This explains a lot

The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

Happy Earth Day 🌎

A poem from Wendell Berry

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earlier this year I had my students read Diane Paul's (1987) The nine lives of discredited data (link in next post). It is disappointing, but not surprising, to see that the problem remains unresolved (maybe jumped from a discipline to another).

So the Justice Department admits in its own filings that the following groups are extremist groups. Can someone ask Patel and Blanche how aggressively DOJ/FBI are monitoring them, considering how dangerous they are? Are they screening gov employees for affiliations with these groups?

The Capital is Misaligned and the Crash is Coming My strong disagreement with the sentiment on Wall Street.

The lack of counter-argument (despite high engagement) to this piece is something one should consider in their priors when evaluating whether I might be right or not.

Get Lucky -- Mashrou' Leila & Nile Rodgers, مشروع ليلى و نايل رودجرز -- Coke Studio بالعربي S03E05 YouTube video by Coke Studio

What they seek to divide Daft Punk unites!

It’s in Hampden; Was Philadelphia Pizza on the main drag

Trying to say this out loud has me dying laughing

So I have voice audition for a “Scottish sounding” character so my thought process was “read Scottish twitter Out loud” and

Good heavens lady!

Inside ‘Blue Heron,’ the Most Acclaimed Film of 2026 So Far The devastating Canadian family drama emerged as an under-the-radar sensation on the festival circuit last fall, and is now hitting theaters.

incredible feature on Blue Heron in THR, citing it as the year's most acclaimed film and shouting out Canadian public film funding!

This pizza joint in Baltimore run by a delightful Afghani family; made their own tomato sauce from scratch that was the PERFECT consistency - hint of coriander and a memory of cardamom - and one pizza was just cheese but it was like seven kinds of cheese and one slice was three days of food

My D&D fam: is there platonic opposite to the bard spell Vicious Mockery?

Do WE have I meant to say.

Mamdani’s Luxury Property Tax Forcing More Billionaires To Choose Between Clone Organ Harvesting or Private Gladiatorial Arenas NEW YORK — NYC’s wealthiest property owners are expressing growing concern today as Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s new pied-à-terre tax is forcing more... Continue this tale

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ACAB

Like, how much time do have? 🤣🫡

There is a huge gap when it comes to men talking about sexuality in a positive way, FR

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

Hate is a choice, an easy choice. A bad choice. Love is a choice, a hard choice. A good choice.

I noted yesterday that we would do well to describe what role the actions Trump is performing, rather than assuming he is functioning as President.

Mostly, Trump is an old man retreating into his lifelong hobbies: construction, cons, and corruption. With lots of golf.

Ballerina (“a John Wick Story” or whatever) is good stuff. Hyper stylized action in a kinda niche universe that is expected but from a different angle that feels fresh yet comforting.

The way white men feel they are owed everything is harmful to all life on on the only planet we have.

Some military forces call autism a disqualifier. The IDF calls it an advantage. For the U.S. military Autism Spectrum Disorder is a disqualifying condition, but some agencies are still reaping the benefits.

🎵Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer🎶

Motion/Action smoothing is an evil AF but especially for those movies I’ve watched like 1,000 times. It’s like my memories are being put through an instagram filters.

BRAAGSPAKE from 'Folkish' by Kym Deyn you could become a battlecry slung over the lawns I'm saying the screaming doesn't have to stop only start sure, consequences that old chestnut but there's nothing stopping you not really no bind no gag only this little veneer of civility I know a gal that liked to scream on top of neolithic tombs I kid but you could sitting in you thorned and roiling for nothing here just letting go into a sharp november wind she could kill ya her shriek the pitch to split a man's head like a pomelo open up this shuttered chest all your rage carried like a weekend bag your big stupid head carrying your big stupid neuroses in bouquets like tulips if it were up to me I'd do tours into a field this spot where you are now let go you know you blew it

BRAAGSPAKE
by Kym Deyn

"I'm saying the screaming doesn't have to stop only start
sure, consequences that old chestnut
but there's nothing stopping you not really"

Obviously the answer is mostly “drugs” but it really is kind of fascinating to me how Musk oscillates between “a post scarcity utopian future is at hand!” and “the mongrel races are coming to claim the persecuted white man’s scarce resources in a zero sum game!”

'I stared death in the face!' On board the Trans-Siberian, a 9,000-kilometer journey through an exhausted Russia 'On Board the Trans-Siberian' (1/2). In late December 2025 and early 2026, on the train linking Moscow to Vladivostok, soldiers returning from Ukraine cross paths with cautious travelers, careful abou...

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