Mike Bromberek
@mikebromberek.com
Computer programmer, runner, cat lover
https://mikebromberek.com/
Mastodon: @mikebromberek@twit.social
https://mikebromberek.com/
Mastodon: @mikebromberek@twit.social
There is a shelf along the ceiling of my bedroom that my cat Pixel likes to jump from a dresser to a door to get onto the shelf. #Caturday
January 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
There is a shelf along the ceiling of my bedroom that my cat Pixel likes to jump from a dresser to a door to get onto the shelf. #Caturday
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In the past; reading in bed, cycling, radio listening, & chess—considered virtues today—were deemed by some as degenerate sins of modernity. Did we have opposite resolutions?
2024: cycle, read, play chess MORE
1884: cycle, read, play chess LESS
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/new-years-...
2024: cycle, read, play chess MORE
1884: cycle, read, play chess LESS
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/new-years-...
New Years Resolutions of Old: Once Vices Now Virtues
In centuries past, things considered virtuous today; reading, cycling, listening to radio or playing chess were deemed by some as unhealthy vices or a waste of time at best.
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org
December 31, 2024 at 4:50 PM
In the past; reading in bed, cycling, radio listening, & chess—considered virtues today—were deemed by some as degenerate sins of modernity. Did we have opposite resolutions?
2024: cycle, read, play chess MORE
1884: cycle, read, play chess LESS
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/new-years-...
2024: cycle, read, play chess MORE
1884: cycle, read, play chess LESS
newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org/p/new-years-...
Reposted by Mike Bromberek
Matt Gaetz's withdrawal demonstrates a) again that fascism's first lie is inevitability; it's not. b) the struggle is long; obviously, this isn't over. c) the wild instability of weaponized narratives. The Right developed "groomer," which made legible behavior that Gaetz was hardly first to pursue.
November 21, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Matt Gaetz's withdrawal demonstrates a) again that fascism's first lie is inevitability; it's not. b) the struggle is long; obviously, this isn't over. c) the wild instability of weaponized narratives. The Right developed "groomer," which made legible behavior that Gaetz was hardly first to pursue.
Got my handle changed to use my custom domain!
November 18, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Got my handle changed to use my custom domain!