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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 21d

I've yet to find a pharmacy in Athens that can assure me they've got the new one, and there's some bullshit (on CVS's part, at least) about having to get a scrip for it. Confusion reigns in the red states, and we all know *COUGH* RFK Jr. *COUGH* why. Feel better!

Book IV, Chapter 7 | Adam Smith Works

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 21d

BTW, "legion" here is less sited in the apocalyptic lexical field than offered as a more or less literal estimate: I reckon 5-10k apparatchiki (loanword selected only scantly metaphorically!) yielding when distributed over 50 states roughly 100-200 per primary subnational unit. Sounds about right.

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 21d

The relevant section of The Wealth of Nations. It might be quibbled that he made his criticisms with respect to colonial entities; I'd quibble back that, everything and everybody having been colonized by imperial capitalism, the aperçu that there is no worse governor than a merchant applies featly.

Of Colonies

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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 21d

You won’t have all the context for this (I didn’t), but there’s an internet for that; read discriminatingly! A couple of legs up: “Bhangi” is highly offensive to the perennially-subordinated Dalits; and “Baniya” is a subcaste that engages in finance. And don't panic at the Hindi! Welcome you are.

Bobby Kunhu Since Amit Shah exclaimed on June 9th at Raipur, "Aur isi liye Mahatma Gandhi ne durandesi ke saath, bahut chatur baniya tha woh, usko maloom tha aage kya hone waala hai, usne azadi ke baa...

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 21d

Found while researching vaiśyas ("Gammas" in Huxley) for a projected essay on Adam Smith's view that they, de- not prescriptively understood and in any culture, should never dominate government. Contested planetwide: originalisms affecting whether fraternity or cruelty will be repressed groups' lot.

Vaishya vs. Vaishya

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This Is The Slavery Photo The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 22d

Reprobating capital punishment, I no more want the legion MAGA scelerati executed after the trials and guilty verdicts than I do anybody else. But, for this alone, I DO want them under the jail, and by "jail" I mean a Supermax, and by "under" I mean beneath the subbasement. And in solitary. Forever.

One history professor warned that the administration's moves show an "enormous increase in federal power and control."

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Should Marco Rubio Get To Seize Your Passport For Donating To Democrats, Other Terrorist Organizations?

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 22d

I've observed from an intimate vantage the corrosion that the Calle Ocho Revanchistas' acid efflux can work in even the most liberal (in a Plutarchan sense) nature, even one yoked to a luminous intellect. So this deracinated cipher could never have been anything but wet for some substitute Batista.

Boy, we're all so hysterical, right?

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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 24d

No cat tower that either I provided my own beasts or was someone else's feline furniture was weighted down or attached to the floor, and as best I recall, none were ever knocked over, even with multiple kittehs (three being the max present to memory) growltigering each other up and down the levels.

Charlie Kirk suspect is a gun-loving Trump supporter

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 25d

I'm sorry Charlie Kirk's dead to the extent that I wanted him, along with the other masters and movers of MAGA misrule, alive to face trial if the fascists are swept away. (Fat chance of that: of the 70% of the electorate not aligned with ethnonationalist-falangist memelords, over half don't vote.)

From what we know so far, the suspect seems to be part of the 'groyper' movement of far-right online agitators

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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · 29d

Ha, lol, wish I could afford a vacation.

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Sep 9

This is one of these times that I wish Bluesky had calibrated reaction emojis like the Zuckerberg hellsite. Because obviously I neither "like" nor "heart" this for you. Really sorry and hope a solution presents itself imminently. 😞

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ugh. Sympathies.

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Sep 5

Samuel Beckett avers in the notes to his poem "Whoroscope" that Descartes closely guarded the hour of his birth to prevent anyone from erecting a nativity for him -- no birth hour, no ascendant, no meaningful chart. "Caute", as Spinoza would say.

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Sep 3

Evidently mesmerizedly absorbed in effecting formal pristinity, I omitted to remark in the headnote that this is all about my Substack piece for so-called "Labor Day". So go to work and read it gratis. (It may more dispose the anti-woo so to do if I announce that Yijing is deferred to the equinox.)

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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Sep 2

Grazie, miglior fabbro.

Hell, yeah, nobody wants to work. Also: the clouded joys of accurate scrying.

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Labo[u]r's Love's Lost

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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Now our definitive Horst Wessel. MAGA's vexillosexual version of the Blutfahne ceremony manifests in Trump's occasional lubricious flag-grind, so check that off your Fascism Bingo card. Luckily, they so far trip over their own braindead decadence whenever they try to gin up a Reichstag fire. So far.

Jan. 6 Rioter Ashli Babbitt Was Killed Storming The Capitol. She Will Now Receive Military Funeral Honors.

The Babbitt family also received a settlement of $5 million earlier this year.

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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oh, beliebtes Rauchbier. You know I love that stuff.

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Aug 25

Cute li'l pupper -- I know how it feels. Wishing you the best good memories can bring.

The strangest David Lynch facts – ranked!

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Aug 21

@jimmy-jim-james.bsky.social : #6 « — mon semblable, — mon frère! » AMIRITE? Cheers!

Ahead of a new biography of the late director (whose favourite number was seven), we rundown some of the most offbeat things about this most mysterious modern genius

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Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Aug 21

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Aug 17

I do indeed dig, thanks very much. (Nice to see that the Telegraph did at least one unambiguously praiseworthy thing in its rather-too-Chequers'd past (lol I'm hilarious).)

Kevin McFoy Dunn @kevinmcfoydunn.bsky.social · Aug 15

I know I must've seen the Disney/McGoohan version at some point, but the only one of the three Dr. Syn flix I recall viewing for sure is the 1962 Hammer production with Peter Cushing as "Parson Blyss" (had to change the name to avoid intellectual-property beef with the House of Mouse). Ripping yarn.