This is genuinely one of the foundational copes of the modern conservative movement, a stabbed-in-the-back narrative about why the US lost Vietnam

these would be so fun to accidentally drop and break

Jack Yankee

business doula: keep emailing!

Maybe one day I'l have sufficient cultural, historical, philosophical awareness to fully appreciate one of the best novels ever written

The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.

Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)

Distributed physical copies matter.

I am writing a short story about what appears to be the link

An opinion I have is that the way to make English language haiku-type poems good is if you made people write them as single-stanza sapphics instead

60-year-olds around a 61-year-old going into the newsagent in 2069, "Go on mate, get us a few packs."

wonder what the philologists of the future will be like

the flesh lusteth always

Need to return to that and Hate Plus. Maybe this summer

woah what I didn't know that the "The Internet is a series of tubes" senator died in a plane crash! should've stuck to tube-based transport...

mood

I need to get one of these European Weird Little Guy Fellowships.

Thinking about 'Analogue: A Hate Story' again

If I could teach myself not to put my foot in my mouth that would be achievement enough

So much for the theory. Iran should allow fertiliser to pass through the Strait of Hormuz; America should not blockade urea shipments from Iran. Tragically, neither shows any inclination to do so. High petrol prices make biofuel more attractive to farmers, not less. And rich countries are in a selfish mood. Failure to act thus looks baked in. In the face of an avoidable disaster, that is shameful.

Fair but depressing conclusion from @economist.com - we could avoid some of the worst of the hunger, but we won’t
economist.com/leaders/2026...

oh god residential buildings are advertising podcast studios as amenities now

Essentially, a Trump-engineered windfall profit for the companies.

If you're still in line not to hand it to the Catholic Church STAY IN LINE

Stonewalll is done.

any kind of US legislation concering americans living abroad starts from a place of disbelief and consternation that any american would ever really do something so crazy as live in another country

these are the conditions americans living abroad already live under since a while: the US demands foreign banks to do a bunch of extra paper work and compliance for them on their US citizen clients. increasingly these banks are saying "ok we just won't give americans accounts then, get lost"

Thank you

i wish I knew teddy!

I hope, by the end of the year, to have at least one academic paper and at least one short story in the publication process. But if it's only one each I will probably consider it failure

i feel like we didn't have this many gutter racists talking shit in broad daylight when i was a kid. should probably do something about that

Given that a similar claim was made about German Chancellor Friedrich Merz when he was initially elected, it seems clear that Netanyahu does this quite often: lie blatantly and hope that his European counterparts just don't rebuke him publicly.

bluesky: happy 4/20 everyone, smoke up!

X: 137 years ago today, hitler was born. never forget a true hero.. 🙏

tumblr: remembering and honoring columbine today. dylan klebold was sexy.

facebook: ha ha! i used chatgpt to turn my dog into a rastafarian. #420 😋