when anyone complains about ad hoc identities like "internet communist" or "winemom" they are complaining about fiction, ideological abstractions used to rationalize the world: "things are so because People Who Aren't Me think or do such and such." the job is to train this impulse on proper targets.

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Really enjoying Samuel L Jackson as Sam the Eagle

For the record, Bluesky Congressional Caucus: I will absolutely boost you over a fence if you're willing to scale a barricade

Good to see that the art of terrible headline puns is not dead

Just in case anyone who follows me doesn't know, I'm helping out with calls to get out the vote in swing states with the Somerville Dems. If you want to do something between now and election day, you can sign up here: events.democrats.org/event/693971/

Considering watching the debate but I’m not sure if my liver can take it

Quote post the fictional character you are in your head

Somehow my evening has effortlessly shifted from drinking red wine and watching Naked Gun 33 1/3 to me and my wife sipping Chartreuse and pulling up YouTube clips to compare 19th century Lutheran and Anglican church music traditions, and reader, this is why I married her

this has to have been done before, right? I can't be the first to think of it?

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).