Merf has had complicated feelings about current events for as long as she can remember.

I see that you’ve caught lightning in a bottle, but have you ever considered it might look better in a nice vase?

Merf said she’s glad you enjoyed it!!

This is actually one of the main focuses of Palaver's later scholarship. Here's a paper he wrote on Gandhi and nonviolence:

www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12...

And here's a book he coedited on mimetic theory in world religions:

msupress.org/978160917544...

GREAT question. For the sake of people's attention spans, this didn't make it into the final piece, but I wish I'd had enough space for it. A lot of mimetic theorists have applied Girard's ideas to other world religions (+ shifts that are comparable to the crucifixion narrative in Christianity).

Additional MASSIVE thanks to @samspengler.bsky.social and @hudsongiles.bsky.social for keeping me safe and honest. I know it was a lift, and I am so thankful for your careful work.

Feeling ENDLESSLY grateful to @johngravois.bsky.social for taking a chance on a truly strange idea and joining me SO far out in the weeds. Without your generous help, I might have been stuck out there forever.

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

Taking a brief break from sporadically posting photos of my pitbull to shout this into the void:

I’ve spent the last seven months thinking about the Antichrist, and now those thoughts are published over at @wired.com.

www.wired.com/story/the-re...

ingest 2 manifest

I think a good 2025 resolution for all of us is to eat WAY more photos of the things that we want.

Just swinging through to make sure all 36 of my followers are aware that there is a woman on tiktok EATING photos of Jamie Lee Curtis to get her attention.

Precious Rubbish by Kayla E In this fierce and fabulous debut, book designer and indie cartoonist Kayla E. reconfigures the impersonal visual language of 20...

Wife just nabbed a Publisher’s Weekly starred review for her forthcoming memoir, so I would like to formally announce: “I CALLED IT.”

www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-68396-...

Are you accepting only this specific genre of screeds? Tempted to treat this as an open invitation, and I have so many screeds inside of me.

“That can’t be right… Nelly Furtado is a world famous musician.”

-my wife on her Spotify wrapped

close runner up: the day I realized Blake Masters was once a Quora power user.

Well past time to formally move over here. Bringing along the only tweet that truly mattered to me:

the time I started a Peggy Hill “space” while vaping in a public restroom the day that Roe fell.

pit bull in repose

perfect merfect.

u ever seen a pit bull lol?

Inaugural merf introduction. This is merf the pitbull. She loves her big dinosaur and HATES getting her nails trimmed.