Hellscape Navigator
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not as well read as I'd like. will ramble about politics, gaming, dogs, and books.
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drop a “well not with that attitude” in your group chat today. respect the classics
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Bodied by my eldest , frankly
November 24, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Bodied by my eldest , frankly
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why do so many children need vision correction now that we’ve introduced books. reading must be ruining their eyes
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
why do so many children need vision correction now that we’ve introduced books. reading must be ruining their eyes
why is it my entire adult life people have tried to convince me “Wolf Blitzer” is a real person
I’m not falling for it
I’m not falling for it
November 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
why is it my entire adult life people have tried to convince me “Wolf Blitzer” is a real person
I’m not falling for it
I’m not falling for it
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A reminder that gas-powered leafblowers are nightmare devices that are bad for you, bad for your lawn, and very bad for the environment. They fume and scream and kill the world all so you can messily and ineffectively move leaves around, leaves which are generally supposed to stay where they fell.
November 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A reminder that gas-powered leafblowers are nightmare devices that are bad for you, bad for your lawn, and very bad for the environment. They fume and scream and kill the world all so you can messily and ineffectively move leaves around, leaves which are generally supposed to stay where they fell.
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It remains very funny to me that in our oldest extant story, Gilgamesh, in order to win Enkidu over to civilization, gives his boy bread, beer, and a hooker, and Enkidu’s response is essentially “damn, civilization fucking rips”
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It remains very funny to me that in our oldest extant story, Gilgamesh, in order to win Enkidu over to civilization, gives his boy bread, beer, and a hooker, and Enkidu’s response is essentially “damn, civilization fucking rips”
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alas, there's a lot of sanewashing in this piece - even as it expresses frustration in RFK, it treats him as a legitimate, good faith actor in a way that's just not true.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
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November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
alas, there's a lot of sanewashing in this piece - even as it expresses frustration in RFK, it treats him as a legitimate, good faith actor in a way that's just not true.
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of course I had good holiday food growing up, im italian
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 AM
of course I had good holiday food growing up, im italian
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The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
November 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food
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things that are objectively bullshit:
-horoscopes/astrology
-chiropractors
-“traditional medicine”
-crystals
-tarot cards
-horoscopes/astrology
-chiropractors
-“traditional medicine”
-crystals
-tarot cards
November 23, 2025 at 4:56 AM
things that are objectively bullshit:
-horoscopes/astrology
-chiropractors
-“traditional medicine”
-crystals
-tarot cards
-horoscopes/astrology
-chiropractors
-“traditional medicine”
-crystals
-tarot cards
the masque of the red death really gave me an unrealistic expectation that the amoral excesses of the ruling class would bring them to ruin
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
the masque of the red death really gave me an unrealistic expectation that the amoral excesses of the ruling class would bring them to ruin
if there is no evidence for something that does not necessarily mean it’s untrue, but you can reasonably behave as if it is untrue until the evidence situation changes
November 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
if there is no evidence for something that does not necessarily mean it’s untrue, but you can reasonably behave as if it is untrue until the evidence situation changes
thinking i'm about to watch every season of taskmaster again
November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
thinking i'm about to watch every season of taskmaster again
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no. there is not.
In your view, is there a plan we should be asking Democrats for to protect abortion and trans rights, other than never losing a Presidential election for the next 40 years and winning a SCOTUS majority?
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
no. there is not.
there's a scene from Yes Minister where a banker says that if you're thick, you have to be honest, and if you're crooked, you have to be clever
i think we're seeing what happens when people who are thick but not honest, and crooked but not clever, get to be in charge...
i think we're seeing what happens when people who are thick but not honest, and crooked but not clever, get to be in charge...
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 AM
there's a scene from Yes Minister where a banker says that if you're thick, you have to be honest, and if you're crooked, you have to be clever
i think we're seeing what happens when people who are thick but not honest, and crooked but not clever, get to be in charge...
i think we're seeing what happens when people who are thick but not honest, and crooked but not clever, get to be in charge...
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Every industrialized country will have to abandon its more ethnonationalist tendencies to survive economically. Those who do so sooner and aggressively will be the winners of this century.
Those that delay, or try to seek more imperial solutions to export their industrial plant, will lose. Badly.
Those that delay, or try to seek more imperial solutions to export their industrial plant, will lose. Badly.
the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
November 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Every industrialized country will have to abandon its more ethnonationalist tendencies to survive economically. Those who do so sooner and aggressively will be the winners of this century.
Those that delay, or try to seek more imperial solutions to export their industrial plant, will lose. Badly.
Those that delay, or try to seek more imperial solutions to export their industrial plant, will lose. Badly.
yo where them good history books at i'm all out my kindle needs to eat
November 17, 2025 at 8:39 PM
yo where them good history books at i'm all out my kindle needs to eat
for a game as well polished as arc raiders it’s bonkers you can’t save loadouts
November 15, 2025 at 9:57 PM
for a game as well polished as arc raiders it’s bonkers you can’t save loadouts
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Ancient philosophy is 50% profound eternal wisdom and 50% that same exact guy declaring with supreme confidence two paragraphs later that pee is stored in the armpit.
Aristotle in his books on nature insisted men have more teeth than women.
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Ancient philosophy is 50% profound eternal wisdom and 50% that same exact guy declaring with supreme confidence two paragraphs later that pee is stored in the armpit.
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"exile from a hunter gatherer tribe wouldn't necessarily be worse than going to prison" is really revealing in terms of "how much of day to day life people ignore totally when making judgments about things" on this site
November 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
"exile from a hunter gatherer tribe wouldn't necessarily be worse than going to prison" is really revealing in terms of "how much of day to day life people ignore totally when making judgments about things" on this site
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I feel like I've said this lots of times but it would be IMPOSSIBLE for Gaetz to be more cartoonishly evil. And it sucks that my first thought was "this BETTER not distract from Trump's little problem."
A sitting congressman paid for a homeless teenager’s braces in exchange for sex
The woman whom the House Ethics Committee determined Matt Gaetz paid for sex when she was 17 years old was living in a homeless shelter, working at McDonald's, and needed the money for braces www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I feel like I've said this lots of times but it would be IMPOSSIBLE for Gaetz to be more cartoonishly evil. And it sucks that my first thought was "this BETTER not distract from Trump's little problem."
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More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
More than anything else, powerful men - like the ones who run the NYT - believe in the legitimacy of power itself. Because if it isn’t legitimate, they have to start asking hard questions about the world and themselves.
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just laughable to say that this wasn't "publishable information" after the Mamdani college application story and using Discount Peter Wiggin as a source
November 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
just laughable to say that this wasn't "publishable information" after the Mamdani college application story and using Discount Peter Wiggin as a source
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"lol nothing matters" can be self-fulfilling in any case, so let's avoid doing that
November 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
"lol nothing matters" can be self-fulfilling in any case, so let's avoid doing that
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I genuinely believe nerdism's insistence that story is a thing to be quantified, compartmentalized into tropes and trivia, to be literalized, has been utterly poisonous.
November 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I genuinely believe nerdism's insistence that story is a thing to be quantified, compartmentalized into tropes and trivia, to be literalized, has been utterly poisonous.