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gym selfies and poetry 🏳️‍🌈 NYC
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Today’s poem: Naomi Shihab Nye: “Kindness”
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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
“And we will remember” 😂
February 6, 2026 at 3:38 PM
it’s a big part of why i became catholic, and why after becoming catholic i moved further and further right.
"All right-wing men are secretly gay" is hack and an oversimplification but it's pretty clear a lot of right-wing influencers (Benny Johnson, Crowder, etc.) viewed conservative politics as a twelve-step program for their attraction to men
An explosive sex scandal has rocked the “trad” online right.

I break it all down in my latest False Flag newsletter for @thebulwark.com. www.thebulwark.com/p/shocking-s...
February 6, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment
In the last two weeks he's put his name on the Kennedy Centre, pushed "Trump accounts" for every kid and just announced a new Golden Fleet of Trump Battleships. And we're still in the first year of his term! This time next year, will the date be Trumpday the 23rd of Trump, twenty-twenty-trump?
This is some straight-up monarchy shit. Naming buildings after himself while he's alive, making his birthday a national holiday....
February 6, 2026 at 2:54 PM
i found ryan price from “Tough Guy” by Rachel Reid.
February 5, 2026 at 9:46 PM