Bill Pees
@enantiodromos.bsky.social
Gen-X Tabletop Gamer, Dad, Ji Do Kwan TKD, Ohioan, mythology-positive Atheist, science-positive leftist, anti-sexist, anti-racist, IT Flunky, PC & Console Games, pie baker, he/him, INTP.
Long-form idiosyncrasy: https://substack.com/@enantiodromos
Long-form idiosyncrasy: https://substack.com/@enantiodromos
CNN: "Four takeaways from President Trump's speech."
Four different photographs of a burning trash dumpster. 9_9
Four different photographs of a burning trash dumpster. 9_9
December 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
CNN: "Four takeaways from President Trump's speech."
Four different photographs of a burning trash dumpster. 9_9
Four different photographs of a burning trash dumpster. 9_9
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December 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
>>Sometimes people are mad because they think I am wrong but really they're mad that they have a different opinion from me.
Vocab for expressing degree of certainty varies by venue and person. Regrettably.
'Opinion' is a degree of certainty by design ambiguously shy of (the incoherence of)...
Vocab for expressing degree of certainty varies by venue and person. Regrettably.
'Opinion' is a degree of certainty by design ambiguously shy of (the incoherence of)...
December 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
>>Sometimes people are mad because they think I am wrong but really they're mad that they have a different opinion from me.
Vocab for expressing degree of certainty varies by venue and person. Regrettably.
'Opinion' is a degree of certainty by design ambiguously shy of (the incoherence of)...
Vocab for expressing degree of certainty varies by venue and person. Regrettably.
'Opinion' is a degree of certainty by design ambiguously shy of (the incoherence of)...
A rare successful kitchen experiment on my part, codified.
Clarified Canned Cherry Pie Filling
This recipe is for cherry pie filling starting with standard 411g (14.5 oz) cans of tart cherries like you’ll find on any grocery shelf.
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December 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
A rare successful kitchen experiment on my part, codified.
Categorically rejecting "the silent treatment, which is very harmful" is just another gaslit way of denying people their boundaries.
It also erases the possibility that people are not emotionally ready to renormalize yet, in the wake of something difficult.
Yes, it can resemble manipulative...
It also erases the possibility that people are not emotionally ready to renormalize yet, in the wake of something difficult.
Yes, it can resemble manipulative...
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Categorically rejecting "the silent treatment, which is very harmful" is just another gaslit way of denying people their boundaries.
It also erases the possibility that people are not emotionally ready to renormalize yet, in the wake of something difficult.
Yes, it can resemble manipulative...
It also erases the possibility that people are not emotionally ready to renormalize yet, in the wake of something difficult.
Yes, it can resemble manipulative...
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For starters:
1. The people trying to survive genocide in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Ukraine, etc.
2. Any person who has been targeted/assaulted/disappeared/murdered by ICE.
3. The community members protecting their neighbors from ICE.
4. The Romancelandia GOTV that flipped local races.
1. The people trying to survive genocide in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Ukraine, etc.
2. Any person who has been targeted/assaulted/disappeared/murdered by ICE.
3. The community members protecting their neighbors from ICE.
4. The Romancelandia GOTV that flipped local races.
all i'm saying is that there were better options
December 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
For starters:
1. The people trying to survive genocide in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Ukraine, etc.
2. Any person who has been targeted/assaulted/disappeared/murdered by ICE.
3. The community members protecting their neighbors from ICE.
4. The Romancelandia GOTV that flipped local races.
1. The people trying to survive genocide in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Yemen, Ukraine, etc.
2. Any person who has been targeted/assaulted/disappeared/murdered by ICE.
3. The community members protecting their neighbors from ICE.
4. The Romancelandia GOTV that flipped local races.
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Dunking on the OP is unfair. Once TPTB made education a pre-requisite to employment, defunded higher public education, made for-profit education prohibitively expensive, and required post-graduate education for “professional” roles, the dominant driver for educational pursuit became employability.
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
If you are providing me with an education that is low utility in the world then it’s a disservice. My composition class spent four weeks on poetry. I’m sorry, but that only would’ve been useful if I wanted to be a poet. I don’t need to know iambic pentameter in order to be a victim advocate.
December 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Dunking on the OP is unfair. Once TPTB made education a pre-requisite to employment, defunded higher public education, made for-profit education prohibitively expensive, and required post-graduate education for “professional” roles, the dominant driver for educational pursuit became employability.
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Real answer: The Constitution and Bill of Rights and I’m putting the sauce on “and domestic” when I recite the oath.
Keeping It Real answer: “The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark” by Carl Sagan
Keeping It Real answer: “The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark” by Carl Sagan
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Real answer: The Constitution and Bill of Rights and I’m putting the sauce on “and domestic” when I recite the oath.
Keeping It Real answer: “The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark” by Carl Sagan
Keeping It Real answer: “The Demon-Haunted World: Science As A Candle In The Dark” by Carl Sagan
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Google play eBook up!
This will almost certainly get censored, too. This is the price we pay for making art, I guess.
This will almost certainly get censored, too. This is the price we pay for making art, I guess.
The Steel Ghost by Joe Auerbach - Books on Google Play
The Steel Ghost - Ebook written by Joe Auerbach. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you ...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Google play eBook up!
This will almost certainly get censored, too. This is the price we pay for making art, I guess.
This will almost certainly get censored, too. This is the price we pay for making art, I guess.
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@coyotewallace.bsky.social unleashes eloquently cold rage about the demolition of our medical profession:
...Nurses are the agents of good hearts and decency... no ten souls that ever decided to make a living in the political arena are worth even one of their number...
medium.com/@kidether/ba...
...Nurses are the agents of good hearts and decency... no ten souls that ever decided to make a living in the political arena are worth even one of their number...
medium.com/@kidether/ba...
Bad Medicine: The Trump Administration’s Assault on the American Nurse
The air is cold this morning in Appalachia. Frost covers my windows, and even the chickens are reluctant to leave their roost in weather…
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December 5, 2025 at 2:15 AM
@coyotewallace.bsky.social unleashes eloquently cold rage about the demolition of our medical profession:
...Nurses are the agents of good hearts and decency... no ten souls that ever decided to make a living in the political arena are worth even one of their number...
medium.com/@kidether/ba...
...Nurses are the agents of good hearts and decency... no ten souls that ever decided to make a living in the political arena are worth even one of their number...
medium.com/@kidether/ba...
Bluesky is moderating anything critical "of protected groups." And including a power & number majority, Christianity, as a protected group.
Absurd.
Absurd.
December 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Bluesky is moderating anything critical "of protected groups." And including a power & number majority, Christianity, as a protected group.
Absurd.
Absurd.
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I cackle every time the picture I tweeted like 4 years ago of a page from a Lindy West book that made me scream with laughter, which subsequently exploded on like nineteen different platforms, recirculates past my eyeballs again
my brother sent it to me on Instagram once not knowing I took it 😂
my brother sent it to me on Instagram once not knowing I took it 😂
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 AM
I cackle every time the picture I tweeted like 4 years ago of a page from a Lindy West book that made me scream with laughter, which subsequently exploded on like nineteen different platforms, recirculates past my eyeballs again
my brother sent it to me on Instagram once not knowing I took it 😂
my brother sent it to me on Instagram once not knowing I took it 😂
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Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
December 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."
Surak. Where are you now?
December 3, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Surak. Where are you now?
Interesting video going around TikTok in which lady talks about rejecting using "anti-" prefixed terms to describe her #left stance.
What she really did was, find way to articulate ideas with more meat. That's always valuable. If you write well you're always going to get your idea across more
What she really did was, find way to articulate ideas with more meat. That's always valuable. If you write well you're always going to get your idea across more
December 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Interesting video going around TikTok in which lady talks about rejecting using "anti-" prefixed terms to describe her #left stance.
What she really did was, find way to articulate ideas with more meat. That's always valuable. If you write well you're always going to get your idea across more
What she really did was, find way to articulate ideas with more meat. That's always valuable. If you write well you're always going to get your idea across more
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im still hating things the world has forgotten
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
im still hating things the world has forgotten
Why don't they just ask somebody whose brains aren't addled by religion?
It's a virtue. See how that's a nonissue?
The real issue is: "Christian battle grows over whether to admit: 'We're the problem, aren't we?'
It's a virtue. See how that's a nonissue?
The real issue is: "Christian battle grows over whether to admit: 'We're the problem, aren't we?'
December 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Why don't they just ask somebody whose brains aren't addled by religion?
It's a virtue. See how that's a nonissue?
The real issue is: "Christian battle grows over whether to admit: 'We're the problem, aren't we?'
It's a virtue. See how that's a nonissue?
The real issue is: "Christian battle grows over whether to admit: 'We're the problem, aren't we?'
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If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
August 6, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?
I named my fists "Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals" and "Tool shed renovation," because they never stop making headlines.
...I'm not doing this right.
...I'm not doing this right.
December 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I named my fists "Did modern humans interbreed with Neanderthals" and "Tool shed renovation," because they never stop making headlines.
...I'm not doing this right.
...I'm not doing this right.
I was reminded of the existence of @profanity.accountant
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I was reminded of the existence of @profanity.accountant
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From the other place's thread by @swwlds.bsky.social about what male lawyers should be called:
Penisquire.
AttornHe.
Boy Lawyer
Barrister Boy.
Brottorney.
Solicitsir.
Brolicitor.
@femiyahtzee.bsky.social
Penisquire.
AttornHe.
Boy Lawyer
Barrister Boy.
Brottorney.
Solicitsir.
Brolicitor.
@femiyahtzee.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 5:33 AM
From the other place's thread by @swwlds.bsky.social about what male lawyers should be called:
Penisquire.
AttornHe.
Boy Lawyer
Barrister Boy.
Brottorney.
Solicitsir.
Brolicitor.
@femiyahtzee.bsky.social
Penisquire.
AttornHe.
Boy Lawyer
Barrister Boy.
Brottorney.
Solicitsir.
Brolicitor.
@femiyahtzee.bsky.social
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Nobody becomes estranged from their family because it's easy or fun. We do it to save our sanity and very possibly our lives.
Finally had that big fight with a Trump supporting family member over the holiday? Struggling with how to move forward as a family after they've endorsed inhuman atrocities?
Well, if you're looking for permission, here it is: You can cut them off. You don't owe nazis anything.
Well, if you're looking for permission, here it is: You can cut them off. You don't owe nazis anything.
November 28, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Nobody becomes estranged from their family because it's easy or fun. We do it to save our sanity and very possibly our lives.
What if the tendency to keep going back to turkey in spite of it being terrible, and the tendency to keep going back to the Orange Skull, in spite of him being terrible, are both coming up on a sea change?
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
What if the tendency to keep going back to turkey in spite of it being terrible, and the tendency to keep going back to the Orange Skull, in spite of him being terrible, are both coming up on a sea change?
Charlie Brown fhtagn!
Ph'nglui mglw nafeh Charlie Brown R'lyeh waga nagl fhtagn!
Ph'nglui mglw nafeh Charlie Brown R'lyeh waga nagl fhtagn!
November 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Charlie Brown fhtagn!
Ph'nglui mglw nafeh Charlie Brown R'lyeh waga nagl fhtagn!
Ph'nglui mglw nafeh Charlie Brown R'lyeh waga nagl fhtagn!