historian Adam Tooze replying "its a think of beauty" to an obvious AI slop image of a crying woman holding a bird ice sculpture with bomber slop tweet asking for comments

💀

When did Spencer sprout arc happen?

Okay, pepole aren't going to like my detective work, so I'm open to criticism here, but the closest prototype I'm discovering in the American Experiment would be Frank Zappa

Iirc you once described it as “grandma TV for 17-year-olds.” I’m nostalgic for it but it’s probably not good

Nelson Rockefeller got to be shaking his fist in the afterlife about this sort of thing

apple seems to be getting worse in a lot of ways but I've had an account with iCloud, messages, etc longer than I've had a driver's license so I'm kinda stuck in the the whole ecosystem

New post on Strauss, Nietzsche, Jaffa et al open.substack.com/pub/gnocchic...

In awe of how much you put out