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nobut you really should stop consuming diterpenoids. Filter your coffee!
Cafes across the U.S. are embracing the low- and no-caffeine lifestyle, with options that are a far cry from dusty tea bags and rewarmed decaf. nyti.ms/3XKlqoj
December 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
nobut you really should stop consuming diterpenoids. Filter your coffee!
I feel like Sam Kriss learned to write from Charlie Brooker samkriss.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
What's the point of words?
There is no such thing as philosophy
samkriss.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I feel like Sam Kriss learned to write from Charlie Brooker samkriss.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
**improved image** please distribute
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
**improved image** please distribute
'The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. .. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.' www.gutenberg.org/files/6173/6...
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, by Samuel Butler
www.gutenberg.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
'The dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. .. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.' www.gutenberg.org/files/6173/6...
it turns out 'chunkier Reese Witherspoon' was actually jd vance's mom
Hey I've seen this one before
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
it turns out 'chunkier Reese Witherspoon' was actually jd vance's mom
more than that, it's florid in a way that comes across as facetious
was browsing new drivethrurpg products and was mildly surprised at just how easy it was to spot the ones with AI-generated content (in text, rather than art). The key, more than even dashes or the suchlike, is that AI is *florid*.
November 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
more than that, it's florid in a way that comes across as facetious
For what happens to eternal truth is it becomes ‘eternal truth’, ‘“eternal truth”’
November 5, 2025 at 10:18 AM
For what happens to eternal truth is it becomes ‘eternal truth’, ‘“eternal truth”’
Secularism entails its own hierarchy of emotions amongst which the negative awe of the planet's cosmological setting is pre-eminent. Secular man, seeing 'Apollo's / dislocating scene', is unstill ..
November 5, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Secularism entails its own hierarchy of emotions amongst which the negative awe of the planet's cosmological setting is pre-eminent. Secular man, seeing 'Apollo's / dislocating scene', is unstill ..
Is not the bond market so capricious as to underwrite the divination of a host of futures, and aren’t the necessities inferred from its movements malleable ones—whatever it's taken to mandate being the most urgent when it's the most useful to the powers that be?
November 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Is not the bond market so capricious as to underwrite the divination of a host of futures, and aren’t the necessities inferred from its movements malleable ones—whatever it's taken to mandate being the most urgent when it's the most useful to the powers that be?
Let me propose that there are matters of fact which one ought to baulk at articulating with matter-of-factness
November 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Let me propose that there are matters of fact which one ought to baulk at articulating with matter-of-factness
the wars we argue for, which are the wars we prefer, fail to take place
November 4, 2025 at 6:38 PM
the wars we argue for, which are the wars we prefer, fail to take place
I can't stop asking chatgpt to collide different astronomical bodies ..
A Betelgeuse-sized bowling ball is bowled at the solar system. What happens to the sun?
What would a bison-sized ball of inconel travelling at 99% of the speed of light do to the city of London? Would Dagenham be gone?
A Betelgeuse-sized bowling ball is bowled at the solar system. What happens to the sun?
What would a bison-sized ball of inconel travelling at 99% of the speed of light do to the city of London? Would Dagenham be gone?
October 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I can't stop asking chatgpt to collide different astronomical bodies ..
A Betelgeuse-sized bowling ball is bowled at the solar system. What happens to the sun?
What would a bison-sized ball of inconel travelling at 99% of the speed of light do to the city of London? Would Dagenham be gone?
A Betelgeuse-sized bowling ball is bowled at the solar system. What happens to the sun?
What would a bison-sized ball of inconel travelling at 99% of the speed of light do to the city of London? Would Dagenham be gone?
the law is a jumble of black marks on white paper
"a tradition"???
It's literally the law.
This matters because the law is not self-executing. If we treat it as non-binding, its constraints grow even looser.
It's literally the law.
This matters because the law is not self-executing. If we treat it as non-binding, its constraints grow even looser.
October 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
the law is a jumble of black marks on white paper
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war: one in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war: one in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake. www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...
one man's nostalgia is another man's nightmare
An entire generation of dumbs are getting themselves worked up into a fascist frenzy over inaccurate nostalgia videos they know are complete false and it is terrifying hot profoundly strong these feelings are for them despite being very aware it's fake and bullshit.
October 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
one man's nostalgia is another man's nightmare
'Almost all of these legal arguments are the same thing. They come up with something that is a very known word, a very known legal concept, and basically say, "Let's pretend it means something different." ..
This is part of a long-running and very tedious trend of right-wing influencers pretending not to know what words mean, because they’re confident their intended audience genuinely doesn’t know.
Pity the ADL. It went out of its way to defend Elon Musk's definitely-not-a-sieg-heil, and in return gets this.
October 4, 2025 at 3:00 AM
'Almost all of these legal arguments are the same thing. They come up with something that is a very known word, a very known legal concept, and basically say, "Let's pretend it means something different." ..
preconditions of American renewal:
-reset the Court
-ditch the filibuster
-statehood for DC, PR
-abolish the Electoral College
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...
-reset the Court
-ditch the filibuster
-statehood for DC, PR
-abolish the Electoral College
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...
The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money
If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I’m writing threads that really should be the basis for posts at LGM. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days. Here’s a ...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
preconditions of American renewal:
-reset the Court
-ditch the filibuster
-statehood for DC, PR
-abolish the Electoral College
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...
-reset the Court
-ditch the filibuster
-statehood for DC, PR
-abolish the Electoral College
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...
fascistic barnacles www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...
The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money
If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I’m writing threads that really should be the basis for posts at LGM. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days. Here’s a ...
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:26 PM
fascistic barnacles www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:59 AM
'brings indelible obloquy' would make a good contributor bio. 'So-and-so brings indelible obloquy. Her new novel is out next year'
October 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
'brings indelible obloquy' would make a good contributor bio. 'So-and-so brings indelible obloquy. Her new novel is out next year'
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What Trump said is a fucking outrage.
It’s against democracy.
If Donald Trump has his way on this, our democracy is over.
It’s against democracy.
If Donald Trump has his way on this, our democracy is over.
September 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
What Trump said is a fucking outrage.
It’s against democracy.
If Donald Trump has his way on this, our democracy is over.
It’s against democracy.
If Donald Trump has his way on this, our democracy is over.
Poll
[a] Union of Western States
[b] Union of the American West
[c] United States of Western America
[a] Union of Western States
[b] Union of the American West
[c] United States of Western America
September 19, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Poll
[a] Union of Western States
[b] Union of the American West
[c] United States of Western America
[a] Union of Western States
[b] Union of the American West
[c] United States of Western America