Leigh Jackson
@oystermonkey.bsky.social
Who was this man? And why did he have deer horns?
He/him
He/him
It’s just that only white midwestern Americans think mayo’s a little too spicy.
it is also just simply totally inaccurate that only white midwestern americans like mayo
far as i can tell from traveling internationally a lot - the whole world, it loves mayonnaise.
far as i can tell from traveling internationally a lot - the whole world, it loves mayonnaise.
October 29, 2025 at 12:36 AM
It’s just that only white midwestern Americans think mayo’s a little too spicy.
Divisive views like “do unto others as you would have done unto you” and “love your neighbor as yourself”
As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”
As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’
Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Divisive views like “do unto others as you would have done unto you” and “love your neighbor as yourself”
🎵”wolves and cougars ate our roast beef”
what's the stupidest/randomest Simpsons quote that lives in your head rent free? Mine is the urge to say "you said go to bread" every time I am about to head to bed.
October 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
🎵”wolves and cougars ate our roast beef”
"To invoke Nietzsche, the problem with Shapiro’s dives into philosophy and spirituality aren’t just that they fail to be deep. It’s that they aren’t even superficial."
Oof. Great review by @mattpolprof.bsky.social and Nathan Robinson.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...
Oof. Great review by @mattpolprof.bsky.social and Nathan Robinson.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...
Ben Shapiro’s Latest Book Adopts a Horrifying “Creators vs. Parasites” Worldview
Supposedly, the world is divided into good, noble “lions” and evil, grasping “scavengers.” Guess which one Ben thinks he is?
www.currentaffairs.org
September 19, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"To invoke Nietzsche, the problem with Shapiro’s dives into philosophy and spirituality aren’t just that they fail to be deep. It’s that they aren’t even superficial."
Oof. Great review by @mattpolprof.bsky.social and Nathan Robinson.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...
Oof. Great review by @mattpolprof.bsky.social and Nathan Robinson.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ben-sha...
As someone who’s read all of McCarthy’s work and is halfway through After Virtue I can’t recommend this great easy by @mattpolprof.bsky.social essay enough: jacobin.com/2025/08/corm...
Is Cormac McCarthy “Based”?
Legendary novelist Cormac McCarthy is often hailed by the Right as one of its own. The truth is more complicated.
jacobin.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:29 PM
As someone who’s read all of McCarthy’s work and is halfway through After Virtue I can’t recommend this great easy by @mattpolprof.bsky.social essay enough: jacobin.com/2025/08/corm...
Here’s a thing I’d like news outlets to distinguish as protests of the mad king continue. Property damage (graffiti) is not violence in the same sense that assault (cops beating protesters) is violence. You can’t just say a protest was violent because someone shit on the hood of a cybertruck.
June 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Here’s a thing I’d like news outlets to distinguish as protests of the mad king continue. Property damage (graffiti) is not violence in the same sense that assault (cops beating protesters) is violence. You can’t just say a protest was violent because someone shit on the hood of a cybertruck.
I know philosophy of science isn’t in vogue, but it’s really important to understand how to tell which direction the causal arrow goes sometimes.
Although CPR has become synonymous with medical heroism, nearly 85 per cent of those who receive it in a hospital die. Why has it remained the norm?
The Hidden Harms of CPR
The brutal procedure can save lives, but only in particular cases. Why has it become a default treatment?
nyer.cm
June 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I know philosophy of science isn’t in vogue, but it’s really important to understand how to tell which direction the causal arrow goes sometimes.
This obviously isn’t the most important problem with this, but the way he tents his fingers and repeats himself as if the pseudo-profound pablum he’s spewing is going make peoples’ minds blow is really irritating.
Elon Musk: "The fundamental moral flaw of the left is empathy for the criminals and not empathy for the victims."
May 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This obviously isn’t the most important problem with this, but the way he tents his fingers and repeats himself as if the pseudo-profound pablum he’s spewing is going make peoples’ minds blow is really irritating.
I also see jokes, sports, good dogs, and bodega cats. You control your feed.
really think the fact that politics discourse consumes everything here is driving people insane
May 21, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I also see jokes, sports, good dogs, and bodega cats. You control your feed.
In my opinion August and Everything After is an A+ album, Recovering the Satellites is a solid B and I’ll never listen to any other of their albums because I’m not in college anymore.
Oh, you’re not allowed to sad Counting Crows post on a Tuesday afternoon?
May 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
In my opinion August and Everything After is an A+ album, Recovering the Satellites is a solid B and I’ll never listen to any other of their albums because I’m not in college anymore.
Just give me the Playmobil regular.
“Just fuck me up bro” doesn’t even begin to do this justice
May 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Just give me the Playmobil regular.
They’re calling it transubstantiation aren’t they folks? Transubstantiation. We’re transubstanting better than we ever have before. They’re saying it’s the best blood and maybe the best wine too but we’ll see about that.
I would love to hear him expound about some basic Catholic doctrine. What are his thoughts on transubstantiationism? Does he think the Holy Ghost is Casper?
May 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
They’re calling it transubstantiation aren’t they folks? Transubstantiation. We’re transubstanting better than we ever have before. They’re saying it’s the best blood and maybe the best wine too but we’ll see about that.
Would it kill them to—just one time—put the “this is a dumb idea” part in the headline and not in the fourth paragraph?
April 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Would it kill them to—just one time—put the “this is a dumb idea” part in the headline and not in the fourth paragraph?
Finished this really interesting book by @chrislhayes.bsky.social today. Would recommend.
Leigh Jackson's review of The Sirens' Call
4/5: Really interesting account of how our attention has been fragmented, commodified, and extracted for profit. Hayes roots the argument in a philosophical discussion of our desire for recognition an...
www.goodreads.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Finished this really interesting book by @chrislhayes.bsky.social today. Would recommend.
I asked ChatGPT about Hume, Spinoza, and Frankfurt. oystermonkey.blogspot.com/2025/03/chat...
Chat GPT on Spinoza, Hume, and Frankfurt.
I asked ChatGPT to "write a 1000 word paper with sources comparing the theories of mind of Spinoza and Hume." First pass at a response wasn'...
oystermonkey.blogspot.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I asked ChatGPT about Hume, Spinoza, and Frankfurt. oystermonkey.blogspot.com/2025/03/chat...
Cancelled tv show you will never stop thinking about.
March 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Cancelled tv show you will never stop thinking about.
The clock in my Lyft drivers car is 4 hours and 26 minutes slow.
March 19, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The clock in my Lyft drivers car is 4 hours and 26 minutes slow.
The thing is, yes, we want Ebola prevention. We also want all the other things our elected representatives voted to fund. Not sure where the idea came from that we suddenly have line item veto for federal spending bills.
Musk: I should say we will make mistakes. We won't be perfect. But when we make a mistake we'll fix it quickly. So for example with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled briefly was Ebola prevention.
February 26, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The thing is, yes, we want Ebola prevention. We also want all the other things our elected representatives voted to fund. Not sure where the idea came from that we suddenly have line item veto for federal spending bills.
Doing anything that benefits anyone but billionaires is woke.
is it woke to want to end cancer?
NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research.
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
#Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
February 8, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Doing anything that benefits anyone but billionaires is woke.
I get the impulse to point out the contradictions and hypocrisy- but it really just doesn’t matter. Law is power, precedent is for suckers, democracy is obsolete.
For years Trump & Vance have been telling us that America shouldn't get involved in other countries and in just the past 15 days they want to do that with Greenland, Panama, Canada, and now Gaza.
February 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I get the impulse to point out the contradictions and hypocrisy- but it really just doesn’t matter. Law is power, precedent is for suckers, democracy is obsolete.
There are many, many problems with anti-DEI rhetoric, but one thing that is clear from the arguments of most of the critics of DEI efforts is that they haven’t really worked in places where it’s been implemented.
January 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
There are many, many problems with anti-DEI rhetoric, but one thing that is clear from the arguments of most of the critics of DEI efforts is that they haven’t really worked in places where it’s been implemented.
[Cop]: do you know how fast you were going?
[Heisenberg]: no.
[Cop]: you were doing 68 in a 55.
[Heisenberg]: Great. Now I’m lost.
[Heisenberg]: no.
[Cop]: you were doing 68 in a 55.
[Heisenberg]: Great. Now I’m lost.
January 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
[Cop]: do you know how fast you were going?
[Heisenberg]: no.
[Cop]: you were doing 68 in a 55.
[Heisenberg]: Great. Now I’m lost.
[Heisenberg]: no.
[Cop]: you were doing 68 in a 55.
[Heisenberg]: Great. Now I’m lost.
Reposted by Leigh Jackson
On this day 40 years ago, a stream of charged particles was fired at Gordon Lightfoot, splitting him into Chris Pratt and Bryan Cranston
November 9, 2024 at 10:41 PM
On this day 40 years ago, a stream of charged particles was fired at Gordon Lightfoot, splitting him into Chris Pratt and Bryan Cranston
Do I read mgoblog too much if this is my first thought? @mgoblog.bsky.social @mgoseth.bsky.social
December 26, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Do I read mgoblog too much if this is my first thought? @mgoblog.bsky.social @mgoseth.bsky.social