Elliot
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February 13, 2026 at 6:28 PM
No context necessary. (But the context is funny too.)
Today’s poem: Philip Larkin, “Continuing to Live”
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February 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Today’s poem: Philip Larkin, “Continuing to Live”
#lunchpoems
#lunchpoems
The incredible thing is the nonchalance. Random white lady in jeans, committing arson in broad daylight. With lighter fluid.
Maybe there's mental illness involved, but if not this is the sort of thing that suggests the fear of the state's coercive power can no longer maintain order.
Maybe there's mental illness involved, but if not this is the sort of thing that suggests the fear of the state's coercive power can no longer maintain order.
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The incredible thing is the nonchalance. Random white lady in jeans, committing arson in broad daylight. With lighter fluid.
Maybe there's mental illness involved, but if not this is the sort of thing that suggests the fear of the state's coercive power can no longer maintain order.
Maybe there's mental illness involved, but if not this is the sort of thing that suggests the fear of the state's coercive power can no longer maintain order.
The discovery all the evil people seem to have made in the past year is “if you do a bunch of heinous stuff all at once, you get away with it”.
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 3:28 PM
The discovery all the evil people seem to have made in the past year is “if you do a bunch of heinous stuff all at once, you get away with it”.
The function of social media is to get you hooked on cat videos and thirst traps and then feed you a steady diet of stupidity, nonsense, and outrage to torture you until you go insane.
February 13, 2026 at 3:17 PM
The function of social media is to get you hooked on cat videos and thirst traps and then feed you a steady diet of stupidity, nonsense, and outrage to torture you until you go insane.
I hope Orban loses in April and this entire farcical network of reactionary american expats gets shut down.
Rod Dreher has fueled some of the more apocalyptic currents on the Trumpist right. Robert F. Worth spoke with the writer to understand his worldview:
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
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February 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I hope Orban loses in April and this entire farcical network of reactionary american expats gets shut down.
couldn’t sleep, then had bad dreams.
👎👎
but at least it’s friday
👎👎
but at least it’s friday
February 13, 2026 at 2:10 PM
couldn’t sleep, then had bad dreams.
👎👎
but at least it’s friday
👎👎
but at least it’s friday
Reposted by Elliot
we’re revising “everyone is twelve” because everyone is in fact two
The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect
February 13, 2026 at 7:04 AM
we’re revising “everyone is twelve” because everyone is in fact two
Borges's Library of Babel... in some ways the business of prompt writing is just trying to chart a way through the labyrinth.
Here there is an incoherent book on the stars, with random hallucinations tossed in. Over there is a ripoff detective thriller set in a monastery.
Here there is an incoherent book on the stars, with random hallucinations tossed in. Over there is a ripoff detective thriller set in a monastery.
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Borges's Library of Babel... in some ways the business of prompt writing is just trying to chart a way through the labyrinth.
Here there is an incoherent book on the stars, with random hallucinations tossed in. Over there is a ripoff detective thriller set in a monastery.
Here there is an incoherent book on the stars, with random hallucinations tossed in. Over there is a ripoff detective thriller set in a monastery.
I want to call this phenomenon "The Deneen Effect", i.e. it's a phenomenon where you ask someone with a bigoted, extremist ideology to be concrete about what they are trying to save or restore in American culture, and they are totally incapable of giving an answer that has any substance at all.
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:54 PM
I want to call this phenomenon "The Deneen Effect", i.e. it's a phenomenon where you ask someone with a bigoted, extremist ideology to be concrete about what they are trying to save or restore in American culture, and they are totally incapable of giving an answer that has any substance at all.
the purpose of democracy is to have a society in which people pursue new and surprising forms of happiness, like subsisting off of pickles and goldfish.
I really don’t want to do another round of inflation discourse, particularly as a practicing economist, but like, this was $54. And, like, i’m not exactly splurging here. Store brand cheese and pickles? Crackers? Lunch meat? A pound of chicken?
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 PM
the purpose of democracy is to have a society in which people pursue new and surprising forms of happiness, like subsisting off of pickles and goldfish.
Today’s poem: Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room” (in two parts)
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#lunchpoems
February 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Today’s poem: Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room” (in two parts)
#lunchpoems
#lunchpoems
shoulders / chest ✅
(exhausted)
(exhausted)
February 12, 2026 at 1:31 AM
shoulders / chest ✅
(exhausted)
(exhausted)
no you see, the founders wanted to establish an absolute monarchy*
with a carve out for the federal reserve board, in cases tbd by John Roberts, Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of Jefferson
with a carve out for the federal reserve board, in cases tbd by John Roberts, Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of Jefferson
Trying to understand: the Constitution gives Congress the power to impose tariffs. The President imposes tariffs without Congress. Congress passes a law rescinding his tariffs. The President then vetos that law. Seems like something’s wrong here.
February 12, 2026 at 12:56 AM
no you see, the founders wanted to establish an absolute monarchy*
with a carve out for the federal reserve board, in cases tbd by John Roberts, Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of Jefferson
with a carve out for the federal reserve board, in cases tbd by John Roberts, Supreme Pontiff and Vicar of Jefferson
i wish the best for the guthrie woman, but it’s obscene the amount of coverage CNN is giving this story, when masked men are abducting people all over the country with government sanction.
we deserve a news media that serves the public interest and not the prurient interest of retirees.
we deserve a news media that serves the public interest and not the prurient interest of retirees.
February 12, 2026 at 12:17 AM
i wish the best for the guthrie woman, but it’s obscene the amount of coverage CNN is giving this story, when masked men are abducting people all over the country with government sanction.
we deserve a news media that serves the public interest and not the prurient interest of retirees.
we deserve a news media that serves the public interest and not the prurient interest of retirees.
Today’s poem: Robert Frost, “The Pasture”
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#lunchpoems
February 11, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Today’s poem: Robert Frost, “The Pasture”
#lunchpoems
#lunchpoems
a day of nonstop non-stopping, now the gym.
February 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
a day of nonstop non-stopping, now the gym.
Still wondering what this new performative “fuck” is going to do to political rhetoric over time. If we’re lucky we’ll end up with a public political discourse obsessed with elaborate, obscene fecal or porcine insults.
Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others
February 11, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Still wondering what this new performative “fuck” is going to do to political rhetoric over time. If we’re lucky we’ll end up with a public political discourse obsessed with elaborate, obscene fecal or porcine insults.
biceps / triceps ✅
my coach walked up to me today mid-workout and told me i look huge, which was cool.
my coach walked up to me today mid-workout and told me i look huge, which was cool.
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 AM
biceps / triceps ✅
my coach walked up to me today mid-workout and told me i look huge, which was cool.
my coach walked up to me today mid-workout and told me i look huge, which was cool.
Today’s workout made possible by Bruckner.
February 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Today’s workout made possible by Bruckner.