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Diakena

@diakena.bsky.social

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Podcaster, writer, nurse (in training). Kierkegaardian-Trotskyist. MNUFC loon, Madison mingo, Bundesliga casual. https://diakena.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=substack_profile

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · Dec 26

(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 26d

I found this helpful for seeing through the pointlessness of the shaming, fwiw
speterdavis.substack.com/p/lets-end-t...

Let's End the Self-Defeat of Platform Shaming

Everything has a Nazi Problem

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 26d

Have heard of pastors leaving their work because the congregation gets mad whenever they quote the 'woke' parts of Jesus' message. They're getting pushback for Sermon on the Mount stuff.

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schleiermocker @schleiermocker.bsky.social · 28d

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · 29d

It's the halfway line

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Sep 9

the "tax the billionaires" political refrain is Good Actually in part because it is a call for the people at the top to actually be constrained by rules informed by the public interest, a virtue that fingerwagging correctives about how much revenue such taxes would *really* generate doesn't address

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Sep 10

Bandoliers were all the rage

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Sep 9

Any idea what his post-2025 plans are? Resigning with us, or moving on? Or do we not really know yet?

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Sep 7

a man is sitting in front of an lg advertisement

ALT: a man is sitting in front of an lg advertisement

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Sep 5

I grew up in Lions household. Could always tell when football season had started up by the sound of my dad yelling at the tv.

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Sep 2

*Tears in my eyes, speaking through sniffles* It's...it's like we're a real football league now

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Sep 1

That's only in triumph. If you lose all bets are off.

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 31

Common tactic of the chronically unreflective and insecure.

"Self-important condescension is like peeing on oneself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings." -Alan Wald

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Aug 31

People still writing books about how lefty college kids are wrong feels like fighting what was yesterday's war yesterday.

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Cass Sunstein on What Lefty College Kids Get Wrong, the Dangers of Trump and His Own Regrets

In a new book, the longtime legal scholar offers a defense of liberalism from its critics on both the right and the left.

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 31

The post-Heath era was a bit frightening at first (no coach going into 2024!) but as things have settled we seem to have built a really solid foundation that feels pretty robust. How we keep growing it to take that next step is another question, but at the very least our floor feels pretty high.

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 31

We also have a lot of guys either nearing the end of a contract or starting to get substantial European attention/interest (including our coach), so some apprehension about what happens this winter. Overall direction seems healthy though.

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 31

Table don't lie, but still lots of questions about our ability to score in ways other than defend-and-counter. Also losing Tani is huge (although everyone's happy for him). General optimism about the new signings. Overall I think everyone's happy/impressed, but also wondering about 'the next step.'

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 31

My main takeaway on Portland (as a MN fan) is that Velde was a good signing. Looks like he'll elevate the team really well.

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 30

What would be some things to look out for that the possibility of pro/rel might affect in these sorts of negotiations? Curious to know how that would factor into the interests of players/the clubs/the league

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 24

Hiring someone who did a PhD at an ivy league comp-lit department in affect theory

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 23

Genuinely struggling to wrap my mind around that being the physical bar...

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 21

Guaranteed through 2025, with 2026 as a club option.

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 21

I think it's more about preparing replacements for a winter move. Bogert said MN are looking to keep JP through this season at least, although a move does seem imminent. He's really exploded this year.

Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 20

Not saying it's good they (or anyone) should be expected to do it for free, I just wonder how much of that discourse was unrealistic expectations of a version of the industry that no longer exists, and if the solution needed to involve less individualism and more solidarity.

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Diakena @diakena.bsky.social · Aug 20

That is one thing I wondered about that discourse of guys claiming no one would pick up their novels/where have all the literary men gone? Wanna know how much they were asking for drafts and manuscripts and advances.

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