Sitting when you pee is what you’re supposed to do, actually

lol, a hit dog’ll holler. Gen X are between 45 and 60 years old now, so for anyone counting, they make up about 75% of that age group. I don’t feel too brave about coming to the same conclusion as everyone else who’s looked at the post election numbers.

Nah, I’ve seen the detailed voting data. Gen-X voted for trump more than any other age group by a wide margin. Men and women. Yes, even more than boomers.

now so often used: a tone for which the uses of the word outside literary criticism give no warrant at all. In what the misusers are fond of calling Real Life, Escape is evidently as a rule 10 | Page very practical, and may even be heroic. In real life it is difficult to blame it, unless it fails; in criticism it would seem to be the worse the better it succeeds. Evidently we are faced by a misuse of words, and also by a confusion of thought. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter. Just so a Party-spokesman might have labelled departure from the misery of the Führer's or any other Reich and even criticism of it as treachery. In the same way these critics, to make confusion worse, and so to bring into contempt their opponents, stick their label of scor not only on to Desertion, but on to real Escape, and what are often its companions, Disgust, Anger, Condemnation, and Revolt. Not only do they confound the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter; but they would seem to prefer the acquiescence of the "quisling" to the resistance of the patriot. To such thinking you have only to say "the land you loved is doomed" to excuse any treachery, indeed to glorify it. For a trifling instance: not to mention (indeed not to parade) electric

"Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it." -Tolkien, "On Fairy-Stories"

Imagine my surprise when I got to the bottom of the passage and read the url in the screenshot, sitting myself in the university library in Szeged, Hungary.

On 4 May 1961, the Freedom Riders left Washington, D.C., in two buses and headed to New Orleans.

They faced violence, resistance, and arrests.

This interracial group aimed to challenge segregation in interstate bus travel and public facilities. 💙

#MomSky
#Voices4Victory

I have long been obsessed with that delta between the thing and the image. Therein lies wonder. I am told by my parents, though I do not remember, that when they took me to my first baseball game after having only seen it on television, and we emerged from the concourse into the upper deck and gazed out on the impossible greenness of the field, I said, with awe in my voice, "It's real." Seeing Saturn was something like that. It's the difference between seeing a whale and knowing they exist. It's the difference between having sex and watching pornography. (For the record, I would also recommend to readers of this blog that they have sex before they die. However, if I were given the choice between the two right this moment, I'd pick Saturn.)

I implore you to look at Saturn through a telescope: defector.com/i-implore-yo...

he goes on and on about the “feminization” of society and a “maternal surveillance system” and it’s like, are you mad your mom told you to clean your room once?

Well, me neither, I’m just making an assumption of quality based on a price comparison with a like a $45 fast fashion coat from H&M or something (also I’m assuming a level of quality and craftsmanship based on OP and what I know about their fashion)

Fwiw, Macau, China, is like Las Vegas on steroids, but no, no other city comes close to New Orleans

Honestly, if you’ve seen one castle, you’ve seen em all. There’s a reason why Europeans spent hundreds of years fleeing their homelands to get to America in the first place

Because the internet rots people’s brains and some folks will say the absolute dumbest shit you’ve ever heard trying to score points online, and everything they know about the world is from memes

Boll Weevil Monument mentioned rahhhhh 🦅🦅🦅

Even then, the geographic diversity of Europe is not even close to the United States. All of Europe is within a band of latitude only like 15*. The US is like 4 times the length north to south.

lol, from where?

That’s just kind of average for a nice coat that’s not made by slaves in Bangladesh. It’s a lot, but actual tailored clothing takes an artisan many many hours to make, by hand. People gotta get paid for labor and expertise

Péter Erdő is a strong candidate to be the next pope – and that’s reason to be fearful | Alex Faludy The archbishop is traditionalists’ preferred candidate for a reason: his papacy would wind back the progress made under Pope Francis, says British-Hungarian journalist Alex Faludy

Péter Erdő is a strong candidate to be the next pope – and that’s reason to be fearful | Alex Faludy

“Did it work? Anyone? Anyone? Did it work?”

Listen to the original run of “It Could Happen Here” podcast from Robert Evans

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My dad always told me growing up that education and credentials only mattered for your first job or three. After that, it’s work experiences and references that really matter. Bullshit your way in, then fake it till you make. Eventually you’ll be qualified just by having been there.

Good, there’s absolutely nothing immoral or illegal in lying to get a job. Looking for work in 2025 America is one of the most demoralizing, dehumanizing, and soul crushing experiences out there, designed to make you feel helpless and isolated and lucky for any shitty opportunity offered.

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They all should have been

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

When I advise "log off" I don't mean "never use social media for anything." Here we see a clear instance of Booker doing classic politics--the kind old enough to be dramatised in black-and-white movies--that got strategically posted to social media. The *event* started offline. That's the key.

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what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!