hunchback from sardinia
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i'm leading an informal course with some friends that's devoted to the entirety of human history in iberia.
here's a list of the coolest shit i've learned:
1) the "ivory lady" burial of the valencina de la concepción (outside of seville). dated to ~3,000–2,800 BCE. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
here's a list of the coolest shit i've learned:
1) the "ivory lady" burial of the valencina de la concepción (outside of seville). dated to ~3,000–2,800 BCE. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
still waiting for disney/pixar to make a movie that doesn't glorify royalty and chieftains
December 31, 2025 at 6:31 PM
still waiting for disney/pixar to make a movie that doesn't glorify royalty and chieftains
if 'one battle after another' takes place in present day then that means that the french 75 were operating in the 00s, which means that bush was president, which means that...
NO! stop it. that's not how fiction works
NO! stop it. that's not how fiction works
December 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
if 'one battle after another' takes place in present day then that means that the french 75 were operating in the 00s, which means that bush was president, which means that...
NO! stop it. that's not how fiction works
NO! stop it. that's not how fiction works
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Okay yes I’ve been thinking about this. EVERY character in OBAA fucks up, some of them REALLY badly. Willa has a cell phone. the radio guy gives up pat to protect his sister. Pat can’t remember all the code talk after years of drugs and alcohol. Hell, Pat falls off a roof and almost gets caught!
One of the recurring elements of the movie is that almost every member of the French 75, even ones like Deandre who decry Perfidia as a rat, do the exact same thing the moment Lockjaw really presses them! The difference is that they aren’t the targets of his sexual fixation.
December 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Okay yes I’ve been thinking about this. EVERY character in OBAA fucks up, some of them REALLY badly. Willa has a cell phone. the radio guy gives up pat to protect his sister. Pat can’t remember all the code talk after years of drugs and alcohol. Hell, Pat falls off a roof and almost gets caught!
i keep seeing this stuff, and it still does not square with the fact that trump has gotten more votes every time he has run.
It's worth noting that these people are pretty stupid, not very good at organization or administration, and completely high on their own supply. The exact way they fail is the fact that they're just not suited for a long, drawn-out battle for hearts and minds.
the MAGA project is stalling out in no small part because they've been unable to sell america on their ideas in practice. the images of masked thugs grabbing innocent people off the street has galvanized spontaneous resistance, not mass support
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December 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
i keep seeing this stuff, and it still does not square with the fact that trump has gotten more votes every time he has run.
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I generally just assume people post like me, which is to get the thoughts out of their heads that otherwise won’t leave
December 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I generally just assume people post like me, which is to get the thoughts out of their heads that otherwise won’t leave
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Trump as the first fandom president makes a lot of sense to me
It's just that as we lurch further into fandom politics we don't have the institutional glue to create and sustain majorities so instead the lockout is really a bank shot about negatively polarizing a critical mass of voters against the other guy
December 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Trump as the first fandom president makes a lot of sense to me
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IRS: You owe us taxes.
Americans: How much?
IRS: Figure it out yourself.
Americans: So I can pay how much I want?
IRS: No. We know exactly how much you owe us but you have to figure it out yourself.
Americans: What if I guess wrong?
IRS: Jail.
Americans: How much?
IRS: Figure it out yourself.
Americans: So I can pay how much I want?
IRS: No. We know exactly how much you owe us but you have to figure it out yourself.
Americans: What if I guess wrong?
IRS: Jail.
December 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
IRS: You owe us taxes.
Americans: How much?
IRS: Figure it out yourself.
Americans: So I can pay how much I want?
IRS: No. We know exactly how much you owe us but you have to figure it out yourself.
Americans: What if I guess wrong?
IRS: Jail.
Americans: How much?
IRS: Figure it out yourself.
Americans: So I can pay how much I want?
IRS: No. We know exactly how much you owe us but you have to figure it out yourself.
Americans: What if I guess wrong?
IRS: Jail.
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This WSJ article adds some fascinating context to the NYT article that has the mother of a 14 year old model brought to Mar-a-Lago for a party having Maples come up to her and saying keep those girls away from these men and my husband. Maples denies she said it.
December 31, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This WSJ article adds some fascinating context to the NYT article that has the mother of a 14 year old model brought to Mar-a-Lago for a party having Maples come up to her and saying keep those girls away from these men and my husband. Maples denies she said it.
i don't know who is responsible for unleashing the curse that made us be stuck talking about right-wing culture grievances from the nineteen-eighties FOREVER...but they must atone
December 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
i don't know who is responsible for unleashing the curse that made us be stuck talking about right-wing culture grievances from the nineteen-eighties FOREVER...but they must atone
the right has been blowing this precise racist dog whistle for literally 50 years now
this was one of peter thiel's favorite issues to bitch about in the stanford review back in the fucking 80s
it helps to know the history of ethnic studies in the US...
this was one of peter thiel's favorite issues to bitch about in the stanford review back in the fucking 80s
it helps to know the history of ethnic studies in the US...
Don’t get me wrong, he also objects strenuously to a shifted emphasis from “Western history” to [gasp] “global history.”
December 31, 2025 at 2:47 AM
the right has been blowing this precise racist dog whistle for literally 50 years now
this was one of peter thiel's favorite issues to bitch about in the stanford review back in the fucking 80s
it helps to know the history of ethnic studies in the US...
this was one of peter thiel's favorite issues to bitch about in the stanford review back in the fucking 80s
it helps to know the history of ethnic studies in the US...
2000s was the era of aussie actors, 2010s the era of kiwi actors, 2020s is just all irish actors
December 31, 2025 at 1:35 AM
2000s was the era of aussie actors, 2010s the era of kiwi actors, 2020s is just all irish actors
the main reason not to go after billionaires is because it might discourage investment in innovations that will more quickly destroy the social fabric via the plundering of planetary resources
December 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
the main reason not to go after billionaires is because it might discourage investment in innovations that will more quickly destroy the social fabric via the plundering of planetary resources
people get that going after billionaires is about their political power and not about government finances, right??
December 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
people get that going after billionaires is about their political power and not about government finances, right??
this is why i think the way to defeat trump is to abandon centrism. the opposing candidate cannot be one that is held to moral standards while trump is not. you need another "unconventional" candidate who the centrist pundit class sees (and accepts) as being "outside the bounds of criticism"
Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao
December 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM
this is why i think the way to defeat trump is to abandon centrism. the opposing candidate cannot be one that is held to moral standards while trump is not. you need another "unconventional" candidate who the centrist pundit class sees (and accepts) as being "outside the bounds of criticism"
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Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao
December 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Real "oh my god, she admit it" moment here. Trump is treated as an uninteresting figure without agency so we can dump endless criticism on liberals for how they react to his "natural disaster." He "doesn't participate in moral frameworks" lmfao
pedants who get hung up on the literal meaning of slogans like, "abolish billionaires" and spend all their time arguing against the slogan do more harm to the general cause of progressive politics than people who think that the slogans are actual political programs
December 30, 2025 at 5:34 PM
pedants who get hung up on the literal meaning of slogans like, "abolish billionaires" and spend all their time arguing against the slogan do more harm to the general cause of progressive politics than people who think that the slogans are actual political programs
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Aw, this is awful. He was one of the best to ever do it. I still think about this one all the time.
December 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Aw, this is awful. He was one of the best to ever do it. I still think about this one all the time.
stop giving me lists of books i should read. what i really need is a list of books i should never read
December 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
stop giving me lists of books i should read. what i really need is a list of books i should never read
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Tribute to Michel Aglietta in @newleftreview.bsky.social: "a tireless thinker, committed to the proposition that we should aim to comprehend our changing historical times in their totality, which meant grasping the inter-relationships of their many moving parts." newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...
Cédric Durand, Michel Aglietta, NLR 156, November–December 2025
A tribute to the founder of the Parisian Regulation School of heterodox economics, with its striking combination of elite statistical training, rich conceptualizations and long-range economic history....
newleftreview.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Tribute to Michel Aglietta in @newleftreview.bsky.social: "a tireless thinker, committed to the proposition that we should aim to comprehend our changing historical times in their totality, which meant grasping the inter-relationships of their many moving parts." newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...
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Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted
December 30, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Politicians are terrified of an electorate they think is far more authoritarian and angry and right wing than it actually is, because they are out of touch because the literal media - the thing that mediates between public and polity - is corrupted
it both makes sense and doesn't make sense that the advent of what can only be described as "competitive reading" is coinciding with a general decline in reading
December 30, 2025 at 2:42 AM
it both makes sense and doesn't make sense that the advent of what can only be described as "competitive reading" is coinciding with a general decline in reading
that stretch from song 3 to song 7 of LUX is unfathomably good
December 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
that stretch from song 3 to song 7 of LUX is unfathomably good
dems in congress should start passing legislation that taxes the rich with bill names with abbreviations like GANDALF
December 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
dems in congress should start passing legislation that taxes the rich with bill names with abbreviations like GANDALF
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a challenger appears
December 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM
a challenger appears