Stephen Berquist
@stephenberquist.bsky.social
the kwisatz haderach of west-central illinois. anthropologist (derogatory). don't read my posts. they're fake, and i have no opinions.
given the urgency of global warming, it's possible that he may, in the long term, have collapsed civilization
when all is said and done it looks reasonably likely that bin laden will have taken down not just the us but the entire west
October 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
given the urgency of global warming, it's possible that he may, in the long term, have collapsed civilization
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
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this isn't a legitimate government, they have no interest in the mechanisms of governing and no belief in the value of governance. you don't need to play at process anymore. you need to build a plan whereby as many of these officials and their funders as possible are eventually behind bars or broke
September 30, 2025 at 6:28 AM
this isn't a legitimate government, they have no interest in the mechanisms of governing and no belief in the value of governance. you don't need to play at process anymore. you need to build a plan whereby as many of these officials and their funders as possible are eventually behind bars or broke
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my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"
UChicago always had these irritating little intellectual cults around e.g., Mearsheimer, Sunstein, the Comaroffs, etc. and it's been mildly amusing to watch them all gradually outed as frauds, idiots, and perverts
chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.
lmfao
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
UChicago always had these irritating little intellectual cults around e.g., Mearsheimer, Sunstein, the Comaroffs, etc. and it's been mildly amusing to watch them all gradually outed as frauds, idiots, and perverts
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I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
September 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.
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they’re assembling the pervert megazord
Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his former HUD secretary, as the Democratic establishment tries to attempt to ensure Zohran Mamdani does not win the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
Bill Clinton Endorses Andrew Cuomo for New York City Mayor
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
they’re assembling the pervert megazord
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Thank you for deciding to submit your manuscript to our subfield journal! Simply follow these steps: make sure that your manuscript is in .docz (not.docx) format. Then you will be ready to answer the Subfield Goblin's riddles three, provided your document is in the required Etruscan,
June 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Thank you for deciding to submit your manuscript to our subfield journal! Simply follow these steps: make sure that your manuscript is in .docz (not.docx) format. Then you will be ready to answer the Subfield Goblin's riddles three, provided your document is in the required Etruscan,
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in general the user experience philosophy motivating a lot of academic software appears to be "lol fuck you"
June 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
in general the user experience philosophy motivating a lot of academic software appears to be "lol fuck you"
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
lmao this was the very first thing that popped into my head as a former Toronto grad student.
NEW: The “fascism experts” ditching Yale for Toronto's Munk School appear blissfully unaware that the academic centre was founded by one of Canada’s most infamous oligarchs, whose company Barrick Gold has been linked to massive human rights violations around the world.
Yale professors ‘flee’ US for Toronto school linked to massive human rights abuses
The idea that the Munk School promotes democracy, liberty, and freedom is laughable. The school was bankrolled by a right-wing oligarch whose fortune was drawn from global plunder, and who actively qu...
canadiandimension.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
lmao this was the very first thing that popped into my head as a former Toronto grad student.
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the same people who gave anon quotes to axios 3 months ago like “we tried pro-democracy in the last election and didn’t win so now we don’t care about democracy, it’s all egg prices” wondering now how to earn voters’ trust lol. maybe dont outsource your values to polls you don’t even understand
May 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
the same people who gave anon quotes to axios 3 months ago like “we tried pro-democracy in the last election and didn’t win so now we don’t care about democracy, it’s all egg prices” wondering now how to earn voters’ trust lol. maybe dont outsource your values to polls you don’t even understand
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you want to win voters trust? choose something, anything at all, to care about more than polls and fight like hell for it.
May 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
you want to win voters trust? choose something, anything at all, to care about more than polls and fight like hell for it.
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🚨🚨🚨 📢📢📢 there’s a new Mclusky album and it rules 📢📢📢 🚨🚨🚨
May 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
🚨🚨🚨 📢📢📢 there’s a new Mclusky album and it rules 📢📢📢 🚨🚨🚨
I feel like I should take back some of the mean things that I've said about David Brooks, so I'm glad that Friedman is holding steady
My god. My ... my god. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/o...
April 25, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I feel like I should take back some of the mean things that I've said about David Brooks, so I'm glad that Friedman is holding steady
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The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war."
We didn't come close to holding them accountable.
We're seeing the cost of that now.
We didn't come close to holding them accountable.
We're seeing the cost of that now.
April 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war."
We didn't come close to holding them accountable.
We're seeing the cost of that now.
We didn't come close to holding them accountable.
We're seeing the cost of that now.
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"How long must the South kick us," shouted a stump speaker to a crowd of black-caped, torch-bearing Wisconsinites, "before we shall all be Wide-Awakes?"
April 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
"How long must the South kick us," shouted a stump speaker to a crowd of black-caped, torch-bearing Wisconsinites, "before we shall all be Wide-Awakes?"
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it's funny that the cybertruck is a laughingstock and a failure and a scarlet letter for every nerd who bought one, because it's also the only original idea i can think of that elon personally dreamed up and brought to market from start to finish
April 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
it's funny that the cybertruck is a laughingstock and a failure and a scarlet letter for every nerd who bought one, because it's also the only original idea i can think of that elon personally dreamed up and brought to market from start to finish
it's because the only autistic person that he actually knows is Elon Musk
WATCH | RFK Jr claims autistic children will never go on dates or pay taxes
Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Read the recent CDC autism report here: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
April 17, 2025 at 2:34 AM
it's because the only autistic person that he actually knows is Elon Musk
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He doesn't have a plan. He likes tariffs and he loved all the attention he got when he implemented them.
Then the market got too bad so the GOP went behind the scenes and threatened to strip him of tariffing power, so he reversed.
But first he told the billionaires, so they could inside trade.
Then the market got too bad so the GOP went behind the scenes and threatened to strip him of tariffing power, so he reversed.
But first he told the billionaires, so they could inside trade.
April 10, 2025 at 7:51 AM
He doesn't have a plan. He likes tariffs and he loved all the attention he got when he implemented them.
Then the market got too bad so the GOP went behind the scenes and threatened to strip him of tariffing power, so he reversed.
But first he told the billionaires, so they could inside trade.
Then the market got too bad so the GOP went behind the scenes and threatened to strip him of tariffing power, so he reversed.
But first he told the billionaires, so they could inside trade.
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The hard task is not letting those fields pull you down — it’s not important what the average quality of research in those fields look like, the important thing is that they keep losing influence and shrink over time.
April 7, 2025 at 5:50 AM
The hard task is not letting those fields pull you down — it’s not important what the average quality of research in those fields look like, the important thing is that they keep losing influence and shrink over time.