Eric Lurking
@ericlurking.bsky.social
Survived a social science PhD and now working happily as a government drone. Twitter refugee trying to find everyone here. Maybe the switch will make me spend less time doom scrolling.
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The winner of today's one-liner goes to a guy who looked like he was sleeping.
Scene: the ENT clinic, waiting for audiologist
Asst calls a name three times.
Asst (just loudly enough to be heard): I really wish people would pay attention.
Guy: I bet many of the people here wish they could hear.
Scene: the ENT clinic, waiting for audiologist
Asst calls a name three times.
Asst (just loudly enough to be heard): I really wish people would pay attention.
Guy: I bet many of the people here wish they could hear.
January 13, 2026 at 4:20 AM
The winner of today's one-liner goes to a guy who looked like he was sleeping.
Scene: the ENT clinic, waiting for audiologist
Asst calls a name three times.
Asst (just loudly enough to be heard): I really wish people would pay attention.
Guy: I bet many of the people here wish they could hear.
Scene: the ENT clinic, waiting for audiologist
Asst calls a name three times.
Asst (just loudly enough to be heard): I really wish people would pay attention.
Guy: I bet many of the people here wish they could hear.
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Except, @chatterton.bsky.social, one of these two people is facing both state and federal charges, including the death penalty.
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
January 11, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Except, @chatterton.bsky.social, one of these two people is facing both state and federal charges, including the death penalty.
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
Whereas Jonathan Ross is being actively protected by an administration that started defaming Renee Good before her body was cold.
That is a meaningful difference!
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“If you keep pushing the masses like this, they will blow up, and it will be the predictable consequence of secret police engaging in lawless oppression. When people no longer feel that the law protects them or their community, but is instead a threat, how do you expect them to act?”
Setting a Fire by the Powder Keg
Trump, Miller, and ICE are playing with fire and we cannot help them stick the blame elsewhere.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
“If you keep pushing the masses like this, they will blow up, and it will be the predictable consequence of secret police engaging in lawless oppression. When people no longer feel that the law protects them or their community, but is instead a threat, how do you expect them to act?”
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So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
In 1932, on the eve of seizing power, the Nazi goon army - the Sturmabteiling or SA - numbered 400,000 members. By 1933, it was over two *million.*
DHS has 240,00 employees and lot of those are non-goons who have, you know, real jobs.
DHS has 240,00 employees and lot of those are non-goons who have, you know, real jobs.
January 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
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Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
January 7, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Here's the ICE agent "defending himself" by shooting into the driver's side window of a car that's pulling *away* from him.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
Put this photo on the front page of every newspaper in America.
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This characterization is going to stick with me. Per @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s review, it’s like Brink Lindsey wants a world where radically transformative technologies have changed the world completely but household formation hasn’t changed since the Flintstones (both on a ‘50s model)
December 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
This characterization is going to stick with me. Per @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com’s review, it’s like Brink Lindsey wants a world where radically transformative technologies have changed the world completely but household formation hasn’t changed since the Flintstones (both on a ‘50s model)
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Today, I wish to discuss how the difficult questions of third world feminism are elided and obscured by Western feminists---both white and not---and kindly ask feminists all over the world to grow a fucking pair.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...
December 29, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Today, I wish to discuss how the difficult questions of third world feminism are elided and obscured by Western feminists---both white and not---and kindly ask feminists all over the world to grow a fucking pair.
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...
Read: taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/no-country...
This feels exactly like how the protagonists "hack" stuff in Foundryside.
This made me genuinely laugh out loud.
December 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This feels exactly like how the protagonists "hack" stuff in Foundryside.
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🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]
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Many people are saying www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
Impeach and Remove the Bastards
A scenario for 2027.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Many people are saying www.liberalcurrents.com/impeach-and-...
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India's digital revolution has created a criminal dystopia. We follow the trail from scammers to victims. bloom.bg/48QTnts
📷: Ruhani Kaur for Bloomberg Businessweek
📷: Ruhani Kaur for Bloomberg Businessweek
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 AM
India's digital revolution has created a criminal dystopia. We follow the trail from scammers to victims. bloom.bg/48QTnts
📷: Ruhani Kaur for Bloomberg Businessweek
📷: Ruhani Kaur for Bloomberg Businessweek
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white people are so privileged we got the only kind of genocide in which the targets are active and enthusiastic participants
December 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
white people are so privileged we got the only kind of genocide in which the targets are active and enthusiastic participants
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This week on the blog: hoplites! In particular, hoplite equipment! We talk shields, helmets, armor, weight and mobility.
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part II: Hoplite Equipment, Hoplight or Hopheavy?
This is the second part of what looks like it’ll be end up as a four part series discussing the debates surrounding ancient Greek hoplites, the heavy infantry of the Archaic (800-480) and Cla…
acoup.blog
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This week on the blog: hoplites! In particular, hoplite equipment! We talk shields, helmets, armor, weight and mobility.
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
Was the hoplite an over-encumbered battlefield turtle incapable of fighting outside of the phalanx? (No)
Was he actually a good skirmisher? (Also no)
acoup.blog/2025/11/21/c...
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
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“Even in the early days, when they were overthrowing monarchs and taking the first tentative steps towards the modern conception of human rights, liberals conceived of their success in terms of achieving a specific kind of society.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
Liberalism's Positive Vision Must Be the Open Society
Liberalism is not just the mitigation of dangers. It is also an active striving towards a world that is truly free.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
“Even in the early days, when they were overthrowing monarchs and taking the first tentative steps towards the modern conception of human rights, liberals conceived of their success in terms of achieving a specific kind of society.” www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalisms-...
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Let me give an example here.
A few weeks ago I came across a TikTok video by a diaspora creator talking about how "FGM" is dehumanizing language. "Call it excision and not mutilation, don't stigmatize the bodies of women who have experienced it!"
Here's the kicker.
A few weeks ago I came across a TikTok video by a diaspora creator talking about how "FGM" is dehumanizing language. "Call it excision and not mutilation, don't stigmatize the bodies of women who have experienced it!"
Here's the kicker.
November 3, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Let me give an example here.
A few weeks ago I came across a TikTok video by a diaspora creator talking about how "FGM" is dehumanizing language. "Call it excision and not mutilation, don't stigmatize the bodies of women who have experienced it!"
Here's the kicker.
A few weeks ago I came across a TikTok video by a diaspora creator talking about how "FGM" is dehumanizing language. "Call it excision and not mutilation, don't stigmatize the bodies of women who have experienced it!"
Here's the kicker.
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*ushering a group of tourists into the next room of their Vatican tour*
"and here is the largest collection of sports jerseys ever assembled"
"were these donated by some wealthy collector?"
"nah, everyone just thought it was funny to troll Leo"
"and here is the largest collection of sports jerseys ever assembled"
"were these donated by some wealthy collector?"
"nah, everyone just thought it was funny to troll Leo"
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
*ushering a group of tourists into the next room of their Vatican tour*
"and here is the largest collection of sports jerseys ever assembled"
"were these donated by some wealthy collector?"
"nah, everyone just thought it was funny to troll Leo"
"and here is the largest collection of sports jerseys ever assembled"
"were these donated by some wealthy collector?"
"nah, everyone just thought it was funny to troll Leo"
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Every European armor encounter from late 1944 onward is like the 1st SS Totenkopf Ubermenschen Panzergrenadiers hiding from two dozen Iowa farmboys with bazookas who want to brag they actually killed the only functional Tiger tank in the sector
October 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Every European armor encounter from late 1944 onward is like the 1st SS Totenkopf Ubermenschen Panzergrenadiers hiding from two dozen Iowa farmboys with bazookas who want to brag they actually killed the only functional Tiger tank in the sector
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So much has already been said about how a Mayor Zohran should orient himself towards the NYPD and yet here I am in @thedriftmag.com saying more
Walking the Thin Blue Line
Bill de Blasio, Zohran Mamdani, and the NYPD
www.thedriftmag.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:43 PM
So much has already been said about how a Mayor Zohran should orient himself towards the NYPD and yet here I am in @thedriftmag.com saying more
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Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...
Wars on Science, Real and Otherwise
The War on Science, ed. Lawrence Krauss, documents an imaginary "war on science" from the left in order to justify an entirely real war on science from the right.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Wrote a thing www.liberalcurrents.com/wars-on-scie...
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This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived.
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles
This is the fifth and final part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd, IVe) looking at the structures of life for pre-modern peasant farmers and showing how historical modeling can …
acoup.blog
October 20, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This week on the blog: Peasants! We are at last putting together and wrapping up our discussion of life for pre-industrial peasants - a category which includes a majority of all humans who have ever lived.
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
How we can model how they lived, worked, loved and died.
acoup.blog/2025/10/17/c...
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Okay, so let’s take it from the top. Lion el Jonson is the guy who firebombed a Walmart and got away with it. Everyone knows it was him but nobody can prove anything and is too scared to investigate further after the first people who asked questions disappeared.
October 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Okay, so let’s take it from the top. Lion el Jonson is the guy who firebombed a Walmart and got away with it. Everyone knows it was him but nobody can prove anything and is too scared to investigate further after the first people who asked questions disappeared.
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the story of Colton Fears' hapless bandmates who were "just trying to jam" while he slowly turned into a White Christian Nationalist is both tragic and incredibly funny: freepresshouston.com/jailed-nazi-...
October 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
the story of Colton Fears' hapless bandmates who were "just trying to jam" while he slowly turned into a White Christian Nationalist is both tragic and incredibly funny: freepresshouston.com/jailed-nazi-...
The Lion is too busy fighting heretical Chaos worshipers for petty matters like midterms.
The lion does not concern himself with the midterm elections
October 12, 2025 at 3:13 AM
The Lion is too busy fighting heretical Chaos worshipers for petty matters like midterms.
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This week on the blog: More Peasants!
This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.
Now with pie chart!
acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...
This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.
Now with pie chart!
acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It
This is the fifth dish of the fourth course of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd) looking at the lives of pre-modern peasant farmers, who made up a majority of all of the humans who…
acoup.blog
October 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This week on the blog: More Peasants!
This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.
Now with pie chart!
acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...
This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc.
Now with pie chart!
acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...