They think you're stupid.

I shouldn't be playing wow still, but I do enjoy how much my haranir druid looks like an acid trip.

One of my lecturers once described popular atheism as Thatcherite Anglicanism and the more I see how the legacy of Dawkins, Hitchens, etc., inform the present, the more apt that is.

weird that the sole source of confusion in this article are the grandiose pronouncements of a sundowning lunatic. Probably nothing though.

gerrymandering was an amazing idea when they thought they were going to be the only ones who got to do it

say iran still has all the cards, without say iran still has all the cards

I continue to argue for removing gender restrictions on sports entirely and instead just do league tiers with preliminary trial placement.

I did like seeing captain jack again though. I used to have the giant head of john barrowman looking down on me as I slept. (that was my sublimated homosexuality)

speaking of sublimated spirituality, I have decided to pick up where I left off on dr. who and just power through to the good stuff. Just finished the new year's day episode of season 12. My mantra to get through season 13 is "I love jodie whittaker but the dialogue is terrible..."

I'm all for finding some kind of spirituality that brings you peace (and doesn't get in the way of good, fact-based decision making), but maybe do that consciously and with some humility.

I think the reasons behind my crank positions on the "rah rah science" pop culture stuff boils down to:

1) science is not like that, scientists are not like that

2) kind of the weird, worshipful, sublimated religious yearning stuff that comes out through it.

A group of Ecuadorian fishermen survived a US drone strike, were detained at gunpoint, hooded, phones wiped, ship blown up, disappeared to El Salvador, then released without charge.

“They knew we were fishermen. Even the Salvadorian authorities said things had been handled very badly.”

Wow 🤯

I honestly don’t see how the USA will survive the moral bankruptcy, democratic wreckage, and loss of international credibility caused by Trump 2.0

now see, isn't that so much nicer?

this would look nice as some embroidery

I had the same problem with a klingon named jayden

He looks like if Cyclops' mutant power was virginity

I can't say it's what we deserve, but we require more political options than a narrow range of insane warmongering billionaire shit.

Anyway, still waiting for the non-shit movement to rally around. Watching mamdani that might be dem socialist for me soon.

that biden advisor today saying "yeah, we probably would have done exactly the same thing and bombed iran too" is just *chef's kiss* political messaging from the democrats.

love that the most accountability currently on the horizon for our horrible overlords in this dystopian moment is either dying at the height of their power or retiring with a vague sense of shame about their part in all of it.

more like "tim cooked" amirite?!?!

That JPB piece was great, but also gave me some context for his social media feeds.

Once again, it all should have ended immediately in 2017, when he started openly monetizing his hotels at Mar-a-Lago & around the corner from the White House. We have yawned, as a country, at unprecedented corruption right in front of us.

JUST BE HAPPY Suffering, Swedenborg, and the hells we choose

I wrote about the possibility that we live in hell and what it means to "choose happiness" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/just-be-ha...

For reform of presidential library fundraising to succeed, both parties have to stop blocking the decades-long effort to do it.

Many bills have failed in the House or passed the House and failed in the Senate.

Those private foundations even got my congressional hearings about them canceled! 🔗👇

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

I’m still angry & disappointed with the Biden administration & most Congressional Democrats for trying to “move on” from Trump’s corruption & maladministration during the pandemic, instead of a commission & enacting reforms to close the transparency & accountability voids his illiberalism revealed.

sun setting over the sea, a sea fort is visible

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software