What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali was that it’s possible to love yourself so much that everybody else does, too.

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My reaction is the happy version of this.

CONGRATS!!!!

Oh! Oh!

Anime Ja Nai!

L Toki wo Koete

Jeans Ka Guru

I think Rhylee was about 30 seconds away from saying "so....wanna make out?"

Fencing's been described as "3D chess played at speed," and that's made it not great as a spectator sport; just understanding the action is difficult. This visualisation technology is excellent for making it comprehensible.

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I don't know who the He Hate Me of this league is, but it will be a sabreur.

Stoked to see fencing get its very own XFL.

Roy on the familiarity of the return of fascism, written in 1998

Profile of the nose section of a B-17 bomber painted in olive drab and gray. Under the cockpit is a painting of a pinup-style lady who happens to have a guillotine for a torso. There are arms in the sleeves of a military jacket extending from the sides of the guillotine frame, one is holding an empty basket and the other is saluting. Below the hole where heads go sides wearing a short, pleated, olive drab skirt and her legs, covered in gartered nylons are curled up under her. A discarded crown is upside down behind her. In front of her across the nose is text reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’. Much of the rest of the nose is covered in mission markers but instead of bombs they are small images of guillotines.

some things about becoming a parent are radicalizing in ways I expected - e.g being reminded viscerally how screwed we'd all be if childcare and other care work disappeared. but other things are radicalizing in ways I didn't - like experiencing constant spontaneous solidarity in ways big and small

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

anyway, if this court is going to act as little more than a partisan legislature than it ought to be treated like one by the actual legislature

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.

The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

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"hornysmo" is such a beautiful word.

As Brennan laid out Purpee as a small post-agricultural town with a state university in it, I said to myself "Oh man, Brennan is going to put some New Paltz in this."

Brennan describing an NPC in the after show:

Brennan being genuinely horrified by the antics of Darkness Man and Bat Child is the highlight of any live play I've watched.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Climbing Mount Corel now! I'm finally playing this game!

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Continuing a war to save your political career isn't "normal bad ruler," it's insane war criminal shit.

Fascinating paragraph from Scott Alexander, where he admits he’s the dog that caught the car

A reminder that Jesus condemned the Pharisees for being hypocrites who made a public show of their prayers.

Drew Struzan artwork of the cover of Star Wars: The Glove of Darth Vader with the title "glove actually" instead.

Ever have an idea you just have to post to get it out of your head?