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gym selfies and poetry 🏳️‍🌈 NYC
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Today’s poem: Naomi Shihab Nye: “Kindness”
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Reposted by Elliot
"If you 'know what time it is,' you understand the hour is late and you’re prepared to do whatever it takes. It gives carte blanche for total ruthlessness in politics because you understand the stakes." @lkatfield.bsky.social talks to @inthesetimes.com about her brilliant new book, Furious Minds.
"Carte Blanche for Ruthlessness"
Author Laura Field on how Trump and the furious minds of the New Right are in a mutually reinforcing cycle of radicalization.
inthesetimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
man i am super low energy today. idk what’s up.
February 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
The best kind of gay porn. Everyone is clothed in pants and long dresses, smiling, and a guy is holding up a football with a civics message on it.

Watch out, Sean Cody.
February 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
check in day. 203lbs this morning, fasted.
February 10, 2026 at 2:56 PM
TBH as a closeted homophobe at the time, it’s hard to overstate the impact “Born this Way” had on my sense of what “everyone” believed about being gay.

Not trying to dunk on the quoted post, but the normalization of ideas and identities by big pop culture figures does actually work.
People who think Bad Bunny did a lot for immigrants because of the super bowl are the same people who think Lady Gaga solved homophobia and transphobia because she said "no matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgender life" in her show in 2017
February 10, 2026 at 2:12 AM
ideas are fun and talking about the interplay of different intellectual systems is also fun
a group of women are dancing on a stage in front of a drum set .
ALT: a group of women are dancing on a stage in front of a drum set .
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:55 AM
“guys having a dictator bound by no laws would be so epic and based”

[several years of self-destruction later…]

“wait actually rights are cool, and democracy is also cool. dictators are dumb and they suck.”
One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
February 10, 2026 at 1:41 AM
quads / calves ✅
February 9, 2026 at 11:11 PM
update: i rewatched the hockey show again over the weekend while i was doing other stuff, and the end of ep 5 still had me weeping.

i don’t understand the wizardry but it works.
February 9, 2026 at 10:30 PM
idk what the difference is but the janky old hack squat at the gym feels way better than the nicer looking new one.
February 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Today’s poem: William Carlos Williams, “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” (excerpt)
#lunchpoems
February 9, 2026 at 4:23 PM
I think about this a lot bc it’s a choice that matters when you recite poetry. I don’t treat line breaks as pauses unless they naturally feel like pauses, either because of the cadence of the poem or for the sake of a rhyme scheme or something similar.
whenever someone talks about line breaks online someone always shows up and says something like LINE BREAKS ARE ONLY THERE FOR BREATHS and I just can't imagine saying you love poetry while hating it so much
February 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
205lbs this morning.
Heaviest I’ve ever been.
February 9, 2026 at 3:34 PM
this is for @robinson7326.bsky.social because there aren’t pics in DMs and he doesn’t know what nietzsche’s aphorisms look like when printed.
February 9, 2026 at 2:19 PM
The "He Gets Us" superbowl ad was Nietzsche's transvaluation of values as a video montage.

It's like it's saying, "Everything people enjoy in life is actually morally tainted and inadequate when compared to [absent thing] which is simultaneously the source and the negation of all other enjoyment."
Is there more to life than more?
YouTube video by He Gets Us
www.youtube.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:29 AM
wonderman was nice.
February 9, 2026 at 3:14 AM
something i'm observing: the robots are still really bad prose stylists. they can write highly structure technical documents well, but anything involving authorial voice or progressive disclosure is really ham handed.
February 9, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Suppable
Soup Bowl
Sue Pa Bull
Sue PA Bull
Chi CA go
choo da doo
tstststsrstststs
February 8, 2026 at 5:34 PM
i’m going to get some ice cream.
February 8, 2026 at 2:20 AM
i showered
and i did my taxes.
February 7, 2026 at 5:11 PM
I love how dropping an f-bomb has become a political gesture.
February 7, 2026 at 4:50 AM
back / arms ✅

lame back workout but a dude asked me out in the middle of it so we’ll call it a win.
February 7, 2026 at 1:00 AM
work is done. let’s go get pumped.
February 6, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Worth reading.
The MAGA new right “seems to be betting that the American polity has a deep reserve of untapped nativist rage”—but may also be “underestimating the everyday decency and patriotism of the American public,” Laura K. Field argues:
The Intellectual Edgelords of the GOP
The mainstreaming of transgressive ideas is the culmination of a yearslong conservative project.
bit.ly
February 6, 2026 at 5:29 PM
hello. welcome.
February 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM