I would like to ask this question but for Rhoda

from the God's eye view nobody has agency, do they? It's just the working out of historical forces. But IRL everybody has agency.

I haven't been to X in a while. If you post "Elon Musk committed manslaughter through denying medicine on purpose with DOGE, which was illegal" do they take it down? Is there a dogpile?

mine was the one on 94th and Park. Do you remember Irving Kizner?

and why does my high school look so weird/bad (Hunter College High School)

it looks like stain glass!

wanted to do a poll "greatest Jew who ever lived" -Harpo/Jesus/Claudia Scheinbaum/Other (please specify)" but I think blusky doesn't have that feature. anyway it's an interesting question.

I came prepared to be lucky

I told my wife you are not my wife -- you are a woman who chose to perform a ceremony with me

four people took it four people let it go -- what is it? breath. four people let it go but only three took it. what is it? Breath.

Ooh nice! I forgot about that! thanks! I always told myself -- even if most people ignore them, a couple of folks out there might enjoy them. Glad to know that was true in your case.

thanks! (ELEVEN YEAR EXHALATION OF BREATH)

I did some great writing on twitter when i was on it -- for about ten years. I think my best tweet was "Voyaging through strange seas of thought with a buddy." My best stuff never got picked up on at all. But that wasn't why I wrote it. It was like a strange little diary.

Isaac Asimov was an admitted groper and asked it to be treated as a charming quirk

some of the most beautiful things are not things but relations between things #nepantla

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yeah I think the feminist criticism makes a good point on male nerd culture in general. lot of male nerds are like "poor me, girls don't like me b/c I'm a nerd!". but if they ever get power they treat women as poorly as do jocks. Many nerds didn't want fairness they wanted power.

how much is Jesus to be blamed for this with all his us vs. them hell vs. heaven theological bullying?

who was the third guy who intervened on Pete's side?

I find among elite audiences contempt for the Big Bang is pretty standard. I wrote for it for eleven years btw. It never won an Emmy -- it was just a ratings hit.

and identity is not a relation!
HANDS OUT TEXTBOOKS ON FIRST ORDER LOGIC
One Reporter to Another: This is the most educational presser ever!

Pepsi is way better than wine

overrated or just bad?

slacks are called slacks cause they're the opposite of tights

you can use thinking to figure out what is right and wrong

some of my best posts are based on a superficial knee jerk response to an unread post

Others because you did not keep
That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;
Yet always when I look death in the face,
When I clamber to the heights of sleep,
Or when I grow excited with wine,
Suddenly I meet Pete Hegseth’s face
And I am happy to die to defeat Iran.
USA! USA! USA!

I am starting a Patreon for a company Noel Belknap and I are starting -- an animation studio called Kapknap Animation. What should I offer for the tiers?

re-evaluated values?

anti-Pope in Jersey City?