Trespassers William
@raggedmouths.bsky.social
Dilettante, Director of Jewish Studies at Queen's, I've stopped working on myself because I am tired.
Reader: they do not.
My reading, I believe most reading inevitably, will shift to audiobooks. I highly recommend it vs eye strain, the health effects of hours of sitting, & the twofer of enriching my life with a good book a week doing mindless chores.
Bookstores need to work audio downloads into their offerings.
1/2
Bookstores need to work audio downloads into their offerings.
1/2
November 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Reader: they do not.
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AI is making us too stupid to react to the apocalypse it is bringing. But that’s a good thing.
by Bret Stephens
by Bret Stephens
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
AI is making us too stupid to react to the apocalypse it is bringing. But that’s a good thing.
by Bret Stephens
by Bret Stephens
Time for my annual “fuck the snow” post
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Time for my annual “fuck the snow” post
I go out to remind myself that everyone else is really fucked up too
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I go out to remind myself that everyone else is really fucked up too
Obviously it’s sad that Teen Vogue is firing it’s politics writers, but the fact that we were ever even thinking about looking to teen vogue for politics is itself a problem
November 3, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Obviously it’s sad that Teen Vogue is firing it’s politics writers, but the fact that we were ever even thinking about looking to teen vogue for politics is itself a problem
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Oh so you’ve “read” the #Talmud? Then tell me how much vinegar one needs to offset the volume of a mouse falling into a vat of it. You can’t? Then shut the fuck up 😂
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Oh so you’ve “read” the #Talmud? Then tell me how much vinegar one needs to offset the volume of a mouse falling into a vat of it. You can’t? Then shut the fuck up 😂
The idea that "public scholarship" is a good alternative for graduates is absolutely insane.
"Oh, you didn't make it as a teacher? Have you considered being a rock star?"
"Oh, you didn't make it as a teacher? Have you considered being a rock star?"
November 3, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The idea that "public scholarship" is a good alternative for graduates is absolutely insane.
"Oh, you didn't make it as a teacher? Have you considered being a rock star?"
"Oh, you didn't make it as a teacher? Have you considered being a rock star?"
The gamble of the so bros is that the social and relational can be purchased
I’m just, you know, a philosopher, but it seems obvious that intelligence is social and relational and the AI bros are deeply invested in it being private property that can be owned, so they will always always miss the mark.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The gamble of the so bros is that the social and relational can be purchased
Narrator: this was not in fact why they separated church and state.
People who force their religion on others will force their politics on others. It’s why we separate church from state.
November 2, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Narrator: this was not in fact why they separated church and state.
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9 year-old needed to learn that being a fan of something is mostly a recipe for misery.
November 2, 2025 at 4:07 AM
9 year-old needed to learn that being a fan of something is mostly a recipe for misery.
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#Music tip: Belgian tuba player Berlinde Deman has released an entire album of new music for the #serpent! The Renaissance wind instrument died out in the 19th century due to the soft and unforgiving timbre.
open.spotify.com/album/2b1LXy...
open.spotify.com/album/2b1LXy...
Plank 9
open.spotify.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
#Music tip: Belgian tuba player Berlinde Deman has released an entire album of new music for the #serpent! The Renaissance wind instrument died out in the 19th century due to the soft and unforgiving timbre.
open.spotify.com/album/2b1LXy...
open.spotify.com/album/2b1LXy...
Listening to a story is good and fine, reading a story is good and fine, but listening to a book is not reading it. There are two different actions here, and , like magic, two different words.
October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Listening to a story is good and fine, reading a story is good and fine, but listening to a book is not reading it. There are two different actions here, and , like magic, two different words.
I worry that people are confusing “you can make real friends online” with “it’s not a problem if all your friends are online”. Certain exceptions aside, you need to remember your monkey body: it needs to sit by a fire or tv with others, and pick bugs off them.
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I worry that people are confusing “you can make real friends online” with “it’s not a problem if all your friends are online”. Certain exceptions aside, you need to remember your monkey body: it needs to sit by a fire or tv with others, and pick bugs off them.
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it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
it’s officially book promo time! so, hey, i wrote this book; it comes out in a week! would you mind signal boosting and asking your library to buy it? if you’d like a copy, the code AUFLY30 will get you 30%off.
“Radical Empathy, a principled way of saying “sucks to be you”.
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
“Radical Empathy, a principled way of saying “sucks to be you”.
I am seeing a shocking number of ads for…asking the internet questions?
October 26, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I am seeing a shocking number of ads for…asking the internet questions?
“Stand up for cancer” is a bonkers slogan. Also, why is this happening?
October 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“Stand up for cancer” is a bonkers slogan. Also, why is this happening?
A seagull stole my sandwich. War has begun.
October 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
A seagull stole my sandwich. War has begun.
Coming from a family which has produced far more gamblers than athletes, I feel comfortable saying that the current form of sports gambling is going to transform into something that's ugly and twisted in a way normal sports people are not ready for.
October 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Coming from a family which has produced far more gamblers than athletes, I feel comfortable saying that the current form of sports gambling is going to transform into something that's ugly and twisted in a way normal sports people are not ready for.
Who amongst us hasn’t said this many times before?
🧲 We’re seeing the horseshoe event horizon when the lefties cheering on China because they see it as a counterforce against the US align with the Silicon Valley tech titans high on China as an advanced Sino-topian techno-surveillance state.
October 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Who amongst us hasn’t said this many times before?
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My replacing my Totenkopf tattoo with a Nordic Fenrir tattoo has people asking questions that really should be answered by my Totenkopf tattoo.
October 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
My replacing my Totenkopf tattoo with a Nordic Fenrir tattoo has people asking questions that really should be answered by my Totenkopf tattoo.
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Antisemitism has often seemed throughout history to have a “cyclical” structure. By comparison to other bigotries, which simply persist, antisemitism always “comes back.”
One possible explanation for this refers to antisemitism’s “economic” coding in the West. It is tied to the business cycle.
One possible explanation for this refers to antisemitism’s “economic” coding in the West. It is tied to the business cycle.
Antisemitism just very bleak to think about as an issue. Like in terms of how widespread a prejudice it was 20 yrs ago compared to today I don’t think think any other prejudice has seen more backsliding. Really just a combination of worst case scenarios.
October 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Antisemitism has often seemed throughout history to have a “cyclical” structure. By comparison to other bigotries, which simply persist, antisemitism always “comes back.”
One possible explanation for this refers to antisemitism’s “economic” coding in the West. It is tied to the business cycle.
One possible explanation for this refers to antisemitism’s “economic” coding in the West. It is tied to the business cycle.